Patty Jenkins: "We Could Lose Movie Theater-Going Forever"

Hollywood Reporter ^ | October 5, 2020 | Georg Szalai

[SkyDancer]

Considering the pandering remakes of films and on and on and on sequels it’s no wonder; plus those Trump hating awards ceremonies - good.

[EEGator]

Very realistic.

[Morpheus2009]

That would result in even more outrage. Although Trump is still in office for them to blame now, so the wealthy won’t sponsor any such outrage.

[Morpheus2009]

Oh I get it. In fact I avoid films when I know that they are sequels or remakes at this point, because I know the odds are I will be disappointed.

[wally_bert]

I prefer a lot of the 40s and 50s movies more and more.

YouTube is good for that much.

I recently saw for the first time in decades one of the first movies I saw on a dish.

Berlin Correspondent.

The first movie was Champagne For Caesar.

It was the mid 80s. Mom’s friends. They lived in the NC mountains and had a huge dish in back yard.

[hanamizu]

A halfway decent home theater and 55” flat screen at home is literally better than the theater experience. Why bother?

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Comfortable seats, volume exactly how you want it, pause available for a bathroom/drink break, your favorite snacks and beverages, no obnoxious strangers talking, explaining plot, revealing the end, etc, no kid kicking the back of your seat, subtitles available if movie is set in Scotland...how can you claim home theater is better?

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Won’t bother me. Independence Day was the last movie I saw in a theater, and I don’t remember the one before that.

[The Fop]

I used to be a big cinema buff..... I started losing interest in the late 90’s when contemporary movies started becoming more and more overtly decadent and juvenile, along with the fact that a lot of directors that were being hailed as geniuses, like Ron Howard and Rob Reiner, were making movies that struck me as being big budget versions of “made for TV movies”..... Where all the emphasis was on advancing the plot and the characters were totally one dimensional..... After Hollywood started making all these anti-military movies following 9/11 I totally walked away....there’s no young Billy Wilder’s or Blake Edward’s or Hitchcock....it’s all crap....Tarantino and Sofia Coppola are exceptions.....let Hollywood die

[zek157]

I wouldn’t notice if they closed permanently.

[liberalh8ter]

Well, if that happens, I hope Alyssa Milano gets ripped off. She’d be stupid enough to not get the money up front.

[Mastador1]

I'd be all for it, no punks kicking at the back of your seat(that weren't your own), morons talking or using their phones with no consideration of others(several generations have been raised with the manners of a feral cat, and one of the biggest pluses? being ale to listen to a movie at a volume that doesn't cause permanent hearing damage!

Sadly for places like California the property has become too valuable to allow it to sit idle as a Drive-in in a great deal of the state. I have fond memories of watching two and even three movies on one night, Jaws and the Exorcist were great, and the Drive-in could be a great place to spend an evening even if you didn't go to watch the movie ; )

[IronJack]

How can we live without seeing trash on a 40-foot screen in Sensurround, while being tormented by uncouth vermin in the seats behind us? At a cost of 20 bucks a ticket. And another 10 bucks for a tub of styrofoam popcorn and a Coke that’s mostly ice?

[Wiser now]

Shut down Hollywood and it’s DNC propaganda machine permanently. Do it. It’s been utterly worthless for several decades. The last movie I saw in the theater was Dances With Wolves.
Television is trash too.

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

We’re all in this together! Maybe actors can learn to code?

[P-Marlowe]

Can you name a single Hollywood movie made in the last decade that you would pay to see?

[P-Marlowe]

The ice is the best part of a coke.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Need new Hollywood where they make movies people want to see rather than Leftists propaganda. Movies will be back—as they did after the 1918 plague. They will be back without Red Chinese gold and back better!

[GSWarrior]

Last movie I saw in a theater was Call of the Wild...only because I was having some car work done and had to kill a couple of hours. It was the least offensive offering at the multiplex.

[lurk]

If a theater closes and there was nobody there to hear it...

[Stand Watch Listen]

. Build one into a malls parking lot instead of an AMC. After 8 pm here, the malls are deserted and a huge back parking lot is empty. 

Already happening in some malls this past July/August. Displayed digital classic movies on side of large building, cars naturally socially distant (though walking around prohibited), FM broadcast sound. Commercial refreshment not available at that time...but families were encouraged to bring own refreshments.