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Rimbo

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  1. it did fit the theme, though
  2. Actually, think about what I just posted there. It's a familiar meme, but not from a movie, but from a once-popular streaming series. Entertainment hours are a zero-sum game; the time we spend watching one show/movie or playing a video game is time we're not doing watching or playing something else. And while most movie studios' content has gotten stale, the theater experience has worsened, and the home experience has improved to the point where more and more people actually prefer it, our options for entertainment have increased at the same time. We have not only a greater quantity of options, but the quality has gone way up as the market has gotten competitive. Video games aren't new, but their popularity and quality over the past decade or so is; they were the refuge of nerds when I was young, but among Gen Z and younger, it's just what every kid grew up with. It's not just about the home experience vs the cinema. It's that movies are facing more competition than ever before from other entertainment options, which ironically is driving studios to create and cinemas to screen the very low-risk garbage that's killing the industry off.
  3. not for me; I use Tidal FLAC streaming baby
  4. probably the most appropriate on-topic comment in the whole thread
  5. guess why I posted this here
  6. take a wild guess who "won"
  7. We adopted a couple of senior cats. It's been a great experience for both of us. One of them was really traumatized; she spent the first two weeks in the closet, she it really took a couple of years for her to come out of her shell. Now we've got this new kitten in the house, and after a little adjustment period, she and the little guy have become friends. And she went from a scrawny, anxious to the point of grooming herself bald thing to a big fat happy furball. (By far the dumbest cat I've ever seen, tho. Oh well.) The other cat was basically my son's therapy cat through high school. So she's justified her existence quite a bit. So no, I wouldn't take my pets with me; there's always someone else's life they could become a part of, just like these two old ladies have done for us.
  8. on a scale from 0 to Keith Richards, how many drugs are you on right now
  9. Wouldn't want to taint the conversation.
  10. It's a classic "who moved my cheese" business case study. The market changed, and rather than finding ways to innovate and adapt, the industry is resorting to begging the market to come back to it. The theater industry, once upon a time, was the only place to see moving pictures of any length. Color film arrived before color TV did. Theaters were a place where you could stay cool on a hot summer day before every home had A/C. In the 80s and 90s, it was about a superior movie-watching experience -- no longer about a unique experience. Over the past quarter century, the home experience has caught up and in many homes surpassed the picture and audio quality of a theater. Now that you can stream anything anytime in an air-conditioned home with 4k video and surround audio and any of the snacks and booze you see fit to grab from the local supermarket, what does the typical theater offer? Jack shit. Now, you've got things like the Alamo Drafthouse that attempt to offer a different experience from what you'd get at your nearby 90s-style ultra-cine-plex. There's value in that. But that's it. That's all. Go upscale or go out of business.
  11. Definitely seems to be in the Find Out phase.
  12. you and I must be going to different theaters
  13. Ohhhhhhhh yeah I thought by "slip" you meant "fall" rather than "move up." Didn't realize he was projected lower than 2nd.
  14. I'm negging anything that is only about Derka. @Rockwell Torrey, why do you think that?
  15. lol you seem poor I have at least 3 systems in my tiny bungalow that beat the typical movie theater and I can use the bass amp as a subwoofer. BOOOOOOM
  16. Why is it strange? Most people don't want to see them. They went to the movies to -- get this -- watch a movie. Not to watch ads. They reduce the quality of the experience. And you could do that back when the best home video experience one could get was a well-rented VHS tape. But now? Why should audiences pay more for a worse experience?
  17. iI didn't watch the Oscars and I didn't see whatever stupid effort they tried to use to appeal to me. What... am I supposed to feel romantic about squeezing into a metal seat with God-only-knows what parasites while my feet stick to the floor and stingy operators turn down the bulbs to make the screen too dark while cranking up the volume of the sound system to ear-splitting levels while I snack on the absolute worst garbage barely fit to be fed to humans while Robots vs Alien Menace 15, the sequel to Robots vs Alien Menace 14, takes up 90 minutes of my life that I'll never fucking get back? You want me to feel like that's some fuckin' romantic moment? The last time, the absolute last time, that I was in a theater and remembered enjoying the experience because I was in a theater was watching the heat-seeking proton torpedo blow up Christopher Plummer's cloaked Bird of Prey on opening night of Star Trek VI, because Plummer absolutely nailed the villain role and we all cheered to see him blow up. And I guess going to see Episode I at Mann's at midnight in Westwood was pretty cool, because of all the cosplayers. But that's the absolute last time. I fail to see why that is the audience's problem. If the business model cannot support a superior experience, then it deserves to die.
  18. At home I have multiple 4k displays and audio options for days. I control the snacks, the environment, and the rest of the viewing audience. Why the hell would I leave? The theater experience, of sitting in a filthy seat with shitty overpriced garbage snacks, is obsolete. Painfully so. Things like the Alamo Drafthouse make a shit ton more sense. Give me a reason to leave the house. Nobody likes Jujubes. No one ever did. Theater popcorn is ass. I don't need a fuckin' sugary bubble soda 72 oz in size. Your industry's failure to innovate, combined with greedy price-gouging, does not constitute a moral failing on the audience's part.
  19. greyhounds have such sweet personalities
  20. i can confirm that most cellists are good at both including the women
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