Cinema is a good place to take children so I'd appreciate if they were still around in a few years.

Kow wrote:

Apart from the comfort of home, I'd say the wariness of going somewhere with a lot of people will linger, even after the virus is done with.

True for some but others will be all over it and go out more than pre-covid.

Saw Possessor last night. At the drive-in. On the rooftop of a parking lot. Could see the zeppelin hangars which is already impressive.

My local non profit has done a great job showing movies. Think there's about 3 drive-in movies a week (I probably prefer watching from the car, I've always hated the cold air conned rooms), and they make streaming programs as well. Later this month they'll have 12 hour stream of old, probably bad, horror movies, often they have some special guests on stream as well.
There's always dinner options, sometimes food trucks, sometimes it's a food hall like last night. They have a small tent set up with drinks, popcorn and candy (I miss the cheap hot dogs though). For family movies they always seem to try and dress up (and ask people to dress up). For the Star Wars original trilogy it looked like most staff were dressed up, and it was fun seeing the photos of all the kids dressed up as well with the staff. For Jurassic Park they had some stripped down jeeps and a big dinosaur I think.

I think they're probably doing better than ever. Almost every movie we've seen there has been sold out, was definitely different when watching movies at the theater itself (although these are mostly single showings).

regmcfly wrote:

nick_md wrote:

It'll still be here don't worry Frosty.

I would normally agree and want to agree but the number of ways of watching entertainment that have died over the years is staggering. Some media theorists have posited that the film industry is behind the pornography industry but follows it. After all, it was pornography that chose VHS, DVD, Blu-ray. That industry has now moved entirely online and now to an advertising subsidising model. Perhaps the first step for film would be to go online.

Saying cinema has had it is like saying there won't ever be gigs again isn't it?

The experience of a cinema visit is the draw, plus seeing it projected on a huge screen with booming sound. I'm a fan of a cheeky porn-cinema as much as the next person, but the comparison (film-porn) doesn't hold up much for me, people tend to do their tugging in private.

It is.

The difference between films and gigs is that you don’t need real infrastructure to do a gig.

Films on the other hand need cinemas to keep paying to keep up their buildings and facilities just in case the film industry doles them good product.

I mean if there’s a break in the ability for films to go directly to cinema it would seemingly start the ball rolling on direct home streaming (the films are already made). And then the cinemas would need to be profitable in that universe.

Nmd just wants PCC to survive..don't worry, it will. Provided their landlord isn't a cunt.

I want to see Possessor but I'm worried it will fuck with my head a bit much.

I enjoyed it but I expected more body horror.

Didn’t realise it was Cronenberg. Not an out and out horror fan but I like some of his stuff.

Yeah it's his son. Antiviral had some moments, so I am interested to see how he's developed.

My all time best movie experiences were during a period when I'd head into a cinema with no idea what the movie was..just looked at th billboard. Was funny when I went in to see a western, got stunned, and on exiting checked out th billboard and it said, underneath the two cowboys "Love is a Force of Nature". Probably wouldn't have seen that movie and it was great.

But District 9 was the best of them. had no idea, hadn't heard of it, and thought it was the perfect film after.

I used to love film posters. They were a real art form when I was young. They're shit now.

I'm assuming that the old films were on film, and the cinemas simply don't have them. I'm not sure what sort of licensing / distribution complications there would be with multiplexes wanting to do runs of old films.

You'd think, I'm just saying that it's probably not entirely in their own hands.