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posted 4 years ago by KevO4444 4 years ago by KevO4444 +92 / -1
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– Knife-TotingRat 21 points 4 years ago +21 / -0

The price was getting out of hand, anyway. It never used to be "cheap", but the desperate changes they've made over the years have done little more than to drive prices up while really adding little to the theatre-going experience, and really, in some ways, making it worse.

Before VCRs, you went to the movies because it was basically the ONLY way to see a new movie. Television liked to show only really old movies, or really bad movies made especially for it. And you might even pay to go see it more than once while you could, because once it left the theatre, you didn't know if you'd ever see it again.

Even once VCRs and then DVDs became cheap, popular, and common, the movies were for seeing shit on a BIG screen. Star Wars (1977) ushered in a new era of big-bang special effects, that demanded a huge screen to enjoy properly (unfortunately, the cineplexing craze started about that time, too.)

Now, we've got these huge, flat sci-fi Back to the Future wall televisions with pictures better than anyone's ever seen before, and you can get some pretty good speakers to go with that, Dolby Surround and all, which you can buy with all the money you save from making your own popcorn and buying your pop by the two-four. And you can smoke all you like in your own living room, and be comfy.

So who the fuck needs theatres any more?

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– Lurker404 5 points 4 years ago +5 / -0

So who the fuck needs theatres any more?

3D movies maybe? Are they still a thing?

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– Knife-TotingRat 10 points 4 years ago +10 / -0

I have a feeling that VR equipment is going to take over that noise.

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– FreddyFingers 6 points 4 years ago +6 / -0

My Body is ready.

They're going to have to up their game though. I watched Tron 3d bluray in a VR game called "bigscreen" which simulates a movie theater. It's "3d" but since you're already in a 3d environment it's actually quite underwhelming.

Now if they could make movies where you feel like you're INSIDE the movie with VR. I would fucking pay money for that.

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– Knife-TotingRat 4 points 4 years ago +4 / -0

Maybe third generation, or fourth. Depends on how quick they want to merge movies with VR, and that will depend on how popular VR gets. But my brief experience with it suggests that even current-gen VR blows all the previous attempts at 3D totally away.

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– reidj 3 points 4 years ago +3 / -0

There's plenty of theaters around that can still outdo a VR headset with motion tech like D-box, which basically turns the theater into a version of a VR rides (Star Tours at Disney, Back to the Future/the Simpsons Ride at Universal).

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– ClownTamer 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

I was okay with the movie membership times. $21-23ish a month for basically unlimited AMC in the nicest Dolby Digital theaters in my area. I was okay with that price. Realistically I’d see 2-5 movies a month like that but it was worth it to me. Normally 1 ticket to the nice theater is $23.

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– Adamrises 1 point 4 years ago +2 / -1

The price was getting out of hand, anyway.

That was only if you bought concessions. Movie tickets are cheap as shit in almost every theater I've went to.

It takes zero effort to have a drink in your pocket and eat dinner before you go, so its honestly a very inexpensive thing to partake in.

Especially since a huge amount of moviegoers are dates, where watching a movie at a theater is innocent easy sells and watching a movie at your house is shorthand for sex.

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