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A lot of this has to do with how the public views the gated premium experience.
There was a time when going to the cinema was an experience. Hell, the last time I had that was the Roadshow experience for Hateful Eight in Nashville.
As the need to turn over cash faster became a bigger demand, premium prices stayed while the experience went out the mall window. But, it's a vicious cycle now.
You need premium dollars to get shit made, but COVID, shitty parents dumping their kids at the theater and the few remaining chains have conspired to make something that's barely above watching a TV at a bus station into something that costs an unattainable premium.
Outside of the rare screenings (Universal) where I can't get an e-screener, I have yet to go back to a theater for fun in slightly over 2 years.
Just because you hold something I appreciate and adore hostage, that doesn't mean I'm going to slum for a shitty experience. Not when every industry wavered COVID and changing economics to keep up a similar standard if not higher.
There are far too many other options out there and many are becoming far more viable. OH, BUT YOU HAVE TO SEE IT ON THE BIG SCREEN! One day you will, but you're selling a sales pitch from 60 years ago to people that grew up having premium films hourly on cable and other means.
It just doesn't hold the same weight. To that point, if theaters can't keep up....fuck 'em. I'm beyond tired of stifling innovation for dinosaurs that can't see the writing on the wall.
There was a time when going to the cinema was an experience. Hell, the last time I had that was the Roadshow experience for Hateful Eight in Nashville.
As the need to turn over cash faster became a bigger demand, premium prices stayed while the experience went out the mall window. But, it's a vicious cycle now.
You need premium dollars to get shit made, but COVID, shitty parents dumping their kids at the theater and the few remaining chains have conspired to make something that's barely above watching a TV at a bus station into something that costs an unattainable premium.
Outside of the rare screenings (Universal) where I can't get an e-screener, I have yet to go back to a theater for fun in slightly over 2 years.
Just because you hold something I appreciate and adore hostage, that doesn't mean I'm going to slum for a shitty experience. Not when every industry wavered COVID and changing economics to keep up a similar standard if not higher.
There are far too many other options out there and many are becoming far more viable. OH, BUT YOU HAVE TO SEE IT ON THE BIG SCREEN! One day you will, but you're selling a sales pitch from 60 years ago to people that grew up having premium films hourly on cable and other means.
It just doesn't hold the same weight. To that point, if theaters can't keep up....fuck 'em. I'm beyond tired of stifling innovation for dinosaurs that can't see the writing on the wall.
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