Posted on 07/24/2020 5:59:11 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Edited on 07/24/2020 7:19:31 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
AMC says that the theater company may not survive the Coronavirus Pandemic.
This week AMC officials announced that they were pushing back reopening. The chain had originally shut down in March due to COVID-19.
Hollywood has continued to delay releasing movies, as cases rise in parts of the U.S.
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More people watching DVD’s at home; I’d rather sit back all comfy and watch some movies that were nicely done, not the garbage they’re putting out today.
I do have to say that I will miss movie theaters.
I like movies, and liked seeing them on the big screen once in a while.
Not that I think they should be bailed out.
“A truly great movie, The Irishman,”
...love “tough guy” movies. Goodfellas, Casino, Godfather et al. I’ve seen the 100x’s. I haven’t seen Irishman but just watched the trailer. Truly a great movie?
Isn’t AMC owned by the ChiComs?
Why subsidize them with American tax dollars and reward them for springing this on us in the first place?
For those of you who know what I’ve been working on for 10 years, namely setting up a family-friendly, but ENTERTAINING studio, you’ll know that these chains have lost a good 40% of their audiences through CONTENT.
Yes, the China Virus is going to seriously hurt. I think two chains (Cinemark and perhaps AMC) go away for good. That should not be celebrated. We need outlets for good movies, but right now we have few good movies.
Let me relate a true story with no names. A friend of a friend who had a GOOD track record making profitable and successful kids’ shows went to Amazon with the new pitch. It was a kind of combo kids show/game show that was interactive. Not my cup of tea, but I could see where it would be successful.
They sat down in front of a plump female exec who didn’t even let them get through the pitch: “We aren’t taking shows from white males. The age of Aryan supremacy is over.” (QUOTE). She then proceeded to tell them about two projects they greenlighted, a black homosexual young boy and his friends, and a lesbian teen and her friends.
THIS, not theater chains, is what must be eradicated.
I haven’t seen Irishman but just watched the trailer. Truly a great movie?
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It is. Watch it today. Thank me tomorrow.
Maybe if they just played classics from the 1950s-70s. One’s you rarely even see on cable now.
It has been well documented over the years that Hollywood prefers to make morally and socially deviant b-grade movies over more popular and more profitable family friendly movies.
The message is more important than the money.
Let Hollywood go belly up, we’ll be better off for it.
Move theaters to me are about as useful as the dial telephone.
AMC , I miss the Hornet
The company that bought Goodrich Quality Theaters out of bankruptcy is opening the local drive in tonight and the sit down 7-plex in August here in Huntington Indiana.
Great memories of drive in theaters. My favorite drive in was the one beside a train track. Whenever a train came by the headlight on the locomotive would white out the screen until it passed.
Nope. You are not ‘entitled’ to stay in business, in a Capitalist society.
Last week on Twitter, I was mocking some mouthy out-of-work Broadway Leftist who was trash-talking the go-back-to-school talk from the administration.
Asked him how the Broadway season was going.
That shut him down...
Another NO here.
Hollywood Stars are worth BILLIONS......But yet DeNiro was given Mucho Grande bucks for his failed hotels(?)/ restaurants(/) whorehouses.
When I was a teen we used to go to them almost every weekend....I used to call them The Finger Bowl!!!
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