With 5,700 Movie Screens Shut Down and the Box Office in a Slump, Theaters Are Still Waiting for a Post-Pandemic Comeback

Then the box offices shouldn't have played so fast and loose with investor cash over the past 5 years manipulating its stock price. I used to love going to the movies, not so much anymore, too expensive, dirty and the food options have gotten worse. If I wanted cheap carnival food, ill just go and have a corn dog there next to a waste barrel full of vomit instead of sticky floors and weird smelling chairs in a dark dirty theater.

Add to everything that people said here the fact that most movies are basically shit

Our city added a B&B theater and I'd probably go to it if they offered a subscription service that competed with AMC's A List. I love that they have stuff like pickleball and arcade games. I remember the AMC I used to go to had arcade games, pinball, air hockey, and I think even a pool table somewhere. I still go to that AMC nearly twenty years later and they have maybe a few claw machines and the theater is much more run down than it used to be overall.

I think at some point, it may just become untenable for these giant 10-25 screen multiplexes to continue and the theater industry will revert back to smaller 1-5 screen theaters with bars and/or additional entertainment in the front area.

I'll also add that I don't think the endless dooming about how there are no good movies is actually true. I go to 75+ movies in the theater a year and I'd say 90% of the ones I see are at least decent. There's always gonna be some stinkers out there though.

My guess is that this is because, honestly, there haven't been all that many great movies coming out as of late.

If movie theaters installed electric car chargers and made a package deal for movies and charging they would have plenty of customers.

The last movie I saw in theaters was Godzilla x Kong, the next will be Superman. Not interested in paying $50 to see anything else.