Theaters don’t need to reinvent the experience here. It doesn’t need to be a concert. Enforce phone use, maintain your projectors, bring back honest theatrical windows and hire a staff who cares about it. That’s all. I don’t need a four course meal, props, special guests or gimmicks. Give us movies.

AI won’t replace art, it will replace clipart. It won’t replace music, it will replace muzak. Cheap, ubiquitous, low quality… McDonalds exists but it didn’t replace proper chefs, from Michelin star pros to normies who
Cook Pretty Good at home.