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The Mario Bros movie is nominally the 24th highest grossing film of all time. Your experience may not have been representative.

• toast0 3y ago
  It's also been out for a month, and they went to it on the last day it was playing (at their particular theater), which is usually going to be a wednesday or thursday. Cinema attendance is pretty low mid week. At my local cinema, I have a 75% chance of a private showing if I go to a wednesday showing in the first week; but a larger nearby chain has more screens and larger attendence. I try to go to the local one if I go, because I would like it to stay in business, but they don't carry all the movies. And I just put in a home theater, so it's nice to use that when I can.
  • HeyLaughingBoy 3y ago
    Oh, I fully expected attendance to be low at 4:30PM on a Wednesday. What I didn't expect was to be the only two people watching it.
    • ElevenLathe 3y ago
      This has been my experience my whole life, growing up in a midsize city. Go to a matinee on a Wednesday and you are basically guaranteed to be the only ones there. It was less common in Austin but would still happen about half the time even pre-Covid.