Will you miss the big theaters?

[HappySkeptic]

I saw Tenet in the theatre. My son and I were the only ones there. Thanks Covid

[rado84]

Will you miss the big theaters?

No. I prefer watching a movie at home on my computer. My brightness and contrast levels, my settings, my sound volume. Especially the volume - theaters tend to use movies with the stupid DTS or AAC codec which makes quiet scenes even quieter and the loud scenes (battles, explosions) even louder which is a horrible policy to terrorize the viewers. At least at home I can normalize all the scenes by converting the audio track to stereo AC3. On top of all that I can pause the movie and go to the toilet - something I can't do in the theater.

[The Grand Nudger]

I will. My first real job. My first real disappointment for some girl, some girl.

[Angrboda]

I've got HBO Max, so I can watch WW84, but I haven't. It's just not the same.

[The Grand Nudger]

There was this girl and I was an usher and Sleepy Hollow was out. I'd met her the year before on some doomed offer to give kisses (the candy). She met a guy and moved to chicago (which is a long way from tampa bay)...and it didn't work out..or, at least , it worked out as well is it can for a girl pining for a kid in tampa bay.

Well so it goes...roll the bones.

[Apollo]

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?

I have fond memories of matinee show on a burning hot day with overpriced popcorn and soda and enjoying a latest action flick in a cool air conditioned theater. So yes I will miss it.

[Brian37]

I have long since stopped going out to movie theaters. And working at a mall theatre complex in the late 80s early 90s.

Working at a movie theater sucks, If you are lucky you wont get assaulted for asking for ID. And you get butt fucked and anally raped by patrons if you are scheduled to make their popcorn, hot dogs and feed them candy before the get in line and you take their ticket.

Even today, nobody who goes to a movie theatre picks up their trash. They dump the shit on the floor. And after every, viewing the staff has to do the job of dental floss and garbage collector. 

Lets not mention the assholes who chew food 2 inches away from behind you. Lets not mention assholes kick the back of your chair.

But when you are a mutliplex movie theatre worker, THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE, DURRING A BLOCKBUSTER movie after the fact, that both the bathrooms for both genders don't look like every war zone in human history.

[Spongebob]

Yes, I miss the theater terribly; I think I've seen 3 films at the theater in the last 12 months. I've enjoyed seeing films at the theater since childhood and I've seen thousands of them of all sorts of genres. The size of the screen and the sound make the theater the ideal place to watch films, something you can't replicate at home. People have always talked and crunched popcorn and laughed and shrieked at the theater; that is nothing new. As long as the film is entertaining, I can get lost in it and barely notice them. What has changed is digital projectors, which means no film to break and the sound has vastly improved, not to mention seat elevation and reclining seats. I don't care for the pre-movie advertisements. Back in the 80's and before we had pre-movie cartoons and that was fun. If theaters disappear, I will certainly miss the experience but there will likely be films for a very long time. We will just watch them at home.

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BTW, in college I delivered a speech in my public speaking class about why the class should all go out and watch the new Friday the 13th flick. Don't remember which one in the series it was. I got an A+ but I doubt there were many takers.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

/haters

Two mega epic events in the big theaters for me. One was the LOTR trilogy. (Released one year apart, so 24 months to see the whole if it.)

The other was the eight Harry Potter movies.

I saw the LOTR movies with my third wife. She was training to be a children's librarian and ordered me to read "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" because she could argue about the books with a kid. I read it in one day. She lived to see the first five with me.

Boss Lady likes the big screen, but not the prices or the inconveniences. And now she's worried that I won't come back from a trip to the loo. Justifiably.

[Spongebob]

I've always enjoyed the big budget sci-fi and fantasy films so much. Nothing tops seeing those films on the big screen.