EARLY ACCESS: Disney: Destroyer of Movie Theaters
Added 2020-08-21 16:01:02 +0000 UTCVIDEO LINK: https://youtu.be/_km8Q6cPHPE
It's Friday, which means it's early access day! And with our first actual blockbuster of the summer finally reaching theatres (Tenet opens next week) even though not all theatres are even open in North America yet (and many are not allowed to be filled to capacity), what better time to discuss what the studios have been doing all summer! Here's the video description:
Since movie theatres have been closed for the better part of the year, companies have been trying to get creative with getting their content out, pissing off both theatre chains and audiences. But why do we romanticize the "theatre experience"? Buckley provides a little ASMR at the start for those who miss going to the movies.
Comments
I never had 27 minutes, but I guess if you count trailers, yeah I could see that too (or the "pre-show", but I mean from the time the lights go down and it's the time the cinema has said the movie will start, that's when they start ads, then trailers, then the movie). But yeah way too many. I'm paying to watch a movie. If a movie needs to be monetized for it to make money, like the ticket price and the concessions aren't enough, then I think it's a business model that needs to be challenged.
Adam Buckley
2020-08-22 18:06:19 +0000 UTC12 minutes of ads? Lucky, last time I went to the cinema they lasted for 27.. I would add to the benefits of watching at home "you dont overpay 500% for snacks and can get as wasted as the movie demands with no problem
Michał Michalski
2020-08-22 09:33:02 +0000 UTCMan, exactly my opinion. Never been to theatres anymore for 20 years or so because of all those annoying things.
Thor Stone
2020-08-22 07:50:53 +0000 UTCIt's obviously superior equipment to what I have at home, no doubt. Maybe it's just me though, I've seen easily 100 movies in theatres in my life, not an exaggeration. In my 20s I would go almost every weekend, sometimes I'd see two movies back-to-back. One of our theatres got a "preview copy" of The Last Samurai, so I went and saw a movie in the morning, found out they were having this thing, bought a ticket to that and went back that night for the special screening. BUT, a lot of that was before every single person had a phone, and before phones actually really did much of anything (texting was pretty limited, not really much in the way of games, certainly couldn't get on Facebook or Twitter since neither even existed in 2003), and people just seemed better behaved then. Now everyone's like "I paid $15, I should be able to do whatever I want!"
Adam Buckley
2020-08-22 02:34:43 +0000 UTCIt's a STEAL for families, especially if it's a movie where the kids will watch it over and over. Kids that go see a brand new Disney movie that are like "I wanna watch it again!", well here ya go kids, watch it 30 more times if you want. I don't know if THIS is the movie that will prove it to be a success or failure, but like imagine if this existed when the first Incredibles came out or something like that? $30 for the family to watch it and then the kids would watch it a hundred times more?
Adam Buckley
2020-08-22 02:28:52 +0000 UTCIn Australia it would cost me $50 just for 2 adult movie tickets at one of the major chains where the seating is at least decent. Mulan will cost me $34.99 (I’m not going to factor in the usual subscription price because I will pay that regardless of whether I watch Mulan or not). Yes please I’ll pay $34.99 for a current movie that my whole family can watch anytime, multiple times.
Cogitated
2020-08-22 01:10:05 +0000 UTCI really like the moving going experience, luckily the theatres I've been to have decent respectable patrons who shut the fuck up
Vincenzo (Vinny) Giovanni Bonadonna
2020-08-21 21:01:02 +0000 UTC
