Are cinemas target audience now under-30s?

[Haggisman]

^ yes, a reimagining, but I don’t usually associate Liam Neeson as acting like Leslie Nielsen

But their names are sort of similar, so that's close enough

To be fair it does look like a departure from his usual role, but it's still yet another remake

 

[Diddums]

That Naked Gun looks absolutely hilarious, we'll be watching it at the cinema.

 

[gort]

My 4 y/o lad went for the first time last week. He absolutely loved it so will go more often for his sake. Probably 8-9 years since I've been.

For two tickets, one drink and one popcorn it was £36. I get you can bring in your own snacks etc. to save a chunk but for the experience for him we did the whole thing.

Got a decent TV and surround sound setup so happy to watch the glut of films on one of the many streaming services.

 

[lunar]

That Naked Gun looks absolutely hilarious, we'll be watching it at the cinema.

I refuse to watch remakes of films.
E g.
Get Carter, The Omen etc.

I'd rather go to the cinema and see the original film.

 

[Diddums]

I refuse to watch remakes of films.
E g.
Get Carter, The Omen etc.

I'd rather go to the cinema and see the original film.

Odd hill to die on, but you do you I guess.

 

[200sols]

Odd hill to die on, but you do you I guess.

A lot of people are fed up with endless remakes and marvel films tbh.

 

[Uther]

Too loud, too expensive, too many adverts.
Meh.

 

[Diddums]

A lot of people are fed up with endless remakes and marvel films tbh.

As am I, but blanket refusing to see any of them is a bit odd. There is the occasional decent one.

 

[shifty_uk]

There’s movies you forget are remakes like Scarface, Dawn of the Dead, Oceans 11 etc

It’s mostly the Disney live action rubbish no one wants to see.

Movies like Dune were more than welcome.

 

[beachBOYken]

As am I, but blanket refusing to see any of them is a bit odd. There is the occasional decent one.

Occasional being the key word, most remakes are crap and just cash grabs from talentless people who can’t think of something original.

 

[Diddums]

Occasional being the key word, most remakes are crap and just cash grabs from talentless people who can’t think of something original.

Generally you can spot them a mile off though tbh.

 

[Camalot]

Their target audience is people who don't like money and enjoy having their movie watching experience ruined by other people eating, talking, playing with phones etc.

I'm quite lucky I guess then. Cineworld works out at about £7 each and we get our popcorn bags for under a quid at B&M

Local Cineworld is recently refurbished and never really get any trouble in there.

 

[jpaul]

Remakes too risky for investment in a cinema entrance, when cinemas offer a refund/money-back option for walk-outs maybe I'd consider it;

The pedigree of the remake director counts - dawn of the dead versus scarface ?

 

[Gammawolf]

I generally don't like cinema visual quality. It can be hit and miss (last one i saw was Wonka and it was closer to SD than HD, it was "released" a few days later and the 1080p quality was night and day diffrence to that screening). Also i don't really enjoy watching projectors

 

[Jim99]

There's a nice cinema near me, double the price of Vue etc so the kids won't go.

But it means I'll only go when I'm really keen to see a film, which is about once every 2 years. So I'm probably not doing much to keep them in business.

 

[alchal]

Last time I went cinema was about 5 years ago:

I feel there's not good releases anymore

and cinemas are more orientated towards families and under 30s.

Am I wrong?

You are old, face facts.

Go home, watch some black and white films and act your age

 

[Bassmansam]

I feel there's not good releases anymore



Am I wrong?

You are wrong yes. I don't go to the cinema often but i watch the films when they are avaialble to buy/rent. Seen a good few films that have been released over the last few years..

 

[Jono8]

Literally see no reason to ever go to a cinema ever again.

New films are out on the streaming services within a few months/half a year and id far rather watch something in my living room on my oled TV.

 

[Werewolf]

Unpopular opinion here: I think the cinema has always been for the younger audience and that we're all just getting old.

And yeah, it feels bad no longer being the relevant demographic anymore, but this has happened to every generation before us and it'll keep on happening.

I think that's pretty close to it.
Except for horrors most films aim to be about a 12 or 15 rating at most, and the studios know that if they get a higher rating they are locking out a large part of the potential audience which is bad for business!

I did find something amusing the other day, the reason why sometimes an American will reference PG nudity is because at one point the US rating system went straight from PG to R/18, so the odd bit of nudity was allowed in PG films as the range for a PG film was so big, that eventually got narrowed down with a change in their rating systems so a lot of films are now aimed either at PG or at the highest or R (17 years with an adult).

It's probably a bit like the theatre, most theatres (at least the smaller ones not running Cats etc for months or years at a go), know that the kids performances are often what keeps the lights one, so a well received kids film (or at least one kids can go to) is likely to get ticket sales for both the children and one of their parents.

 

[Tykey]

Went last time in 2017 for the first time in 10 years, it was just too loud for me, left after 10 minutes.