Yep. My wife was interested in watching the Odyssey. It would take ~5 hours, including travel, and about $75 for tickets, gas, and ONE snack and ONE drink. For that amount of money, we can buy pizza on the way home, buy/rent the movie, and watch it on our couch, AND do it again for a second movie, and still have money left over.
We are entering an age where impatience is a luxury. I can wait for the movie to be available for streaming.
not living within 20 minutes of a theater is definitely working against you there
going to the movies is like going out to dinner, for me. I can make dinner at home. I can have a different experience at the theater. both experiences can be good but they’re different. sometimes different is good. but experiences outside the home always cost more.
I rarely go to theaters but made it a point to see Oppenheimer and The Odyssey in theatres because there is no other way to watch 70mm IMAX. That way of watching a movie is a memorable and unique cinema experience in itself. So, I have to side with your wife on this one, simply because you just cannot get that experience in any other way.
EDIT: Another movie that should have been seen in a top notch movie theatre was Joker, but for a completely different reason. Hildur Guðnadóttir’s soundtrack was like a breathing, living being and a definite main character of the story. It was something that needed to be felt in a decked out theater sound system. Her Academy Award for it was a “no brainer”.
Both can be true.
Saying “for many people it’s an outdated concept” is absolutely true.
I don’t go to theaters anymore and quite possibly never will again.
That doesn’t mean no one goes anymore.
For that matter, making over 1 billion dollars doesn’t even require most people to go.
With tickets (in the US) costing around $20, if only 10% of people went to see a movie then it would make 700 million in just the U.S.
Yep. My wife was interested in watching the Odyssey. It would take ~5 hours, including travel, and about $75 for tickets, gas, and ONE snack and ONE drink. For that amount of money, we can buy pizza on the way home, buy/rent the movie, and watch it on our couch, AND do it again for a second movie, and still have money left over.
We are entering an age where impatience is a luxury. I can wait for the movie to be available for streaming.
not living within 20 minutes of a theater is definitely working against you there
going to the movies is like going out to dinner, for me. I can make dinner at home. I can have a different experience at the theater. both experiences can be good but they’re different. sometimes different is good. but experiences outside the home always cost more.
You can afford to go out for dinner?
Why are you including the movie itself in your time estimate?
That’s time away from home. Nobody likes that.
Based.
I rarely go to theaters but made it a point to see Oppenheimer and The Odyssey in theatres because there is no other way to watch 70mm IMAX. That way of watching a movie is a memorable and unique cinema experience in itself. So, I have to side with your wife on this one, simply because you just cannot get that experience in any other way.
EDIT: Another movie that should have been seen in a top notch movie theatre was Joker, but for a completely different reason. Hildur Guðnadóttir’s soundtrack was like a breathing, living being and a definite main character of the story. It was something that needed to be felt in a decked out theater sound system. Her Academy Award for it was a “no brainer”.