I saw One Battle After Another in the Cinema. It’s still how movies are delivered for now.
I accept that the future of “cinema” is second screen content we can play in the background while looking at our phones, or maybe it’s 30 second tiktocks of people reacting to someone else’s 30 second tiktocks. I’m not sure any of us should rush to embrace it.
Enshitification is our future, we’ve become lab rats with a dopamine button, but it’s not something we should be happy about.
And people aren’t watching at home. They’re watching their phone. They’re watching their kids. They getting up to grab snacks. They’re taking a call, theyre taking a shit.
Don’t get me wrong I’m as guilty of this as anybody. The problem and the enshitification isn’t because of the delivery system itself. It’s because the studios understand that you got stuff going on. You’re distracted.
So the content they produce is catered to that. Nothing too complex nothing too visually demanding. Show and Tell replaces show don’t tell. They’ll still make an award season movie here and there, but the general trend will be making background noise not films.
And then there are the old farts that still play movies from Blu-ray disks. The picture quality is better and you have more control over the experience. And I’d argue that the picture on my OLED screen is better than what I’ve seen in most cinemas. And you don’t have any rude idiots to contend with and the disk costs less than two cinema tickets and a bowl of popcorn.
Honest question not intended to be antagonistic in any way. Have you not had an enjoyable communal experience watching a movie?
I took my kids to watch K-pop Demon Hunters at a theater. They already had that movie on loop for 2 months in my house. But hearing a hundred kids sing along was one of the coolest movie experiences ever. Hearing 100 people gasp or jump or laugh or cheer and being part of it just isnt an experience that can be recreated by an OLED.
I have had such experiences. But as a grumpy old fart without children, these are harder to come by. If there was any chance of that, I’d gladly go to the cinema.
I saw One Battle After Another in the Cinema. It’s still how movies are delivered for now.
I accept that the future of “cinema” is second screen content we can play in the background while looking at our phones, or maybe it’s 30 second tiktocks of people reacting to someone else’s 30 second tiktocks. I’m not sure any of us should rush to embrace it.
Enshitification is our future, we’ve become lab rats with a dopamine button, but it’s not something we should be happy about.
I also saw One Battle After Another in the cinema.
Totally worth it. I still go to watch 5-10 movies a year.
I’m going to Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair this weekend. I’m so psyched.
So you saw one movie in the cinema this year?
The cinema is how movies are delivered too a tiny fraction of the viewership. The vast majority of consumers stream at home on all types of devices.
Also seeing movies at home is the exact opposite of Enshittification
I saw a few. But I specifically saw this one.
And people aren’t watching at home. They’re watching their phone. They’re watching their kids. They getting up to grab snacks. They’re taking a call, theyre taking a shit.
Don’t get me wrong I’m as guilty of this as anybody. The problem and the enshitification isn’t because of the delivery system itself. It’s because the studios understand that you got stuff going on. You’re distracted.
So the content they produce is catered to that. Nothing too complex nothing too visually demanding. Show and Tell replaces show don’t tell. They’ll still make an award season movie here and there, but the general trend will be making background noise not films.
And then there are the old farts that still play movies from Blu-ray disks. The picture quality is better and you have more control over the experience. And I’d argue that the picture on my OLED screen is better than what I’ve seen in most cinemas. And you don’t have any rude idiots to contend with and the disk costs less than two cinema tickets and a bowl of popcorn.
Honest question not intended to be antagonistic in any way. Have you not had an enjoyable communal experience watching a movie?
I took my kids to watch K-pop Demon Hunters at a theater. They already had that movie on loop for 2 months in my house. But hearing a hundred kids sing along was one of the coolest movie experiences ever. Hearing 100 people gasp or jump or laugh or cheer and being part of it just isnt an experience that can be recreated by an OLED.
I have had such experiences. But as a grumpy old fart without children, these are harder to come by. If there was any chance of that, I’d gladly go to the cinema.
Absolutely!
I love my OLED as well and before that my home Plasma TV was better than theaters.
As far as viewing experiences nothing beat my home set up.