I can’t help but roar with helpless laughter every time the theaters start blaring their successes to anyone who’ll listen, saying that 2009 was their “BEST YEAR EVAR!!!!!11!1″and they beat home video SO hard. See, there’s two basic functions at work here that skew the results wildly in favor of movie tickets, and you can [...]
Well, folks, you know I’ve been of the mind for the last couple years now that the theater as we know it is a doomed industry. Without serious changes in terms of the value they provide, they will be relegated to the dust heap of history alongside the buggy whip in favor of the steadily [...]
Oh man, I got a double punch of bad news coming out about movie theaters today. You know how yesterday I passed on how AMC wasn’t letting in outside snacks? They may want to reconsider, because as it turns out, their popcorn is NIGHTMARISHLY fatty. A large serving of popcorn at Regal Theaters contains twelve [...]
Look, I’ll come right out and say that, in my college days, I was a fiend for bringing outside snacks into a theater. Rather than pay ridiculous prices for the same old dreck, I would smuggle in just about anything from a liter Mountain Dew and a Snickers bar to, on one memorable occasion catching [...]
I’ve been of the opinion for some time now that, barring a massive sea change on the part of movie theaters, there’s no way they can survive. They’re losing their technical advantage with each passing iteration of home theater equipment and technology. And frankly, the move to 3-D movies isn’t going to cut it either [...]
