To the editor: Senior editor Ryan Faughnder fails to even point out the actual explanation why so many individuals select to observe a film at house on their tv reasonably than go to a theater (“The 2025 box office is off to a terrible start. Is the problem supply or demand?” March 25).
First, the necessity to arrive early sufficient to pick an honest seat. With theaters so small now, there are solely a handful of acceptable seats. Second, the 20 minutes or extra of loud advertisements and trailers for motion pictures of no curiosity are disagreeable to sit down by way of. Third, too many impolite patrons who assume nothing of speaking aloud. Their telephones ring they usually reply and speak — or they textual content, creating disturbing and distracting lights. It’s far more nice to remain house, the place the popcorn and drinks value a lot much less!
Jeff Miller, Lengthy Seaside
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To the editor: My neighborhood movie show has a marquee that not exhibits what’s taking part in or the occasions. By the point I get house, I’m too busy to search for the theater and its schedule.
Carolyn Dyer, Tujunga
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To the editor: Theaters want to begin promoting their film showings within the L.A. Occasions once more as a result of, because the saying goes, “out of sight is out of thoughts.” That is very true for us retired people who nonetheless learn the onerous copy newspaper and who’ve time to go to the flicks through the week.
My film attendance has dropped to nearly nothing. Perhaps they’ll’t finances for full-page advertisements anymore, however certainly they’ll spring for an eighth of a web page advert on the weekend. As one other saying goes, “you need to spend cash to become profitable.”
Gisele Fontaine, Inglewood
