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Soundwave on 15 February 2016
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Ka-pi96 said:
Soundwave said:
Titanic did have amazing legs that said, Titanic came out at a time when people watched movies on blurry VHS tapes and the average home TV was a 4:3 ratio 25 inches in crappy SD resolution, there was no Netflix or easy download of pirated movies online.

Today most homes have a large theatrical LCD/plasma screens of 40-50 inches, high definition, way more things to watch and do and the movie ticket issue cuts both ways ... yes tickets are more expensive today, but that also keeps a lot people away from the theater today (why pay $12 a ticket for a movie when you have a big screen at home).

Titanic would not have made that kind of money with the competitive issues TFA has to deal with, people would've seen it 1-2 times, not 3-4 times like a lot of people did.

I've never understand this. Why would people want to watch any movie more than once? I can understand if it was a few years later or something, but going to the cinema multiple times within a couple weeks or months to see the same movie more than once? I just don't get it.

You're probably too young to understand this, but in the past watching movies at home on a rinky dink small tube TV (most homes did not have a home theater setup either) pan & scanned to 4:3 was just missing the experience. 

People would go watch movies multiple times in the 70s/80s/90s etc. I saw Jurassic Park like 4 times in theaters myself and that wasn't all the uncommon. 

Society has changed these days where people are inundated with too much to watch/read/listen to/play constantly at their fingers all day and the flat panel TVs have dramatically improved the home viewing experience, that people just watch something once, maybe twice at most even if they really love it and that's it. 

The 90s was the last real decade of the "I've seen this movie 6 times at the theater!" type craze. 

Also generally speaking back in those days, there wasn't a new "big" movie every week. Like you got 2-3 "big" movies every summer maybe (ie: Terminator 2 and Robin Hood or Batman Returns and Leathal Weapon 3) so there was a tendency for the "big" movies to play longer because they were more rare. 

But nowadays evey studio wants a big tentpole movie, not just for the summer, but they want like 2-3 every summer each and even more spread out in other times of the year.