Why movie theaters aren't dead yet

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If movie critics really enjoy a foreign film from that country is there any chance it may be released nationwide in the United States?

How many countries produce English-speaking films if a movie critics enjoy the film maybe they could be released nationwide in the United States and Oscar winning international films has never been released nationwide

Hollywood is dying anyways. Just the same white actors and white actresses. Netflix has plenty of foreign TV series and foreign movies with a diverse group of people from all backgrounds or people of that particular race and ethnicity

I wanted to see made in abyss dawn of deep souls but noooo coof had to shut it down.

Movie theaters are the best way for the people who make movies to test their creativity skills and decide if all their effort they put into the movie was actually worth it. For example if you're planning on making a sequel to your latest movie the theater box office results will determine the likelihood of that ever happening. If it succeeds and audiences love it then the sequel will be greenlit. If it flops and audiences hate it there's probably no hope for a sequel because you'll just be wasting time and money working on something that nobody is interested in paying to go see.

Elementals 2023 show Disney that their strategy of minimal theater window is hurting the company.

Once I became an adult, Cinema’s became nothing more than necessary evil I have to use if want to watch a new film. These days, I only go if there’s a film I really want to watch and if I could watch it any other way I’d never go.

Going to the cinema certainly is an experience, but not one I enjoy. Better sound etc doesn’t make a bad film good and I don’t want to sit in a big room with lots of other people, listening to them eat, slurp, cough, and talk all the way through. I’d happily pay more money than the cost of a cinema ticket to watch the latest & greatest at home.

Screens at home are getting bigger and sound systems are getting more sophisticated. If I can get an immersive experience at home without having to sit with a crowd and listen to their annoying popcorn chewing sounds, then why would I go to a theatre. It’s about time when the movie theatres have to go next level to significantly elevate the experiences of a movie.

My favorite memori3s watching movies was the anticipation of seeing a movie in the theater. The shared experience and emotions that movies elicit. Nothing can replace the alure of theater movies.

You cannot match the experience of watching a movie in the theatre ❤

Now, in 2023, the movie theatre industry seems to be having something of a renaissance.

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I haven't been to the movies since August 2015. I was born in 2000 and my whole life, I never enjoyed the movies. I always found it easier to enjoy movies at home than in the theater. I went to the movies when I was in Kindergarten in April 2006 and I didn't even like it back then. Since 2015, if I wanted to see a new movie, I would wait for it to be released because I knew I would enjoy it more than at the movies. To each their own.

The pandemic didn’t shut down anything. Governments did that.

Movie theaters can also show foreign films so less dependent on Hollywood.

Movie theaters can have live concerts and other activities for lack of movies.

I said goodbye to theaters last year. Audience members can be loud and disruptive, I've been done with risking that when I could just buy the movie on Blu ray and watch it uninterrupted in my own home.

You forgot to mention the big guns that the theatres still have - the premium formats and the cinematic experience !!!

I'd lobby to bring back that window of exclusivity during the age of streaming services if I were a politician to protect the movie theater chains from the threat of streaming services...

WAIT, people still use dvds? i thought they were ancient

people aren't abandoning theaters..
Audiences are just more picky on what they spend their money on now more than ever

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People who enjoy the movie theater experience because of the love of art or being social or whatever will still want to watch movies in theaters. I am in that category. As long as I’ve money to go, I go to the theater.

Yeah movies at home are nice, but theaters are an experience. Especially the popcorn.

i only go to the cinema to eat food 😂

I like watching movies at my home i don't like movie theaters

Now days (2023) my roommate and I will mostly go see movies that DON'T have sequels, reboots or remakes.
We look at reviews and decide if it worth our time and money to go see a movie in theaters on the 2nd weekend or to just wait for it to stream.
So far, we have seen M3GAN, SMILE, Evil Dead Rise, Renfield and Prey.

Every experience has been awesome. SMILE had a packed theater on it's 2nd weekend! Studios need to keep giving us ORIGINAL content because every one is burnt out on every thing else.

The movie theatre is dead just like blockbuster. Except the movies they make are even more dead. 🤣🤣

Not dead but dying. People are fed up hearing cell phones from strangers and their boring life stories. Now we watch movies from home, so imbeciles don't ruin it.

Movies are no longer special. So many platforms and so many movies have dulled the movie theatre experience. People are just as happy to watch a movie on a 65 inch monitor or even on a cellphone. Growing up my movie experience was on a 50 foot wide screen with a thousand behaved audience members having a shared moment in time.
Ask if they've ever seen a road show presentation of a movie, they won't know what you're talking about.

I love the Cinematic experience. Nothing will beat it! I just don't like disruptive moviegoers but other than that seeing a movie on the biggest screen with the best sound possible is the way to go!

Cinemas don’t have sound bars

İt is no matter for me. I am going to theaters for only watching something with friends so there are always a movie to watch. If they shırten the time then they can increase cost then in daily basis it will be more and can get more money in short time for theathres

Nothing can replace the movie watching experience. I find going to the movies more memorable and convenient experience than sitting on my couch and watching with my big bowl of popcorn. I don't get that same immersive experience that theatres give. Theatres for life

In Finland, movie theaters rebranded their service as a high-level and luxurious special experience that can only be experienced exclusively in theaters, and to maintain this illusion, they doubled the ticket prices, shortened the window of international movies to one month and and started scripting their commercials so that customers would feel FOMO if they didn't come to the movies.

I find it hard to watch a movie at home cinemas are just better

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I was an actor in high school i love movies more than anyone probably including going to the theatre i mean you cannot beat that experience. However I have to say in my opinion within 10 years every single major movie theater will be closed

I remember Fast and furious 6 was released in theatres in may and came to DVD in November but the movie angel has fallen it took only 3 months

My 16mm movie theater will never close.
HM, founder Highway Cinema

Well you also didn't mention that if a movie isn't shown in a theater then it can't get Awards like the Oscar because the rules to qualify are that it is shown in a theater.

They will be obsolete in another five years.

I really hope movie theaters/cinemas don't go anywhere.....because you can easily still experience movies at the commodity of your home alone, or with your friends and family, it is still not the same experience as going to a big screen.

i haven’t visited a movie theater since like an elementary school field trip

Cinemas do have a BIG advantage, they will 100% keep forever. You will get a far better audio and viewing experience than in average Joes living room. To replicate what you get to experience in the cinema for a couple bucks, you would need to spend a whole fortune to build it at home to then realise that you spent a whole fortune on something that doesnt earn you money and still lacks behind what a cinema can offer as technology progresses. Seeing the biggest and greatest movies on your TV at home vs seeing them in the cinema, which was carefull designed to just show you movies in the best possible way is a big difference. Just make sure you get seats in the middle - I also do kinda wish cinemas just ditched the outer seats and left the space empty instead.

AMC Theatres isnt going anywhere

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It’s been years since I’ve been to a movie theatre. I rather watch movies at homie.