Comment Re:The theater is dead. (Score 1) 924
I mean, other than for a midnight premiere, does anyone actually go to the movies anymore?
I rarely go to the theater to see a single movie, but I very often visit themed (e. g. Japanese / splatter / Japanese splatter / etc.) film festivals where you can watch five or six movies a day, over a period of one or two weeks. These offer value that I don't find elsewhere. The movies are not going to run in town later. They often wouldn't even be released on DVD in my area, meaning I would have to import them, which could mean $50 each. Some of them later run on subscription TV but you can't be sure of that in advance. Streaming might be an option someday, but my country really has a lot of catching up to do there.
That said, people using their phone is pretty much a non-issue there. The more common nuisance are glass beer bottles tipping over, which is unfortunate if your bag was standing next to them on the floor. But really this can happen to anybody, you can't be mad at them.
But yeah, I'm not sure about the future of the mainstream movie theater industry either. 3D might be its swan song.