Zoomers Dab on the Movie Theaters

[ForSweden]

Get wrecked boomers. No more overpriced popcorn for you.

https://deadline.com/2020/12/warner-bros-2021-movie-slate-hbo-max-matrix-4-dune-in-the-heights-1234649760/

[Highlander]

How many streaming subscriptions am I going to have by the end of the year? All of them apparently.
I would prefer to just pay for the feature film through Amazon than having to sign up for yet another streaming service.

[ttyymmnn]

@forsweden On the plus side, drive in theaters are making a comeback.

[TexturedSoyProtein]

I'm sure WB is doing this to goose HBO Max subscriber numbers. Even among people who pay for HBO through their TV providers and get HBO Max for free, only about half have activated HBO Max through an app or the website.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/22/21528234/hbo-max-subscribers-activations-att-directv-warner

I have HBO Max for free thanks to my parents stupidly paying Comcast for any and every available channel but generously sharing their Comcast password with me.

[ForSweden]

@ttyymmnn is that what the Tesla screen is called now?

[Wrong Wheel Drive]

I hate watching movies without also having a nice meal in front of me. Dine in theaters help but they usually have pretty low quality food and I cant pause the movie to go pee. Doing so from home is so so much better so I thank Covid for this. I do quite like drive in movies because at least Im in my own car. But they have the same problem where its a popcorn selling business, not a movie business. They make no money at all on the movie and I dont want to pay for overpriced junk food.

[Shoop]

I really want to see Dune in a theater. The rest I don't really care about.

[ForSweden]

@shoop Every movie theater will be bankrupt by October

[ttyymmnn]

@wrong-wheel-drive said in Zoomers Dab on the Movie Theaters:

I hate watching movies without also having a nice meal in front of me.

My guess sis that only dine-in or niche theaters will survive in large numbers. Or, once the megaplexes reopen, they will have to seriously examine their business model.

[CarsOfFortLangley]

RIP theatres. I hated you, but hey, some people seemed to enjoy going.

[Chariotoflove]

Jokes on them. I've just gone back to reading (never stopped, really).

[CarsOfFortLangley]

@chariotoflove Reading? Like books?

I didn't know those still existed.

[Vondon302]

@chariotoflove said in Zoomers Dab on the Movie Theaters:

Jokes on them. I've just gone back to reading (never stopped, really).

So much this.

[Chariotoflove]

@carsoffortlangley said in Zoomers Dab on the Movie Theaters:

@chariotoflove Reading? Like books?

I didn't know those still existed.

Yeah, I found a place where they keep bunches of them together. Sounds like a fire hazard to me, but there you go.

[ttyymmnn]

@chariotoflove said in Zoomers Dab on the Movie Theaters:

Jokes on them. I've just gone back to reading (never stopped, really).

"The real show is in my mind."
– Kilgore Trout

[Chariotoflove]

@ttyymmnn said in Zoomers Dab on the Movie Theaters:

@chariotoflove said in Zoomers Dab on the Movie Theaters:

Jokes on them. I've just gone back to reading (never stopped, really).

"The real show is in my mind."
– Kilgore Trout

Too bad much of it is NC-17
-Chariotoflove

[LooseonExit]

We’d only go to 1-2 movies a year so we weren’t doing them any favors anyways. It’s expensive and some patrons are jerks so it wasn’t always the best. The dine in ones seemed better (Drafthouse and Studio Movie Grill) though. Went to the drive in south (way south) of DFW when I lived there a few times, but it was quite the trip.

Now just do the whole home thing and cook or make popcorn w/kiddo 1-2x a month.

@highlander

We have Prime TV only because it comes w/Prime, Netflix, and HBO Max (free ATT upgrade for 12 months). Except we can only get Max on an app because Roku is being stupid. Swapping out Netflix for Hulu next year just to mix it up. We’ve been unplugged for over a decade and 1-2 subs is all we’re willing to pay for. We might get a music sub for the kiddo though (sigh).

[jminer]

My wife and I used to love going to the movies, we were those crazy people that would regularly see Thursday midnight showings of a new movie. For over 15 years we were at the movie theaters twice a month or more. Thinking about it now the first movie my wife and I saw together was the first X-men, we went back saw it several times in the theater. Not the last time we did that with a movie.

This kept up until about 5 years ago, when the streaming services start to really take off and the movie-going experience began to suffer. Less quality movies were released and it was just giant budget films. Don’t get me wrong we love big budget sci-fi, hell when the first avengers movie came out we took off work and spent the Thursday watching every marvel movie in order culminating with a midnight showing of avengers.

My wife has only seen a couple movies in the theater in the last 5 years and me only a couple more, more when I used to travel for work and had some time to kill but didn’t want to go out drinking. Or I’ll go when something special happens, like when the Hateful Eight was released in limited theaters showed in 65mm panavision. I saw that and it was beautiful (even if I didn’t care that much for the film).

5 years ago we switched to buying on blu-ray but now just either buy it online or wait for it to hit one of the services we have. Our home theater has gotten better, snacks are a short walk away and you can press pause and go pee and heckle those on screen without bothering others. I don’t think we’ll ever go back to regular theater showings.

[jminer]

@looseonexit said in Zoomers Dab on the Movie Theaters:

We’d only go to 1-2 movies a year so we weren’t doing them any favors anyways. It’s expensive and some patrons are jerks so it wasn’t always the best. The dine in ones seemed better (Drafthouse and Studio Movie Grill) though. Went to the drive in south (way south) of DFW when I lived there a few times, but it was quite the trip.

Now just do the whole home thing and cook or make popcorn w/kiddo 1-2x a month.

@highlander

We have Prime TV only because it comes w/Prime, Netflix, and HBO Max (free ATT upgrade for 12 months). Except we can only get Max on an app because Roku is being stupid. Swapping out Netflix for Hulu next year just to mix it up. We’ve been unplugged for over a decade and 1-2 subs is all we’re willing to pay for. We might get a music sub for the kiddo though (sigh).

I’m down to Prime, Hulu and Spotify. We start then stop Netflix every once in a while when we want to catch up on something but it doesn’t do it for us in the long run anymore.

[gin-san]

I'm all in on the home viewing experience. As for streaming services, if they all become too fragmented then I'm just gonna torrent it.

F1TV, Netflix, and Prime are my only paid services, and Prime is for the shipping more than anything else. Chances are I'll be dumping Prime in the new year since I can wait the few extra days for shipping.

[StuckMTB]

Yeah, still not sure who prefers to pay $12-19 to sit in a chair of questionable cleanliness for two hours while chowing down on ridiculously overpriced popcorn and sugar-water. No thanks.

[Brickman]

The last time I been in a movie theater was when Lion King came out....... in 1994! Nope I dont miss them.

[zipfuel]

Sounds like I need to invest in a home projector for the basement and some bigger speakers