Jared

So we’re at a movie theater today. This is there first movie experience since wifey and I’s wedding after party seeing Frozen 2 opening day, 2019-11-22.

We’re at a Warehouse Theater that is a converted theater that I spent plenty of time at in high school in the ‘90s. It’s weird being here and seeing the renovation!

Just gotta say, holy farts, has the movie going experience changed. Assigned seating, something I only experienced when I lived in Hungary in ’03-‘05, heated recliners, movable trays. Like damn. And tickets on Mother’s Day were still only $13/ticket, so not horrible.

Still, people are people so there’s that. But the physical movie going experience is vastly different than before The Event™️.

#MovieTheater #WarehouseTheaters

May 10 at 5:17pmWeb
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@ktnjared Once home theater systems got good enough, and also once people got used to having movies available day-of (or near enough to) on streaming services, every theater has to basically compete with everybody's living room in order to keep up.

Nobody wants to sit in some rickety chair that smells like 20 years of stale sweat for a $30 bucket of popcorn and a vat of Coke, unless that's somehow part of the specific "theater experience" they're going for.

On the upside, it's basically bringing back the idea of dinner theater (usually quite literally), so that's a plus. Sure you might be in an analog to the living room you have at home, but you had to go out to get there and you can get food that you likely wouldn't make at home all wrapped up in one nice little package (if not an overly expensive one).