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Patty Jenkins: "We Could Lose Movie Theater-Going Forever"
Hollywood Reporter ^ | October 5, 2020 | Georg Szalai

Posted on 10/09/2020 7:42:26 AM PDT by EdnaMode

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To: EdnaMode

Considering the pandering remakes of films and on and on and on sequels it’s no wonder; plus those Trump hating awards ceremonies - good.


61 posted on 10/09/2020 8:30:15 AM PDT by SkyDancer (~ Pilots: Looking Down On People Since 1903 ~)
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To: N. Theknow

Very realistic.


62 posted on 10/09/2020 8:31:00 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: CoastWatcher

That would result in even more outrage. Although Trump is still in office for them to blame now, so the wealthy won’t sponsor any such outrage.


63 posted on 10/09/2020 8:31:13 AM PDT by Morpheus2009 (If you want me to be afraid, then be consistent in your logic, standards, and your lies!)
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To: cuban leaf

Oh I get it. In fact I avoid films when I know that they are sequels or remakes at this point, because I know the odds are I will be disappointed.


64 posted on 10/09/2020 8:36:28 AM PDT by Morpheus2009 (If you want me to be afraid, then be consistent in your logic, standards, and your lies!)
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To: P-Marlowe

I prefer a lot of the 40s and 50s movies more and more.

YouTube is good for that much.

I recently saw for the first time in decades one of the first movies I saw on a dish.

Berlin Correspondent.

The first movie was Champagne For Caesar.

It was the mid 80s. Mom’s friends. They lived in the NC mountains and had a huge dish in back yard.


65 posted on 10/09/2020 8:38:41 AM PDT by wally_bert (Transmission tone, Selma)
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To: cuban leaf

A halfway decent home theater and 55” flat screen at home is literally better than the theater experience. Why bother?


Comfortable seats, volume exactly how you want it, pause available for a bathroom/drink break, your favorite snacks and beverages, no obnoxious strangers talking, explaining plot, revealing the end, etc, no kid kicking the back of your seat, subtitles available if movie is set in Scotland...how can you claim home theater is better?


66 posted on 10/09/2020 8:43:25 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: EdnaMode

Won’t bother me. Independence Day was the last movie I saw in a theater, and I don’t remember the one before that.


67 posted on 10/09/2020 8:44:32 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: EdnaMode

I used to be a big cinema buff..... I started losing interest in the late 90’s when contemporary movies started becoming more and more overtly decadent and juvenile, along with the fact that a lot of directors that were being hailed as geniuses, like Ron Howard and Rob Reiner, were making movies that struck me as being big budget versions of “made for TV movies”..... Where all the emphasis was on advancing the plot and the characters were totally one dimensional..... After Hollywood started making all these anti-military movies following 9/11 I totally walked away....there’s no young Billy Wilder’s or Blake Edward’s or Hitchcock....it’s all crap....Tarantino and Sofia Coppola are exceptions.....let Hollywood die


68 posted on 10/09/2020 8:44:39 AM PDT by The Fop (God Bless Donald Trump, Frank Sinatra, Joan Rivers, and the Fightin' Rat Pack Wing of the GOP)
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To: EdnaMode

I wouldn’t notice if they closed permanently.


69 posted on 10/09/2020 8:47:05 AM PDT by zek157
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To: spudville
Well, if that happens, I hope Alyssa Milano gets ripped off. She’d be stupid enough to not get the money up front.
70 posted on 10/09/2020 8:54:12 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature
I'd be all for it, no punks kicking at the back of your seat(that weren't your own), morons talking or using their phones with no consideration of others(several generations have been raised with the manners of a feral cat, and one of the biggest pluses? being ale to listen to a movie at a volume that doesn't cause permanent hearing damage!

Sadly for places like California the property has become too valuable to allow it to sit idle as a Drive-in in a great deal of the state. I have fond memories of watching two and even three movies on one night, Jaws and the Exorcist were great, and the Drive-in could be a great place to spend an evening even if you didn't go to watch the movie ; )

71 posted on 10/09/2020 9:01:49 AM PDT by Mastador1
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To: EdnaMode

How can we live without seeing trash on a 40-foot screen in Sensurround, while being tormented by uncouth vermin in the seats behind us? At a cost of 20 bucks a ticket. And another 10 bucks for a tub of styrofoam popcorn and a Coke that’s mostly ice?


72 posted on 10/09/2020 9:10:43 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: EdnaMode

Shut down Hollywood and it’s DNC propaganda machine permanently. Do it. It’s been utterly worthless for several decades. The last movie I saw in the theater was Dances With Wolves.
Television is trash too.


73 posted on 10/09/2020 9:20:46 AM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: EdnaMode

We’re all in this together! Maybe actors can learn to code?


74 posted on 10/09/2020 9:27:05 AM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans
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To: Ted Grant

Can you name a single Hollywood movie made in the last decade that you would pay to see?


75 posted on 10/09/2020 9:30:28 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping List)
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To: IronJack

The ice is the best part of a coke.


76 posted on 10/09/2020 9:31:56 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping List)
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To: CodeToad

Need new Hollywood where they make movies people want to see rather than Leftists propaganda. Movies will be back—as they did after the 1918 plague. They will be back without Red Chinese gold and back better!


77 posted on 10/09/2020 9:33:37 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: EdnaMode

Last movie I saw in a theater was Call of the Wild...only because I was having some car work done and had to kill a couple of hours. It was the least offensive offering at the multiplex.


78 posted on 10/09/2020 9:35:29 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: EdnaMode

If a theater closes and there was nobody there to hear it...


79 posted on 10/09/2020 9:36:30 AM PDT by lurk
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To: OldGoatCPO
. Build one into a malls parking lot instead of an AMC. After 8 pm here, the malls are deserted and a huge back parking lot is empty. 
Already happening in some malls this past July/August. Displayed digital classic movies on side of large building, cars naturally socially distant (though walking around prohibited), FM broadcast sound. Commercial refreshment not available at that time...but families were encouraged to bring own refreshments.

80 posted on 10/09/2020 9:49:06 AM PDT by Stand Watch Listen
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