To think cinemas will soon become obsolete?

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Reasons why:

1. Home media systems are getting bigger and better as each year passes.
2. Society is getting more inconsiderate as each year passes and people think nothing of yakking all the way through a film or playing on their phone/kids playing on their ipads.
3. Films are available through home streaming 1 or 2 months after a cinema release these days, not like before when it would take over a year until a video/DVD release.
4. The cost, which isn't worth points 2 and 3.
5. The after effects of covid and lockdown and films being released on home media only - people realising they don't actually miss the cinema at all.

I’ve just seen Don't Worry Darling and the cinema was empty! On a Saturday!

It might be because it is a shit film, but still.

I think superhero/Marvel films, and big action films like Top Gun are the only ones that are going to make significant money back from the cinema going forward. I don't like either.

I hope not, but I fear you’re probably right! We go on meercats to Cineworld and bring our own snacks, and I think it’s ok prices.
I love our little independent cinema as well, and it shoes more quirky films.
No snacks allowed though 😮

Also last time I went to a movie I was very pleasantly surprised to find out 9pm viewing on Saturday in Vue was £4.95

I don't think I've been once in at least 5 years 😆

One thing I think they often get wrong is being firm about inconsiderate behaviour. I am old enough to remember an usher in every screening to make people be quiet. Then they popped in regularly. Then they came in if there was a problem. Now they try to sort a problem, get told to fuck off, pretend it's sorted and leave.

We saw it today too. 20 people or so in our small screen, but it has been out for a month 🤷🏻‍♀️

But there are still substantial costs to radio - paying equipment, radio presenters, paying to play music, all extra staff - and they can only be met if enough people listen to warrant adverts and sponsors etc? .. In a world with Spotify, social media etc who would have thought that would still be viable?

I rarely go to the cinema but it’s still very much a thing for other people. I didn’t think the point about home systems is really valid. I can drink alcohol at home far cheaper, but I still enjoy going to the pub .. etc
I never take my DC to the cinema but I think a fair amount of families go regularly.

The noisy twats put me off though, and I tend to go when it’s least likely to be busy.
Couple of scrotes were spoiling a film I went to see a few months ago.
They were escorted out, but sadly this is rare!

I hope not! We go every week, despite not being rolling in cash. I adore the cinema and feeling like you're connecting with strangers because you're all immersed in the film together. One person snickers, which flicks a switch and makes everyone laugh together, then everyone's conscious of finding the same thing funny. I think these sharing moments are just what we need in these times of polarised politics, not to be overdramatic!

We went to see the Virginie Efira film about a Parisian terrorist attack, in a small screen where you could hear everyone's small vocal reactions, intakes of breath etc., and people were naturally streaming with tears. I think it's good that people have opportunities to mourn collectively, to see each other mourn, and to see that people do care and do turn out to see these films about extraordinary events, especially if you've been personally touched by them.

Not a lot going on around where I live. Cinema is one of the attractions.

But there are still substantial costs to radio - paying equipment, radio presenters, paying to play music, all extra staff - and they can only be met if enough people listen to warrant adverts and sponsors etc? .. In a world with Spotify, social media etc who would have thought that would still be viable?

That is very true @Wishyfishy

We go probably once a year.

I like it for big disaster films or similar. DH and I saw the last Jurrasic Park film at the cinema and you can't really recreate that at home!

BTW - does anyone else call it the Pictures? DH takes the mick out of me and says I sound like a little old lady 😂 but it was always the pictures, not the cinema, when I was growing up. It still comes automatically to me. I'm only 36 so not that elderly!

I used to work in a cinema and to be honest I didn’t do much when people were kicking off. You’re on crap shifts, crap wages etc, and the managers won’t back you up. So if anyone complained I would never bother going into a screen and telling people to be quiet, I’d just tell a manager who would offer the complainer a refund but wouldn’t actually dk anything. It’s difficult because as a customer I would definitely complain and demand a refund if my cinema visit was ruined by inconsiderate people, but as an employee it’s just not worth putting yourself up for dog’s abuse.

I’m younger than you and it’s still the pictures 😂 are you Scottish? I’ve always thought maybe it’s a Scottish thing because now I’m in England and people don’t seem to call it the pictures.

"I used to work in a cinema and to be honest I didn’t do much when people were kicking off. You’re on crap shifts, crap wages etc, and the managers won’t back you up. So if anyone complained I would never bother going into a screen and telling people to be quiet, I’d just tell a manager who would offer the complainer a refund but wouldn’t actually dk anything. It’s difficult because as a customer I would definitely complain and demand a refund if my cinema visit was ruined by inconsiderate people, but as an employee it’s just not worth putting yourself up for dog’s abuse."

I completely agree and don't blame you at all.

But antisocial behaviour and an unwillingness to respond to it definitely affects my decision to avoid the cinema now.

Awful that these people are emboldened by the knowledge that no one will do anything.

Our city centre cinemas are worse for this. The out of town ones that require you to drive there are better.

I suppose, like many jobs, abuse from unreasonable customers is something we're all supposed to endure now.

I've got used to saying 'cinema' now but I still sometimes use 'the pictures'.

I say pictures too. Films is ok. Movies is ridiculous.

That's just plain odd. You do realise you can see films that aren't traumatic?

I know, it’s depressing. It used to seriously vex me, but the managers are too scared or just cba. To me it’s the blatant disrespect of other customers. Sounds OTT but as a manager or even a customer I’d rather have the screen turned off and see the people removed forcibly by security than just have to sit having my experience spoiled by selfish people. If it was dealt with properly then it wouldn’t keep happening, but that seems to be increasingly the case for all anti social behaviour nowadays.

Our local cinemas is vue and it's only about £4.99 a ticket and you get 30% discount on food next door if you go cinema so it's always busy.

You could be right... I used to go to the cinema loads, but actually, now that I think of it, I'm not sure I've been since pre-covid.

It is quite unusual to take one movie at one cinema, 30 years ago, and decide that all other cinema experiences will be the same.

Agree with this. Agree mostly with people don't know how to behave properly in a cinema. There doesn't appear to be any cinema etiquette anymore. The last 5 films I've seen someone is yapping, the glare of a phone going off constantly. Popcorn aside people can't seem to sit through a film without constant munching and noisily stuffing their faces. I'm so put off by going now.

During Joker I had a guy beside me constantly checking his emails on his phone until I intervened. Then when I chose a daytime film (I work shifts) I had two old dears yapping all the way through Spencer, which to be fair I was hating anyway. Maybe I'm just getting more intolerant to people in general 😂