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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

Theaters are still useful for people who want to go out. Of course they are making more money by home release when everyone is sitting at home with their kids.

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What conns said.

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There really isn't a true reason to prop up movie theaters any more than we should have propped up video rental stores. They can find a way to survive with movies immediately being available to purchase in my home or they can go away too.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

It is not about propping up. A lot of people who go to theaters do so to get away from their kids for a few hours or go on a date. Basing their current success on anything more than people not allowed to leave their houses is flawed.

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https://www.wsj.com/articles/trolls-wor ... cle_inline

It's pretty tough to draw anything conclusively from this event.

Most movies do a run at the box office followed by a significant bump when they hit video on demand. Trolls 2 won't be getting that added bump.

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Seeing a movie will become a capital-E Event like going to a baseball game did: not something you pop on by to spur-of-the-moment on some idle day, but rather a special event that you wait days and days for and go downtown for. TVs are big, sound systems are good, your own floors hopefully aren't covered in spilled soda and full of someone else's shitty kids. 30-screen theaters and so forth were already dying, the bat plague will finish them off. 8th graders will have to get handjobs someplace else.

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Those people still can do that. The studios aren't going to stop putting their movies in theaters. They'll just let people who don't want to get a babysitter for the night be forced to wait 9 months so they can watch Fast and the Furious 12: The squeakwal

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

This is a hissy fit being thrown by a theater chain because a dumbass executive ran his mouth.

Nothing to see here.

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can't get a handjob from the goomah watching a movie at home

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

Wow

Holy shit

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Also, let’s hurry up with the Godzilla vs. Kong trailer.

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Death blow

Nice

More stuff to make the HBO Max subscription worth it.

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I don’t think these movies will be free.

Disney+ had Mulan for $35.

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They will not cost extra.

This is great for everyone but movie theater owners. Movie theaters provided no added value.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Not for adults.

Even though seeing certain films in a theater is a good experience, it doesn’t justify $30 for a couple or $100 plus for a family.

Local connection a shuttered due to covid AMC property is becoming a Busy Beaver Home Center.

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Elections have consequences.

You might as well say, “Someone please argue with me!!!”

Movie theaters are great for seeing bigger budget, or Oscar nominated movies.

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not a single one in that group I'm particularly interested in seeing

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

I don't mind going to the movies every once in a while but if they can't survive without exclusive access to new releases then I think it's safe to say there was no added value to them.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Just the lead dominoes though.

Business model transforming is the obviously bigger story.

The huge multiplexes are dead for sure. I wonder about the places trying to be a combo restaurant and movie theater. It feels like this is a blow for kids and teenagers looking to meet somewhere. I guess everyone will just virtually meet from their rooms now.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

I'm going to the movie theater for that.

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The brew and view with recliners and decent-ish food will have a place. The 3-D movies will have a place.

This isn't because of Covid. It was already coming.

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I'm not going to miss the movie theater. The best investment I made over the last few years was the home theater. I get the beautiful picture, sound, comfy chair, etc. without having to worry about the loud couple behind me or missing something because I have to take a leak.

As Golden Jet said, I'm sure the boutique theaters that have a full service restaurant and bar will survive but the AMC multiplexes are dead.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson