What do you think the movie-going experience will be like 50 years from now? For example, will people still go to cinemas to see movies?
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masterkun05
People will watch all movies at home on giant screens or on giant images projected into mid air. Movies will be ordered or purchased online. In the future more and more leisure activities will be done in the home. More and more of people lives will take place in cyberspace in a virtual world. People will avoid venturing outside as much as possible.
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my2sense
Some sort of 3D virtual reality thing right in the home. I was thinking like Vanilla Sky, the lucid dream. That's if WW3 does not happen. Movies may die out and people might be at Starbucks in space.... who knows. I mean if you showed Avatar to people in 1960, they would freak out.
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whiskeysour
???? Movie Theaters will never go out of style or nor completely shut down. Why ? Because of Hollywood and all the money to be made by producers, directors and actors.
Movie Cinema companies make so much money, I don't think it will shut down.
I think dvd's will be a " dinosaur " soon. Downloads are the future for awhile.
3D will kick on soon plus holograms and other things. Plus, smell o vision. Youu can actually smell what your watching. I think that will be introduced in 50 years or less.
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ronaldk
I think nothing will change as our sensory perceptions are part of our biology, thus we enjoy loud sound, good visuals and comfortable sitting environment in a social setting with others. I personally have no interest in the headache that accompanies 3D, seems like such a waste of time/energy/money.
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american_bengoshi
I haven't been to a movie theater in years. Can't stand paying for overpriced tickets, food/drinks and having to deal with rude and disrespectful people who insist of talking and using their cell phones, crying babies, etc. I hope the movie-going experience in the very near future will be 100% within the confines of our own homes.
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american_bengoshi
Downloads are the present for many people, not the future (if you know what I mean). :)
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smodgy
I used to love the cinema experience of big screens and surround sound since our tv boxes only a few years ago were small and of poor quality. Now with huge hdtv and surround systems becoming more and more the norm in the home who needs the cinema?
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kokorocloud
Man, I hope they don't go away completely. Going to the movies is all about the experience more than the actual film for me, so if they went away, I would be rather sad. All of that said, it is way too expensive. If I do go, I always try to make the most out of it. And usually it's with other people.
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Damien15
I think more of a matrix style experience, bypassing natural senses and being plugged upto a machine to fool the brain to believe you're somewhere else. That can't be compared to 3D or any hologram imaging. And it should be totally possible, right after they decode the messages our eyes, ears or other senses sends to our brains.
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Damien15
They said the same thing when VCR's came out. Again when DVD's came out. But the fact is, going to cinema is different experience than seing the same movie at home in your underware. I don't think it'll ever die. If we survive the economic downturn and approach of Nibiru that is.
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Speed
I love going to the cinema before/after eating out at a restaurant. Hope it's always an available option.
The future will have coffee shops/restaurants with enclosed booths that allow for a 3D surround-sound experience with each booth choosing whatever movie they want to watch. The enclosed booth with massage chairs will have a tall rounded screen which makes you feel like you're "in" the movie.
People on trains will be able to put on their "movie glasses" and watch movies where it blocks out all distracting surrounding light/noise. The glasses will be programmed to beep a few minutes before arriving at your station.
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Speed
You'll be able to feel textures and smell things in the movies.
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Disillusioned
3D virtual reality from an iPod.
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limboinjapan
Well if my 15 year old daughter has any say in this, then we will be sitting in a O shaped theater (or living room) with the stage in the centre (no screen or special glasses needed) watching 3D holographic movies and Shows. Her goal is to design and produce a fully holographic viewing system!
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Papigiulio
they will never vanish. They will be renewed, reinvented. New stuff. 3d holographic imagery etc. I myself only go for blockbusters to the cinema. f.e. like with Avatar, that is a movie you HAVE to see in the theater, same with matrix and lotr. So I hope they don't go away.
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timtak
Cinemas will never go out of style because sometimes (particularly when dating) it is meaningful to watch a movie with other people, in a public place.
The seats will move and shake like in those simulated rides at fun fairs, and video game joysticks.
Perhaps for those that want to really empathise with the characters, we will be able to plug ourselves into recieve electric shocks when the hit by bullets etc.
3D, yes. But will smellorama come back into style? There were a couple of movies made, and the technology has been possible for a long while, but I don't think that smell is so important. It is also difficult to change smells in real time.
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cactusJack
People will wear light headgear that will display an image near the eye that appears to be 30m away and 30m wide,(can be rendered in 3D if desired!), and the audio will be true surround sound which can be adjust by the user. These movies will travel through the airwaves in a digital format and the user must pay a fee to receive the signal and view the movie. This device can be used anywhere, even in the shower or underwater...oh, and Big Brother will be watching you at the same time through the same headgear. He will also read your thoughts.
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Disillusioned
Maybe you have heard of Drive-in theaters, 8 track stereos, beta video, mini-discs and the dodo. The day is coming very soon that all movies and music will be nothing more than digital data and viewing it or listening to it will only be a matter of dialing it up on the net and projecting it through your 3D holographic projector. That is providing North Korea doesn't start a nuclear war and plunge us all into a nuclear winter, in which case we'll all be sitting in the dark shivering our titties off. :D
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Takuma7
I don't even go now. Have Blu-Ray, big LCD, internet, and 9.1 sound in my home no need to go.
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Thunderbird
considering the abismal difference between the world today and the world I've starred 23 years ago, I have absolutely no clue what this world might be in the next 50 days.
I've heard there is already 3D tvs that does not require glasses. With all this affordable technology in your home, I guess that the cinemas will need to create some "interaction" between the people who's watching, making a difference as drinking a bottle of Asahi in home and going to drink in a izakaya.
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Sunjovi
After 50 years human interface will be less and family importance null. So people will be going alone to watch movies in hightech theatres.
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herefornow
Here in Japan, so long as most folks live in one-room rabbit hutches, I think the cinema will continue to be an integral part of free time. Like shopping and eating long meals, it is something to get them out of their cramped homes. Same reason you can't get a seat at Starbucks on a weekend afternoon. People spend JPY 400 on a coffee and that gives them squaters' rights for three hours or so.
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MakusuSun
Unless a new 3D technology emerges that is designed for the movie theater specifically, less people will go to cinemas. Specially when they have a home movie theater.
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LHommeQuiMent
Future is wireless internet, mobile devices, home theaters and game consoles.
Cinemas will be gone, just like TV, radio, newspapers, libraries, etc.
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rofea
Customers after buying tickets will be given wired suits, aquatic oxygene scent masks and 3d vision goggles. They will be then lowered into large tubes full of liquids and chemicals that create the floating experience. Activity in the film (earthquakes etc) are represented by vibrations in the water and the body suit. Environment heat, coldness, wind is also represented through the surrounding liquids and the wired body suit. The customer can choose to view the movie narrative as an outsider or be a part of the action (in some cases choosing outcomes). This results in customers viewing films many times using different choices or levels of interaction.
Subsequently the narratives and genres of films change to suit the new viewing environment, niche genres form based on scent, heat, vibration acuracy of sensation or range of narrative options. Cinemas are chosen based on quality of technology (suits etc). Drugs are gradually included in some cinemas to heighten the experience.
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Pestronika
Cinemas aren't going anywhere. There's no other way to immerse yourself in a movie. I do prefer watching movies at home these days, but if you want to see something "on the big screen" there's only one way to do it (unless you have a big home theater, which I doubt many have here due to space considerations).
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morriconelover
I rarely go to see mainstream movies, but only go for small arthouse cinemas. As long as there are people interested in cinema as an art form, then besides the big mainstream places that have to reinvent themselves every 10-15 years, then i think there will still be an audience for the small cinemas as well, but everything is gonna be digital and the places that only show movies on oldstyle film reels is gonna die out.
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m6bob
50yrs is a long,long time for technology to evolve. There's also commercial & social changes to take into account. My view is that movie theaters as they are now will be obsoleted. We'll watch movies or videos from our own homes and they will be interactive & immersive. Language will not be a problem & lip-synching will be so real you can't tell if the movies were originally made in English, for example.
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Azrael
In 50 years, movie theaters will be a thing of the past because as the gap between rich and poor deepens thanks to the rolling ball started by the US economy crash, the less than rich won't be able to pay to see a movie, let alone pay the food sold at movie theaters. On the other side, the rich will increase their demand of extravagant features on movies, moving the market to home-theater devices which will evolve into pure and simple one-time rentals downloads from internet. In that scenario, poor people will only watch old movies, maybe wait a year or two for the "latest features" to be available in a movie-rental digital format they could afford. Piracy will continue to flourish and will become a Robin-Hood style crusade. So there you go.
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MeanRingo
These people who think the home entertainment system will evolve enough to ruin theatres have totally forgotten what dating was all about. What is a 16-year-old kid supposed to do with his girlfriend? Settle in between mom and pop on the family sofa? He sure isn't going to get any that way. Naw, he has to go out and impress a girl. Take her somewhere, preferably dark. And throw down the moves.
Things will change, no doubt. Change is inevitable, as Disillusioned mentions: Drive-in theaters, 8 track stereos, beta video, mini-discs and the dodo. But notice that we still have movies, music and birds. So, the formats might change, but the medium (is this the word I'm looking for?) remains.
I do wonder if the theatre won't go the way of the bowling alley though. It might be a nostalgia thing, but they will make a comeback too.
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