Yarr! I be a pirate...

[wolf]

And you don't miss anything when you go to the bathroom or to get more snacks.

My mother tells me, the older you get, the more important the pause button becomes.

Actually, TVs are getting better and better to the point where very soon the theater will become obsolete.

[Articrono]

Originally Posted by wolf

Actually, TVs are getting better and better to the point where very soon the theater will become obsolete.

This will never happen. Movie theaters are, as has been stated, about buying overpriced concessions, but also about the experience. I don't know what the local theaters are like in your neck of the woods, but I go to a chain called Century (used to work there, in fact). They have stadium-style seating (each row is several feet higher than the one below it, so no fatheads block your view) and they are fully THX certified. It's an amazing experience to watch armies of orcs and elves slaughtering each other on a 30x70 foot screen, one that can't be replicated no matter how much money you spend on your projection screen, movie room, and kickass sound system.

That said, working at the theater, I'd say 90% of the movies that came out while I was there were complete shit. Movies that are made for a "target audience" instead of made because the writer/director wanted to make a great movie plague the industry. In addition to "XXX III -- Three Times The Xtreme Product Placement", there's "Cute Teenage Love Story: The Tale of Target Audience Female 12-15", "It's Hot Right Now: Whatever The Other Guys are Making" (Zombie flicks, anyone?) and many more I'm not thinking of. The industry may become so flooded with crap that it won't be worth ever seeing a movie anymore, but it won't go under.