2. Media giants like Disney, Warner & Netflix clearly want streaming to become the dominant mode of experiencing movies, with theater-going reduced to being one subsidiary "platform" among many. There's also the hope of replacing movie chains with new studio run chains.
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3. The war on movie theaters is being conducted on many fronts. There's also Disney making life hard for rep theaters by not allowing them access to its vast catalogue (which now includes Fox). The goal is to squeeze out alternative venues.
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4. Well, what's wrong with movie theaters dying off or becoming secondary? Isn't the main thing the content of the movies? Why not let people enjoy movies on home network, on laptops, on cell phones?
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5. Like McLuhan, I think the media is the message: that the central movie going experience of immersive viewing with strangers is very much what movies are: it's the experience of being in a collective waking dream.
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@aoscott,@ManohlaDargis,@JoSchneller, the late P. Kael, & the late M. Farber, I try to lay out the case for theatrical movie going:https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/movies-streaming-covid-theatres/ …Show this thread
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Disaster capitalism at its finest!
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I'm glad you two are on the case here, would've thought people weren't going to theaters, turns out you're right Virus is a HOAX used by CAPITALISTS keeping people LOCKED DOWN and OUT OF THEATERS
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Disaster capitalism 101: Never let a good crisis go to waste.
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It seems like just good business planning.
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oh no won't someone think of the giant movie chains who are ruthlessly exploitative of low wage workers to survive
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