Big TV, surround sound setup, fuck that, I don’t want to go to the cinema.
Films used to be such a big deal, now I just watch a brand new one every night. Pre-internet is just end up watching the same films over and over just because I had a copy. Going to the cinema to watch a new one was exciting but now I don’t care.
Films also used to be not a big deal for the majority of films in theaters before home movies and even up until larger format flatscreens became affordable. It was just the format for watching 90 minute+ uninterrupted stories for the most part.
There were a couple of decades where seeing big budget special effects the big screen instead of at home was a big deal for some movies, sure.
Streaming quality is pretty dogshit compared to bluray or digital cinemas though. The files are compressed a good 5-10x.
That’s only really matters for a few movies a year.
I have not yet watched a film in IMAX, but we are talking about theaters in general.
Watching on a decently large screen at home while streaming looks at least as good as in the theaters even if it doesn’t fill up as much of my vision. BluRay looks a lot better for certain scenes, but the vast majority of movies are just as good at home in my experience. I can also get more engrossed in a movie at home due to having fewer distractions, so something like Dune is more enjoyable for me at home even if the picture and sound quality is probably better in IMAX.
Streaming is a tradeoff of slightly lower quality for more convenience and while I love me some great cinematography and sound design, most movies are more enjoyable if I can stay engaged than if they are presented better but with more opportunity for distractions.
Remember when going to the Movies was an Event? Netflix wants to commodify this, so you watch longer, pay longer while you can do other stuff.
Remember standing in line to get in? The energy? Fans all vibing over something they either hadn’t seen yet or were going to see for the 3rd, 4th, 5th time…
When was the last time anyone had to line up for a movie? 🤔
I caught Thunderbolts* Thursday night, bought tickets online. Even had the option to buy popcorn and soda online and have it waiting for me when I got there.
No lines. No fan interaction. Get in, watch the movie, GTFO. Chop, chop. Re-fill those seats.
it also benefits the technoligarchs if they strip any connection we have to eachother, culturally. it’s better for them if we get in and out of the theater without discussing what the propaganda meant to us. it helps them create an environment where we all live isolated in a media bubble all our own. there we’re more easily manipulated. the most right wing podcasts like the joe rogan experience being spotify exclusive isn’t a wreckless thing from spotify. it’s planned and on purpose. first they isolate your media pipeline, then they make their pool of content more right wing than anyone else’s, then they ensure the people hooked on the jre can’t go anywhere else for it where they’d encounter other media outside their understanding of the world,
I don’t miss the lines and dislike crowd energy the vast majority if the time. The current buy online, know where my seats are, and smaller venues with plush seats are a vast improvement over crowds packed in like sardines.
Sure, I have a few positive memories of random members of a theater audience, they are just outweighed by all the annoying memories.
I went to see Thunderbolts* yesterday, didn’t buy online or anything like that, just walked straight up to the counter bought tickets, drinks and popcorn, then walked into the theatre.
There was no one else around, maybe 15 people in the whole screening. I don’t understand how the cinemas stay open when they are this dead.
I remember 10 years ago the line for just getting into the theatre for the latest Marvell movie would wrap around the building and that was after buying your tickets.
It’s been a long time since I was in a sold out theatre.
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Actor pretending theaters will be relevant in the future to justify their over-paid salaries. Next up, water is wet.
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You should go to better theaters
Edit: After your blocking me, and seeing everyone else’s comments to you; I think it’s clear the problem isn’t everyone else.
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Cinemas without rude people exist.
In the past 10 years, you can’t think of even one movie that was good and went to theaters?
There’s so many good films that came out in the last 10 years that are to this day hard to find on streaming because they don’t fit into the Netflix, Hulu, or Disney+ model of “shut your brain off and shut the fuck up about the economy”
- Parasite
- I, Tonya
- Get Out
- BlacKkKlansman
- Sorry to Bother You (in bold because this is one of the most important films of the last 10 years, and no one fucking talks about it)
- David Byrne’s American Utopia (yes, I’m putting two Spike Lee joints on my list, IT’S MY LIST)
- Furiosa (WHY DID EVERYONE SLEEP ON THIS ONE!? IT’S ALL THE MAD MAX THINGS WE ALL LIKE AND IT HAS SOMETHING TO SAY I FEEL LIKE I’M GOING CRAZY)
- The Boy and the Heron
- Godzilla Minus One
- The Fabelmans (This one is incredible. All y’all let Steven Spielberg down. This movie has EVERYTHING that he’s all about and it’s a heartfelt introspection into who he is as a director, what his influences are, and why it’s important to make media about how Nazis suck)
- RRR
- Summer of Soul (…or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse & Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
Some of these are very easy to find because they were too popular to be ignored, but some of these I saw in a cinema, and then that was it. I need to either wait for an independent theater to decide they want to rent a reel for a weekend for 2 screenings, or to save up $25 to buy the movie outright because it’s not streaming anywhere.
Honestly putting together this list made me feel like I’m actually going crazy a little bit. There’s been so many masterpieces in the last 10 years. To the extent that I left an entire Mad Max film off my list, and the one I left off is the one everyone likes.
The problem isn’t that no good movies are coming out. The problem is the studio system and the streaming services don’t promote the creative and innovative movies. They don’t fit into the overall system of propaganda that our media landscape is. Particularly any Boots Riley or Spike Lee film is going to be made to be seen by people who already know they’re generational directors because the studios expressly don’t want you to think about how America exploits Black art. If you did that you might do something about it, and that would disrupt the money streams.
Half of the movies you listed have been either on one of the platforms you listed or have rotated around the different platforms, at least in the US. Netflix even had the black and white version available when I watched it.
It’s that platform juggling that rankles me about this streaming system, and the constant price hikes of the streaming services themselves, as well as the fact that sometimes as part of the juggling something’s just not available on the evening you and your partner want to watch something you liked. It’s the type of shit that has me shopping for a bluray player because WHAT THE FUCK ARE WE DOING AROUND HERE, JUST LET ME OWN AND ENJOY THE MOVIES I LIKE FUCK
Also loved Furiosa. Dune would be a good theater addition yeah?
I thought about it, but I didn’t see it so I didn’t feel qualified to list it. In a lot of ways we exist in a golden age of weird and interesting movies because we’re all so exhausted of safe movies meant for the lowest common denominator, but the hard part is finding out about those movies as they come out because movie promotion and distribution is so broken. The most common way for a movie to get promotion is a trailer in front of another movie. But we’re not really going to the movies anymore as a society because we’re tired of safe common denominator movies, but since we’re not going to the movies anymore, the studio system is leaning HARDER into safe movies they know will get some return and aren’t spending money promoting the weird shit because they don’t even know if we’ll watch the weird shit.
I’d love a studio to gamble everything on promoting a weird movie on network TV, the radio, and on billboards (the most effective forms of promotion) to reach people who want to see new interesting things but just don’t know what new interesting things are going on. I really think at this point movie execs fundamentally misunderstand the movie landscape in a post Avengers: Endgame world
You should spend time with better people.
I go to the theater a few times a month. I encountered two rude people in the last 5 years. Better theaters have better people. Or at least encourage better behaviors.
Not every Multiplex/Movietheater is as awful as you think.
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they cant? mhm strange.
where the people who made the movie get paid for their labor get paid for their work. he’s not even saying a theater is the only place he wants his film seen. he’s saying he wants his movie in cinemas for as long as it’s viable there. knives out 3 would still come to streaming. you’d just have to wait a couple more weeks to see it. it’s a minor inconvenience for you, but for a second line gaffer, or for a craft services worker, the cinema time might be their entire livelihood for the year.
if you think everyone is rude in a place you go, and this is the amount of effort you’re willing to put in to understanding what’s going on and what people are saying, i think it’s very possible that the reason is because you are abrasive to interact with
but for a second line gaffer, or for a craft services worker, the cinema time might be their entire livelihood for the year.
I seriously doubt those members of the crew are paid based on box office success. Pumping out more movies for streaming should increase the number of movies that are available to work on.
Their union fought extremely hard to get distribution shares from box office runs in the 00s and its still part of their collective contract. It’s an extremely meager share, but it’s still where their financial stability comes from. Yeah there’s more jobs available if more shovel movies in production all the time, but that doesn’t get them more stability, it aligns them closer to day laborers. The IATSE Local 44 (who most of hollywood’s studios’ workers of this variety are represented by) are expected to strike in 2027 because they don’t get as much from streaming films as box office films.
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Not trying to insult. Just saying Rian Johnson saying he would like it if his movie production staff were paid, and you telling him to go fuck himself, and you perceive everyone you interact with as rude might be related and indicative that you are abrasive to interact with. I’m willing to be wrong, but take it into consideration. Because Rian Johnson isn’t talking about you. He’s not telling you he need you to go to the cinema. But you sure took it like that, which is odd
Let’s see how that’s going to fly. I watched the first one in cinema and it was great, the second one at home and it was pretty terrible.
why’d you think the second one was terrible? like did you think the movie is bad or was the at-home experience a bad one?
I loved the second, maybe even better than the first. or at least I feel the second has more rewatchability
I remember thinking 2 was fine, but I couldn’t tell you a single thing about it the next day. Somehow the most forgettable movie I’ve ever seen.
Knives out sucked.
