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SkinShallow's avatar

I never fully (fully) realised that the American word for cinema is theater, the SAME word used for actual theatre. I mean I did know of course but it never sunk in.

I think the lost mushy middle framework applies particularly to entertainment and other optional goods and your point that most people who can afford cinema tickets can (or soon will be) able to afford home cinema kit. Isn't this whole thing partially what drives the 3D craziness?

Also, I will maintain forever that food in cinema (apart from something quiet and odourless, PERHAPS) is barbaric but I get that I'm a weirdo snob. WINGS????? Cmon.....

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Sue's avatar

I saw "The Fall Guy" in a theater during the second weekend of its release. A couple days later, the movie was available on VOD — for the same price my husband & I paid for our two Sunday matinee tickets. (If we'd gone to an evening showing, VOD would have been considerably cheaper.) Honestly, why bother seeing anything in the theater if it may be available to stream mere days later?

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