supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Alcohol is even older news and yet people still love alcohol?
What do movie theaters being a new concept or not have to do with people liking them?
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Alcohol is even older news and yet people still love alcohol?
What do movie theaters being a new concept or not have to do with people liking them?
Letstakealook@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
“Old news” is an idiom meaning outdated or no longer relevant. It isn’t quite that literal.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
My point is the minds of business execs like this are so rotten that they can’t understand the difference between the two, this isn’t cynical hyperbole, I am dead serious.
Letstakealook@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I suppose. I don’t think he’s inherently wrong here, though. Ticket sales have been declining steadily for some time, and 2020 sped it up. Theaters have grown increasingly expensive to attend, while the experience has gotten progressively worse.
Rodneyck@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Exactly correct. They have been on a decline since the early 2000’s, and COVID sped up the decline by giving everyone a taste of watching movies at home.
thejml@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
The other part of that is that home theater gear has also improved greatly. In the 80’s/90’s, no one was anywhere close to replicating a theater’s video or audio fidelity. Now you can get massive 4k uhd screens which are technically a higher resolution than digital IMAX (2k stacked instead of true 4k), and pair it with 11.2 THX quality Dolby Atmos audio if you want. Good AV at home is far more accessible than it ever has been.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
That has nothing to do with people not wanting to make an evening of going out with their spouse to see a movie and maybe get dinner or icecream… and everything to do with people being too busy, poor, overworked and friendless to go out to the movies.
If that spells the end of movie theaters, well I don’t know if I call the end of functional recreation activities outside the context of your home because you are too exhausted, lonely and broke quite the damning evidence that people don’t want to go to movie theaters that maybe it seems like it is.
I am not someone that is a big movie buff, especially because I find superhero movies suffocatingly boring and narrow in vision, but I went to the theater to see a Miyazaki film not too long ago and then saw Blue Heron in theaters too.
I don’t uncommonly here people, especially younger people talk about being hyped to see their favorite movie in the theaters, it is a cultural statememt of “I LOVE THIS SHIT” that people like to do as a way of engaging more enthusiastically with a movie or series they like. People are desperately looking for ways to do this, that has never changed.
People are just worn down, and of course the Netflix CEO doesn’t get that lol