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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26891333

"Novocaine" is off to a good start at the box office with an estimated $8.5 million opening weekend, but the marketplace is in a terrible slump.

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[-] MooseyMoose@lemmy.world 34 points 2 days ago

Hight ticket prices, high snack prices, no pause button, sticky floors, other audience members. Hmmm. Wonder why things are bad for theaters?

[-] oyo@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

Additionally, the last movie I went to actually started a full 27 minutes after the listed time, due to all the ads and trailers.

[-] MooseyMoose@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I've been trying to remember the last movie I went to see in a theater and all I can come up with is LOTR: Return of the King, lol!

[-] benelbow@lemm.ee 10 points 2 days ago

No volume control. No sound channel EQ. No subtitle option compared to home DVD or some streaming.

As a hearing aid wearer the turned-up-to-eleven sound level combined with unequal balance between voice and music/effects is borderline unbearable.

Max bass, max reverb, max audio compression, plus muttering and whispering by so many actors being recorded at low levels, combine to make cinema visits something to be endured.

[-] MooseyMoose@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Ya know , it's been so long since I went that I totally forgot about that! Definitely agree.

[-] benelbow@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago
[-] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago

my local theatre has fucking horrible speaker buzz problems in most of their screens.

One of the screens has a very visible blemish too

Very little investment has gone into that place for years

[-] kevin2107@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago
[-] MooseyMoose@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

What theaters are you going to that serve eggs?

[-] kevin2107@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

kegs and eggs

[-] straightjorkin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

8.5 million is 2m more than the budget for the best picture winner this year. Why are high budgets not being critiqued? Not every movie needs to break a billion, and frankly they shouldn't all break a billion.

[-] anonymous111@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Novocaine is a 2001 American black comedy thriller film written and directed by David Atkins and starring Steve Martin, Helena Bonham Carter, Laura Dern, Lynne Thigpen and Elias Koteas. Wikipedia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novocaine_(2001_film)

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