• TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    Theatres are meant to be places to watch movies, and movies are an art form. The garbage Hollywood is putting out these days is designed-by-committee bullshit. Not art. So yeah, theatres will probably die because they’re not making art anymore.

    • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      My local theatre shows some new artsie movies. We go to see them, and some are great.

      But the theatre is usually close to empty.

      I don’t think expunging the bland, mass market movies would save theaters, even if they did.

    • barooboodoo@lemmy.zip
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      3 days ago

      I’m not sure I understand this take. Are you specifically talking about Hollywood vs. indies? I would consider PTA a part of Hollywood and I thought One Battle After another was fantastic. Same for people like Zach Cregger, Yorgos Lanthimos, or Danny Boyle.

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      3 days ago

      His newest flick was excellent and it bombed, so there’s some disconnect here. I think it suffered a Shawshankian fate though.