sad reality of movies

Agreed. Streaming services are the standard now. That's just undeniable, but it's the studios subverting the theaters that will change the movie going industry forever. And this is just the beginning. Once studios start making enough on demand, there will not be a need for big theaters anymore.

Studios are run by mad hatters who would rather crawl up the ass of China than make content for the original Western audiences of the art form.

People do not want to spend their entire lives inside their homes, or only watch things on their tv or cellphone.

The mad hatters don't "get" that because they are not in business to entertain but control and spread counter-intuitive messages. Movies are about social propaganda now, this is why they cannot think beyond brands and franchises. They are too stupid.

Hollywood accounting also means "lying about business" so it is entirely possible, in fact, it has to be guaranteed, that Hollywood has had audience losses in recent years (a few years ago they said they had the worst box office since 1992 or earlier-yet somehow, by making Ghostbusters and Robin Hood remake no. 7 they claim they have a stronger box office than ever?). Business that lie? Not good for long term health but they got a monopoly so no competition to send them packing to the wilds of Beijing for the good of the planet.

Seems like their poor decision making hurt theaters and they would rather burn the theaters than change course.

Disney bought Fox and then stopped allowing revival theaters from running old Fox movies. The theaters were AFRAID to speak on record (were they worried a secret police of Disney would whisk them off in the night?) but off record they theorized that Disney wanted the screens so they can run more of their junk.

I'd say the success of revival theaters shows that people do like to watch movies on a giant screen.

The studios probably don't want revival house theaters, especially if the films being shown are not subject to editing by Disney apparatchiks. Disney is editing their content now to remove wrongthink. No surprise.

If competition was allowed, you would probably see some businesses organized to offer content people want to see, but it would be near impossible if advertising remains controlled by Google and their fellow anti-social lunatics.


Maybe if holograms are perfected by James Cameron they will have a few special theaters that charge $100 a seat, but that's not mass market enough to provide the social engineering forum, so I suspect the studios would pass on it.

I think Avatar and Endgame's records will stand forever. Cinema as we know it has finally catched up with reality. It should embrace its digital future. Universal did the right thing by collapsing the theatrical window.I will be watching most movies this year on the Hd TV at home and I feel a lot of other will also.

If a movie I want to see is in theaters, I'll see it in theaters.

If a movie I want to see is on Netflix, Hulu, or any other platform I'm paying for, I'll see it on one of those.

If a movie I want to see is on Google Play or any VOD service, I'll see it through that.

If a movie I want to see is on Blu-ray or DVD, I'll buy or rent it, and see it that way.

If a movie I want to see is on a television channel, at a certain day and time, I will do my best to see it at that time , or record it for later.

While I think the theater chains are starting to dig their graves in the faceoff against Universal, the studios ought to, under normal circumstances, agree to wait a certain amount of time before making movies designed for theatrical exhibition available in other forms.

i would. no doubt that cinemas will go on.

I for one do not want to see movies made for theatre screens on small TV at home. As large as my home TV is it will never compare to a theatre screen.

I still actually WANT the movie theatre experience, especially for large epic, action or FX laden movies that were shot with a movie theatre size in mind.

Imagine having seen Avengers Endgame on TV the first time? NO. I'll watch all those movies on TV AFTER I've seen them for the first time in theatres. Unless you're rich enough to have an actual theatre at home, no TV, no matter how big, will ever do justice to a real theatre.

What a shame it was to see Godzilla vs Kong on a TV! My TV is pretty big (and the movie wasn't that great lol) but that movie was made to blow us away with size and FX! Its two main characters are taller than buildings! That movie was meant to be seen in a theatre sized screen, and I'll bet the vast majority of people saw at home on TV. Too bad.

I went and saw The Suicide Squad in theatres even though I have HBO Max, because I couldn't bare the idea of seeing it for the first time on a smaller screen.

But I guess that's just me. Most people don't seem to have this problem.

You answered yourself right. If this truly were the new standard, it wouldn't have taken a pandemic for that to happen.

I can’t remember exactly when but some time during the last century I watched an interview with Paul Schrader during which he predicted the future of independent cinema being pay per view cable TV. He wasn’t that far from being wrong.