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Cowboysrock55 said:
I don't mind the cost at all. It's kind of an experience that I still enjoy to take the kids out, buy them a bunch of overpriced snacks and enjoy a movie.

The problem is there just aren't many enjoyable movies anymore. That's the real problem I think we deal with. All the hyped up movies are god awful for the most part. Original ideas seem so rare these days. And then Hollywood screws up half the movies with just ridiculous casting. The Odyssey just being a recent example of the nonsense Hollywood does to screw up a potentially entertaining movie.

And by the way, the rare, good original ideas, I never seem to find out about them until the movie is basically available on TV anyway.
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Well I do mind the cost and probably the vast majority in my bracket do as well. We were the ones going to all the movies in the past. Now you drive by theaters in my town and the parking lot is a quarter full on a weekend night. The cheap theater already closed down and was told the reason was that they couldn't keep the prices low and couldnt afford the movies. They didn't even show the new movies.

Its ridiculous.
 
Rev said:
Well I do mind the cost and probably the vast majority in my bracket do as well. We were the ones going to all the movies in the past. Now you drive by theaters in my town and the parking lot is a quarter full on a weekend night. The cheap theater already closed down and was told the reason was that they couldn't keep the prices low and couldnt afford the movies. They didn't even show the new movies.

Its ridiculous.
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Yep, the money is insane. I spend over $100 anytime I go to the movies with my family. Probably $130. And that's only for 3 people.

And then add on top of that the movies tend to be garbage and it's very much not worth it. As an example, The Odyssey is right up my alley and the exact type of epic movie that should be watched in theaters. But I'm not spending that kind of money on that garbage. Never. Period.
 
Rev said:
Well I do mind the cost and probably the vast majority in my bracket do as well. We were the ones going to all the movies in the past. Now you drive by theaters in my town and the parking lot is a quarter full on a weekend night. The cheap theater already closed down and was told the reason was that they couldn't keep the prices low and couldnt afford the movies. They didn't even show the new movies.

Its ridiculous.
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Yeah and I certainly see the price aspect of it for the vast majority of people. I was just pointing out that I think there are other issues that compound it. Even if you take price out of the equation I think there are serious problems with Hollywood that are going to kill theaters. They really have no control over the movies.
 
Cotton said:
I think the movie theaters will soon be a thing of the past. Between the crap being put on now, the Covid dagger, and the ease of getting it at home. I don't see them floating along for much longer. My prediction is in 10 years they will be a rarity.
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Movies were mostly just good for dates anyway, and apparently young people don't care about that anymore. :-/
 
Chocolate Lab said:
Movies were mostly just good for dates anyway, and apparently young people don't care about that anymore. :-/
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I disagree with that. I've seen movies in the theater on dates of course, but I've seen loads of movies in the theaters just with buddies. And now with my family.
 
Cotton said:
I'll give you Wonder Woman, for sure. Agreed on the middle 3, and I didn't really like Captain Marvel, tbh.
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I think for me personally, Captain Marvel got a nice bump because it was tied into the MCU/Avengers Endgame storyline.

The follow-up movie, The Marvels, was terrible. It featured a post-Endgame storyline and had three female leads playing different versions of Ms. Marvel.

Throw that one in the pile of crap female superhero movies.
 
Rev said:
I think movies as a whole are going to tank at the box offices. Just not affordable for an average family to go to the movies now. Much easier to pay that one time fee for whatever streaming site for the year and watch it a few months later.
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Affordability is certainly a problem. Even matinees now cost $15 per ticket at my local Regal Cinemas. And that's with me cheating and checking the senior citizen box when I'm purchasing via the app.
 
1bigfan13 said:
:lol

I've been clicking senior long before I started getting AARP mail, sir.

On that subject, it wasn't until last year that I was aware that anyone can sign up for AARP. I could've signed up in my 20s. I missed out.
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I got my first one about a couple days after I turned. Told my wife that they were mocking me.
 
bbgun said:
Breakdown (1997): formulaic Kurt Russell thriller. The wife was uber annoying.
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Decent movie. It had what'shisname from The Rock as the bad guy.
 
Breakdown was a solid 90s action-thriller.

Feels like Hollywood has lost the recipe for good action-thrillers like Air Force One, Face/Off, and Under Siege.
 
1bigfan13 said:
Under Siege
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Can't remember if I said this before, but I only saw that like a year ago, and was surprised. I thought it was the butt of every joke for being one of the worst movies ever, but it was pretty good. It's not some towering intellectual film, but it's not trying to be. Of course Erika didn't hurt. :unsure
 
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