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Comment on Discussion Thread 🎯 Thursday 28 May 2026

Also, I’ve been trying to coordinate going to the movies with my friends and I think the cinemas have it backwards. I don’t want to go out and spend big money to watch the latest slop that will just be forgotten about in a year’s time. If I’m going out to the movies, spending big money, and making an event of it, I’d rather watch a movie I like or one I’ve heard is good.

Like, I’d rather watch Empire Strikes Back on the big screen and get that experience than take a punt on The Mandalorian vs Grogu. Cinemas should take the Kpop Demon Hunters method and leave the slop for streaming and have bottom up demand drive what goes into a cinema.

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StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Try smaller picture houses. Brunswick Picture House and Thornbury Picture House generally have more interesting movies shown, as well as the more well-known films too.

Palace Theatres tends to be similar as well, while also showing international films too. Generally I’ve had a better time when avoiding Village and Hoyts

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- bacon@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  and Reading Cinema has tickets that don’t cost a kidney
  
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  - StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Yup! I knew I was forgetting one lol! Reading Cinema!
    
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- tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I like going to Nova and wish I could make it there for special showings more often.
  
  The only reason we couldn’t do that this time is we’re trying to watch Mortal Kombat II, which is getting hard to find and the indies rightfully wouldn’t have shown it to start with
  
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  - Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Oh no they will absolutely be showing MKII. They’re independent cinemas, not arthouses
    
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SaneMartigan@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The Astor?

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Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Sun Theatre at Yarraville.

$14 every monday and tuesday and they have big beautiful screens

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- tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I watched 2001 on 70mm at the Sun. It’s a great spot, and if it’s central enough for everyone I’d be happy to go there
  
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Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Go for the independents!

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