"Distractions from other members of the audience: 19%"

This is #1 for me. The worse part about going to a cinema today is the other people that go. I don't know why you need to turn your phone on and browse tiktok for 15 minutes during the movie. I don't know why you feel the need to converse with your seatmates at full volume during the show. Why are you bringing a screaming baby to a movie with loud explosions? Can you please have your small uninterested children not running back and forth in front of the screen laughing while the movie is going on?

I feel old, but I'm old at home watching on streaming with the other 2/3rds of adults I guess.

It cost over $100 to get the whole family in, buy popcorn, etc before greedflation for, what, an hour and a half of entertainment? I can think of a lot of things that are a much better value for family entertainment.

I no longer enjoy going to the Movies. The crowds, the rude people, the hassle and the price are no longer worth enduring

I too prefer spending less money for a better experience.

The right movie, at the right theater, is an experience unto itself. My home entertainment center can't compete with the half a million dollar setup at the bad-ass Dolby Atmos, digital projector, luxury recliner, with wait staff, theater for a movie like Dune 2. I definitely prefer the theater for those types of movies. But whatever random romcom that just came out? Yes, I'd much rather watch it at home. It's pretty neat that they serve alcohol at the theater now too. We used to have to sneak that in when I was still a drinker. I don't drink anymore, but I'm sure those who do really appreciate that upgrade in experience.

Yeah no shit. The theatre experience has been degraded into a capitalist wank fest.

Paying a ludicrous about of money for tickets and some of the worst snacks. To then be bombarded with annoying guests, obnoxious trailers and a sound systems so overwhelmingly base heavy that you can’t hear the dialogue between explosions.

No pausing for more snacks, to use the toilet or have a toke.

Let alone the film quality these days has been degraded to being glorified features length commercials. Nothing worth bearing through that shitshow of an experience, to get to watch something on a slightly bigger screen.

The theatre is arguably a worse experience in every way possible.

Want to watch a movie? Stay at home. Spend that money doing something else outside of the theatres.

No shit. It feels like you're being scammed when you pay to watch 20 minutes of commercials.

The last time I went to the cinema it was cold in the room. And the feature started with 20 minutes of ads. Not trailers. Ads. I just paid you 165 sek. Why are you showing me adverts? It just left such a bad taste in my mouth I haven't been since. I even got a free ticket at home for Christmas from my employer. And it doesn't get me back to the cinema.

I love Chris Stuckmann, and I love his reviews, and I respect his opinion "the movie theater is important."...

But I also know I don't want to go to a "Movie theater" It's not really an "Event" for us. if the choice is go to the movie theater or watch an episode or two of 8 our of 10 cats does countdown... We'd actually choose the latter.

I respect the movie theater, but at the same time I also hate the movie theater and that moving going experience.

Why would I want to schedule my entire day around a showtime, arrive early just to stand in line, pay a small fortune, skipping the popcorn and coke (overpriced and gone by the time the ads finish…), sit through 20 minutes of commercials (followed by trailers), for a movie that isn’t even that entertaining, with a sound system that is not particularly good (just loud) on a screen that is big but somehow less detailed than my TV at home?

At home I can pick from a huge variety of movies, start them on my schedule, eat/drink whatever I want. Pause to pee or even stop and watch the rest later. Adjust the volume to my satisfaction. Swap to a different movie if it is bad or doom scroll through the slow parts. If I want the movie theater experience I can just sit real close, turn the volume all the way up, and ban myself from using the toilet.

That said, what I do appreciate about theaters is getting to do something different, and breaking routines. That and the nostalgia factor. I want to like going to movies, but doing so is just a pain and takes more effort and planing than it should.

yo ho ho and a bottle of rum

I'd rather go to theatres but I'd rather not spend the money to go to theatres.

I bet if wages increased in the USA then AMC stocks would shoot up like a rocket.

I've IBD so I can't easily watch a two hour movie when my bowels decide to be a pain in the rectum. Watching movies at home means I can pause it which means I can enjoy the movie without any stress like rushing to get to the toilet, going multiple times in a ten minute period.

generally speaking, i only really like the movie theaters for tech demo movies (e.g Avatar) or if the audio experience is one of the largest aspects of the movie, else i dont see much of a reason to go myself.

The last movie I watched in the theater was dune part 1. I loved the movie but hated the experience. This time around I'll wait till at the end of it's run and watch with an empty theater. I prefer to watch all the latest movies on my vr headset.

Only that many?

No offense but I have a 100” projector screen, a decent amp, surround and a subwoofer. Versus going to see Dune 2 in the theater recently (admittedly on a much bigger screen) with some guy in the back possibly coughing up an internal organ or just plain expiring mid-movie as the soundtrack to a lot of it.

Bitch nobody wants to go outside do you know what happens out there

I need to be pretty damn hyped for a movie to get my ass to the movie theater, but only IMAX is worth it so I only go to watch movies with great sound like Dune or Gran Turismo.

The other third use Radarr.

Usually it hits the free streams before the laid streams too

I want to go to theater. Wife has gone blind over the oast year though and I need to stay home with her.

TBH one third of U.S. adults is a good sized addressable market…

I love seeing movies and I don't want it to stop, but I always wish I was alone in the theater. They can stay afloat with just my ticket money, right? ....right?

I tried to watch a horror movie in the theater and because of all of the amenities a gaggle of karens were getting hammered on skinny margs or whatever and would not shut the fuck up the entire movie. It completely ruined the movie, and this was in one of those alamo whatever theaters where they tell you to STFU fifteen times before the movie starts. My wife complained like 80x to no avail and at the end of the movie when the lights came up I cussed them all out.

Fuck the theater. I have a 65" TV with surround sound at home I don't need your fucking theater.

Edit: also when and why did they start making it so you had to reserve theater tickets days ahead of time? Who the hell wants to have a concert ticket buying experience at the movies?