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A good, tightly written film is still a joy to me. They're rarely tightly written anymore. Out of all new releases I looked at recently, only 3 were under two hours, and only one was at the nearly-perfect-90-minutes.
Not every filmed media needs to be an adaptation of a 15 book set. A movie is more like a short story whereas modern TV series are more like novels.
My personal problem with the ‘near-perfect 90 minutes’ is that the cost to experience them in cinemas (including snacks, drinks, popcorn etc.) is just too damn high for that short of a time.
But it gets easier to justify (amortise?) that cost for a ~2.5hr movie - even if the pacing makes it feel like a slog in comparison.
You don't need to eat or drink during a film. I don't know why this myth comes up every single time someone is complaining about cinema prices, it's so incredibly stupid.
Because it makes the experience more enjoyable for people?
Popcorn has literally been a part of the movie-going experience since the invention of the “talkie” nearly a century ago.
The only thing incredibly stupid here is your inability to grasp a relatively simple concept.
How does it make the experience more enjoyable for me to have some fat fuck behind me munching and slurping throughout the entire film? I don't understand why you guys can't go literally 2 hours without CONSOOOOM. Even when (by your own admission) you can't afford it, you still feel the urge to waste your money on the overpriced, optional stuff that is only there to milk suckers like you. And then to top it off you get online and type up these little rants about how everything is "so expensive these days". Are you people real?
wow. you seem fun.
Theatres suck because the same people slurping their pail of soda will be walking back and forth across you to use the bathroom in the middle of the film.
But this is Lemmy, people spend money on stupid shit then complain about aFFoRdAbIlIty.
That soda costs $8 because morons will pay $8,and they will pay $9...
Because it's been made a staple by theaters themselves, for the simple reason that they make a lot of money on concession stands. More than on the movies themselves, IIRC.
I’m not going to the theatre to strictly watch a movie. I’m going for the entire experience. If I wanted to just watch the movie I’d save $30 and watch it at home.
Say there are 2 movies to be watched.
I would 100% rather go to one movie, and treat myself with all the fixins, and watch the other at home for free, versus watching both in theatre with zero snacks. At the end of the day I’ve spent the same amount of money, but gotten more enjoyment. Tell me again how it’s stupid to spend the same amount of money for more enjoyment?
Where the screen is in focus, and the volume is not jacked to give us tinnitus, and fewer people are farting around you.