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I would very much prefer the theater experience but Hollywood hasn’t had a movie worth going.
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True, with assigned seating and online sales I don't look at the movie board.
The sale is made before I enter the building, but the same is true of fast food these days - maybe they need to redefine "casual".
I’ve been itching to see a movie in a theater recently but nothing that’s playing interests me.
Maybe you just don't like movies? I've seen tons of films theatrically this year, almost none of them mainstream blockbusters.
Have you checked your local non-chain theatres?
In 2019 a friend and I got subscriptions to Regal and began going to a movie a week. Most days we'd plan something, but sometimes we'd just show up and pick something. (We blindly picked Underwater, and what a great surprise. Also decided to see the Tom Hanks Mr. Rogers film and proceed to ugly cry all over myself.)
Then COVID.
The last movie I saw in theaters as a subscriber was Bad Boys for Life. I tried to go see Dune 1. I drove 30m, bought popcorn and a slushee, and waited... But the video file was corrupted. They said they had to redownload it before the next show, so they canceled the showing and gave everyone a free ticket. I never bothered using it. I just went home and watched it for free on HBO Max.
I love theaters, both as nostalgia and just to have the experience. But man, "paying extra to go out of your way" is a difficult sell.
So many interesting movies are coming out straight from the box this month
Regal just closed the 13 screen theater closest to me, not sure what's going to happen to it now. :(
But given my last experience there was bad enough that I walked out and went somewhere else after waiting 15 minutes in a non-moving ticket line that they insisted on running through their concession counter... Yeah, nothing of value was lost.
Put the subtitles on the screen! Why would anyone go watch a movie they can't hear? Tell people what the actors are saying. Theatres won't bother to compete with the home video experience of watching a movie with subtitles.
So people watch movies with the subtitles on? Like, is that a thing? Might be cultural thing, but I've almost never encountered that.
It's an autism thing.
Must be a subset then. Any special symptoms why you prefer subtitles?
Usually, for me Subtitles detract from my watching experience as I focus on reading them rather than watching the movie.
Coming from a not English speaking country where subtitles instead of dubbing is the rule, it's kinda the opposite for me. Subtitles allow me to see at a glance what to expect, so I'll have an easier time focusing on the dialogue. I have some kind of hearing impairment, so that while my hearing is very good, it only takes a little bit of noise to muddy speech so that I really struggle to make out words. That said, subtitle translation quality has been going downhill fast for the past 15+, and that has made them a lot less useful. Especially with companies like Disney and Netflix not caring one bit about translation quality, only how much they cost to make. When you're watching Star Wars and they start talking about attack helicopters, it's time to switch off the subtitles.
Anyway, I'm sure it's largely down to habit. If you've grown up reading subtitles and it's perfectly normal to you, they're not distracting and you don't spend a lot of time on them. I can easily see how it could be a completely different experience when it's an exception and not the rule.
It's incredibly common in the US, especially among younger people. This was just on the first page of my search but I'm sure you can find tons of similar stories over the years: https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/more-americans-prefer-watching-shows-with-subtitles-study-finds/ar-AA1rj48O
Overall, half of respondents said they use subtitles regularly.
Personally I've always done it since my youth as well (around '96.) Admittedly that was mostly because I mostly used my TV to watch late at night instead of sleep... But it wasn't even unheard of then to prefer subtitles. And it was pretty common at the HD switch over, often citing bad speakers (both quality and physical design.)
Thanks for that and quite interesting. Then it is indead cultural thing, or a generational one.
Tbf i thought wicked was pretty great-