People aren't coming back to movie theaters

[JustinCharge 2,397]

Pundits expected a good number of people to return but they fell WAY short of expectations.  I wonder if this is foreshadow a colossal drop in turnout in the 2020 November election.

https://news.yahoo.com/movie-theaters-returned-audiences-didnt-185407492.html

Movie Theaters Returned. Audiences Didn't. Now What?
Nicole Sperling and Brooks Barnes
,The New York Times•September 16, 2020

LOS ANGELES — “Tenet” was supposed to mark the return of the movie theater business in the United States. Instead, it has shown just how much trouble the industry is in.

After five months of pandemic-forced closure, the big movie theater chains reopened in roughly 68% of the United States by Labor Day weekend, in large part so they could show the $200 million film, which Warner Bros. promoted as “a global tent pole of jaw-dropping size, scope and scale.” But “Tenet,” directed by box-office heavyweight Christopher Nolan, instead arrived with a whimper: It collected $9.4 million in its first weekend in North America and just $29.5 million over its first two weeks.

[Baker Boy 1,485]

The Movie Experience is extremely overpriced and you are forced to watch with too many a holes.

[BiffTannen 651]

I’m surprised it took this long for theaters to die. Ever since big HD televisions 15 years ago I have opted to enjoy movies at home where I can drink cheaply, smoke marijuana in my living room, and pause when I have to piss. The last movie I saw in a movie theater was The Departed. 

[supermike80 1,285]

love movies at the theater and I miss it. 

Still closed in Michigan 

[FlyinHeadlock 459]

Shocked they were making it even before the hoaxademic. I'm more curious if they keep current movies available for streaming or kill it.

[Voltaire 4,559]

Hollywood, like sports, is too woke and divisive and the performers are getting exposed as horrible people. At the same time, because of the pandemic, venues are shut down and online exists as a rival for free. We'll see what the entertainment industry does to shake out of this. 

[TimmySmith 2,782]

Under 30s still go. And they pay a lot for the reservation,  the lounge chairs, the waitress service. They are not concerned about the GC demographic who wouldn't pay for that stuff anyway. They will return.

[MDC 5,891]

Movie theaters have been going down for years. You guys actually think people are boycotting “movies” in general cause of a few woke ones? Lol

[avoiding injuries 1,220]

I’m not sure why Hollywood thinks it can insult half of their customers and there wouldn’t be a pushback. 
For instance, I have no desire to watch a movie Deniro is in. And Goodfellas and Casino are two of my favorite movies. 

[lod001 1,237]

1 minute ago, avoiding injuries said:

I’m not sure why Hollywood thinks it can insult half of their customers and there wouldn’t be a pushback. 
For instance, I have no desire to watch a movie Deniro is in. And Goodfellas and Casino are two of my favorite movies. 

They are democrats. That means they are too dumb to figure that out.

[Cruzer 1,992]

If there was anything worth seeing, I'd go. Covid and the lack of interesting movies is to blame for my absence, not woke. 

[TimmySmith 2,782]

51 minutes ago, avoiding injuries said:

I’m not sure why Hollywood thinks it can insult half of their customers and there wouldn’t be a pushback. 
For instance, I have no desire to watch a movie Deniro is in. And Goodfellas and Casino are two of my favorite movies. 

Guilty multi millionaires are a problem in all walks of life.  And they could give all their money away at any time. 

[GobbleDog 816]

1 hour ago, BiffTannen said:

I’m surprised it took this long for theaters to die. Ever since big HD televisions 15 years ago I have opted to enjoy movies at home where I can drink cheaply, smoke marijuana in my living room, and pause when I have to piss. The last movie I saw in a movie theater was The Departed. 

It's not just movies that have declining attendance, but sports too - particularly college football.  Some SEC schools have reverted to selling alcohol in stadiums to entice attendance and some have lowered concession prices.  It's just a different world for a multitude of reasons - hdtv definitely being a part of it.

For the record, the last movie I saw in a theater was Apollo 13 - in 1995.

 

[Cloaca du jour 2,064]

1 hour ago, supermike80 said:

love movies at the theater and I miss it. 

Still closed in Michigan 

Me too...love the theater...I remember seeing American Sniper...at the end the whole theater sat...not a word..just people crying.  Powerful moment.

I remember seeing Rocky..and the whole theater was cheeringbat the end...unforgettable

[Hardcore troubadour 12,646]

I won’t be going. I’ll let my kids go though.  It’s too much fun for a kid. 

[DexterM1776 79]

Until someone with some authority tell the sheep it's safe the sheep will still be scared

[Herbivore 905]

3 hours ago, MDC said:

Movie theaters have been going down for years. You guys actually think people are boycotting “movies” in general cause of a few woke ones? Lol

Volty and many others here have been living in their own heads for a while now.  posty and Idiot99 were claiming that DiCaprio, Katy Perry, and Kardashian weren't celebrities yesterday.  

[Hardcore troubadour 12,646]

8 minutes ago, Herbivore said:

Volty and many others here have been living in their own heads for a while now.  posty and Idiot99 were claiming that DiCaprio, Katy Perry, and Kardashian weren't celebrities yesterday.  

 Charo was a celebrity. So was that Ray Jay guy. 

[RLLD 3,455]

I think theaters can still function and maybe prosper, they have been overpriced for some time and people were still going.......

I suspect that there is some apprehension about going to a movie right now because of this COVID stuff, it might not resolve until a vaccine is widely distributed I bet.

[Hardcore troubadour 12,646]

I’m keeping Netflix while this covid is still in play. When things go back to normal that’s gone. 

[Djgb13 2,338]

Id go if they released movies worth a dam. All the movies I wanted to see got pushed off til next year 

[supermike80 1,285]

3 hours ago, Cruzer said:

If there was anything worth seeing, I'd go. Covid and the lack of interesting movies is to blame for my absence, not woke. 

This

[Mike Honcho 4,034]

39 minutes ago, Djgb13 said:

Id go if they released movies worth a dam. All the movies I wanted to see got pushed off til next year 

+2

It's not a real mystery way movie tix sales are down right now.

[TBayXXXVII 2,117]

The entertainment industry has spoken.  When Trump wanted to put sanctions on China for violating our intellectual property rights, the movie and music industry bashed him.  That tells me that musicians and actors/actresses are ok with pirated data and they're ok with me not paying for their products.  So, I don't pay for it.

[nzoner 936]

1 hour ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

I’m keeping Netflix while this covid is still in play. When things go back to normal that’s gone. 

Saw where they took a big hit due to the release of the film Cuties.

[Hardcore troubadour 12,646]

2 minutes ago, nzoner said:

Saw where they took a big hit due to the release of the film Cuties.

Yup.  But I’m housebound way too much now. Schools haven’t opened yet. 

[nzoner 936]

3 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Yup.  But I’m housebound way too much now. Schools haven’t opened yet. 

We're pretty much the same with the mrs (36C) autoimmune.We also have Amazon but I'm getting a little irritated with them as well because it seems like half the movies I want to watch has an additional charge to watch them.

[peenie 1,690]

I don't want to see Avengers 19 or Batman 25. When they start making adult movies again I'll go. I'm so angry because I had to watch the most boring adult films when I was a child. Now that I'm old all movies are geared toward kids.

I love the movie theater experience.

[The Elevator Killer 497]

11 minutes ago, nzoner said:

Saw where they took a big hit due to the release of the film Cuties.

Now we know why the Celebs couldn't post for 24 hours. They had to watch Cuties before it was dumped.

[The Elevator Killer 497]

Just now, peenie said:

I don't want to see Avengers 19 or Batman 25. When they start making adult movies again I'll go. I'm so angry because I had to watch the most boring adult films when I was a child. Now that I'm old all movies are geared toward kids.

I love the movie theater experience.

Bingo! They may want to look at what they are releasing. Garbage in, boxoffice down.

[Hardcore troubadour 12,646]

9 minutes ago, nzoner said:

We're pretty much the same with the mrs (36C) autoimmune.We also have Amazon but I'm getting a little irritated with them as well because it seems like half the movies I want to watch has an additional charge to watch them.

True. Some of their original programming is good. We have Disney + too. A lot of good nature shows on all of them. Trying to get the kids to watch them. No woke that I have noticed. 

[Herbivore 905]

13 minutes ago, nzoner said:

We're pretty much the same with the mrs (36C) autoimmune.We also have Amazon but I'm getting a little irritated with them as well because it seems like half the movies I want to watch has an additional charge to watch them.

I mentioned thus before, but watch Comrade Detective.  6 episodes..its good and funny.

[frank 2,145]

12 minutes ago, peenie said:

I don't want to see Avengers 19 or Batman 25. When they start making adult movies again I'll go. I'm so angry because I had to watch the most boring adult films when I was a child. Now that I'm old all movies are geared toward kids.

I love the movie theater experience.

You really shouldn’t have been watching adult films as a child. I don’t recommend seeing them in a theater now. 

[MTSkiBum 1,594]

I have only been to the movies 3 times in the last decade. There are not many movies that interest me enough.

 

The movies that I have wanted to watch, all turn out to be awful. A good example is the Dark Tower movie. If that was well done I would have loved to see it in the theatres, instead it was so bad I still have not watched it to this day.

 

 

[The Elevator Killer 497]

8 minutes ago, frank said:

You really shouldn’t have been watching adult films as a child. I don’t recommend seeing them in a theater now. 

Peenie = Pee Wee Herman. 

[Cloaca du jour 2,064]

Speaking of movies...Greyhound on apple tv is freaking awesome!!!

[JustinCharge 2,397]

The last movie I saw was Star Wars episode 9.  But I went because I had a free pass and wanted to see if the audience would act out and scream and get angry at how their beloved franchise got wrecked.  I wouldn't have paid for it.

[The Elevator Killer 497]

2 minutes ago, riversco said:

The last movie I saw was Star Wars episode 9.  But I went because I had a free pass and wanted to see if the audience would act out and scream and get angry at how their beloved franchise got wrecked.  I wouldn't have paid for it.

And did they freak out? For leaving this info out you must now report on can size of everyone in the theater.

[edjr 5,564]

It was a fun thing to do with my son, we will live. there are so many other things that are canceled that make me much more sad. Like fall fairs and halloween stuff

Will Santa wear a mask this year? If not the kids will really be confused. Thanks corona

[Reality 2,710]

The product has been terrible, no reason to go.