I don’t disagree with any of your reasons for not wanting to go to the theater and you’re not incorrect that the competition is more fierce. But I think what Marty is mourning is the loss of ‘the movies’ as an attraction in and of themselves. And while the theater going experience is awful, it isn’t really awful because of any non price related changes on behalf of the theaters at least in any way I wasnt at one point willing to overlook. Studios don’t back small non tentpole projects anymore because they can’t make money back on DVD sales after streaming killed that market(which isn’t necessary bad environmentally) but it does kill the random “let’s go see a movie” that did exist in like 2009. I enjoy lot of the franchise films the quantity of quality films in theaters today is killing the draw of that uniting 95 minutes where you and 50 strangers go on an emotional experience together. Comedy and horror film especially benefit from that sort of viewing
I don’t disagree with any of your reasons for not wanting to go to the theater and you’re not incorrect that the competition is more fierce. But I think what Marty is mourning is the loss of ‘the movies’ as an attraction in and of themselves. And while the theater going experience is awful, it isn’t really awful because of any non price related changes on behalf of the theaters at least in any way I wasnt at one point willing to overlook. Studios don’t back small non tentpole projects anymore because they can’t make money back on DVD sales after streaming killed that market(which isn’t necessary bad environmentally) but it does kill the random “let’s go see a movie” that did exist in like 2009. I enjoy lot of the franchise films the quantity of quality films in theaters today is killing the draw of that uniting 95 minutes where you and 50 strangers go on an emotional experience together. Comedy and horror film especially benefit from that sort of viewing