I love how some posters have a very specific taste in memes and I can tell who’s posting without even checking
A friend and I once took a dozen donuts and a 2 liter of Mug root beer into a movie theater. The guy doing bag checks looked at me and my friend and said, “Good choice in snacks” and let us in.
we would go to the dollar theater and bring all kinds of food. our favorite was the 7 part chinese dinner
The largest cinema corporation in Sweden (when asked about why they chose to restrict people from bringing their own snacks) infamously compared bringing snacks not bought at the cinema to brining your own food to a restaurant.
Putting aside the real reason is they don’t earn much from the movies themselves and profit more from concessions, his logic doesn’t even make sense lmao.
I normally thought this way, but most cinemas make cents at best on movie tickets. Vast majority of the ticket price goes directly to the producer. The only way they cover the rest of their overhead (and stay in business) is thru concessions.
And theaters are still closing left and right because there is no price point that can draw the crowds they once had. Tickets are too expensive, and concessions are too expensive on top of that. The business is just not sustainable any longer.
For years and years they convinced us we need bigger, better TVs with surround sound and all the add-ons. That every person should build their own home theatre
Then they get mad that we stop going to their theatre.
Who tf is “they”??? I don’t think cinema owners were the ones pushing for mass adoption of home theatres.
The people in the video media industry…
I thought that would have been obvious.
Yeah my big flatscreen in my tiny TV room takes up most of my field of vision from the couch. The difference in quality is almost negligible, but I can pause to grab food, rewind if I missed something, and there’s no one else there on their phone or just making noise.
I’ll see a movie in the theater every once in a while if it’s like a grand spectacle, but most movies are just fine at home, if not better.
