Friday Box Office: ‘Nightmare Alley’ Bombs

Everybody has awesome home entertainment systems now. Its not like when I was growing up in the 70s and 80s and we all had 13 inch tube tv’s with horrendous resolution. I didnt get a 28 inch tube tv until the mid 90’s and I thought it was the stuff. We used to go to the movies almost every week back then. There was not an almost unlimited assortment of alternate content. If you didnt see a movie in the theaters it could be a year or more before it hit vhs and 3-5 years before it hit t.v. Tickets were cheap and so were concessions. People were well behaved. There were no cell phone lights going on and off.
The question is not why aren’t more people going to see movies in theaters but why is anybody still going to theaters at all. At one point in my life it was one of my favorite things to do and I did so for a couple decades, but now you could not pay me to go. I cant even remember when and what the last film I saw was but I am pretty sure it was a Marvel film. Admittedly I was very close to going to see the new Spiderman but I never got around to it.