In 2024, I’ve been at the cinema almost every week, but this year I just didn’t feel like it. I watched a few movies, for sure, but the excitement wasn’t there.
I don’t know if that’s just me, but I also think movies have gotten too long. I don’t want to sit at the cinema for 3.5 hours and watch a movie that doesn’t even have an ending (looking at you, Killers of the Flower Moon). I get my popcorn and my drink and after 2.5 hours I need to pee and having to get up is just annoying, having to endure my full bladder for another hour even more so.
It’s really weird why filmmakers have decided to make such long movies in this day and age. The Whale was under two hours and the room was flooded with tears afterwards, you don’t need to put a whole series worth of story into one single movie.
I am also tired of the endless remakes and re-remakes. Jurassic World Rebirth was terrible, just let it die already - and what the hell was that “I Know What You Did Last Summer” movie? The first one was bad already, it didn’t need a sequel.
Maybe 2026 will be better, but I don’t have a lot of hope.
I feel like the whole cinema experience has just dropped hard. People have gotten noisier in my local cinema, the prices are way up, and the movies are just as good, if not better in my living room 3 months later when it hits streaming services.
No matter how much I’m looking forward to a movie, something that hasn’t really happened this year anyway, I just can’t get myself to throw €50 at a ticket, popcorn and a soda that is mostly water, when I know I can watch it with better snacks and better soda in 3 months, practically for free.
In 2024, I’ve been at the cinema almost every week, but this year I just didn’t feel like it. I watched a few movies, for sure, but the excitement wasn’t there.
I don’t know if that’s just me, but I also think movies have gotten too long. I don’t want to sit at the cinema for 3.5 hours and watch a movie that doesn’t even have an ending (looking at you, Killers of the Flower Moon). I get my popcorn and my drink and after 2.5 hours I need to pee and having to get up is just annoying, having to endure my full bladder for another hour even more so.
It’s really weird why filmmakers have decided to make such long movies in this day and age. The Whale was under two hours and the room was flooded with tears afterwards, you don’t need to put a whole series worth of story into one single movie.
I am also tired of the endless remakes and re-remakes. Jurassic World Rebirth was terrible, just let it die already - and what the hell was that “I Know What You Did Last Summer” movie? The first one was bad already, it didn’t need a sequel.
Maybe 2026 will be better, but I don’t have a lot of hope.
I feel like the whole cinema experience has just dropped hard. People have gotten noisier in my local cinema, the prices are way up, and the movies are just as good, if not better in my living room 3 months later when it hits streaming services.
No matter how much I’m looking forward to a movie, something that hasn’t really happened this year anyway, I just can’t get myself to throw €50 at a ticket, popcorn and a soda that is mostly water, when I know I can watch it with better snacks and better soda in 3 months, practically for free.