The thread for movies that aren't going to get their own thread but are still in theaters

BadKen wrote:

I’m still really tempted to see Tenet. This is what the seating arrangements look like at my local theater:

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If it’s a matinee and I’m going to be one of three people in the theater, I’m having a hard time seeing a downside. Harkins is enforcing masks at all times except for in seat snacking. I have experience with this theater and they are very customer focused. They would not hesitate to eject someone for being disruptive, so I am confident they will do the same with any antimaskites.

It's showing at an are Drive-in, so Teresa and I thinking about giving it a try.

At this point, there is no way I'm spending hours inside a public space. There are too many other ways to see films. Even when I trust theaters to do the right thing, it will be awhile before I trust the public here.

I wish I could see it at a drive-in. But with only one or two other people in the theater, the risk of transmission of anything is super minimal. I face more risk shopping at Walmart every week, and I only ever go to the grocery store during the hours with the fewest customers.

Again, though, I would ONLY go if there were a maximum of three other people in the theater, AND if there was a reserved seat available far away from them, AND if I am able to verify what the Harkins chain means by "enhanced fresh air ventilation," AND if the manager of this theater can explain to me how this theater is implementing that claim.

Unless you spend 3 hours in the Walmart or the Walmart is the size of a single movie theater auditorium, I still feel like the theater is riskier. That’s just me, though. I wouldn’t do it.

Apparently you can rent out theaters for a showing, if you've got the dosh.

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As mentioned before, this isn't a Covid thread, so please try to stick to movies, thanks.

Turns out I was wrong about all the theaters in my area being closed; found an Alamo Drafthouse that was showing Bill and Ted Face the Music.

I found it genuinely funny and utterly charming, and I'm happy to have been able to laugh along with an audience. It fit the themes of the film, which is ultimately about humanity being enriched by communal experience.

Dare I say it may actually be the best of three?

Most excellent!

p.s. I ended up not watching Tenet yesterday, because as showtime approached, the limited number of seats started filling up. There really wasn't a place I could sit that was isolated enough to make me comfortable.

See, I'm not a big dummy after all!

I hope I can see it at home or better yet at my friends place (he has a gigantic 4K TV) soonly. We're kind of a mini-bubble as it were, both hermits, and about the only time either of us leaves home is to go shopping or take the dog out.

BadKen, get you an OLED TV. You won’t regret it. Makes movies (and TV) amazingly detailed and colorful. I still freak out when I can sit across the room and see the makeup on someone’s face clearly, and I’ve had the thing for nearly a year.

hbi2k wrote:

Turns out I was wrong about all the theaters in my area being closed; found an Alamo Drafthouse that was showing Bill and Ted Face the Music.

I found it genuinely funny and utterly charming, and I'm happy to have been able to laugh along with an audience. It fit the themes of the film, which is ultimately about humanity being enriched by communal experience.

Dare I say it may actually be the best of three?

I don't think it's better. Just as good as the others maybe.

The idea of the

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daughters is a good one but i find it exceptionally annoying watching others, no matter who they are, trying to act like Bill & Ted. I hated every scene they were in.

I could no more afford a decent 4K TV than I could afford a Ferrari to do my grocery shopping in.

Ferraris aren't that expensive:
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ranalin wrote:

The idea of the

Spoiler:

daughters is a good one but i find it exceptionally annoying watching others, no matter who they are, trying to act like Bill & Ted. I hated every scene they were in.

Ah, see I'm the opposite. I thought the best scene of Bogus Journey was Ted's dad and his coworker getting possessed and doofing it up in the meeting at the police Station!

I think they did a great job with Bill and Ted's kids, mixing bits of B&T's weird exaggerated 80s slang that they presumably picked up from their fathers with weird bits of exaggerated modern slang in a way that felt organic.

...Or at least, as organic as anything feels in this big silly live-action cartoon. (-:

Sorry Badken, just trying to help. It took us years to get to the point where we could. I get it. It feels all the better because we worked to afford it.

Don't be sorry. It's just my reality. I live on social security disability, and my disability is not going away. Even if I could work, I wouldn't be able to get a job that would pay for a decent home theater system.

I had a lot of good years in my career and all my money went towards caring for a sick wife.

Movies used to be my primary pressure valve, now it's video games. I watch movies on my iPad. But I hold it close to my face so it looks like a big screen.

I see creative use of duct tape in your future ;P

Well, supposedly the next gen will greatly reduce the price. I’ll believe it when I see it.

Robear wrote:

Well, supposedly the next gen will greatly reduce the price. I’ll believe it when I see it.

No price reduction but next gen will perform 2-3x better for the current price.

Mulan released on Disney+ today with a novel payment model. It will be released for all Disney+ subscribers on December 4th, or you can pay a one-time fee of $30 to add the movie to your subscription early. You don't get a digital copy of the movie to keep; you must maintain your Disney+ subscription to continue to watch it. You pay $30 to get it early, nothing more, nothing less.

I paid for it, but I don't feel good about it. A trip to the theater to see Mulan was one of the plans for my daughter's birthday back in March, and she was pretty heartbroken when everything shut down and the movie was delayed so many times. She's been asking ever since when we'd finally get to see it. It felt like covid stole her birthday party and the trip to the movie that was going to be one of her presents, so I wasn't going to say no.

But I'll be honest that I feel like I'm getting ripped off a bit. $30 is steep for what amounts to arbitrarily early access that isn't even in some way permanent. I don't even get a Movies Anywhere code for my trouble? No extra goodies? Disney+ has already felt like one of the worst streaming services in terms of value for money, and this doesn't help.

Without the rather extraordinary circumstance of a global pandemic stealing my daughter's most-desired birthday present, I wouldn't give them my money.

Ah, thanks Ranalin, turns out I misread the article on QD-OLED. Should be interesting when it hits.

Clock, for what it's worth, I feel exactly as you do about Disney's move, and I would have done exactly as you did if it was my daughter who was heartbroken about not seeing it.

$30 is a stupendous rip-off for watching a movie 3 months early, and a fricking steal to add some magic back into our kids lives for a couple hours on their birthday.

New Bill & Ted is way better than it has any right to be.

And a breath of good natured fresh air that's really valuable in 2020.

My friend's hilarious NSFW review...

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This movie is like good anal.

If you can relax and really accept what's happening, you're going to have a good time.

Get uptight about it, and it just hurts.

Latest episode of Bullseye (NPR pop culture interview show and podcast) is with Alex Winter of Bill & Ted and is really interesting. They talk a lot about Bill and Ted 3, but also his docuseries about child actors.

Enjoyed B&T3 an enjoyable evening, not nearly as much as the other two but I think I have youth glasses for them. This is a fun ride of a story I like. Don't love it all but like they say above, relax and it's enjoyable haha.

If I could have more of Dennis any day though?

TRAIN TO BUSAN 2 is bad, it is a very very bad. The movie is a hour to long maybe more. Most of it makes no sense. It has none of the heart or freshness of the first movie. The movie had fun moments but wasn't fun to watch. At moments I was like where are the zombies. At other times I was like is this a video game, in a bad way. Then I was like did this turn into mad max. Yes, yes it did turn into mad max and no not in a good way. The movie takes place four years later and people act like it is day one of the zombie outbreak. Hey look a dead body. I'll just give it a kiss because there is no way it could come to life and bite me.

If you want more train to busan watch the anime.

I watched Feels Good Man the other night and it is really, really good. It follows the creator of Pepe the Frog as he wrestles with losing control over his work and his attempts to counteract the evils it has come to symbolize.

Not sure that Peacock needs its own thread so I'll throw this here. My wife and I watched the second Psych movie, "Lassie Come Home". It's a nice tribute to Timothy Omundson and there are some amusing moments, but it felt badly written. And we were bummed that there wasn't a single "Suck It!" in the entire movie.

James Bond has been delayed to next year, and Black Widow was delayed a couple weeks ago. Dune, Soul, and Wonder Woman are allegedly still releasing this year, but I wouldn't count on it.

Neither, apparently, is Regal Cinemas. There are reports that as early as next week, Regal will be closing all their locations in the US and UK.

I'm not entirely surprised. Even in states where cinemas are open, people aren't showing up. The last I looked, new releases were pulling in just a couple hundred dollars per screen per day. That's what? Fifteen tickets per day? You can't sustain a big theater on that.

Interesting. I was wondering how things were going after Tenet launched with the tag line “Big movies are back in theaters”.

LTTP

We paid for Mulan. This is the way I’ve wanted to watch new release movies since before flat screens. The experience was exactly what I expected it to be. I would have paid more. Shhhhhhh. Don’t tell Disney.

If we had gone to the theater as a family to watch it, we would have paid over $100.00 USD for an inconvenient experience.

Oh. Totally off topic. Do you remember 3D TVs. I bet you forgot.