Moviegoers Want More Comedies, Thrillers and Action Titles, Global Cinema Study Finds

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• ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  with 72% agreeing that going to a movie in a theater is a good value for the money.

  I find most of the numbers from this survey to be dubious, but this one is insane. I would love to know just how leading these questions were.

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  • teuto@lemmy.teuto.icu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    They do say they surveyed moviegoers. That’s a lot of self selection right there. I think movie theaters are a terrible value so I hardly ever go to theaters.

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    • Zentron@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Here you can find movies that are priced around 1 hr of min wage at fairly decent theaters , so lots of ppl go to a theater for a big release. And i support 1/3 of the title , we kinda need more good comedies that arent slapstic humour but some good comedic social commentairy told trough humour and not another “dystopian vibes” action movie

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  • saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Remember the results are global. In my country it’s good value. There’s a lot of competition because it’s not lucrative enough for monopolising franchises anymore.

    Do I still go? No, not really. Great big-screen movies aren’t as frequent as they once were and it doesn’t cost much to get a good display and sound in a lounge room. It doesn’t help that the “experience” of going isn’t there anymore. Cinemas give off strip mall vibes,

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    • ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Remember the results are global.

      Thank you for the reminder.

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  • keyez@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Most theaters nowadays have discount days. $7 Tuesdays in several cities I’ve visited this year.

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  • tacofox@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Alternately “72% of patrons interviewed live outside of the U.S.”

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• MelonYellow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I want more pure comedies for sure. Feels like comedies are dead. Too much tip toeing around and playing safe due to “cancel culture”

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• xyzzy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I saw a non-horror movie yesterday, and 3 out of the 4 previews were for horror movies, including one entire scene from one.

  Studios are creatively bankrupt.

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  • dontbelasagne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Horror can be done on a low budget which in turn makes the genre extremely profitable so movie studios just see “People want more horror” rather than making different movies on a low budget.

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• steeznson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Comedies seem to bomb at the box office which is why we have seen fewer recently. Horror is the only pure “genre” that seems to have consistently good profits.

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