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Barry Diller: The movie business as before is finished and will never come back

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Re: Barry Diller: The movie business as before is finished and will never come back

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Ok, here's my problem with the movie theatre industry. There's 100+ years of fantastic historical content and we're not doing anything with it. 99% of what's shown in theaters is new releases. I understand we don't want to "go stale" as a society and that movie producers also need to make a living, but the balance is just way off. I would pay good money to see "the good the bad and the ugly" with my kids in a couple…

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Re: Barry Diller: The movie business as before is finished and will never come back

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Isn't the point to play games and being able to login to most sites these days? It also gives you backup internet..

Not really, not for me and many others anyway. I would just get an LTE modem for backup internet, my PC is better at everything else. I'm not sure about which sites you're talking about, but you can also do 2FA without a phone.

There are a ton of big companies and even governments that only do SMS 2FA. The US social security website is one of them.

Re: Barry Diller: The movie business as before is finished and will never come back

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Every top comment on HN is someone with an unprofitable use case complaining that no one serves them. Change my mind.

There are theaters that are dedicated to playing older movies, and they apparently turn enough profit to subsist in some locations. I think that makes this a top comment on HN with a profitable use case complaining that there's not enough around. Also, I would watch the shit out of the Good the Bad and the Ugly in a theater. Same with original Star Wars (which I think happened during extra trilogy releases occasional…

Anecdotally, there are two in my town. One seems to go bankrupt every few years. I’ve been told (by somebody who would know) that the other basically survives thanks to the Rocky Horror Picture Show, the Room, and Troll 2. Everything else loses money according to that fellow.

Re: Barry Diller: The movie business as before is finished and will never come back

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The smaller independent theaters near me tend to do more of this sort of thing. The one near me is doing an entire month of a Samurai movies. Also Month Python and the Holy Grail, and War of the Worlds (2005). All their first run movies tend to be independent ones. Not saying that chains shouldn't rerun old movies, just saying those types of theaters do exist. It's the only way I can truely get a movie theater experi…

> an entire month of samurai movies Man, that is awesome. When my wife and I first started dating, our date nights consisted of going and seeing all of the harry potter movies as they were being re-shown in a local theater. We bought the expensive seats and this theater served food/beer with the movie, which made it that much more fun. I wish more theaters would adapt their business model do to stuff like this- I'd L…

Did you know you can hire a cinema and show whatever you want? Probably cheap during quiet hours.

Re: Barry Diller: The movie business as before is finished and will never come back

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Ok, here's my problem with the movie theatre industry. There's 100+ years of fantastic historical content and we're not doing anything with it. 99% of what's shown in theaters is new releases. I understand we don't want to "go stale" as a society and that movie producers also need to make a living, but the balance is just way off. I would pay good money to see "the good the bad and the ugly" with my kids in a couple…

In Europe this is different though. In Amsterdam we have 10+ cinemas showing a lot of classics too, unlimited for 20 euros a month in amazing theatres. I rarely go to these large cinemas anymore.

Re: Barry Diller: The movie business as before is finished and will never come back

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Sure. Here's Home Depot: https://i.imgur.com/bqoV3LI.png Here's Cabela's: https://i.imgur.com/SLsba42.png BTW, I should note that this is showing weekly visits (and the same is true for the AMC chart). Again, this is Jan 2017 through July 4, 2021.

Can you aggregate multiple locations? I am interested in Apple stores.

You can buy this data on a per-store basis on a per-month basis from SafeGraph. It'll cost you $40 for YTD data, and it should include information about time of day and nonsense like that if you're curious.

Try something like https://shop.safegraph.com/?brands=SG_BRAND_aa55d5b692887ce4... and choose their Patterns dataset.

Re: Barry Diller: The movie business as before is finished and will never come back

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There are theaters that are dedicated to playing older movies, and they apparently turn enough profit to subsist in some locations. I think that makes this a top comment on HN with a profitable use case complaining that there's not enough around. Also, I would watch the shit out of the Good the Bad and the Ugly in a theater. Same with original Star Wars (which I think happened during extra trilogy releases occasional…

You can watch all these anytime on streaming - why do you need a cinema to see them?

There is a remarkably different experience between seeing Clint Eastwood 20 feet tall versus 25 inches tall

Re: Barry Diller: The movie business as before is finished and will never come back

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Ok, here's my problem with the movie theatre industry. There's 100+ years of fantastic historical content and we're not doing anything with it. 99% of what's shown in theaters is new releases. I understand we don't want to "go stale" as a society and that movie producers also need to make a living, but the balance is just way off. I would pay good money to see "the good the bad and the ugly" with my kids in a couple…

Every top comment on HN is someone with an unprofitable use case complaining that no one serves them. Change my mind.

The case this person has suggested is something that exists where I am - classic films are reshown in two cinemas in my city. One (before covid, I’d need to check if they restarted) also did a cool event each month where you’d show up with no idea what you were about to see, you’d pay what you like on the way out, no charge if you leave within 15 minutes. It was only ever an older film whenever I went

Re: Barry Diller: The movie business as before is finished and will never come back

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Ok, here's my problem with the movie theatre industry. There's 100+ years of fantastic historical content and we're not doing anything with it. 99% of what's shown in theaters is new releases. I understand we don't want to "go stale" as a society and that movie producers also need to make a living, but the balance is just way off. I would pay good money to see "the good the bad and the ugly" with my kids in a couple…

Every top comment on HN is someone with an unprofitable use case complaining that no one serves them. Change my mind.

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