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Will you miss the big theaters?

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Will you miss the big theaters?
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RE: Will you miss the big theaters?
December 7, 2020 at 1:28 pm
No, I won’t miss them. I haven’t been to a cinema in years, ever since people forgot how to behave in them.

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RE: Will you miss the big theaters?
December 7, 2020 at 3:27 pm
(December 7, 2020 at 12:18 pm)tackattack Wrote: 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.

We actually have a drive-in we go to in the St. Louis area, Belleville, Ill. to be exact. You have to bring a radio to hear the soundtrack, but sometimes that just gets in the way. Razz
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RE: Will you miss the big theaters?
December 7, 2020 at 4:01 pm
Our church used a cheap little radio transmitter to broadcast service to the parking lot. I'm certain the technology exists, I was just surprised, with the burgeoning death of theaters that we haven't seen more pop up. At the very least, I would have expected the local AMC and other theaters with big brick walls, big parking lots and the rights to display the movies already in hand to just cordon off an area and start making money on their empty parking lots.
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RE: Will you miss the big theaters?
December 7, 2020 at 4:15 pm
Last movie I saw at a theatre was Rise of Skywalker.

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RE: Will you miss the big theaters?
December 8, 2020 at 1:11 am
Please don't laugh but I kind of demand to view movies the way they were originally intended: through a coin-operated peepshow with communal earbuds.

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RE: Will you miss the big theaters?
December 8, 2020 at 4:45 am
(December 7, 2020 at 11:05 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: 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.

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RE: Will you miss the big theaters?
December 8, 2020 at 5:07 am
(December 8, 2020 at 1:11 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Please don't laugh but I kind of demand to view movies the way they were originally intended: through a coin-operated peepshow with communal earbuds.

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RE: Will you miss the big theaters?
December 8, 2020 at 5:25 am
Negative. I rarely ever went to the theater. Most modern films are just shit.
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RE: Will you miss the big theaters?
December 8, 2020 at 5:30 am
(December 8, 2020 at 5:25 am)no one Wrote: Negative. I rarely ever went to the theater. Most modern films are just shit.

It's isn't the quality of the films that puts me off, it's the behaviour of the patrons. People have come to think that merely because they 'paid to get in here' and bought a box of over-priced Raisinets that they somehow have the right to yammer away all during the film as if they were at home in front of their own telly.

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RE: Will you miss the big theaters?
December 8, 2020 at 12:56 pm
LOL. Boss Lady and I went to "Rise of Skywalker" on a weekday afternoon and were the only two people in the theater. We commented freely.
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