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What Movies Have You Seen Lately?
| February 11th, 2018 at 12:41:37 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
"Subscribers with MoviePass can watch a movie a day" LOL! There isn't one movie right now I would give 10 cents to see, let alone the hassle of wasting an hour to get to a theater and home to do it. Movie theaters are dinosaurs, they're becoming extinct.. People don't remember that at one time there was no cable, there were no DVD's, no internet. The only way to see a current movie was to go to a theater. The biz keeps pretending it's still that way. I only have to wait a few months and I can see whatever I want at home. I'm sure I'll never go to another movie theater again. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| February 11th, 2018 at 2:03:15 PM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
People have been saying that in form or another since Television became popular in the early 1950s. But it is true that they sold the same number of movie tickets in 2017 as they did in 1993. Year- number of domestic tickets 2017 1,233.6 Star Wars: The Last Jedi 2016 1,315.3 Rogue One 2015 1,320.2 Star Wars: The Force Awakens 2014 1,268.2 American Sniper 2013 1,343.7 Catching Fire 2012 1,361.5 The Avengers 2011 1,283.0 Harry Potter / Deathly Hallows (P2) 2010 1,339.1 Toy Story 3 2009 1,412.7 Avatar 2008 1,341.3 The Dark Knight 2007 1,404.6 Spider-Man 3 2006 1,406.0 Dead Man's Chest 2005 1,379.2 Revenge of the Sith 2004 1,510.5 Shrek 2 2003 1,532.3 Return of the King 2002 1,575.7 Spider-Man <=============================== PEAK 2001 1,487.3 Harry Potter / Sorcerer's Stone 2000 1,420.8 The Grinch 1999 1,465.2 The Phantom Menace 1998 1,480.7 Saving Private Ryan 1997 1,387.7 Titanic 1996 1,338.6 Independence Day 1995 1,262.6 Toy Story 1994 1,291.7 Forrest Gump 1993 1,244.0 Jurassic Park <------------------------------- Same as 2017 1992 1,173.2 Aladdin 1991 1,140.6 Terminator 2 1990 1,188.6 Home Alone 1989 1,262.8 Batman 1988 1,084.8 Rain Man 1987 1,088.5 Three Men and a Baby 1986 1,017.2 Top Gun 1985 1,056.1 Back to the Future 1984 1,199.0 Beverly Hills Cop 1983 1,197.0 Return of the Jedi 1982 1,175.0 E.T. 1981 1,067.0 Raiders / Lost Ark 1980 1,022.0 The Empire Strikes Back I will agree with Bob on one point, they are technologically in danger. When cellular data enters the 5th generation, and kids can watch a movie in a car on a tablet instead of a theater, domestic ticket sales could easily drop below a million. Right now movies are primarily sustained because young people don't want to stay home. |
| February 11th, 2018 at 3:32:08 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
\ Movie theaters are silly places, it's an excuse to fill your face with crap food. Sitting with a hundred other farting, coughing, germ laden people when I absolutely don't have to? Forget it. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| February 11th, 2018 at 4:00:27 PM permalink | |
| petroglyph Member since: Aug 3, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 6227 | I wonder how many children were conceived in drive in theaters? The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW |
| February 11th, 2018 at 5:03:01 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
When somebody asks Tom Leykis, on his atheist show, where he came from, he says he's the result of his parents not stopping at the drug store on the way to the drive-in.. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| February 11th, 2018 at 6:03:29 PM permalink | |
| ams288 Member since: Apr 21, 2016 Threads: 29 Posts: 12522 |
Remember when EB pretended he went to the theater and watched Wonder Woman? “A straight man will not go for kids.” - AZDuffman |
| February 11th, 2018 at 7:22:27 PM permalink | |
| DRich Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 51 Posts: 4965 |
Yes, and all his Uber trips to the airport and yet he never goes anywhere. Lol At my age a Life In Prison sentence is not much of a detrrent. |
| February 11th, 2018 at 9:55:31 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
I rent cars, that's where the rental cars are. I just had my 80th Uber ride, they are harder to get in the winter because the prima donna drivers don't want to drive their own cars in the snow. I have to wait twice as long as in the summer. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| February 11th, 2018 at 10:47:58 PM permalink | |
| beachbumbabs Member since: Sep 3, 2013 Threads: 6 Posts: 1600 |
As long as people live more than 1 to a house, and have multiple generations living together, movie theaters will be in business. Best place to escape and stay sane, meet friends, take a date, enjoy a good movie in an audience. A bad movie, not so much. But a good show, theater or film, always benefits from a group enjoying it together. Never doubt a small group of concerned citizens can change the world; it's the only thing ever has |
| February 12th, 2018 at 1:29:07 AM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
And that's why people are doing it more and more in their own homes. That's what people did before movies, they gathered in parlors and sang songs to a piano or organ. Now we're embracing home entertainment more and more. Like Paco pointed out, as many tickets were sold last year as were sold 25 years ago. The population has exploded since then, yet theaters have gone stagnant. They've outlived their place in society, just like drive-in movies did. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |