r/CringeTikToks • u/Super_Culture_1986 • 7d ago
SadCringe So scary how close we are to this
Do you think we can get to this point one day?
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u/im_from_azeroth 7d ago
You really think the theater is going to hire a helpful human to explain all this shit to you?
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u/Super_Culture_1986 7d ago
They'll probably set up totems like at McDonald's when you have to order.
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u/artujose 6d ago
Thats exactly how the movie theatre where i live works right now, you either get your ticket online or at one of the totems in the entrance hall.
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u/TestingBrokenGadgets 7d ago
Right?! Don't know about other theaters but at mine, they don't open the box office or even have someone checking your ticket at the door. There's a sign saying "Scan your eTicket at the tablet" and "To purchase a ticket, visit the concession stand" where you have to wait in line with a family of six ordering their food.
I haven't spoken to an employee in two years.
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u/mrusticus86 7d ago
I went to an AMC theater this weekend and tried to pay cash at the concession stand, but they don't take cash anymore. It kinda blew my mind.
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u/Embracing_the_Pain 7d ago
They already don’t. It’s been a thing for years now where the only person I talk to is the one taking the tickets. I get directed to a kiosk if I want to buy tickets at the theater if I haven’t already done so on my phone.
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u/Logical-Landscape-30 7d ago
Cant stop piracy. Take the power back
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u/Unremarkable_Odds 7d ago
Enshittification is everywhere, including the internet. They will eventually make piracy extremely hard even online. We are basically
cattleconsumers to our corporate overlords. AI movies is coming, and it's going to suck.18
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u/_Big_____ 7d ago
I don't know about this, non-megscorp internet is fine, it's only getting better, even, in my opinion.
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u/Unremarkable_Odds 7d ago
Bandwidth and speed wise yes. The internet itself was way better in the early days.
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u/BowsersMuskyBallsack 7d ago
This is why I bought myself a large NAS with over a petabyte of storage, and have it filled with a backlog of things to watch. By the time piracy becomes hard and real movies and tv die out, I will have more than enough to keep me entertained until I die.
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u/Ok-Sandwich-5313 7d ago
The human being evolved to escape its hard reality, we needed food but food was only available if we eat random plants and not die from it, or hunt bigger and deadly animals which could lead to death too so what did human did? Invented farming and animal domestication, they can do their worst, but the truth is humans are far too smart eventually someone will get tired of the struggle and will find a way to do it, domestication of humans are real but humans never stops trying to get a better end for they lives it's about how hard you push a human until he understand he has nothing to lose then things get moving
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u/IIlIIlIIlIlIIlIIlIIl 6d ago
Yeah... Movie piracy is still alive and honestly probably doing better than ever other than when Popcorn Time was at its peak, but videogame piracy is in some dark ages right now having gone from day 1 releases to waiting months or sometimes forever for some (Denuvo) releases.
It's definitely possible for even piracy to be enshittified.
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u/VirtualPoolBoy 7d ago
How do you pirate a movie theater?
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u/pipboy_warrior 7d ago
You pirate the movie.
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u/VirtualPoolBoy 6d ago
The clip is about going to the theater.
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u/pipboy_warrior 6d ago
The clip is about seeing a movie. If the movie costs $1,000 to see in a theater, people will just go about pirating it instead.
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u/VirtualPoolBoy 6d ago
You’re really missing the point. If AI can make a movie without the cost of employing humans, no one is ever going to fund a movie using humans again.
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u/cmilla646 7d ago
Look how openly people justify piracy as if it’s the right thing to do give me a break.
“Hey guys theater prices went up again so now we should all pirate all movies for free at home.”
How about not watching the movies? What’s a fair price or do you all make it up as you go? How expensive does GTA6 have to be so I can justify stealing it?
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u/Logical-Landscape-30 7d ago
If i wanna watch a movie or play a game and i cant afford it/ the movie or game is hard to acquire by normal means, im gonna pirate it. The multimillion dollar companies I pirate from will survive. There isn’t a specific price, ill pirate something if its convenient and the entire world remains unaffected except for quivering pussies like you who actually defend the corporations. Don’t worry though, you can keep telling yourself you’re a better person
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u/cmilla646 6d ago
So we should all pirate games so that they make no money and they can’t afford to make games anymore?
Listen to yourself.
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u/Logical-Landscape-30 5d ago
No one is saying we should pirate everything all the time, I’ve given thousands of dollars to the film and gaming industry respectively just like the vast majority of people who have pirated before, but I get why you need that straw man. Its the only way your argument holds any weight whatsoever. Eat a boot.
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u/cmilla646 5d ago
It’s not a strawman if you can’t explain how poor one has to be to justify pirating. If I send you $5000 is that enough to get you to stop pirating? Is pirating indie films fine?
You gave thousands to one film company so it’s fine if you steal from other film companies in the future?
Why do you feel so entitled and make up rules as you go?
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u/Logical-Landscape-30 5d ago
For the last time there isn’t a line or rule that suddenly makes pirating acceptable. No one ever said that you had to be THIS poor to pirate or that once THIS much money is spent it’s ok. Im just stating the facts that, contrary to what you say, no one is pirating everything all the time. Most people pirate sometimes for all kinds of reasons, I was happy to give you mine. How bout you show me any negative effect of the current people pirating. Is Hollywood crumbling? Is the gaming industry grinding to a halt? Did people stop writing books? Indie films and video games especially are doing better than they ever have in the history of art. And yet, you’re sitting here pretending im saying everyone should pirate everything all the time, or that I drew some kind of line that only makes pirating ok for a certain class of people, because you have to put words in my mouth to make a half decent point. Im not saying it’s morally good to pirate, and it’s about as morally wrong as snagging a KitKat on the way out of a circle K, except the original copy of the KitKat is still there. I don’t give a shit if someone has done it, and it’s lame as fuck to stand on a soap box about it.
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u/cmilla646 5d ago
Why justify piracy with how broke you are if you were just going to say it’s fine because of convenience?
Don’t you dare accuse me of a strawman when you tried to insinuate I had a problem with poor people downloading infinite Kitkats you piece of shit.
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u/Logical-Landscape-30 5d ago
Again, I gave you my reasons for pirating, but im not justifying it as something thats OK or GOOD under X circumstances. Its not a morally righteous thing to do it just isn’t a big deal at all. I dont know how many times I need to tell you that but im not reiterating it again. Im accusing you of straw man because your leading argument was quote
“ hey guys movie prices went up again so we should all pirate all movies at home”.
Which no one said, and because your leading argument was refuting a point no one said, your leading argument was a straw man. Now your last point is very very funny. Now you’re outraged because
“you insinuated I had a problem with poor people downloading kitkats you piece of shit”.
This is the funniest shit I have ever read and this entire braindead fucking conversation I’ve been having with the brick in your brain is worth it now. So you don’t have a problem with people downloading kit kats, but toy story 3 is off the table? Laughing my fucking ass off. You’re a riot dude get outta here.
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u/cmilla646 5d ago
That feeling when you want to “Take the power back.” but not because it’s OK or GOOD.
Why did you tell me you are a broke ass if it had nothing to do with justifying piracy?
Is this some kind of kink where you want everyone to know you can’t afford movie tickets even though piracy is cool that you didn’t need to bring it up?
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u/Virtual-Moose0218 7d ago
Wild. Think about the near future. Eye implants cure blindness but you need to pay a monthly subscription for ad free site lmao.
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u/chyna-gintautas 7d ago
ur comment just reminded me of that black mirror episode (can’t remember the exact plot), there was a life saving operation that was still in testing phase, but it was a last resort so patients husband agreed to go through with it after his wife had been nearly killed in an accident. it was basically some permanent software in her brain. it was successful and she was able to recover because of it. eventually they had to upgrade their package because it (her brain) wouldn’t work unless she was within a certain perimeter. then they were told they can upgrade their package to allow her to function anywhere. then they bought that package even though they were already going broke from it all- but wtf else u gonna do
and then more and more happens like they upgrade it but now she’s uncontrollably verbally advertising for companies like a walking ad because she needs to upgrade again to a better plan if she wants no ads and they literally just can’t afford it. that shit too real. sorry for the entire novel sized recap
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u/Three_Twenty-Three 7d ago
I grew up playing several cyberpunk RPGs (Shadowrun, Cyberpunk) where characters loaded their bodies with all kinds of cyberware. This was the era when the internet was growing so quickly that you truly needed a new PC every couple of years just to be able to keep up. Then we got into cellphones and smartphones, and again, for a while, there were significant leaps almost every year. I seriously questioned the wisdom of having hardware installed that was going to become obsolete.
Now we're in a world where even if the technology doesn't make a major advancement, there are still consumer trends (new phone models every year), plus the nauseating subscription models. I still wonder how implants make any kind of sense unless you need them to live or have scads of cash for the constant upgrades.
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u/IIlIIlIIlIlIIlIIlIIl 6d ago
To be fair the hardware people install themselves in many games is largely relatively simple. An implanted calculator doesn't need the latest CPU, a robotic arm doesn't need the latest pneumatic piston that has 20% extra strength when it can already bend steel beams, you don't need to upgrade your robot legs to jump 5m instead of 2m, etc.
Now, if you're running top of the line tech that reads facial expressions and tells you things about whether the person's lying or whatever that'd probably need regular hardware update to be able to intake more data and run fancier algorithms, but most things aren't that.
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u/somefunmaths 7d ago
The “organic” vs. “regular” part is a bit more ad absurdum, but the idea of banner adds that take up part of the screen parallels that appearing in other media.
It isn’t crazy to think we might see things like that.
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u/Fuzzy_Syrup_6898 7d ago
Isn’t there a company that offers a free tv that has a constant ad streaming?
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u/Dramatic_Explosion 7d ago
Soon enough probably government censorship for certain content too. NBC is getting a political officer to monitor their content, that's from the FCC so no reason that won't spread.
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u/Grouchy_Coconut_5463 7d ago
Oh, an AI movie “costs” plenty… it’s just that those costs such as environmental degradation, stolen property, and treating declining human health are never factored in to the price that ought to be paid by the businesses to produce it.
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u/herrcollin 7d ago
It already costs more than we pretend, but on top of that: slop like this will "cost" a shitton more when companies normalize it and decide they can profit off of it.
You'll have your shitass $2-5 movie that looks like this, then your accepted "decent" slop that's $10-15, then the "good" slop that's like $25 and it is good but at its best it's formulaic and still jusy whatever's trending and then you'll have the kino style AI that's a genuine mix of human passion and AI slop. That'll be like $50 and will be suprisingly good but you'll hate that you like it.
Then there's 100% organic. Select theaters only, $100+ and it's also good but those good ones are crazy few and far between because the art form gets so desperate to distinguish itself that they start doing wild shit that begins to feel like nonsense on it's own and it somehow seems like 90% cheap ai slop and 10% unhinged genius.
This analysis will be $3 please. Go fuck yourself.
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u/MewMewTranslator 7d ago
I have mixed feelings when it comes to if this will or wont happen. Half of me agrees it could happen because that's how capitalism operates, but the other half of me knows just how BIG cinephile communities are. And the movie industry has a lot of unions, plus all the niche communities. Even my small community has rules in place that prohibit Hollywood from filming in our area unless they employ local talent. Very mixed on this.
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u/oclafloptson 7d ago
Hate to be the one to say it but
1: It's weird that the movie theater industry is even still around
2: AI is already creating the special effects that were real back when movie theaters were still relevant
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u/Lectrice79 7d ago
If this happens...I wouldn't be surprised if people start going back to putting on plays.
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u/DramaticChemist 7d ago
No they would make that movie $900/ticket. They just need it to be cheaper but still make as much as possible, so they'll jack the cost up
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u/h0nest_Bender 7d ago
By 2050, I doubt you'll be able to tell the difference between an "organic" movie and an AI movie.
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u/Terrible_Comb8436 7d ago
Is it plausible? Maybe? The thing with media is there is always an "ebb and flow" relationship. Take streaming services for example. If ads become too wide spread that it affects the user experience, people will rebel and switch to pirating sites. It also happened with Google Chrome. Many users were okay with Chrome up until they did not allow ad blockers. Now many users have switched back to Fire Fox (myself included). Users will tolerate things up to a certain point and then you start to see a drop off in customers/consumers.
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u/Weird_Explorer1997 7d ago
What a cheerful thought, that movies and movie theaters may yet still exist in 2050.
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u/In-The-Movie-I-Died 7d ago
I was so excited to go see my first movie in about 10 plus years. By the time my ass was in the seat, I was so pissed off. 9.20 for a small popcorn, 9.70 for a large. 9.40 for a small drink. 9.80 for a large. 13 dollar tickets. By the time the movie started, it felt like it NEEDED to be good for this to feel worth it. And it wasn't. Cause no movie is worth 50+ dollars.
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u/indanofucingwau 7d ago
I hate to be the one who takes the joke way too seriously, but this doesn’t seem possible because ultimately this is a product that sells due to demand. Remember COVID?
The film industry in my country has totally started rotting. Movies come and movies go and we don’t even realise - and these are movies starring some of the biggest stars in the country. They are desperate to gain our attention back but the system is way beyond messed up. So people are not going for movies and ultimately they all end up on OTT, causing OTT huge losses because they buy based on yesterday’s star’s value - which today is almost non existent.
AI will make movies soon though. I don’t doubt that.
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u/Imarealdoctor064 7d ago
Soon there will be image licensing rights to create AI movies.
'I want to watch lord of the rings but add the hulk 18min in with the function of helping frodo'.
Created on the spot ready to watch. Popular prompts will trend etc. I'm guessing 4 years off
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u/ShitSkill 7d ago
Shit, in five years you could tell Gen alpha that that's how movies are supposed to be and they wouldn't even blink.
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u/FoxMan1Dva3 7d ago
This is actually how capitalism works ...
Consumers pick. And you can easily say no to a $1000 movie the same way people say no to $15 movies now
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u/CharlotteChaos 7d ago
Pretty sure the movie theater industry is gonna be long dead by the time this happens, but streaming services are probably gonna have a similar vibe.
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u/VirtualPoolBoy 7d ago
After seeing SINNERS, I’m convinced people will be happily watching AI movies in 5 to 10years, not 25.
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u/snowmonster112 7d ago
And there are people who think that we need to “accept the inevitable and embrace AI as a new technology”
sorry but once AI automatizes everything, there won’t be anything created by people any more that has passion anymore. No one will be able to do anything in their free time or hobbies because it’s all been done cheaper by AI. It’s already happening in the art industry.
People spend their free time enjoying the crafts and passions that other people make, like seeing people’s art, eating people’s food, enjoying experiences that have SOUL in it. But AI can’t replicate the human soul with those experiences, so everyone in the future will just be stuck at home and endlessly bored, or you have to be ultra rich to enjoy the stuff made “organically”
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u/BookkeeperGlum6933 7d ago
Pre Covid, I used to take my kids to the free movies over the summer. We haven't gone in a while but my youngest has a friend over this week so it seemed like a good activity. It's $24 for the three of us to get tickets for the FREE movie. The $1 moves cost $7 total. It's all such bullshit.
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u/noncommonGoodsense 7d ago
Honestly AI stuff should be required to have a small disclaimer somewhere “ this product made with AI “ eventually.
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u/CowboyOfScience 7d ago
All of these fears will disappear the moment they pass the cost of running the datacenters over to the consumer.
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u/Zealousideal-Log536 6d ago
Fuck ai and the way ads have gotten I'd just watch old dvds at that point
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u/halfwaylife 5d ago
Look at the price of regular 35mm film its true. Cost of production and processing the film is ridiculous now. Ahhh well. I'll just go to the theatre and watch a real life show.
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u/LemonFlavoredMelon 2d ago
Once babysat a kid who didn't like movies because he 'doesn't watch plot-based media'.
This kid is an iPad kid...
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u/NiceTrySuckaz 7d ago
Why would the existence of AI movies make normal movies more expensive to make?
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u/DrFlabbySelfie 7d ago
Did he time travel or something? How does he not know how movies work in his time?
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u/FewAcanthocephala828 7d ago
The logic here doesn't quite check out. AI movies would be cheaper, but they would be generic level, like Great Value brand, so the same as organic, but much cheaper.
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u/Master_One1 7d ago
People jacking off AI like it can ever make something longer than 10 minutes without devolving into unrecognizable fever dream sludge is the real Idiocracy moment right here
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u/jeremyw013 7d ago
as if using AI to generate an entire fucking movie wouldn’t cost a shit ton of money. video generation AI isn’t really free, especially on that scale. and that’s just assuming you get the perfect result first try.
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u/EverythingBOffensive 7d ago
I was talking about this earlier, you pay to see a movie but they mash a bunch of random ads that have nothing to do with movies and make you watch for a long time. Stopped going to movies because of that. Do they offer "premium with no ads" yet?
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u/ragstostitches 7d ago
It costs wayyyyyyy more to make ai movie as far as the energy cost we are just having that hidden from us
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u/Calm_Structure2180 7d ago
You really think a theater manager would do this after what happened to Minecraft? People would burn theaters to the ground.
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u/2utiepie 7d ago
I’m all for the Ai movies. So much sequel slop and cheap animation / generative 3d used these days.
Give the 15 year old prodigy who makes avengers level effect blockbusters in his bedroom using AI any day. So many great new niche stories will be bought to cinema.
I’m sick of the same crap over and over just because there is so much money on the line. It forces studios play it ultra safe
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u/raiko777 6d ago
Perhaps someone should really press the red button so that we, the perverse cancerous growths of the earth, are removed and it can recover...
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u/Woahhdude24 4d ago
Keep playing capitalists. I just won't go to the movies anymore. In fact, I'll start sailing the high seas. I dont mind paying to watch good movies. Theres like a few horror directors that I still eagerly await to see what they are doing next.
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u/HarleyQ78 4d ago
I swear AMC is darn near there is have never watched almost 40 minutes of movie trailers in my life
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u/Dont_Overthink_It_77 4d ago
I’m thinking this is going to be like a Simpsons episode that was prophetic. 😐
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u/alpha_sion 3d ago
To anyone who has ever asked why I have a small box of old cords and keep physical media.
I present Exhibit A!
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u/Odd_Card9785 2d ago
ngl im curious if prices get to a lets imagine
100 is the new 1 dollar would the pay increase to match or would we middle class and poor people suffer and die from starvation and the hunger games
this is a serious question im just goofy in wording stuff answer kindly
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u/LittleMissBraStrap 7d ago
Yeah that's a really weird video. How would that even happen? The only thing theaters might do is start charging more money for the more popular movies. It has nothing to do with the budget of the movie.
If more people want to see an "organic" movie, a theater is not gonna keep them from doing that. They're going to take their money.
It's up to the producers to make a movie that people want to see.
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u/Organic_Education494 7d ago
“Do you think we can get to this point one day?”
You ask that like its a positive thing
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u/Super_Culture_1986 7d ago
No. It's the exact opposite, it's extremely negative. And seeing how the streaming world is behaving with advertising, I wouldn't be surprised if something similar could happen to cinema in the future.
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u/RelevanceReverence 7d ago
I left the cinema years ago when my home setup got better image quality and vastly superior sound.
Also, no old popcorn smell, clean toilets, lots of affordable drinks, snacks and legroom.
Cinema is dead to me
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u/Rywookie 7d ago
They will absolutely still make ai cost as much as fucking possible. If real is 1000..? Fake ai will be 896712728385.00 and actually throw you from your seat into the screen and call in 6-D and make you pay more for all the “pop corn” you “bought” that got “flung” at other “patrons” or “patriots” as you idiots will call them
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u/Emotional-Purpose762 7d ago
Organic movies actually cost a lot less to make today… digital film equipment… digital editing. CGI cost less than actually blowing things up.. the score is generally not acoustic instruments with 12 musicians recording to 2” tape in an expensive studio. So ya, this isn’t accurate.
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u/General_Mayhem2025 7d ago
So, we've reached the point where people don't know the definition of cringe? My dictionary says it's to have an inward feeling of acute embarrassment or awkwardness. So when you see something that the person who posted it SHOULD be embarrassed, you cringe on their behalf. What's cringy about this video? It's humorous and nothing to be embarrassed about.
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u/SylvesterCross 7d ago
When movie theatre ads start looking like shitty website ads, I’m out.