Shortly after A Quiet Place: Day One’s record-breaking opening weekend, there was online outrage after it was reported that the horror movie would be available to watch at home within a month of its cinema release.
This was only an alleged release date and nothing has been confirmed by Paramount even now. It sparked a debate, however, about how the report would impact Day One’s chances at the box office, and a wider one about how movies just aren’t given the time to build their audiences at the cinema.
Going to the cinema is expensive and takes effort, so quick home releases will harm a movie’s box office take but there’s also an audience that, post-Covid, won’t go to the cinema and I can see the temptation to milk that source if income too.
cm0002@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. The cinema industry is being artificially propped up by wide spread exclusivity agreements to begin with.
If the theater truly offered a superior, worthwhile, experience then people would go regardless of if it’s streaming on day 1 or streaming on day 180
Right now most people go because they are essentially forced to go to one because it’s the only way to watch the movie they want to watch. (Inb4 someone says ThEYrE nOt foRcEd, ThEY cAn JuSt ChoOsE nOT tO WaTCh IT")
magiccupcake@lemmy.world 3 months ago
After upgrading to an oled TV theatres picture quality is just inferior. So now I really don’t want to watch movies in theatres.
Sure the sounds is still better, but it’s usually too loud for me, and lacks subtitles.
Add to that the ludicrous cost of theatre tickets and it’s just not worth it.
maegul@lemm.ee 3 months ago
This I suspect is an underappreciated aspect of the dynamics at the moment. More broadly, it’s about the personalisation of the watching experience. Screen size, seating/lying position, noise and brightness, subtitles and their language, audio configuration (where you can optimise your home set up to help with dialogue clarity or “epicness”)