when is a trip to the movies going to be worth it again?

[belamyi]

remember when everybody was scared AI was going to replace actors?

That is virtually as old as filmmaking: it is called "actors direction" or, merely, competent script and editing glossing over the qualities (and lack of them) of acting skills.
Even though the best films usually feature non-professional actors whose rotten acting is irrelevant to the cinematography.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

People still bitch about it. And somehow oddly SFX seems to be getting worse not better.

Facts. The rhinos in black panther looked like they were made 40 years before the first jurassic park. how did dinosaurs in a 90s film look more realistic than rhinos in 2018?

 

[belamyi]

Facts. The rhinos in black panther looked like they were made 40 years before the first jurassic park. how did dinosaurs in a 90s film look more realistic than rhinos in 2018?

Facts.

Budget	$200 million
Box office	$1.348 billion

Who would care about realistic rhinos when sucking patrons were there to witness the glory of black people, mainly and, incidentally, that of the MCU?
The Panther had to recreate the whole fucking Wakanda and all the crazy universe around the plot: in JP, the dinos themselves were all that.

 

[Essex Boy]

The last time I went to the pictures was to see Kenneth Branagh's Henry V. That was in about 1990. I wanted to see Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri when it came out but it was very difficult to find out where it was playing and what times it was showing. When I did track it down I couldn't work out how to buy a ticket, it had been so long since I'd been. In olden times you just walked in, handed over the money and they gave you a ticket. No problem. Now you have to book online and print your own e-ticket. What happened to spontaneity?

The other thing that used to bother me, and which still puts me off going, is the way they have the volume turned up to 11 all the time. Why? I've got a mild case of tinnitus already, I don't want it to get worse.

Anyway, why would I go to an overpriced, ear-splitting fleapit when I can watch Talking Pictures TV? All day long black & white films like they used to show in the afternoons when the sport was rained off. If you sit down to watch an old B-feature at 10 in the morning you're hooked for the whole day.

 

[belamyi]

^ When was mine... maybe 1989, to see a re-release of Amadeus with my high school music class?

 

[belamyi]

Now you have to book online and print your own e-ticket.

What?! Even "e-"tickets are still to be printed? What the hell do we then have cell phones, QRs, passwords, accounts and all that for?!!!
I was so fucked off (who needs ho-hiring anymore) when they asked me to print a stupid return label... I had to literally go to the other side of the neighbourhood to have it printed. In the ned, I didn't even return the book: too much work without getting paid, too much hassle, only to make up for their own mistake and NOT get even, because time and effort were already wasted.

 

[belamyi]

The other thing that used to bother me, and which still puts me off going, is the way they have the volume turned up to 11 all the time.

Oh my, that reminds me of my poor mother turning the sound up an down while watching all that stupid crap at home during some holiday or something.

 

[belamyi]

Anyway, why would I go to an overpriced, ear-splitting fleapit when I can watch Talking Pictures TV? All day long black & white films like they used to show in the afternoons when the sport was rained off. If you sit down to watch an old B-feature at 10 in the morning you're hooked for the whole day.

Why would you consider yourself concerned with products meant for people with no previous cinematic culture...

 

[Essex Boy]

^
They show plenty of top-drawer stuff too, like Tiger Bay and Whistle Down the Wind, as well as classic old-school TV shows like the legendary Public Eye with Alfred Burke.

 

[Peloso]

The last time I went to the pictures was to see Kenneth Branagh's Henry V. That was in about 1990. I wanted to see Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri when it came out but it was very difficult to find out where it was playing and what times it was showing. When I did track it down I couldn't work out how to buy a ticket, it had been so long since I'd been. In olden times you just walked in, handed over the money and they gave you a ticket. No problem. Now you have to book online and print your own e-ticket. What happened to spontaneity?

That's technology working to simplify your life.

Pretty soon we'll have to go through all that just to call an ambulance.

 

[belamyi]

^
They show plenty of top-drawer stuff too, like Tiger Bay and Whistle Down the Wind, as well as classic old-school TV shows like the legendary Public Eye with Alfred Burke.

I mean going to new releases, top-drawer Disney Marvel drivel and such.

 

[belamyi]

That's technology working to simplify your life.

Pretty soon we'll have to go through all that just to call an ambulance.

The question is precisely that it does NOT SIMPLIFY it, just complicates it in a different way.
Dispensing with old nuisances is not simplifying when you just patch-up the hole left.

It is not about God-given technology, it is about streamline managing of streamline technology, not technology propping managing deficiencies.

 

[me203]

The last time I went to the pictures was to see Kenneth Branagh's Henry V. That was in about 1990.

1990? Part of me is envious of this stretch of avoiding moving theaters that's longer than mine! But if it hadn't been for others who dragged me to various movies, I'd have a better streak.

Actually, my last movie theater visit would be 1980 something if you consider the last time I went with some enthusiasm, and not just because soemeone else A) wanted to go and B) wanted me to come along. A local movie theater had weekly movies suitable for children. My mother and I would get tickets for the summer (not quite a pass--but basically bought all the tickets at once on single sheet of paper).

That movie theater was interesting in that it was actually local. I'm not sure what if any chains existed back then. It was a bit run down, and it probably could have used better cleaning. But I do sort of miss the existence of the place. The site has been home to some chain retailer since 1990 something.

The other thing that used to bother me, and which still puts me off going, is the way they have the volume turned up to 11 all the time. Why?

I hate that, too. Some theaters in my limited experience are worse than others. Maybe along with overpriced popcorn they should sell ear plugs.

 

[ShadowCat]

if it weren't for the recliners and alcohol being served i would've been miserable watching Halloween Ends, it felt like that shit was 9 hours long. Other than Wakanda Forever when is there going to be a movie that justifies the $16 tickets and $80 popcorn? This was a stale ass year for theaters, the Bros movie could've been released on Hallmark that was NOT a big screen movie. And I'm a Marvel girl so don't even talk to me about Whack Adam. is there anything good on the horizon? when *Amsterdam flopped did hollywood get the message that an ensemble cast is a waste of capital if the plot is garbage.

*whatever that period movie is with Taylor Swift dressed like a flapper

Storm needs her own movie

 

[belamyi]

if it weren't for the recliners and alcohol being served i would've been miserable watching Halloween Ends, it felt like that shit was 9 hours long. Other than Wakanda Forever when is there going to be a movie that justifies the $16 tickets and $80 popcorn? This was a stale ass year for theaters, the Bros movie could've been released on Hallmark that was NOT a big screen movie. And I'm a Marvel girl so don't even talk to me about Whack Adam. is there anything good on the horizon? when *Amsterdam flopped did hollywood get the message that an ensemble cast is a waste of capital if the plot is garbage.

*whatever that period movie is with Taylor Swift dressed like a flapper

I don't think they honestly bet on supposed quality... ok, maybe The Weinstein did, with those 'Nine' concocts 'nshit... but they do that the same way the music industry (whatever is left of it) works: they throw whatever trash for whatever creative accounting purposes and interest that still may serve to prop their boiling rooms, and use the "big" names as bait for the more idiotic.
Now they use more the racial element or whatever trendy idiocy to substitute 'big names' growing stale, and no time and interest to fluff up new ones.

I know it's America, America but, are you serious about the $80 popcorn... because, being America, America, I am ready to believe that is for real.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

I don't think they honestly bet on supposed quality... ok, maybe The Weinstein did, with those 'Nine' concocts 'nshit... but they do that the same way the music industry (whatever is left of it) works: they throw whatever trash for whatever creative accounting purposes and interest that still may serve to prop their boiling rooms, and use the "big" names as bait for the more idiotic.
Now they use more the racial element or whatever trendy idiocy to substitute 'big names' growing stale, and no time and interest to fluff up new ones.

I know it's America, America but, are you serious about the $80 popcorn... because, being America, America, I am ready to believe that is for real.

Not quite $80 but it's gettin there