Not to mention, going to a movie now costs basically as much as buying the movie outright after it releases to home media.
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For me movies are too special to ruin by seeing them at a cinema.
Gone are the days when staff were around to ensure a few idiots didn’t spoil it for everyone else. Now it’s give me your money and good luck in the auditorium, you’re own your own, pal!
Sure, i’m getting older and perhaps a little grouchier - a little less willing to suffer fools. But it’s also true, i think, that audiences are growing increasingly ignorant of any social conventions or moreover empathy.
They win sadly - i bought a projector instead.
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Absolutely. But weirdly those films I rather waited for and watched them at home almost always disappointed me, the last one to do so was US. Maybe the cinema experience was missing, maybe movies really have become less interesting.
In contrast, I enjoyed the third season of STRANGER THINGS so much that I thought many moments had that crowdpleasing effect that current movies so often are lacking.
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I sympathize. Last time I went to a cinema a couple in front of me unpacked their whole dinner and ate as if they were sitting in front of their tv, and the airconditioning could not handle the thick smell of their food.
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The benefits of living in a rural area: the cinema I usually go to is a family business which does not belong to any chain or franchise. 80 percent of the audience are regulars, so rarely anyone misbehaves. Most people even take their garbage with them after the movie and put it in the bin next to the entrance.
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For younger CBners: there used to be times when this was the standard…
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You are living the dream, my friend.
I rarely go to the cinema any more either. I did find a good time to go, however, when I saw HALLOWEEN back in November. 10:30 on a Monday night yielded a pretty good experience. It was just me and one other person.
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For that movie I’d want to make sure that the one other person was sitting somewhere I could see them 
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Late night cinema in London is the only way to go sometimes. With kids you get the magic of cinema again through them and I tend to go to places like the prince Charles or BFI , which are much more old fashioned
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I’m really excited about this. I wrote about the trilogy here not long ago. I was on board with a prequel, but the fact Reeves and Moss are back is just the dream scenario. And apparently most of the trilogy cast are back as well.
Didn’t Trinity and Neo die at the end of Revolutions? So how will they continue on from there I wonder.
Wasn’t all that concordantly/concomitantly guff at the end of the second one about their being on a cycle and it all having happened n times and will all happen n times again? Matrix: Rebooted.
I think? But who can really make sense of that dribble. Either way, didn’t Neo choose the option that specifically prevented the Matrix from being rebooted?
Probably - I think like most folks I was beyond caring by that point!
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I certainly was. I recently rewatched the entire Matrix trilogy and parts 2 and 3 were basically as bad and tedious as I remembered. Probably more so, watching them as a 30 year old vs 15.
In other news, Disney and Sony get greedy and the fans lose.
Looking at it from a different age I wasn’t too hot on the recent take on Spider-Man, with him being more or less Tony Stark’s apprentice. But evidently Holland’s version is quite popular with fans, so seeing that break away from Marvel would be a shame for them.
On the other hand, creatively it could be a chance to develop the character on his own, away from Marvel schemes where he’s effectively always a step stone to some greater team-up event spread over n-films.
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Another Matrix is not a sign for hope cinema will evolve.
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Matrix 4 is a shocker! They’ve been talking up a reboot of the franchise recently, not a sequel. I’m guessing the Wick success convinced the suits to make Lena and Reeves an offer instead.
Wonder why both the Wachowski brothers (now the Wachowski sisters) are not involved. Don’t think they ever made a movie separately before?