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Favorite recurring character? (Select 4)

  • Jack / AIDSMobdy

    Votes: 257 24.0%

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    Votes: 77 7.2%

  • Colin (Canadian #1)

    Votes: 460 42.9%

  • Jim (Canadian #2)

    Votes: 230 21.4%

  • Tim

    Votes: 386 36.0%

  • Len Kabasinski

    Votes: 208 19.4%

  • Freddie Williams

    Votes: 274 25.5%

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    Votes: 27 2.5%

  • Macaulay Culkin

    Votes: 541 50.4%

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    Votes: 64 6.0%
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Flexo said:
Man, at least if I'm paying exorbitant ticket prices I'm getting those recliner seats with the food tray, cup holder, and are nearly 1 whole moviebob wide.
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We used to have a old school cinerama type place with beer on tap and chocolate popcorn but covid and bad management killed it.

All that's left now is said falling apart theater, the fancy one ironically across the street that probably does cost a real $100 and not hyperbole dollars (they got the 4D seats) and then two hipster theaters.

And man, you've never had a drunken Halloween experience seeing The Descent on a whim, only to learn you've walked into the social justice movie theater where the owner comes out to discuss how sexist horror movies are.
 
why does every fucking cunt feel the need to be a social fucking activist these days "muh elder abuse" shut the fuck up why can't you just get right into the shit talking the movies why do these cunts feel the need to address the faggots who whine endlessly about fucking everything, it's not like they have anything to add onto the topic anyway it's always just "it's icky and bad and no good" just shut the fuck up stop pretending like you give a shit you fucking clown

god I hate modern media, and the media surrounding modern media
 
Flexo said:
Man, at least if I'm paying exorbitant ticket prices I'm getting those recliner seats with the food tray, cup holder, and are nearly 1 whole moviebob wide.
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I really don't understand why theater chains are so checked out as businesses. The old model of paying to see one movie with ads just doesn't work that well for the chain. What they should be doing is figuring out how to get people to subscribe to their movie passes instead of selling tickets, but I'm looking at Regal's reward membership and $18 a month is really aggressive pricing for the casual movie-goer that sees one, maybe two blockbusters in a year. It really should be competing with streaming services' pricing+10% concessions.
 
Flexo said:
Wait, I always suspected it because... *points at show* but this was confirmed?
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Drag-on Knight 91873 said:
I really don't understand why theater chains are so checked out as businesses. The old model of paying to see one movie with ads just doesn't work that well for the chain. What they should be doing is figuring out how to get people to subscribe to their movie passes instead of selling tickets, but I'm looking at Regal's reward membership and $18 a month is really aggressive pricing for the casual movie-goer that sees one, maybe two blockbusters in a year. It really should be competing with streaming services' pricing+10% concessions.
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You'll never get anyone to pay more than $10 a month or a chain to sell for $5, especially today. They should make like theme parks and price it as a yearly thing, ~$60 a year plus a big concessions discount. No one is going to pay more than streaming services for the opposite of convenience. I think a proper solution would be to downsize the seating in favour of a luxury experience. Never cared for it until I was dragged along for a date night, but I loved having squid, nachos, sliders and drinks on a couch bigger than a bed. $75 a head is pricey, but the food was actually really nice and you get a show. Theatres are just stuck in 2005.
 
Drag-on Knight 91873 said:
I really don't understand why theater chains are so checked out as businesses. The old model of paying to see one movie with ads just doesn't work that well for the chain. What they should be doing is figuring out how to get people to subscribe to their movie passes instead of selling tickets, but I'm looking at Regal's reward membership and $18 a month is really aggressive pricing for the casual movie-goer that sees one, maybe two blockbusters in a year. It really should be competing with streaming services' pricing+10% concessions.
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Yeah, I don't see how that's a good value for the consumer unless you live right next door to the theater. As we've seen from the RLM crew, there's a definite dampening effect that actually needing to travel to the theater has on many people's entertainment decisions, especially with gas prices being how they are. Watching as many movies as you want in a month is great and all, but less so if you have to spend a half hour to an hour round trip to view each one. And if there aren't more than a couple movies each month you care to see, the value goes down even more.

Looking at my own theaters, one just has a free rewards program, one charges $10/year for concession discounts and reward points, and one charges $10/month but includes a free movie ticket every month (that doesn't expire) on top of concession discounts and rewards. All of those are much less of a ripoff than that Regal program, assuming that you aren't going to the movies more than twice a month; the latter even has 20% concession discounts as opposed to Regal's 10%!

I will say this, though: I'm 100% in agreement with @Flexo up there, those reclining seats are so wonderful, and I'm lucky that all of my local theaters have them. On rare occasions I've had to go to different theaters farther afield that still have the old narrow chairs with the fold-down seats. And man, I'm spoiled, it feels so weird to not be able to put your feet up without having to put them on the seatback in front of you. Same with reserved seating: no longer do I have to wonder if I'll get a good seat or have a large enough block of seats for everyone in the group to sit together, I can check it all out before I even leave the house. Positive changes like that definitely keep me coming back to the theater. Now if we could just get some more movies I actually want to see...
 
This show looks like a fucking trainwreck. I love Q, and the fact they roped him into this thing is just depressing.

Also Mike's senile Picard impression near the end was hilarious.
 
Amazing, it looks like they're trying to throw literally every single liberal talking point at the wall at once. Vaccine chips are part of our utopian future (please ignore that we rewrote season one of picard to show the future as being a bigoted angry shithole), illegal immigration, environmentalism, fascist (right wing only!) boogieman. Surely in a show with phasers that disintegrate people they wont also do guns r bad?

Also I don't want to rain on Rich and Mike's glorious nostalgia for the past, but some of those star trek episodes from way back when were actually quite preachy. Granted no where near as bad as today, and they're right that they did a better job of humanising the other side, but some still managed to be on the nose.
 
I have no history with Star Trek, but holy shit I can't imagine how miserable being a Star Trek fan must be right now.
 
Chin of Campbell said:
I have no history with Star Trek, but holy shit I can't imagine how miserable being a Star Trek fan must be right now.
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It's kind of like watching your wife cheat on you with an ugly dyke while she insists she still loves you and you should buy her some jewelry for your anniversary.
 
ditto said:
If the climax involves the 2024 election I'm going to melt down all my Star Trek stuff in acetone.
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Picard Season 2 Finale that Crosses over with Discovery

"Picard, it is me...Space Nigger Jesus, I have come from the future with The Queen of the Space Niggers to stop the horrible timeline we saw, which began when The Federation Cloned Donald Literally Hitler Trump and he got Elected to President of the Federation."
 
I know this isnt the star trek thread but I always thought a neat way to handle the "franchise was to do something like a anthology show.

Or given the shape of modern tv/streaming make like a few sets of 13 episode mini series. like have a setting on a ship, a space station, and a planet. Then just do something fun like have characters from different settings cross paths or see events from other angles etc.

Also I guess the boys are feeling good they ve been pumping out the videos lately.

Also any red letter media experts care to explain why watching these mid westerners talk about movies is entertaining?
 
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