Warner Brothers pushing all 2021 movies to HBO Max and Theaters Same day in 2021

[Cure]

Originally Posted by Autbot_Benz

Everytime Cubed posts I just know he has never interacted with a woman in person. He probably repels them or something

Aren't you a mod for a cam girl?

[Autbot_Benz]

Originally Posted by Cure

Aren't you a mod for a cam girl?

I used to be 2 years ago was a friend of mine.

[CyberCubed]

Originally Posted by Autbot_Benz

I used to be 2 years ago was a friend of mine.

Have any links to hot videos of said girl?

[Jester]

Simmer down, ChrisChan...

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by Jester

Simmer down, ChrisChan...

Now hold on there. Cubed is just curious about her credentials. I can appreciate that and would also like said links for research purposes.

[Autbot_Benz]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Have any links to hot videos of said girl?

[Jester]

Man...I can HEAR that gif.

[Autbot_Benz]

Originally Posted by Jester

Man...I can HEAR that gif.

its my favorite gif to use.

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Have any links to hot videos of said girl?

Bro you spend enough time at home alone that you should be telling us who all of the hottest women of the internet are.....
We look to you for wisdoms such as this.

[sdp]

Deloitte released this in where people prefer to watch movies


I wouldn't be surprised if at disney's investors meeting they announce a counter attack. #readyforthenewnew

[Leo656]

I think #datelesswondersandfriendlesslosersoftheworldunite would be a more fitting hashtag.

Albeit a bit unwieldy.

[CyberCubed]

Honestly aside from getting to see a movie on a big screen, I'm really over theaters for the following reasons:

1. You have to drive to a theater and make sure you leave the house at least an hour before it starts or risk missing the beginning of it.

2. Have to deal with about 20 minutes of previews/trailers before the actual movie starts, so you're sitting there nearly an extra half hour on top of a 2+ hour movie

3. Screaming kids in theaters, they're always a few in every movie I've been in. Or people playing with their phones and turning on the lights when the movie is playing.

4. Overpriced food. Popcorn and soda is now the same cost as lunch or even more. Sure you can sneak in your own food, but its gotten ridiculous.

5. Noisy people who comment on every joke of the movie or every big scene chatting right next to you or the rows in front of you.

6. And last but not least, pretty expensive for a movie ticket these days.


And besides that movies in theaters are usually one and done (besides the few people who see a movie more than once in theaters), whereas 90% of the time you watch things at home ANYWAY, like your whole blu-ray collection or whatever you watch streaming...so it's no different than anything else you watch at home.


Sure I can imagine for young people who have "hot dates" want to to to the movie together, but other than that there's not much upside.

[Wildcat]

In all seriousness all those reasons are totally valid. Regardless of the virus watching at home is just a better choice in general.

I still like seeing stuff on a big screen but it has to be something I desperately want to see for it to outweigh those other factors.

I’ve been to the theater 3 times in the last 10 years. It’s really not that weird that people prefer the home experience. I mean it cost as much for tickets as it does to just buy the Blu-ray.

[Roseangelo]

If I went to a movie, I'd usually go to the early bird Sunday morning show, which was slightly cheaper. I never got food. It's kind of a nice thing to do for a lazy Sunday.

However, I have had SO MANY viewings ruined by parents who bring their too-young toddler to the movie and refuse to take their fussing child outside. Soooo... I can't say that I will be running back to theaters.

I do love a good Marvel/Star Wars type event viewing, though.

[Coola Yagami]

Wow you guys...

For me it all depends on the theater cause it's a whopping 2 theaters we get to choose from. If we go to the larger one, we just sneak food. If we go to the smaller one, they have a dinner and a movie deal and bottomless popcorn and free refills and such, so we do that. Or we just do Denny's afterwards.

As for the trailers, wow. How else are you supposed to get hyped up for the next movie outing? Also it allows extra minutes to find a seat and set your food down, etc, especially if you got a group of 4-5 people and want to find 5 empty seats in a row.

I mean I'm choosy with my movies, I go see maybe one every 2-3 months depending on whatever Marvel is cooking up next. I think the last few movies I got to see in theater before all this got shut down were pretty much Spider-Verse, It Part 2, Spider-Man Far from Home, Joker and Sonic. When we saw Sonic they played a trailer for Onward, and even though I didn't care that much for it, my friends did, and I was planning to go see it for them.

All of those were fun experiences and a good excuse to hang out. And one thing about having different groups of friends is sometimes you get to see the same movie twice. I think the last movie I saw twice was Joker cause I saw it with my buddies once, but then I got to see it again when my bro came to visit me. He missed it and managed to catch it upon the last week before my theater would pull it.


I'm by no means a super social outgoing person, but like I do have some friends, so whenever a big movie comes out, we make plans to see it together. Or if they want to hit the bar, they invite me too. We're on a Ninja Turtle forum, I get it. But just cause some of you don't leave the house even before 2020, it doesn't mean the rest of us gotta get screwed too. I miss the movies and I miss the experience.

The only complaint that's valid is the crying kids one. Or people talking a lot during the movie. Otherwise, just being out with the gang and geeking out makes it all worth it. I mean dude, something like End Game, for any fan that's been following the MCU leading up to this... like you just HAVE to make it a 'go out with your friends' event. Or family. Or someone. It's just a movie you don't watch alone.

Hell, my bro and I did a Discord call thing as we both watched Bill and Ted 3 at the same time. We both grew up on the originals, it felt wrong to watch part 3 alone.

[Wildcat]

When I saw Sonic the theater was not very crowded but like I’ve mentioned before I never go on opening days and I also goto daytime screenings to avoid the night crowd.

There were people behind us that made some noise but nothing distracting. Nobody was too loud or rude. I don’t think there were any little kids either. So you can kinda make it easier depending when you go but you never know the group you’ll end up with.

I don’t mind the trailers but now we’ve all seen them online by that time.

Prices cannot be overlooked though. Popcorn is fine and usually really good but other stuff is too expensive. I’ve never snuck in food but you should not have work around it.

Again home releases/Blu-ray are basically the same price as tickets. That’s the ultimate reason to just wait. You’re still supporting the movie and can watch it anytime with as many people as you want.

I understand wanting to experience big movies. If I was a huge Marvel fan I probably would have gone to those too. I never said or implied everyone else should stop liking it. It’s just imo home > theater.

[CyberCubed]

Honestly I usually only saw 3-4 movies in theater a year, maybe 5 at times if there were a lot of superhero movies coming out that year.

Also movies come out on blu-ray/streaming so fast these days, like only 3-4 months after a movie debuts in theater, that it's easy to wait. I remember back in the 90's and early 2000's it took like 6+ months later for a movie to come out on VHS and DVD so that's why people didn't want to wait so long to see it.

[Leo656]

To Coola's point, I have nothing but disdain for MCU films past the first Captain America and Iron Man movies (give or take an Incredible Hulk, and the first Avengers movie was alright), but the broad point about how "Some movies are better as Events, in an Event Setting" is sound. Comic book films in general are a good example of this. Also Godzilla/kaiju flicks, action movies... anything where there's a lot of special effects and noise. They just play better - and in turn the experience becomes more enjoyable - in that environment.

Look at how much money those awful Transformers movies make. ALL of that is based on how they come off in a theater setting. When you watch them on TV at "regular" scale? They're terrible, completely exposed as garbage because all the spectacle is gone. Now, this might sound a bit backhanded, as if I'm saying "The theatrical experience tricks people into thinking Bad Movies are Good" - and that IS true, that is what happens a whole lot of the time, but that's not my main point. The point is, a lot of people like "spectacle" movies, and without the "spectacle", a lot of those movies don't even have any reason to exist at all.

Most people watching at home don't have a home theater sound setup, nor a screen larger than 42 inches. Some do, MOST don't. Just like a ton of people don't have broadband, either. MOST people are not going to be able to replicate the intended experience of many films at home, for any or all of those reasons.

I also have to laugh at the idea that popcorn and soda are the make-or-break variables in the whole thing for some people. Nobody makes you buy concessions. Sure, that too is "part of the experience" but you can easily take it or leave it. If you can't go two hours without sticking salted snacks or sugar water in your hole, not for nothin', you're probably fat. In which case you have way bigger problems than the price of movie theater popcorn.

If two people go to a theater on a Sunday afternoon and don't bother with snacks, that's less than $20 for the entire excursion.

I personally was only going between 2-5 times a year myself, but that has nothing to do with the theater experience and everything to do with the fact that nothing good has been coming out. If you hate Marvel movies, then yeah, it's all kind of a waste of time lately. But that's not theaters' fault, that's on Disney for oversaturating the market and not leaving any room for anything else. If more good movies came out I would have gladly gone to see them. But I wasn't gonna waste my time or money on things like Terminator Whatever or the Sonic movie which promised to be lousy from a mile away. I'd gladly try and go like once a month or two if there were more movies out that were worth it.

[IMJ]

I love the theater but this is how this has unfolded for me.

-Been going to the theater for new releases, event movies or just for fun basically forever.
-Then there were years where maybe 99% I started going to a really good brew 'n view in the Northwest burbs of Chicago. Then a few more like it crept up and gave more brew 'n view options.
-Then one day for whatever reason we went back to a "traditional" theater, I think that still does pretty well at a mall. Teenage kids were literally running around ninja-kicking and nonsense like it was an after school roller skating party.
-Realized that I don't want to be in the midst of that kind of crap anymore for a variety of reasons.

I don't have a set time that I go to the theater (like those guys "Well I get up at 830 am like clockwork and always, always go to the early, early matinee"). But at this point I want to go, be comfortable and enjoy the movie. It's brew and views for me or basically nothing at this point. But if things were normal I'd still be going to the theater for the event flicks or for otherwise solid movies. I think the last one I saw that wasn't an event flick was "Motherless Brooklyn" which I thought was really good.

[Leo656]

See, a lot of this sounds regional. In my experience people don't act like that over here.

Sure, any kids' movie or super-hero movie is going to generally be full of rowdy kids or obnoxious teenagers. And I used to really hate that. But I noticed that once I only started seeing movies at 10pm on a weekday evening or just about any time on a Sunday afternoon, I never had a bad experience again. Seems like a simple enough solution. Although it probably helps to just plain avoid kids' movies or Marvel movies entirely, as I do. I mean if I went to a theater to see something like the Sonic movie or anything with "Transformers" in the title, I'd have to accept going in that most people there are children or morons or Childlike Morons. So I just wouldn't even put myself in that situation. "To avoid idiots, Don't Go Where They Go", right?

Sounds like an inordinate amount of you folks have the unfortunate situation of living in areas that are predominantly populated by assholes. Glad I live in Joisey.

But seriously, jokes aside, weekdays at 10pm or anytime on a Sunday. Problem solved. At those times it's nothing but people with no kids who work a steady job and who just want to see a movie and relax. "Normal" people.