Posted on 06/03/2020 12:02:23 PM PDT by BBQToadRibs
I wouldn’t mind seeing a few old Drive In Theaters rise from the ashes. My teenage years enjoyed those.
Bring back drive-ins with some new twist.
Upon hearing of these developments, Seth Rogen commented “F COVID, America needs to get back to work and stop these violent protests or I won’t be able to give America the movies it deserves.”
The shock will come when professional sports teams start going bankrupt. It's an almost certainty in my opinion.
The people have no idea how much damage has been done to our country by these lock downs. Further more I will say again unless we make these lock downs expressly illegal the damage to our country and the economy is going to be permanent and will get increasingly worse in the coming years. As we start to lose major sports franchises and hundreds of thousands of small businesses new business to replace them will be few and far between.
The long term effect of these lock downs is going to be a permanent state of negative growth. People who have the capital to go into business are not going to do so when the threat of arbitrary government lockdowns can force you into bankruptcy and a total loss of capital. Banks will be at too big a risk in most cases to loan money to a business that could end in a total loss with just one instance of pandemic panic.
We need a Constitutional amendment making broad lock downs and quarantines expressly illegal under any circumstances. This amendment must be constructed in such a way as to be fully incorporated into the states. Prior to covid no one and I mean no one had any idea the government had the power to do what they did. Now we know and it's a deal breaker. We no longer have a free market economy and the future business model for those that have capital is going to be "don't go into business put the money elsewhere".
AMC theatres have been on life support for a while Century and Harkins are killing them. Plus local dinner theaters. AMC just picked bad locations, they’ve got odd designs (the one in Tucson has halls like old airport terminals), and they didn’t keep being late to changes in in concept, like iMax screens, betters, and all that.
“The people have no idea how much damage has been done to our country by these lock downs.”
It’s literally incalculable and will take a decade at least to fully recover from. The Bankruptcy courts are going to be very, very busy for a very, very long time.
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Yup I was going to say Chinese owned . Let it die and dry up.
Yup I was going to say Chinese owned . Let it die and dry up.
Well, I see a solution. Charge customers for popcorn
Why would I possibly want to visit a theater featuring $10 containers of popcorn,sticky floors,people coughing and sneezing,etc,etc?
I've posted before that the last move my wife and I watched in a thearer was "The Patriot", so it's been twenty years.
What can they turn the empty buildings into?
I also get films, or a few tv series, that I want to have. One thing about the films is that they are what I saw in the theatre. I think that the PC crowd is going to start "editing" films to remove content/dialogue that they disagree with. So, I have some films and tv series that I really like and I have purchased them before someone else decides to take the life out of them. Right now, during Covid, hubby and I are binge-ing on the series Fringe.
A couple of weeks ago, on Varney & Co, the Asian woman, who is part of the company, commented on blu-ray by saying (as only a younger person can): "Blu-ray, who has blu-ray anymore?" I yelled at the tv, I DO!
Hubby and I saw both of them. Excellent films, though hard to watch at times. I usually would like to see "epics" on the big screen; but, they really don't make "epics" anymore.
In my younger days, I loved going to the movies. Now, if we go to one or two a year, that is it; and, this year, we may not see any at a movie house.
Good movie; but, it is already on pay per view or on demand. That is how we saw it. Good movie.
We haven’t needed movie theaters for years. No one needs to go to smelly theaters with all sorts of sticky who knows what on the seats and having kids throwing popcorn and adults on their phones interrupting an over priced movie.
Given that Hollyweird appears to be throwing in with the people trying to wreck our country, perhaps AMC should be taking this issue up with them. Extended boycotts can hurt, too.
When I read this to hubby, his first comment was: "chinese spyware". Apparently, it is owned by the Chinese.
Because nuking some popcorn is way above some people’s IQ.
We have a Flix Brewhouse near us that has become our go to theater.
They offer craft beers, decent food (sandwiches, salads, burgers, pizza and appetizers) and comfy chairs. Food prices are in line with what you would pay at a chain sit down restaurant. They have fun pre-shows before the movies, like interviews, scenes from other movies in the same genre or with the same actors, stuff like that. The staff is attentive and nice.
We haven’t really bothered going to movies anywhere else.
The last time I was in a movie theater was for the last Harry Potter in 2011. Before that, it was the previous HP. Before that, was the HP before...
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