I loved the big screens, but nothing else about the multiplex theaters. (Well, since they added bars...)

I've heard that most of the big chains are in dire straights. What will replace them, if anything?

Honestly haven't been to the theatre in so many years I cannot remember when I last attended.

They're becoming understandably obsolete in a time when technology has advanced to the point where one only has to leave home to go to work.

You can get groceries delivered to your home, you can shop online and having those packages delivered to your front door, you can stream online. Box Office hits will have to go the streaming route, but even then I won't be paying to see a movie online.

If you were never a 16 year old boy groping your squeeze in the back row - you can't understand the allure....

(December 7, 2020 at 9:10 am)onlinebiker Wrote: If you were never a 16 year old boy groping your squeeze in the back row - you can't understand the allure....

When I was a little one, we had an outside drive-in theatre. Saw Crocodile Dundee.

The next time I visited the theatre was an indoor one, pre-pubescent, with my classmates to watch the animated version of Beauty and the Beast.

Never visited the theatre as a teenager because we simply didn't have one in our town. It wasn't built until after I had graduated and was gone.

The next time I visited the theatre was in my twenties. I don't think I ever visited a theatre beyond my twenties, which technically makes it more than ten years since the experience.

(December 7, 2020 at 9:10 am)onlinebiker Wrote: If you were never a 16 year old boy groping your squeeze in the back row - you can't understand the allure....

That was more of a Drive-In thing for me. I've seen that small drive-ins are making a comeback during covid.

(December 7, 2020 at 9:10 am)onlinebiker Wrote: If you were never a 16 year old boy groping your squeeze in the back row - you can't understand the allure....

I had a '58 Rambler station wagon. Front seat laid down even with the back seat, playground the size of a full bet. Drive-ins wouldn't let me in if I had a girl with me. So my brother rode with me and his GF brought mine in David's car.

My dad had a Rambler; I don't think we ever got to the drive-in with it though.

Well yeah, it was a cheaper option. Now you have to pay for HBO, HBO+, Hulu, Amazon prime, PBS all access, Disney+, Netflix... and when these new movies that were announced to come out on these streaming services at the same time that they are in theaters, you'll have to pay separately to watch them like it was the case with Mulan.

But you don't have to pay for $2.00 worth of popcorn with $50 bill.

I'm surprised we haven't seen a resurgence in drive in theaters. I know wally world was attempting that, but those parking lots are packed as is. I'd rather see a tacobell with a huge parking lot turn their venue into a drive in theater.