Seán Moncrieff: Our multiscreen cinemas feel like they were built for a previous era and that was nearly 20 years ago
Our multiscreen cinemas feel like they were built for a previous era and that was nearly 20 years ago
Cinemas, at least on rainy Sunday afternoons, have a slightly gloomy, dilapidated air. They feel abandoned: built for large crowds that have long since gone elsewhere. The few staff who are there seem to be tasked with selling nachos and pick-and-mix. The film seems additional to all this: just a comfortable place to eat your snacks. I don’t know if it is like this on any other day. Perhaps on a Friday night, it’s packed. But I don’t know.
There are probably many reasons for that; none of them to do with an improvement in our weather. The year 2008 was the crash, then in the 2010s, streaming began in earnest: prompting many to reason that paying for a cinema ticket was a waste, given that the same film would pop up on their subscription service six months later. In effect, they’d paid to see it already. Then we had the pandemic, and cinema attendance in Ireland and worldwide has not returned to pre-pandemic levels.
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