Pretty much every studio is making their actors do these terrible promos. The D&D movie had it, too.

It’s just a commercial for Tom Cruise: whether he personally believes it or not is irrelevant.

One pre movie ad I saw had Charlize Theron enjoying a movie to show how good movies are in theaters, but... She was in a private theater entirely alone. So sure, ultra millionaire celebs with private movie theaters in their homes think that movie theaters are the best.

Yeah the last time I watched a movie in a theater was Top Gun Maverick which had a Tom Cruise intro. There was a teenager sitting near that was trying to make jokes throughout the entire movie; they were as unfunny as they were loud. The theater's great sound system doesn't really matter when you can't hear it over obnoxious audience members.

I wonder what the future of theaters looks like. I hope they realize that home is just a better way to watch movies, and start pivoting into the 'experience' aspect; start serving quality food, or add a live host, or regularly have themed events. Imagine if there was one next to a convention center - if there was e.g. an anime convention they could show a bunch of anime films to tie into it.

Those aren't the best examples, but something along those lines is the only way I see myself watching a movie at a theater again. If they give me a reason to go I'll go, but right now, there just isn't one.

83” LG OLED + decent sound system > theater IMO. The nasty theaters, high prices, rude people, etc aren’t worth it.

I'm going to be seeing Dune and if that ends with me wanting to throw things at people I will just stream or download movies for the foreseeable future. I love the theater experience as intended but apparently my expectations are way off from the reality now.

The AMC theaters around me have been running a similar “movie theaters are great” promo featuring Nicole Kidman pretty much since they reopened after the pandemic.

It’s such an annoying promo that frankly it turns me off from going to theaters. I’m happy to wait for most movies to get to streaming (and/or piracy) for the convenience of watching when I want and to skip all their self-aggrandized promoting of themselves.

Maybe Theaters should make it possible to hear the Film over Bluetooth Headphones. So you can enjoy the Big Screen and use your Noise Canceling Earphone.

That's not the theater experience he gets, though. When people like him go to the theater, they're surrounded by their colleagues jerking themselves and each other off to their performances, not a gaggle of commoners.

Note to self: Order three tomatoes from grocery store today.

Which was the style at the time.

If anything, it's been really refreshing to see. Twenty years ago, your average film bro would be calling Barbie dumb, girly, and gay, and now it's being widely acknowledged that a female-directed movie with explicitly feminine aesthetics can absolutely be quality legitimate Cinema™ and go toe-to-toe with a literal Christopher Nolan biopic about a scientist making a bomb during WWII.

They're entirely different demographics with arguably close to zero overlap. Where is the competition?

The Great Gerwig sounds like the rarely spoken of sequel to Fitzgerald's classic.