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Originally Posted by Alf
The obvious reason that will be claimed for cinema's failing will be the online streaming services we now have. I don't by that. I think it's because Hollywood just haven't been producing regular good movies for a long time. They went woke, so are going broke.
There's no better experience to watch a movie than on the big screen, so if they started putting out better content on a regular basis, people would go.
Cinema's should start playing more and more older classic movies if Hollywood are gonna stick to the same box ticking crap they've been producing for the last decade and half.
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I think it's a combination in all honesty. I think certain movies are better seen on the big screen; for example speaking of Nolan, I enjoy Interstellar well enough on a home screen but it was
incredible in the cinema.
However things like your more run-of-the-mill seasonal movies or comedies? ... I just honestly think it's a better experience at home with family than in a cinema.
And I agree that in general the big blockbusters (the ones that visually and experience-wise are so much better in the cinema) have just gone off the rails a bit. The often-performative wokeness is part of the problem ... but the bigger issue is the formulaic nature of these movies and it often just not feeling like anything new.
Take the MCU for example ... the only movies that have been truly enjoyable cinema experiences in recent years are Spider-man No Way Home and Guardians Of The Galaxy 3. And honestly even then - both of those played HEAVILY on nostalgia, I doubt they were particularly stand-out cinema experiences for anyone new to the franchises.
And DC movies have just been utter trash.
Say what you will about the length of the Zack Snyder DC movies, a lot of people thought they dragged, but in terms of a cinema experience AT LEAST Snyder has a very particular and visually interesting style that it's worth the price of admission to see. People slam Batman vs Superman (and to be fair, I can appreciate that it's an over-long movie) BUT in purely cinematic terms... there are 3 or 4 stand-out sequences in that film alone that are 10x better than any action scene churned out by most of Hollywood in the past decade.