Laidbackman
All Star
In the 80's, it was cable, followed by the $1 theaters. Those $1 movies were still worth seeing, but we had to deal with those young hard heads, who thought they ran everything because they had guns, and got caught up into selling drugs during that 80's drug flood, selling for some big drug dealer. The 90's, everybody had VCRs, and we spent most of the time renting out some dumb movie we never heard off, meanwhile the drive-ins were still cool for those weekend all-night horror movies. Since the 80's, the only thing that could drag me back to the movies, were big promotions, like Jaws 2, Jurassic Park, Godzilla, King Kong, etc...
The other only thing that got me back to the theater, is when I retired. I don't think anybody in my age group go to the movies but once every two years at the most. That may change when more of them retire. But with the shape these movies been in lately, I don't really see it. When I found out about the movie clubs a few years after I retired, I went berserk. Now I see why so many dates didn't mind paying their way...because they really weren't. Anyway, things went south after the pandemic. But even before then, movies were going downhill, because you could feel them always trying to push some agenda. I think people got tired of that.
But tbh, I sorta enjoyed the two movies I saw last month. I thought "Final Destination Bloodlines" was pretty good, minus the gore...not a big fan of that at all. And "Bring Her Back", turned out to be better than I thought. Can't say I wasted my time. My next movie will probably be "Jurassic World Rebirth". As far as my last two visits, although the number of customer service reps been cut in half, the few they do have, don't seem to be trained too well. Since when does greeting you, then simply scanning your cell phone ticket, turn into some non-Black rep back off to the side, behind the counter, asking you, "You got your ticket?", while you're still 15 yards away, but close enough for them to see you have your cell phone out. Now it's either that, or some young new non-Black dude at the entrance behind the podium, who doesn't greet you, or who expects you to greet him. Then he barely acts like he wants to scan in your ticket, and tell you the auditorium your movie will be showing...something you don't need to hear anway. It's like these non-Black reps always tryna make Black men some how answer to them, so they won't feel below you...even when you're way older than them. But that comes from cats my age, letting this shyt go too long, especially down here. Do not let them do this to you, even if you're younger than them.
By the way, I don't missed it when they had all those Black customer service reps either.
The other only thing that got me back to the theater, is when I retired. I don't think anybody in my age group go to the movies but once every two years at the most. That may change when more of them retire. But with the shape these movies been in lately, I don't really see it. When I found out about the movie clubs a few years after I retired, I went berserk. Now I see why so many dates didn't mind paying their way...because they really weren't. Anyway, things went south after the pandemic. But even before then, movies were going downhill, because you could feel them always trying to push some agenda. I think people got tired of that.
But tbh, I sorta enjoyed the two movies I saw last month. I thought "Final Destination Bloodlines" was pretty good, minus the gore...not a big fan of that at all. And "Bring Her Back", turned out to be better than I thought. Can't say I wasted my time. My next movie will probably be "Jurassic World Rebirth". As far as my last two visits, although the number of customer service reps been cut in half, the few they do have, don't seem to be trained too well. Since when does greeting you, then simply scanning your cell phone ticket, turn into some non-Black rep back off to the side, behind the counter, asking you, "You got your ticket?", while you're still 15 yards away, but close enough for them to see you have your cell phone out. Now it's either that, or some young new non-Black dude at the entrance behind the podium, who doesn't greet you, or who expects you to greet him. Then he barely acts like he wants to scan in your ticket, and tell you the auditorium your movie will be showing...something you don't need to hear anway. It's like these non-Black reps always tryna make Black men some how answer to them, so they won't feel below you...even when you're way older than them. But that comes from cats my age, letting this shyt go too long, especially down here. Do not let them do this to you, even if you're younger than them.
By the way, I don't missed it when they had all those Black customer service reps either.
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