"Novocaine" is off to a good start at the box office with an estimated $8.5 million opening weekend, but the marketplace is in a terrible slump.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26891333

“Novocaine” is off to a good start at the box office with an estimated $8.5 million opening weekend, but the marketplace is in a terrible slump.

  • MooseyMoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Hight ticket prices, high snack prices, no pause button, sticky floors, other audience members. Hmmm. Wonder why things are bad for theaters?

    • oyo@lemm.eeEnglish
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      5 days ago

      Additionally, the last movie I went to actually started a full 27 minutes after the listed time, due to all the ads and trailers.

      • MooseyMoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 days ago

        I’ve been trying to remember the last movie I went to see in a theater and all I can come up with is LOTR: Return of the King, lol!

    • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.ukEnglish
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      5 days ago

      my local theatre has fucking horrible speaker buzz problems in most of their screens.

      One of the screens has a very visible blemish too

      Very little investment has gone into that place for years

    • benelbow@lemm.eeEnglish
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      5 days ago

      No volume control. No sound channel EQ. No subtitle option compared to home DVD or some streaming.

      As a hearing aid wearer the turned-up-to-eleven sound level combined with unequal balance between voice and music/effects is borderline unbearable.

      Max bass, max reverb, max audio compression, plus muttering and whispering by so many actors being recorded at low levels, combine to make cinema visits something to be endured.

      • Psythik@lemm.eeEnglish
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        5 days ago

        Movie theaters have a subtitle option; you just have to mention that you’re hearing impaired when you buy your tickets, and they’ll give you special glasses that allow you to see the subtitles (no joke).