That comment was more just in general about RJR declaring time of death for the industry in the midst of a huge re-emergence of covid. Plus green knight isn't exactly avengers. I can't speak to Sunday noon vs other times.

8/4/2021 2:09:21 PM

I love going to the theatre but as my sound system and TV continue to improve im happy watching at home for $20 bucks or so

8/4/2021 2:54:35 PM

^This is what I'm talking about.

More and more people are going to choose to just stay home. Going to blockbusters, even before the pandemic, was a chore for many....dealing with rude people talking, cell-phoning, etc. Then pack on the 'rona and it's (going to be) never ending variants.

Yea nope.

Until we view COVID like the flu, then people aren't going to see movies in theaters in huge numbers.

[Edited on August 5, 2021 at 10:34 AM. Reason : adfas]

8/5/2021 10:33:39 AM

I miss movies like crazy. I love the big screen and I like going out and doing things.

The theaters I'd been favoring in the past recent years were places like Cinebistro, Alamo, Chelsea or the Carolina. So not exactly these giant multiplexes like Crossroads or Raleigh Grande. One of the last things I saw was Miyazaki's "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind" at the Carolina and 1917 at Cinebistro.

No fucking way they would have felt as grand and immersive sitting on my couch. And while it might be cheaper if you've got a family or something, $30 for Black Widow is a loss for me.

People fucking suck and that's no lie. But living in a four-walled world for all my entertainment needs just makes me depressed and reeks of dystopia.

But it looks like that's just the way this world is heading. It's really only a matter of time before you get VR/AR goggles and a tube to eat and poop through.

8/5/2021 1:27:54 PM

WALL-E nailed it in 2008

8/5/2021 1:32:26 PM

I like going to see movies in theaters, but i hate going to crowded ones. Hearing people laugh/scream/talk ruins the experience for me.

Makes me miss where i used to live, where i could go see any movie on a weeknight (even a brand new blockbuster like star wars or a marvel flick) and at most there might be 10 people watching the same movie as me. Many times I was by myself. That was heaven.

I would rather watch something at home than watch it on a crowded ass theater.

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" and a tube to eat and poop through."

I hope it's the same tube

8/5/2021 1:34:11 PM

OH IT WILL BE

8/5/2021 1:36:27 PM

I would always wait weeks (with the exception of any Star Wars release) to go see a movie so I wouldn't have to deal with the crowd.

8/5/2021 2:03:37 PM

Enjoyed The Suicide Squad.

8/9/2021 11:11:59 AM

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"with the exception of any Star Wars release"

Man, star wars fans are the worst. Fuckers cheer at the opening crawl.

8/9/2021 4:12:51 PM

especially the ones who think Rogue One and Solo are the best movies. What buffoons!

8/9/2021 5:04:46 PM

I hate them so much

8/9/2021 5:11:52 PM

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" loved "The Green Knight" it was a beautiful visual poem doesn't surprise me that it scored so high with critics and scored only like 57% with audiences, tho"

it was quite pretty to look at. it just didn’t do it for me, though

I much preferred the version from In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories

8/10/2021 10:38:46 PM

Minari was good but not sure it lived up to the hype.

Promising Young Woman was also pretty good


I tried Reminiscence but turned it off about 30 min in. So much voiceover

[Edited on August 23, 2021 at 11:49 AM. Reason : D]

8/23/2021 11:48:34 AM

Jungle Cruise is a little long, but pretty entertaining

8/23/2021 8:40:08 PM

I wanted to get into Infinite with Mark Wahlberg but I dunno, it was just ok

8/25/2021 8:29:42 AM

Lansky had it's moments and Keitel did a nice job, but it wasn't anything great

8/26/2021 1:36:40 PM

The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017) was pretty entertaining. I will probably give the sequel a watch at some point.

8/27/2021 12:39:19 PM

ok so on top of being international agents the F&F crew is headed to space now?

they ever gonna chill back out and go to japan to race cars again or nah?

shark has long been jumped.

9/28/2021 9:50:20 PM

really enjoyed Halloween Kills

had assumed it was filmed before than pandemic, but there are nods to things that happened in 2021

[Edited on October 27, 2021 at 1:05 AM. Reason : .]

10/27/2021 1:04:07 AM

^I enjoyed it too. Partially because I'm a big fan of horror movies and the original Halloween is one of my favorites. Yes, a lot of the people in the movie make dumb decisions, but if you view it for what it is -- a classic slasher movie, it isn't that far-fetched. At first I thought the whole part about the people trying to kill the escapee who was clearly NOT Michael Myers was kinda dumb, but the more I thought about it, the more it showed how harmful mob mentality can be.

10/27/2021 9:27:43 AM

since you went ahead and posted details about the it, yeah, that’s the January 6th scene

10/27/2021 10:04:40 AM

Have watched “Army of Thieves” and “The Harder they Fall” on Netflix this week and thoroughly enjoyed both. At times while watching the latter today I found me asking myself, “is this movie awesome”?

11/5/2021 12:04:33 AM

loved The French Dispatch

11/16/2021 5:12:37 PM

I put it in the Netflix thread but I found army of thieves pretty boring

11/16/2021 5:18:21 PM

Don’t Look Up was damn good

12/21/2021 4:59:08 PM

Pretty pumped to watch The Matrix tonight.

12/22/2021 2:55:22 PM

^^it was entertaining but I swear it was one of the most ADHD movies ever just 100 things going on, at various levels of necessary. Like all of Cate Blanchett character for example. Or like the kids at the cell phone release thing, what was that about?

12/25/2021 2:27:33 AM

think the kids thing was a way of showing how the ultra wealthy/awful can use kids as a human shield to distract from how destructive they are

12/25/2021 11:55:29 AM

Licorice Pizza lived up to the hype

Philip Seymour Hoffman’s kid was excellent

12/25/2021 10:35:06 PM

8-Bit Christmas on Netflix was pretty good for a PG Christmas movie

12/26/2021 11:11:04 PM

^it is good, but it’s on HBO not Netflix

12/27/2021 10:01:02 AM

the newest Scream has the greatest callback I think I’ve ever seen, and it has absolutely nothing to do with the other Screams/horror movies

1/19/2022 12:32:30 AM

The Card Counter is very weird. The movie looks good but the dialogue is kinda goofy and the plot is all over the place.

2/6/2022 12:28:49 PM

go see Jackass Forever

2/9/2022 12:18:06 AM

I will (I just re-watched the first movie, hard to believe that was 20 years ago. Possibly one of the greatest opening/closing scenes ever)

2/9/2022 10:14:06 AM

Last Night in Soho is pretty great

2/12/2022 9:37:53 PM

^I've been wanting to catch that. I'm smitten with Anya Taylor-Joy.

2/13/2022 5:38:37 PM

It was quite diff then what I expected but I enjoyed it

2/13/2022 6:38:14 PM

went to a special screening of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind at Alamo last night

goddamn what a movie

2/16/2022 12:18:21 PM

Dragged across conrete on hbo prime was pretty good

2/16/2022 11:44:09 PM

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"it was quite pretty to look at. it just didn’t do it for me, though"

This was more my feeling for Green Knight. Maybe not in the right state of mind to watch.

2/20/2022 6:31:16 PM

Scream was good. Entirely no need to make the movie tho

2/21/2022 8:31:28 AM

Reminiscence is entirely forgettable.

2/21/2022 9:29:41 AM

I almost never turn off movies but I watched 20 min of that and gave up. SOOO much voice over

2/21/2022 9:34:14 AM

is that the Hugh Jackman movie?

2/21/2022 10:13:16 AM

Yea

2/21/2022 10:17:23 AM

I actually got almost an hour in. Then wikipedia’d it and decided not to finish

2/21/2022 2:39:31 PM

I got around to watching Richard Jewell and thought it was actually pretty decent. I'm a pretty big Sam Rockwell fan

(I wasn't expecting much, since Eastwood's Gran Torino was terrible, and based on the trailers, his Cry Macho looks even worse)

2/21/2022 2:58:54 PM

I liked Gran Torino

2/21/2022 3:21:22 PM