I used to love going to the movies, but theaters are just a shit experience these days. People on their phones, people talking. Nobody has any fucking manners anymore.
Post pandemic, I only go if it’s a movie worth seeing in IMAX or Dolby. And movies like those are like once a year.
Ditto. Cinema for me these days are sacred and for special occasions. Some movies are only worth watching in theatres if the visual spectacles are great.
I’m in the same boat. I have savings for six months, but if I don’t find something in that time, I guess, I’ll just die.
I just wanna survive to play gta6 not actually live gta6.
With AI doing what it’s doing, and with Republicans in the states forcing things like they are (the latest being 10 years of not making any Ai legislation in the shitty new big Trump bill), we’re all pretty fucked.
Like… The panic is real. How are we supposed to compete in a few years if and when AI is fixed enough to be viable?
with Republicans in the states forcing things like they are (the latest being 10 years of not making any Ai legislation in the shitty new big Trump bill), we’re all pretty fucked.
It’s worth noting that the most intelligent and well educated people will be the most impacted. And the only ones who profit will be the ones running the companies profiting off AI.
Even the workers for those companies will be replaced. Some may maintain hardware, but robotics isn’t far behind the needs we will see. A Boston dynamics robot can do a faster and cheaper job replacing hard drives than a person can.
Theaters haven’t been worth going to for 2 decades now. I don’t understand people’s obsession with it. My giant screen at home looks and sounds better, I’m more comfortable, more relaxed, and can go at my pace.
Screw theaters. I haven’t been to one in like 15 years. Super not worth it and everyone I know IRL who goes mostly complains.
I was shocked to learn that most projectors are only 2k.
The downgrade to digital projectors is what killed cinemas for me. It’s just a stuttering blurry mess with a poorly calibrated speaker setup to match.
I’d like to like the cinema but they removed the magic and left the 8$ small popcorn in It’s place.
I haven’t been to my local IMAX theater in nearly a decade because the sound system went to absolute shit and they still haven’t updated it.
Even before I went down the audio rabbit hole I felt it was a huge upgrade just having a cheap pair of bookshelf speakers and decent looking TV. Now with OLED becoming ubiquitous it’s too easy to make an amazing setup that doesn’t break the bank. Theaters need to do some drastic changes to bring back their value, but honestly it might just be better leaving them in the history books.
Find an independently owned theater near you. While it may not be an IMAX screen it’s still the theater experience and likely way cheaper. I haven’t paid more than $5 per ticket to see a movie in years.
