James Cameron zum bevorstehenden Zusammenschluss von Netflix und Warner Bros.: „Ich glaube zufällig, dass das Kinoerlebnis etwas Heiliges hat und dass die Leichtigkeit und der breite Zugang von Streaming nicht die vollständige Antwort sind. Man kann Kinofilme nicht einfach aus der Welt schaffen, und ich werde dagegen bleiben.“

I don’t think he’s wrong but we always hear this argument that it’s better at the theater. And I think a lot of us prefer to go to the theater but everything is getting shittier.

In theaters were never this place that people said was a perfect experience. It was either people were talking too much, the floors were sticky, the chairs were uncomfortable, the food was too expensive… The thing was the entertainment value we got from going to the movies outweighed that. And we knew that it was going to be a long time before we could see the movie before it came out on video so there was that extra incentive.

Theaters didn’t care. They raised prices and they did nothing to improve the experience. It’s the same story throughout our entire country. Probably the whole world. The rich was always going to shave corners and make us put up with bullshit and then when we stop they start crying a river.

This isn’t our fucking fault. This is the free market. Theaters are suffering because we don’t think that it’s worth it and let’s not let the big studios off the hook who are demanding their movies give more of the ticket sales for a longer period of time.