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AMC Says More Than 20k Have Booked 'Barbie'-'Oppenheimer' Double Features

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Re: AMC Says More Than 20k Have Booked 'Barbie'-'Oppenheimer' Double Features

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Post by ReptileMan »

draugadrotten wrote: post #12

How is the experience of going to the movies in the US these days? In EU, going to the movies now means watching entire rows of glowing cell phones in front of you and hearing at least a few conversations on speaker phone. Not to mention the price of admission for the whole family is comparable to about 6 months of a streaming service. It just isn't worth it anymore, and I say that as a movie aficionado who has seen…

It's expensive, but people are not texting and chatting. Some do check notifications. Not that 3 hours features like Avatar 2 that should have been 90 minutes don't offer ample opportunity to check them out of sheer boredom.

This is in Eastern Europe.

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Post by bryanrasmussen »

mstade wrote: post #13
draugadrotten wrote: post #12

How is the experience of going to the movies in the US these days? In EU, going to the movies now means watching entire rows of glowing cell phones in front of you and hearing at least a few conversations on speaker phone. Not to mention the price of admission for the whole family is comparable to about 6 months of a streaming service. It just isn't worth it anymore, and I say that as a movie aficionado who has seen…

Where in the EU is this true? I've never experienced this in Sweden.

Also not in DK, and I'm going to assume it wouldn't be in Iceland or Finland either - seems very contra the whole Scandinavian identity, which normally has the issue of being too full of itself but I guess does have some benefits.

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Post by bryanrasmussen »

buildbot wrote: post #6
ramraj07 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think my amygdala would have melted if I watched those movies back to back.

Yeah that’s … quite … the double feature. I wonder what they showed first - GotF being second would be quite the surprise after totoro.

as I understand Totoro came second, which makes sense chronologically, emotionally, and really in an overall aesthetic sense.

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Post by drumhead »

midasuni wrote: post #14
draugadrotten wrote: post #12

How is the experience of going to the movies in the US these days? In EU, going to the movies now means watching entire rows of glowing cell phones in front of you and hearing at least a few conversations on speaker phone. Not to mention the price of admission for the whole family is comparable to about 6 months of a streaming service. It just isn't worth it anymore, and I say that as a movie aficionado who has seen…

I go to the cinema about 4 times a year with the kids in the UK, usually to see marvel films. I don’t recognise that experience. The whole thing costs about £50 sure (maybe nearer £60 nowadays), and we combine it with bowling and a meal out. Overall it’s a £150 “day out”. It’s not comparable to watching a film at home.

A year of Netflix and a year of Disney+ in the UK would be £200. A family of Four to watch Dial of Destiny in my Local cinema was £80, for one showing, no snacks, no drinks. Is Disney cannibalising itself I wonder?

Re: AMC Says More Than 20k Have Booked 'Barbie'-'Oppenheimer' Double Features

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Post by drumhead »

troupo wrote: post #20
drumhead wrote: post #5

The film industry needs as much help as it can get at the moment, all studios have been hit with massive flops this summer. After the Flash, on track to lose at least $200million, Warner need Barbie to be a hit, so this bizarre double header is a way for Warner and Universal to get some positive buzz going for their films. Both of the are tracking to do well, and they didn't cost too much to make like the Flash or Di…

> The film industry needs as much help as it can get at the moment, all studios have been hit with massive flops this summer. You can't help those who are unwilling to help themselves. Literally no one forced them to sink 300 million into Dial of Destiny, for example. Or all the other crap they are putting out.

I think they understand the error of their ways now. Disney especially have been guilty of overspending. After Thier year of flops, they're going to cut back spending massively. When you look at this week and see how a film that cost $15million is already more profitable than Dial of Destiny that's an embarrassing lesson to them.

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Post by saiya-jin »

emilsedgh wrote: post #9
drumhead wrote: post #5

The film industry needs as much help as it can get at the moment, all studios have been hit with massive flops this summer. After the Flash, on track to lose at least $200million, Warner need Barbie to be a hit, so this bizarre double header is a way for Warner and Universal to get some positive buzz going for their films. Both of the are tracking to do well, and they didn't cost too much to make like the Flash or Di…

Or maybe these studios need to stop making stupid movies that nobody cares about anymore. Flash? Seriously? Promote actual movies a little more rather than spending hundreds of millions on dumb movies and leaving no room for real cinema.

You realize these corporations are just catering to what crowds want to see. Not always perfectly as we see in results, but that's the directions they all are taking, they are for-profit organizations after all, not some government branch being paid from taxes.

So what you are complaining about is rather shallowness or masses who want more popcorn fun rather than taking chances with experimental productions (just to be clear I am all for it, ie Tarantino broke through by similar 'taking creative chances', but folks do rarely visit unconventional stuff en masse).

Haven't seen Flash yet but these movies all aim to be next juicy Endgame. If you want to blame anybody for current direction of Hollywood, blame all folks visiting Avengers franchise.

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Post by glimshe »

draugadrotten wrote: post #12

How is the experience of going to the movies in the US these days? In EU, going to the movies now means watching entire rows of glowing cell phones in front of you and hearing at least a few conversations on speaker phone. Not to mention the price of admission for the whole family is comparable to about 6 months of a streaming service. It just isn't worth it anymore, and I say that as a movie aficionado who has seen…

I go to the movies around 20-30 times per year in the US. If you have a large family, it can get expensive so for heavy movie goers like me, monthly subscription plans like AMC Stubs ($24/month) make sense.

Sure, you have the occasional people with phones lighting up or ringing during the movie, especially in movies with strong teenager attendance, but it doesn't define the experience. Yesterday someone took a baby to a horror movie I watched (!), and there was a bit of crying here and there. This kind of inconsiderate person isn't common in my experience, it's just like the random annoying person at a restaurant.

To be honest, with the movie plan it's totally worth it, but that's me. I love movies and while I have a decent and comfortable watching setup at home, it's like watching a travel vlog vs actually traveling - a whole different ball game.

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Post by ReptileMan »

drumhead wrote: post #5

The film industry needs as much help as it can get at the moment, all studios have been hit with massive flops this summer. After the Flash, on track to lose at least $200million, Warner need Barbie to be a hit, so this bizarre double header is a way for Warner and Universal to get some positive buzz going for their films. Both of the are tracking to do well, and they didn't cost too much to make like the Flash or Di…

>all studios have been hit with massive flops this summer

Ahh yes. The studio have been hit trough no fault of their own.

I think the studios have produced total shit for a long time. Destroyed franchizes with incompetent writing and it is catching up.

Latest Indidana Jones is case in point. Everything about that movie except Harrison Ford is bad. And the latest reincarnation of Olive Oyl of Popeye fame is so unfitted for the role of action heroine it is not even funny.

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Post by dawnerd »

emilsedgh wrote: post #9
drumhead wrote: post #5

The film industry needs as much help as it can get at the moment, all studios have been hit with massive flops this summer. After the Flash, on track to lose at least $200million, Warner need Barbie to be a hit, so this bizarre double header is a way for Warner and Universal to get some positive buzz going for their films. Both of the are tracking to do well, and they didn't cost too much to make like the Flash or Di…

Or maybe these studios need to stop making stupid movies that nobody cares about anymore. Flash? Seriously? Promote actual movies a little more rather than spending hundreds of millions on dumb movies and leaving no room for real cinema.

Making trashy movies is fine. Paying problematic actors a ton of money and letting budgets go out of control isn’t. There’s always a need for filler movies - some of the best cult classics have been just that. The other issue is they release movies at the worst time. IMO the new mission impossible is going to flop because it came out so soon before probably the two most anticipated movies of the year.

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Post by NoZebra120vClip »

I was eagerly awaiting "Dial of Destiny" for months before its release, and it was marked on my calendar, which was redundant because it was already a special day in our family. I wrapped things up at home and got to the theater on Thursday (which is technical Opening Day because everything has to creep up in time like Black Friday starting at 9pm on Thanksgiving Night.)

Anyway, I immensely enjoyed "Dial of Destiny", and I saw it with a fairly good crowd, although the front three rows were less-populated. The auditorium had a gigantic screen and seat-shaking bass audio. I honestly didn't notice all the woke feminism until it was pointed out to me; I suppose I am inured to all that by now. But all the settings and the chases and the hokey artifacts were amazing to me, and I've always been a fan of Indy and Harrison. Special place in my heart.

Anyway, on Saturday I ventured to the same mall again to see "Sound of Freedom". Now the mall was packed, the multiplex was packed, and the auditorium was even more packed than before. I had an aisle seat in Row B, and seeing the screen was a little off-kilter. But the film was fantastic. It was gripping, exciting, repulsive, and triumphant. I was glad to have spent the money on that ticket and supported these moviemakers. In fact, I will be returning to see it tonight, because I told some friends and one of them has gathered a group for this outing. So, spread the word; this is the must-see film of the summer, and you can probably find free tickets, because many are being donated in a "pay-it-forward" movement.

Regarding etiquette: I've found people to be polite when I go to the movies. Sometimes someone peeks at their phone and the brightness is way up. But I think the management is fairly responsive if someone has a bad experience. I've lived in this major city for 24 years, and I've probably never encountered someone so rude that it ruined my movie, or I had to report to management. There used to be some really janky theaters in the bad part of town where it was normal to be snarky, and yell at the screen and throw popcorn and stuff, and sometimes we'd go there on purpose, because people can really be hilarious when it's a Rocky Horror attitude to some campy horror movie. But that's a social contract and not being rude to other patrons, you know?

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