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Why in the world would anybody go to theater when everything is free on the internet and we all have superior equipment? 3 buck theaters, but the big ones?
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My cinema delivery methods of choice these days are the cheap theaters and Netflix streaming. I don't like to buy DVDs simply for this reason:

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Agreed. Get rid of the middlemen already.

Block a doctor's cell phone and you're looking at the inevitable lawsuit.

Nah, just pure digital 60 fps minimum please. 3d can eat a dick.

I haven't been to a theater in two years, no real plans to unless I'm paid to do so. Don't see that happening.
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On a practical level - most viewers can't discern the difference between 1080p on a big screen and 2k-4k copies. What's happened is that the home experience has technologically caught up to the theatrical experience. So the only thing that theaters could offer is a) size of screen and b) improved visual presentation. You spend 50k on a projector, chances are the movies are going to look brighter, crisper and the colors will be rock-solid, as opposed to your 50" flat-screen that is probably miscalibrated, listening to your DTS on a Bose home-theater-in-a-box.

But chain theaters/exhibitors aren't doing this. They can't even be bothered to take the wrong LENS off the 50,000 dollar machines they've installed to show a glut of post-processed 3D films.

The studios charge the shit out of the exhibitors for projectors they're not even using to their full potential (I've seen encrypted hard drives from the studios featuring films encoded at 1080p) and the exhibitors in turn charge the shit out of the viewers for the opportunity to watch a movie coated in grubby cellophane on the off chance something pointy comes flying out of the screen at them.

It's the cinematic equivalent to buying a ferrari, only to drive it backwards through a swamp for 2 hours.
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You guys know that movies and music are free now, right?

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