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Lol I went to see Mission Impossible in theatres recently and it starts with Tom Cruise thanking you for watching movies in the theater and suggesting it's the best way to watch movies.
The people behind me talked through the whole thing and on the other side of the theatre two people got into an argument because the one person was on their phone the whole time. Ushers had to come in and tell them to be quiet or leave. So yeah, Tom Cruise thinks that's the best way to watch movies.
Pretty much every studio is making their actors do these terrible promos. The D&D movie had it, too.
It’s just a commercial for Tom Cruise: whether he personally believes it or not is irrelevant.
Yeah the last time I watched a movie in a theater was Top Gun Maverick which had a Tom Cruise intro. There was a teenager sitting near that was trying to make jokes throughout the entire movie; they were as unfunny as they were loud. The theater's great sound system doesn't really matter when you can't hear it over obnoxious audience members.
I wonder what the future of theaters looks like. I hope they realize that home is just a better way to watch movies, and start pivoting into the 'experience' aspect; start serving quality food, or add a live host, or regularly have themed events. Imagine if there was one next to a convention center - if there was e.g. an anime convention they could show a bunch of anime films to tie into it.
Those aren't the best examples, but something along those lines is the only way I see myself watching a movie at a theater again. If they give me a reason to go I'll go, but right now, there just isn't one.
Maybe Theaters should make it possible to hear the Film over Bluetooth Headphones. So you can enjoy the Big Screen and use your Noise Canceling Earphone.
And then they could display the film in a massive outdoor field, and we could watch on picnic blankets, and they wouldn't even need speakers at all if we all brought our own headphones. I miss the drive in :)
I think they should make them enclosed rooms isolated from other people. Maybe you can pop your own popcorn or bring other snacks. Having them close to your own home would be cool too. Maybe even inside your own home. I wish we had the technology to include screen where we live. Maybe one day...