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What was the last original movie you saw and how did you watch it? (lemmy.world)
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[-] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 11 points 8 months ago

The reason I believe sequels are doing good is:

  1. movie theaters have been perverted into massive and expensive hype fests
  2. in strong opposition, past movie theaters were not expensive to go to and got you entertained in a social setting
  3. due to the rise of large chains, small and cheaper theaters have died out.
  4. assumption: the price to rent a movie for your theater will probably be horrendous by now
  5. sequels have kind of a known quality which lowers the hurdle
  6. that means new movies could be watched in smaller theaters and would have to be sustainable for those
[-] marcos@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

  • There used to be dozens of theaters in a city, each one with a different set of contracts playing a different set of movies. Nowadays there are hundreds of movies in a city, all of them with the same set of contracts playing the same 5 movies.

  • Yes, everything is too expensive, what means nobody can afford to take a risk. Not the public, not the theaters, not the studios. (You can see people on this thread commenting that they won't.)

  • There are what? 3 movie studios nowadays? Or are those 2? Either way, you can't expect diversity from that.

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