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Movies were more enjoyable. Now everyone has either spoiled the movie ahead of you, bitched online about how awful it was, analyzed the trailer and figured out
by joezydeco 11y ago
Movies were more enjoyable.
Now everyone has either spoiled the movie ahead of you, bitched online about how awful it was, analyzed the trailer and figured out all the surprises (or the trailer itself gave it away), or we're all tracking the weekend box office returns to confirm our choice of movie as the Winning Choice or as The Bomb That You Shouldn't See (But Will Be A Cult Classic in Twenty Years When It's Given a Chance)
Movies also stayed in the theaters longer. Remember when the original run of Star Wars lasted almost an entire year?
- DrScump 11y agoPlus the absence of internet-enabled devices (phones, etc.) in theaters. I recall when "The Godfather" and "Rocky" were in first-run theaters for at least a year. The Syufy theaters had a quarter-page print ad for one or more films every single day.