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Are Cinemas_Theaters still Alive in your Area?
SiliconWizard:
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coppice:
--- Quote from: jonovid on July 25, 2023, 06:04:30 pm ---the strikes are like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. the AI genie is out of the bottle.
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Many strikes are by workers who no longer have any power, thrashing around in the dying embers of their industry.
Zero999:
--- Quote from: tom66 on July 25, 2023, 02:34:57 pm ---
--- Quote from: Zero999 on July 25, 2023, 01:29:40 pm ---It's easier to predict election results than to gauge public opinion on specific issues, such Brexit, which they failed to predict.
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Dunno about "failed to predict". Obviously the Cameron ministry thought they'd get away with it and kill off UKIP in the process with a solid Remain win, but pretty quickly the polling around the issue showed it was highly divisive:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_United_Kingdom_European_Union_membership_referendum#/media/File:UK_EU_referendum_polling.svg
In the end, it was a swing of a few percent - 48% to 52%. Well within margin of error for the polls and you could see Leave gaining traction on the day towards the referendum as the big faces behind Leave pushed hard. Remain floundered due to lack of cohesive vision and divisiveness in the major lefty party Labour, and the Tories were also divided quite badly. This made it easier for Leave to gain the support of the electorate.
Ironically, Farage said that if it went "Leave 48% and Remain 52%" it would be grounds for a second referendum, and then opposed one when it went near-exactly the other way in his favour (52% Leave 48% Remain). :-DD
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The losing side will always want a second referendum. Heck, I was even in favour of it at the start, until I realised it was a silly idea.
--- Quote ---It's really going great, I try not to think about how stupid the whole situation has been. Though admittedly, it could have gone worse - we've ended up with an outcome which hasn't been catastrophic, but it's hard to see any great benefits either.
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Our current problems are down to other factors, but it's off-topic and against the rules.
--- Quote ---Anyway, this is about cinemas, not so much politics. Around here, they're still quite packed, and if it was truly as bad as some have claimed, there'd be no one there and they'd be going out of business. Some chains are struggling, but usually due to high debt racked up over COVID, rather than any lack of business (which is why Cineworld UK is trying to restructure rather than sell off.)
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It is political. Holywood have made it so, by pushing their political views on everyone. This appears to be a problem with the mainstream media in many countries. I only brought up Brexit, not to discuss it, but because it highlights the difference between the views of the mainstream media and general public.
I don't know how cinemas are doing where I live. It's just the fact that profits are down for Holywood. It might not have much to do with cinema theatres themselves, because there are other sources of revenue.
--- Quote from: coppice on July 25, 2023, 03:51:53 pm ---
--- Quote from: Zero999 on July 25, 2023, 01:29:40 pm ---It's easier to predict election results than to gauge public opinion on specific issues, such Brexit, which they failed to predict.
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I don't think its that hard to predict any of these things (unless they are actually super close), but you need to step outside your echo chamber to do it. A lot of people find that very hard to do, especially as societies are becoming more polarised.
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I do step out of my echo chamber, hence why I read the Guardian and Sun, not just the Telegraph and Daily Mail. It's just my observation the comments on YouTube and MSN, tend to be a bit right-leaning. Again, I see this as a sign of the gulf between the MSM and ordinary person.
tom66:
--- Quote from: Zero999 on July 26, 2023, 07:18:53 pm ---
--- Quote ---Anyway, this is about cinemas, not so much politics. Around here, they're still quite packed, and if it was truly as bad as some have claimed, there'd be no one there and they'd be going out of business. Some chains are struggling, but usually due to high debt racked up over COVID, rather than any lack of business (which is why Cineworld UK is trying to restructure rather than sell off.)
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It is political. Holywood have made it so, by pushing their political views on everyone. This appears to be a problem with the mainstream media in many countries. I only brought up Brexit, not to discuss it, but because it highlights the difference between the views of the mainstream media and general public.
I don't know how cinemas are doing where I live. It's just the fact that profits are down for Holywood. It might not have much to do with cinema theatres themselves, because there are other sources of revenue.
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Your assessment is that people aren't going to cinemas as much because of politics, but the left-wing politics of Hollywood has been a thing for decades and box office sales, at least pre-pandemic, were never so high. So this isn't borne out in the data.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/271856/global-box-office-revenue/
Avatar 2 broke $2.3 billion at the box office. For a sequel to an epic, that's bloody amazing. It's full of the stuff you love to hate, the series is based on the idea of endangered peoples and animals being extinguished by careless and malicious humans, if that's not political I don't know what is. I personally went to see it. Plot was meh, but the visuals were absolutely outstanding.
We'll need to wait till the end of 2023, as that is the first year where there were virtually no restrictions on any social activity in any country, and people felt generally comfortable in busy auditoriums again, to see for sure. But projections suggest 2023 based on present results will have higher takings than 2019.
coppice:
--- Quote from: tom66 on July 26, 2023, 09:35:28 pm ---Avatar 2 broke $2.3 billion at the box office. For a sequel to an epic, that's bloody amazing.
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Sequels to popular movies almost always make considerably more than the original, even when the sequel is widely considered to suck.
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