D&D Movie/TV DADHAT becomes Netflix Global Hit

Zardnaar said:

In NZ behaviour is pretty good. No horror stories.

Tickets are $10 usd approx, parking's basically free if you don't mind a 3 minute walk.

We don't go that often though at least compared to 20 years ago.

It's cheaper now comparatively.

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That's good.

I have memberships with a couple of different chains that will give you a $1 for every 4 films, as well as other discounts. I've never been a fan of popcorn, but I know the food and drink prices can be pretty outrageous.

Yeah, I pretty much never bother with food/drinks at theatres. Doubles the ticket price easy.

I used to pay attention to a local cinemas 5$ Wednesdays. They'd be classic movies or current movies that are a few weeks after release, I should have another look at them.

Older Beholder said:

That's good.

I have memberships with a couple of different chains that will give you a $1 for every 4 films, as well as other discounts. I've never been a fan of popcorn, but I know the food and drink prices can be pretty outrageous.

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They do a combo deal here and di basic fast food. Burger and fries is similar to McDonalds in price. Surprisingly good burger as well.

I want to give them money as I realize concessions pays the bills. They've got fold down lap tables, you can order a meal and beer.

So I try and time it for a take out night and in effect it's $10 usd for the movie as you're buying food anyway.

So $15-17 usd for said combo + ticket or popopcorn, drink, ice cream might be slightly more.

Beers about same price as a bar.

Travel time including through the door is 10 minutes.

Getting a little off topic, but My local cinema ran a screening of all 3 extended LotR's movies back to back a few weekends ago. 12 hours worth!

Just as an example of what some cinemas are doing to stay relevant...

It's a shame it didn't do better. It really is a good movie - it's not a masterpiece, but as good as one could ever hope a D&D movie to be. It was even more fun on the rewatch

Dune 2 was last trip to theatre.

Henadic Theologian said:

Chris Pine's $150M Box Office Disappointment With 91% RT Score Becomes Global Netflix Hit

It has been watched for more than 7 million hours.

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Why heck all of a sudden it's a hit?

Should they consider rereleasing it in theaters? Or at least a sequel.

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Depends on how much Netflix paid for it.

I doubt they paid 50-100 million dollars for it which would cover the production cost and maybe marketing.



My movie guy. Gave it a glowing review. He actually knows his stuff and has Hollywood types on his show occasionally.

HAT is decent fantasy movie, but more than that, it's decent action comedy movie with solid cast. Even my wife, who isn't generally into fantasy, liked it. Also, Netflix is still globally no 1 streaming platform. Pair it together and no wonder it's become hit.

I loved going to movie theaters. But in the days of old, quality of sound and image was worth the money and time when compared to old crt tv and even first generations of lcd tvs. 65 cm (not inch, centimeter) tv was big screen at home and it cost pretty penny. Now, i have 68" oled 4k with soundbar. For most movies, it's pretty good setup, and watching experience is even better than watching in cinema. I have my sofa, i can pause it when i need to go to toilet or refill drink/snacks. Very few new movies are better in cinema than at home ( prime example Dune and Top Gun).

Being able to pause on demand is a large reason why I feel James Cameron is out of touch. With the second avatar movie he talked about how, since people binge watch tv shows they can sit through a 3 hour movie, completely missing the point around how people watch shows at home. Also, I found avatar 2 super boring, only made it through an hour.

Zardnaar said:

Looks like the studios are trying to push theatre's more.

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Sure, it's in their interest to do so, but you can't stop the tide coming in. All my local cinemas are closing down. Unless the studios are going to start paying people to go there is nothing they can do to stop it.

Zardnaar said:

Streaming won't support block buster budgets.

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There was a time before people made blockbusters, there will be a time when blockbusters are no longer being made. Movies like HAT don't need blockbuster budgets though.