Humans are stupid social machines, we'll soon be back to exchanging bodily fluids and an assortment of viruses, bacteria, and fungi amongst each other. It may take a while, but it'll happen. Mental gymnastics, post-facto justifications, and excuses galore will be made "I'm vaccinated", "I'm wearing a mask". Exchanging pathogens is too lucrative in fun for the average person to pass up.
that can be done at much better places with friends and relatives than at a theater with mostly strangers, and with better atmosphere and tasty food than a concession stand with overpriced vaguely food flavored filler. Theater model needs to die, there are superior tech solutions
The theater model is the fault of the studios, not the theaters. The studios demanded larger and larger cuts of the tickets, leaving theaters to earn their money on concessions alone.
Some blockbusters take 100% of the ticket, and some of the concessions on top of it.
Quit blaming theaters for this instead of the studios.
Blame? I'm saying the theaters are crap and so they can die, doesn't matter whose fault it really is, utterly irrelevant. I'm supposed to support them as a charity because I feel sorry for them?
To be awake is to be alive. -- Henry David Thoreau, in "Walden"
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Humans are stupid social machines, we'll soon be back to exchanging bodily fluids and an assortment of viruses, bacteria, and fungi amongst each other. It may take a while, but it'll happen. Mental gymnastics, post-facto justifications, and excuses galore will be made "I'm vaccinated", "I'm wearing a mask". Exchanging pathogens is too lucrative in fun for the average person to pass up.
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that can be done at much better places with friends and relatives than at a theater with mostly strangers, and with better atmosphere and tasty food than a concession stand with overpriced vaguely food flavored filler. Theater model needs to die, there are superior tech solutions
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The theater model is the fault of the studios, not the theaters. The studios demanded larger and larger cuts of the tickets, leaving theaters to earn their money on concessions alone.
Some blockbusters take 100% of the ticket, and some of the concessions on top of it.
Quit blaming theaters for this instead of the studios.
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Blame? I'm saying the theaters are crap and so they can die, doesn't matter whose fault it really is, utterly irrelevant. I'm supposed to support them as a charity because I feel sorry for them?