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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Abstruse" data-source="post: 9363274" data-attributes="member: 6669048">People talking about box office these days don't seem to acknowledge how radically the entertainment industry has changed on the consumer end.In America at least, movie tickets cost anywhere from $8 to $16 each, then a bucket of popcorn and soda is another $20, then there's the costs of gas driving to the theater, possible parking costs, time investment of an extra hour or more than the movie's runtime to be sure you're there on time plus the trailers/ads plus total commute time.Then there's the experience itself. Terrible sound mixing because they crank the speakers to the max because some little old lady forgot to turn on her hearing aid and complained once and they never fixed it, projectors that haven't been serviced in a decade, nobody actually in the projection room to make sure the film's projecting correctly and not outside the screen. And you've got to share the experience with people talking through the entire movie asking one another what happened because they had their screen on full brightness tweeting/texting/etc. the entire time (once had someone taking selfies every 15 minutes with "Reaction Shots" after every plot point in the film while using the camera flash).Or you can wait a month or three and watch it at home on your $200 50" 4K TV and $100 sound bar or surround sound system where you can adjust the volume to your tastes, start/stop when you want, pause it if you need to, make whatever snacks you like, not having anyone ruin the experience (or at least no more than anything else you watch if your family/roommates are jerks). And if you go to the movies once a month, the costs catch up within a year.Not to mention there's still a pandemic going on and a lot of people who can't go out to be locked in a small room with strangers for two hours for health reasons...But the studios and trade magazines keep expecting theatrical releases to work exactly like they did in the 2010s.</blockquote>

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