It’s called zero disposable income you idiots.
Going to a movie theater can be a pretty bad experience these days.
- High prices for tickets even during matinees
- Numbered seats requiring buying tickets online hours in advance (which I don’t have a problem with), but then being forced to pay 25%-40% more for “convenience fees” on top of the ticket price
- Other patrons unable to put their phones down so there’s bright white lights every 10 to 15 minutes during the show.
- People talking loudly during the movie
- Way WAY too many Commercials!!! I saw a movie in an AMC theater for the first time in probably a year. I arrived early to meet someone. We took our seats 15 minutes before showtime and they are playing endless commercials at full blast volume so had to yell at each other to be heard (the two of us where the only ones in the theater). The “start time” of the movie arrived. The lights dim and…MORE COMMERCIALS! Another ten minutes straight of JUST commercials back to back. Finally, the add for the theater itself, the cultural indicator that the previews are about to begin. NOPE! MORE COMMERCIALS! 7 more minutes of them. THEN FINALLY a movie preview, okay. Preview fades out, 3 more commercials! Repeat this cycle of one preview with 2 to 3 commercials until finally the AMC Nicole Kidman theater promo comes up, so now the move? Nope! One more commercial for coca cola! Then the movie begins.
The good movie theater experience is dead for me, but I’ve learned that AMC is the worst.
I just never go to movie theaters anymore, it’s expensive, too loud, pricy, way too many ads, overstimulating and did I mention how costly it is yet? Seriously why is everything like 7 times* the price of what it is outside of the theater?
*minimum
They’re in a death spiral. The ticket prices are largely controlled by the movie distributors not the theaters with a significant chunk of the profit from ticket sales going to the distributor. This isn’t new, been that way for decades. In response the theaters figured they could charge more for concessions to make up their profit. With people not seeing movies much anymore the theaters raised concession prices to ridiculous levels to try to make up the difference. Their latest bid is cramming obscene numbers of commercials in before the movie plays because they get to keep all that money as well. The increased prices, tons of ads, and the too loud environment cause even fewer people to want to go to the theaters, which in turn causes them to raise rates and add more ads. They’re circling the drain at this point because not only are they discouraging people from attending but we’re also in an economic downturn where everyone is cutting back on whatever discretionary spending they possibly can
Plus most movies hit your house 2 months after hit theaters hell some while still in theaters. And you can rent it for 20 bucks cheaper then the theaters and I can fucking pause it and have my own snacks. Fuck the theaters.
Amc put in the email that the show time is not when movie starts. Says 30 to 45 minutes of commercials afterwards. I was like what the fuck.
And home theater systems are much cheaper than they have ever been. You can get a massive TV and sound system for under $1000 at this point.
By that measure, “After the Hunt,” with Ms. Roberts playing a college professor combating cancel culture, is a catastrophe. It cost an estimated $70 million to make and collected $3.3 million in the United States and Canada after playing for a month.
That sounds like a movie that should have cost $300K to make. Also, who wants to watch what sounds like a rich person battling “woke?”
We want thrillers with social commentary undertones. Guarantee you that if you made a movie in which Julia Roberts insults a truck driver and then gets her face peeled off by them for 12 minutes, you’ll bring in a profit.
Yeah that movie was 100% a tax grift.
Audience is destitute
