Absolutely. I only go to the cinema for visual/audio.
Avatar, GotG 3, etc
8d go as far as saying if it isn't Imax, sometimes it sounds better at home as some screens are just so bad!
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Absolutely. I only go to the cinema for visual/audio.
Avatar, GotG 3, etc
8d go as far as saying if it isn't Imax, sometimes it sounds better at home as some screens are just so bad!
Cineworld is in administration. I doubt they'll be snapping anything up
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Empire was formed from the sites Cineworld/Odeon had to sell off with their mergers with other chains. Unlike cineworld/vue/Odeon they're not connected directly to the distribution network so all their films are bought in and they relied more on the food/drink sales. I'm surprised they've kept half the sites open, they must have managed to strike a deal with those landlords and screwed over the ones who didn't help through covid with the administration action.
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Its also good to get out. You could literally never leave your house these days with all the delivery/entertainment services available but that would be a dull life.
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I used to enjoy the cinema but got put off with everybody stuffing their fat faces, checking phones and slurping on drinks.
If they cut that out I'd be back in a flash.
If they cut that out I'd be back in a flash.
Not really sure why cinemas are needed any more.
A large OLED, a decent sound system, and the comfort of your own living room is a much nicer experience.
It is also far too expensive.
I imagine it will mostly go the way of the dodo eventually.
A large OLED, a decent sound system, and the comfort of your own living room is a much nicer experience.
It is also far too expensive.
I imagine it will mostly go the way of the dodo eventually.
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Last films I watched at a cinema were the LOTR trilogy.
So around twenty or so years ago.
Quite happy now to watch media in the comfort of my home on an OLED screen with an AV receiver, without the hassle of travel, expensive seats, expensive food, and yobbish, feral yoofs.
Can't ever see me going to a cinema again.
Past its sell by date IMO.
So around twenty or so years ago.
Quite happy now to watch media in the comfort of my home on an OLED screen with an AV receiver, without the hassle of travel, expensive seats, expensive food, and yobbish, feral yoofs.
Can't ever see me going to a cinema again.
Past its sell by date IMO.
I just did some maths for fun. If you spent £2500 on a home cinema setup, and compare it to spending £30 a pop for two of you to go to the cinema (£15 each) then you’d get 83 cinema visits for the same amount of money. Across for example two years that’s be going on average every 8-9 days. Say you only went every couple of weeks then you’d probably hit 3 years for the equivalent amount of money. Granted I’m not taking into account food etc but there’s nothing stopping you turning up with a bottle of water, watching the film and going home again. You don’t have to have the meal out, popcorn etc.
Anyway, thought that was interesting although I’ve probably done my maths wrong somewhere.
Yeh, but that would mean choosing to not have a TV/speakers in your living room for that maths to work out...
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Some folk only have space for a 50-55 inch
Which is fine depending on the size of your room.
The screen is relative to how far you sit from it.
True. But you’re still looking at maybe 1-1.5 years of cinema visits maybe.
I only have space for a 42” !!
@Scam - if you have enough space for a dedicated home cinema room you probably don’t care whether it represents value for money or not. If it’s not a dedicated room then you’ll be using that set up for watching TV, gaming, etc. so you get other value from it too.
Sure. But people are comparing it to the value/price of a cinema visit so it’s a fair point.
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I have a Home Cinema too, but I've not used it for some time. I'm quite happy watching films on the streaming sites these days & it's a bit of a faff to set said Home Cinema up for streaming. I have to consider the neighbours as well, I have a 3/4am start for work weekdays too which doesn't help.
I haven't been to a Chain Cinema since before COVID. I did see the Godfather last year in a small charity run Cinema on its 50th anniversary. It even had the organ come up through the stage! Ticket was £7 & drinks/snacks were reasonable prices.
I think that if Cinemas are to survive here, that it goes down the Everyman route of being a Bar/Resturant with a few small screens attached.
I haven't been to a Chain Cinema since before COVID. I did see the Godfather last year in a small charity run Cinema on its 50th anniversary. It even had the organ come up through the stage! Ticket was £7 & drinks/snacks were reasonable prices.
I think that if Cinemas are to survive here, that it goes down the Everyman route of being a Bar/Resturant with a few small screens attached.
You've forgotten to include the cost of streaming the films - so £19.99 to rent a stream of something that's been in the cinema for about a month vs £18.00ish per person for unlimited day 1 films in the cinema per month..
Watching at home weeks or months later will always be the poor relation to opening day in the cinema - which I guess is why the first showing of MI: DR part 1 is 00:05 Monday morning at my local lol..
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