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Originally Posted by Nadal Fan
I think movies should stay in theaters only for at least 90 days before getting released on streaming. Watching a film in theatres is superior to streaming in everyway except 1; convenience, and unfortunately people will choose convenience every time. Theatres have better sound, better picture, better popcorn than any home theater, and you get to experience the film in an audience with other human beings. Most direct to streaming movies are mid and forgettable because there is no incentive for them to be good, they just have to exist as content. A movie is bad on Netflix who cares no one will unsubscribe from it, but if WB puts out a bad movie they would lose millions at the box office. So studios would put in alot of effort to put out a good movie because there was an immediate impact if they didn't.
It is impossible for any film, no matter how good it is, to have the cultural impact that a film like Jaws or Titanic or Batman 89 had without being first released in a theater.
Streaming is clearly here to stay (no matter how much I complain) , I just worry about a time in the near future where it's the only game in town.
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Price is a huge factor. Movies have become extraordinarily expensive, particularly the concession prices. Going to a movie and wanting some snacks for the experience will cost as much as a full dinner out. You can argue you can make the choice to not consume those things, but you are either forgoing a part of the experience, or making yourself liable to be kicked out by sneaking in your own food.
There's often a reaction to lower business and it is to increase prices to make up for less sales, but this largely gets a company or industry into a tail spin as it drives away a large section of it's consumers. What happens is they get more selective with when they consume that thing. So instead of seeing movies every weekend or so like I remember doing as teenagers, people literally can't afford to do that so they only go see big spectacle films because it's the only thing that makes the big screen/sound/special effects worth the price. And then the industry harps that people don't support non-IP movies, but they've made it an actual risk to watch a movie when before the worst thing you wasted was your time.
The streamers are running a risk of this too now. The appeal of them originally was the price was right to avoid people stealing content. Now it's pushing back up against costing the same as cable to have 2-3 ad-free subscriptions. people will start to steal it again. And stop paying for it. And then they'll make it more expensive. And then less people will pay for it. Etc...
tl:dr - make going to the movies cheaper and maybe more people will go.