BladeVenom
Supreme [H]ardness
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I with everyone else who thought Guardians of the Galaxy was the best summer movie.
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Cinemas here have it all. 3D, ATMOS, 2D, and the normal ones. It's pretty much empty early in the day during the weekdays and pretty packed at nights. During the weekends and public holidays, you'll have a hard time getting tickets because they'll mostly be sold out. At night,most of the viewers are couples that are dating and have no where else to go. During the day, you'll see a lot of people who watch movies during their lunch breaks or whatever. Dressed up in their office attire and what not.
Anything ATMOS and 3D are expensive, but I've never really been much of a fan. Regardless, those movies are also sold out during weekends. They make their money from the snacks and popcorn. And on the weekends, both movies and that keep those places alive. As for me, I like going to the cinema to watch certain movies but it's a hassle because you have to book the tickets online, then actually go to the cinema. Find parking (which is always a problem at shopping malls and what not).
The satellite television we have here has the latest movies available for rental that appear in the cinemas but I'm not sure if they get much response. It's a 24 hour rental and it costs as much as a ticket for a 2D show.
I have Netflix, Hulu Plus, Showtime, HBOGO, and a few other channels that I have on Roku and that pretty much covers all the TV shows and movies I need. Full HD, great sound streaming in. There are other ways of getting latest movies that don't make it to those channels though, so I'm covered.
They just need to come up with better movies. I haven't been excited about many movies recently, I'm looking forward to the Boxtrolls, so that tells you something. LOL
I have not seen a movie at a theater in ages. The cost is too much, then you have people making noises, etc.
Best to rent it or wait till it comes out on cable and relax at home to watch.
Where I lived had a great drive in, that was nice.
Two movies for around $8 and the serenity of relaxing in your car to your own stereo.
You must not live in urban Florida.
IMO the movie industry needs to keep tanking eventually they will break down and realize the best way to make the summer blockbuster break sales records is to switch to something more like a pay per view model. Its simple charge people a set reasonable price, and stream it directly to every home in America, or the world.
I'll reserve judgement till I've seen it. I didn't like the Hobbit in 3D 24 fps. Then again, it was a pretty bad movie, so there wasn't much that could save it (other than losing the 3 film,and possibly the 2nd).Cameron is just as diluted as Jackson is when it comes to 48fps. Cameron saw the potential for 3D and seized it but with 48fps being available in very , very limited theaters it would take millions upon millions of dollars of upgrading to even get it seen by the general audience and many people just hate it.
Film still has a place. It has a look , feel and experience working with it that keep it alive (plus some talented directors that refuse to let Film die helps).
3D being popular in China doesn't mean a lot to the West honestly (except for profits but China is weird about that when it comes to movies). If it isn't popular in your home then its very unlikely it'll be so at the theater.
Dolby Just introduced ATMOS and its already a bomb. Very few receivers are planned to even support it because it requires tons of speakers and people already think of surround sound as 5.1 not 10.2.
17.00/ticket (non-imax) in San Diego.
Fuck Hollywood. Movies suck compared to almost anything else i can spent my entertainment budget on. This downward spiral will continue for them - they have priced themselves out of the entertainment market in many major cities.
The only movies worth watching this year have not yet been released: Hunger Games 3 and The Hobbit 3.
I wouldn't care about netflix if only moves that came out 15 years ago are still better.
There were times when Kevin Spacey, Robert Williams and Tom Hanks were young and still doing good movies. It didn't involve built up boys stripping and punching every fking two minutes while a girl is shaking her boobs left and right.
The problem is that the "well" is dry in terms of creativity. The foundation that runs Hollywood is based on Lawyers now. Its a common complaint (outside of the racially motivated one that Hollywood is all ran by "Jews") that lots of great scripts never see the light of day because it doesn't please Hollywood's obsessive demographic of young teenage girls now.
We've probably lost out on some great movies. No , actually we HAVE lost out on some great movies for that very reason.
If anything Hollywood is painting itself into a corner and by the time its ready to see the error of doing so everyone else will have moved on and are doing so if not.
I'll reserve judgement till I've seen it. I didn't like the Hobbit in 3D 24 fps. Then again, it was a pretty bad movie, so there wasn't much that could save it (other than losing the 3 film,and possibly the 2nd).
And some people still shot film. Hell, there's a market for Polaroid SX70 film, but it's small and largely nostalgic look back by people who were barely out of highschool when Polaroid killed it. However, I have seen some pretty artistic stuff done with SX70 pics by using something hard to draw on pics that haven't fully developed.
3D in China is why 3D won't go away. And it does affect the west, because, it means eventually directors will figure out how to use 3D, just like they learned how to use sound and color.
I don't know enough about Atmos. As I recall, at one point Dolby didn't intend it for the home market. My guess is that it will only be on very high end receivers for several years. Whether it'll do well with HT enthusiasts, I don't know. Honestly, most people I know don't have 5.1 at home. Many use the speakers in the TV. All of this is a reason for them to go to the Theater.
Meh. I'd rather watch it on a 50-75' screen with great surround sound. Yes, you can get the latter at home, but most people don't have it. Maybe Bill Gates has a 50' screen at home, but most people don't even have an 60" screen.
I hope to hell Film doesn't go away. I'm glad directors are pushing Hollywood to keep it going. Its the one thing you can't get at home that's worth going to the theater for.
3D will die out. Ticket prices for 3D are already beyond reason. In China its also more expensive. Most Chinese don't have the cash to spare and going to movies is a luxury for them. 3D is doomed. If it can't make it in the home theater its unlikely even Hollywood's push will keep it going much longer. 3 years ago it was all the rage and constantly in our faces at the theater. Now? Not so much.
Dolby doesn't do anything without the home market in mind. Dolby's fortune has been thanks to the home market leasing its technology and pushing it everywhere. When people think of Dolby they think of "good" sound and "surround" sound. Nothing Dolby does doesn't have an end game at home.
ATMOS requires a pretty gnarly setup to really flex its muscle and I've heard it in action and its amazing but at home? 10.2 setup? Nope. No one at the consumer level baseline will spend $3,000 just for sound. Like you said most people don't even bother with 5.1.
Movie theaters are dying. Its a fact at this point. VOD will end up replacing it. Theaters will be used for events , film festivals and screenings of various things but the general public is much more comfortable sitting at home , relaxed , with their favorite food and watching and pausing the movie they choose.
Its evolution. You can choose to not believe it but it doesn't require your belief to function.
Meh. I'd rather watch it on a 50-75' screen with great surround sound. Yes, you can get the latter at home, but most people don't have it. Maybe Bill Gates has a 50' screen at home, but most people don't even have an 60" screen.
Most movies may not be worth a trip, but there are at least a dozen or 2 each year that are (and that's a conservative estimate), though work often prevents me from seeing them there.
I strongly prefer a backlit, high pixel density screen to a projected image slung up onto a white screen who knows how many feet away at 24Hz.