[SkyDancer]

Well perhaps. I'm still thinking that movies will eventually go straight to DVD - cinema's are a dying breed. There was a multiplex cinema, real nice one, that went out of business after about 25 years near where I live. Before coming down here to work the one's I went to weren't all that full - plus the movies they're making these days are (to be polite) junk. No original ideas, just remakes of remakes of remakes.

Regards.

[Blue Ink]

Movies screened for audiences on large screens in dedicated spaces have been popular for nearly one hundred years.

The big fear was television would be the death knell of theaters. Didn’t happen. And that was sixty years ago.

Many thing about seeing movies in theaters with other people enhance the experience.

NetFlix won’t be the end of movie theaters.

[discostu]

Cinemas aren’t a dying breed. Transformers 3 just hauled 162 million dollars in 5 days. There’s still an audience out there, you just have to tap it. Any theater that goes out of business is either mismanaged or did something to earn the ire of the MPAA distributors.

[Oatka]

cinema's are a dying breed.

I always wondered if they couldn't extend their lifespan by having a "Classics Night" and show some of the great oldies, including black and white. I'd love to see "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" on the BIG screen and hear Alfonso Bodoya leer and say "I don't gotta show you no steekin batches!".

It might also wke up some of the younger generation to the fact that you don't need CGI to tell a story - if there is a story at all in films nowadays.

Maybe there are some distributor restrictions.