Maybe because they are finally making good movies again? Up to the mid 2010s you could just decide to go to the movies and there would at least be one movie you wanted to watch. Last five years have been there is a movie a month at most.
Didn't read because paywall, but why is everything always about gerational preference shifts?
Why can't it be the much simpler explanation: movies have sucked, so no one went to see them? Recently good movies came out, so ... more people are going to the theater.
Previous discussion (3 days ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49266879
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I think it is an interesting story.
Maybe because they are finally making good movies again? Up to the mid 2010s you could just decide to go to the movies and there would at least be one movie you wanted to watch. Last five years have been there is a movie a month at most.
Didn't read because paywall, but why is everything always about gerational preference shifts?
Why can't it be the much simpler explanation: movies have sucked, so no one went to see them? Recently good movies came out, so ... more people are going to the theater.
It isn't. It's about convicting generational groups, particularly the younger ones that don't know any better, that they have specific preferences.
People are tribal, and these days the tribes seem to be generational