You may of course discuss:

• The most recent film you watched.
• The quality of films and/or the industry in general.
• What draws / repels you from theatres and/or community film-watching.
• Twizzlers.

The last movie I saw at the cinema was Independence Day Resurgence - I specifically took my mum to see it, as she was a huuuuge fan of the original, and Roland Emmerich in general.

When I say 'was', I don't mean to imply that she's dead or anything. She's just not a fan of Independence Day, Roland Emmerich, or the cinema anymore, after that.

@bastardsheep #cinemastodon can always be added to a response in a thread with a note to look to the originating toot. Which I've now done.

I believe if I edit my poll toot I'll lose the votes accrued to date, which would be annoying. I'll experiment to see if that's the case on another poll.

@mees Overpriced snacks / candy / popcorn / drinks in general. Concession sales are the key mechanism by which most US theatres make any profit.

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Reasons Why Movie Theater Food Is So Expensive

While we'd never condone lining your pockets and purses with dollar store candy and snacks before heading to a movie, it can be pretty tempting to do exactly that once you take a look at the high menu prices for movie theater food.

^{Ian Mikrut (Mashed)}

@bastardsheep Test poll, FYI:

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"The Martian", 2015.

Before that, "Skyfall".

It's been a dry spell.

@bastardsheep As for hashtags: most people won't follow up. But some may. And given that hashtags are still the Fediverse's principle search/discovery mechanism, this is one of the few ways people can stumble across content.

Even if it's only Future Me trying to find things.

I've had hashtags help greatly in search, as in a recent SciFi short story question which received the precisely correct response in under three hours: toot.cat/@dredmorbius/11084594…

The person who answered doesn't follow me and all but certainly saw the hashtag instead.

Last film I saw in a theatre was Captain Underpants. My daughter and I had just finished the books. They're weren't a huge deal in the UK, we'd been gifted them by US cousins. We wore our CU t-shirts and laughed like drains at all the in-jokes.

But honestly, the price of tickets, COVID, streaming and the fact we've got a 60" TV at home means I'll happily never go back. I just don't see the point. Unless and until CU2 comes out.

My movie theatre trip last Friday was an exception: It was the premiere of the new Aki Kaurismäki movie. His are still those kind of films that I just need to see in a proper cinema. And in premiere, if possible.

But before that…. whheee… can’t even remember, tbh.

Most recent film-theatre date survey results

Usual caveats on selection and all that, but given my presumption was that relatively few people are regular movie-goers, results seem to bear this out.

54% report seeing a film in a theatre within the past year. That leaves 46% at more than a year ago.

I'd like to see what the impact of Covid-19 has been based on more robust methodology. Though I suspect there's been something of a long-term secular trend, based on costs, repetitive and childish plots, improved television and streaming options (despite not watching broadcast/cable television, I'll allow that there've been some excellent series out, and have caught a few of those on video release).

@lordbowlich My brain took a moment to parse N95 as something other than a new film rating along the lines of NC-17. And was having difficulty rationalising the film-rating interpretation.

Though on second thought, rating film screenings as N95 might make some sense in our New Endemic Age.