[LINK] Cinemas are dying

[gerard]

| Yet still people go to cricket, pubs, yacht clubs, and cinemas!


You forgot to mention Universties!


I wonder if they will survive the move to on-line?

Gerard

On 14/1/21 1:47 pm, Karl Schaffarczyk wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 5/1/21 11:02 pm, Stephen Loosley wrote:
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>>> 'There will be no more cinemas' ...
>> The cinema is an odd idea: you travel to a location and sit in a dark
>> room with a lot of strangers, eat expensive popcorn and look at a video
>> screen which is not effectively any larger than the one in your home.
>>
>>
> Yer, I think there's a bit more to it than that.
>
> Cinemas have - in-general - survived home cinema setups, microwave popcorn,
> Netflix and other streaming, YouTube, Video pirates, and even things like
> their own failed efforts into 3d movies etc, etc
>
> The 'romance' of cinema is first about, well, romance! it's a chance for
> teens to hide in a darkened room away from parents and other authority
> figures all while seemingly carrying on with an innocent activity. For the
> less romantically inclined it's a getaway from the everyday - homes are
> still close to the drudgery of cleaning dishes, screaming kids, washing
> which needs to be pegged out.
> Of course it's a great place to leave the heat behind on a hot summer's day.
> In terms of the survivability of cinemas, I'd like to put forward that when
> there's good movies, cinemas do well, and when there is more humdrum crud
> on the screen, they do less well. Marketing budgets also have a big effect
> here - eg marvel universe films.
> The streaming argument is bunk - a few years back cinemas screened doctor
> who at the same time as streamed on BBC iPlayer, ABC iView, etc etc
> https://www.doctorwho.tv/news/?article=the-day-of-the-doctor-to-be-shown-in-3d-in-cinemas-worldwide/#_
> m
> Yet it was still commercially viable. Why? fandom / content / communal
> experience
>
> Further to that, many cinemas screen really old movies. Limelight in
> Tuggeranong in the ACT regularly screens nostalgic movies including Grease,
> Dirty Dancing, and other sing-along classics.
>
> Cinemas are still a long way off from being dead.
>
>
>> Now add to this is the risk of contracting a deadly disease: why would
>> you do that?
>>
>>
> Yet still people go to cricket, pubs, yacht clubs, and cinemas!
>
>
> Karl
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