I used to love going to the movies, but theaters are just a shit experience these days. People on their phones, people talking. Nobody has any fucking manners anymore.
I got myself some good speakers, fairly good benq projector and 200inch screen. Best choice I made
If the projector survives for 4-5 years, then I might even make the money back by skipping on cinema visits
Honestly I’ve seen little to none of that. I don’t go that often, but at least like 4x/year
Post pandemic, I only go if it’s a movie worth seeing in IMAX or Dolby. And movies like those are like once a year.
Ditto. Cinema for me these days are sacred and for special occasions. Some movies are only worth watching in theatres if the visual spectacles are great.
As long as they stay offa mah lawn!
Dine in theaters. It’s expensive but that isn’t an issue any time I’ve gone the past few years
Yo ho, me hearties! 🤘🏼
Just bought a house after years of hunting. I’m /absolutely/ building a home theater in the basement to enjoy my home media server from once I can afford it in…17 years or so, assuming society hasn’t collapsed by then.
And, if it has, then you can just dedicate your former neighbors’ homes to whatever projects you like! So much room for activities!
Aw hell, if it’s collapsed I’ll just start a big “drive” in theater and have community showings! No society means no copyright enforcement!
Sounds like a cinema with more steps
Bonus: you can sit in allll the seats! (Well, as long as Wilson isn’t being a whingy bitch again.)
What type of hunting did you do? Like deer or rabbits?
Two ways you can afford to see a movie with $0:
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Sneak in
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Piracy
1 is harder than 2, but more thrilling and you can even get free snacks if the theatre offers refills and you dig through the trash.
3. Libraries
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Theaters haven’t been worth going to for 2 decades now. I don’t understand people’s obsession with it. My giant screen at home looks and sounds better, I’m more comfortable, more relaxed, and can go at my pace.
Screw theaters. I haven’t been to one in like 15 years. Super not worth it and everyone I know IRL who goes mostly complains.
I haven’t been to my local IMAX theater in nearly a decade because the sound system went to absolute shit and they still haven’t updated it.
Even before I went down the audio rabbit hole I felt it was a huge upgrade just having a cheap pair of bookshelf speakers and decent looking TV. Now with OLED becoming ubiquitous it’s too easy to make an amazing setup that doesn’t break the bank. Theaters need to do some drastic changes to bring back their value, but honestly it might just be better leaving them in the history books.
I was shocked to learn that most projectors are only 2k.
The downgrade to digital projectors is what killed cinemas for me. It’s just a stuttering blurry mess with a poorly calibrated speaker setup to match.
I’d like to like the cinema but they removed the magic and left the 8$ small popcorn in It’s place.
I think I’ve been in this boat without necessarily realising. Last film i saw at the cinema was the hobbit. I had no idea they’d decided to split the story from that short children’s book up into multiple films, so I was very confused and disappointed by the end.
Find an independently owned theater near you. While it may not be an IMAX screen it’s still the theater experience and likely way cheaper. I haven’t paid more than $5 per ticket to see a movie in years.
I’m in the same boat. I have savings for six months, but if I don’t find something in that time, I guess, I’ll just die.
First time?
I just wanna survive to play gta6 not actually live gta6.
I suffered through this awful film so that the memes could live.
They have $5 Tuesdays at Fat cats if you live near one in the US. But yeah, normal movies are insanity.
Everyone with an internet connection can “afford to see a movie”. Or are you asking to be able to afford to pay for a movie ticket at an overpriced cinema?
Needlessly judgemental, wow.
I’m talking about sailing the high seas. I guess that didn’t come across.
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As an autistic person who sees information sharing as more valid and respectable than affirming possible ignorant perspectives for the sake of obtuse social saliency, all I see is a fact and a valid question.
Also valid advice for those with money. If you can save money from a theater ticket to another Disney slop live action remake, and donate that money to independent artists trying to survive and simultaneously have a voice despite the Disney/warner types stranglehold over sellable cinema for most public spaces.
People get so upset when anything questions their current trajectory, rather than saying “oh yeah, that’s a valid perspective to avoid the issue in context.”
And gets a lot of autistic people yelled at for doing their job or trying to help, IMO.
Is there a reason the advice and question aren’t valid? To me the only rudeness here is in the framing of the rebuke.
This isn’t trying to one up anyone, this is an attempt to communicate, and improve people’s ability to communicate.
I’ve even seen doctors excuse bullying of autistic children because the child joined discussion of test scores without pandering to the ego of people that were socially affirming how terrible the test must be, due to their performance.
At this point people need to start trying to understand the double empathy problem, because it’s valid for more cases of communication differences than just autism.
Thank you for reading!
It is the framing, yes. The second half reads as telling OP that it’s bad to want to go to the theatre in a conscensing way.
So you say you’re autistic… <3You’re right that its the framing here that reads as very rude - if someone is expressing their desire to do something, coming in and presenting something else as a clearly morally superior choice and denigrating the thing they wanted to do is considered quite rude; both because it assumes they’re somehow ignorant of the alternative choices and thus couldn’t have made an informed decision, and because it comes across like you’re asserting your own preferences as “more valid” than theirs.
Much as with all other forms of encoding (limerick, haiku, .mp4, web packets, semaphore, all written languages, etc) the format in which a lemmy comment is left is as critical to the communication of it’s idea as the actual content of the words themselves.
Or are you asking to be able to afford to pay for a movie ticket at an overpriced cinema?
Yes.
Assuming that’s a site for free streaming of movies but sometimes I just want to go to a theater and relax. I mean, granted, I probably should have made the title “I just want to afford rent” considering I’m going to be homeless tomorrow but I didn’t think that’d be as funny.
Also there’s a ceetain point where the movie thing hits harder. Rent is really expensive and people are needing to get more roommates or live with their parents to afford the super high prices but a movie is once a month is cheap and shouldn’t have a big enough impact to hurt to bad, yet it does. It’s absolutely absurd that we live in a world where people need to count their pennies.
Also, good luck, I hope “homeless” doesn’t mean “on the street”. Keep safe my guy.
Yeah exactly. Going to a movie shouldn’t need to be something that is budgeted into place.
As for homeless meaning being on the street… yeah. Probably. I’m waiting for a few phone calls at the moment but things aren’t looking good. Also doing some other stuff on the side. Posted the memes and answering comments in between so my heart doesn’t explode from the stress. My watch has been freaking out about a high BPM for a while now. And I’m frustrated because this was fucking avoidable if someone did the thing I said to do repeatedly. But they didn’t and here we are.
Ain’t that the way :(
I’m not sure I can express it properly but I’m rootin’ for ya.
I’m rooting for an anyerusm.
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