Surprisingly he didn’t compare them to women over the age of 25.

I have not noticed a drop in attendance here in Southern California

Make better films

I’d go to the cinema far more often if there were films to watch.

I don’t have the “appetite” for movie theaters. I immediately refuse whenever my friends ask me to go. I’d rather spend the evening at their houses playing board games.

Appetite for movie theaters? Sure.

Appetite for overpriced tickets, garbage movies, snacks at 1200% market prices and 30 minutes of ads? No thanks.

I live near an IMAX theater and started going recently - gotta say, its a lot more compelling when you’re watching a movie in a theater bigger than my entire apartment building

Everyone talking about ads before the showing - is it not standard practice to arrive late?

Here it’s usually “ah, it’s 20 mins past the starting time so we’re perfectly on time!”.

Does anyone give a shit what this creep has to say?

Going to the movies has become unbearable. Even if Hollywood didn’t produce nothing but mindless trash and the whole evening didn’t cost an arm and a leg, there’s always at least one group of assholes in the theater who don’t know that you’re supposed to keep your mouth shut at the movies. I used to go regularly and often, but now I only go on rare occasions.

Leonardo DiCaprio and Christopher Nolan (another theater advocate) should come to a rural town and watch a third-run movie on a screen that feels barely bigger than your living room TV. Sure, it’s like 10 times bigger, but between that, the Coke stuck to the ground, the popcorn stuck to the Coke, and the sticky stuff on your seat you hope is Coke… I think they’d agree that most Americans are just fine watching movies at home. They go to these exclusive, high class theaters with the best of everything and they think we can all get an experience like that. We can’t.

I don’t care about artsy-fartsy movies or Marvel/superhero movies (or Avatar). I mean both are okay, I don’t hate them or anything, but I’m not generally going out of my way to see them. (I did see last year’s Superman on IMAX. Even though I don’t like Superman, I knew that would be a unique experience, and I was right.) I like indie movies that fit a certain niche, and I like Japanese movies (especially anime movies, like stuff from Shinkai and Hosoda). I try to support these movies, but usually we get like, the worst screen. It’s fine, we used to have to drive for hours to get the worst screen. Now we can get the worst screen just up the road. I support the films marketed to me and my niche. I’m not gonna spring for every DiCaprio or Nolan movie, they usually make a billion dollars anyway. I have no sympathy for the occasional one that doesn’t.

Lately, when I actually want to go see a movie, it’s out of the theaters before I get to go. Wife works every other weekend, makes it difficult when you only have two days every other week to do stuff together.

Mmmm, pay a significant part of my income to go to some shitty badly maintained theatre to watch some slop that even the director or actors couldn’t be bothered to make well while the rest nog the world is burning

Sounds enticing!

Leonardo DiCaprio is a Jazz bar.

You couldn’t pay me to go to a movie at a theatre.