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still too bad I never got to see Hayao Miyazaki's Boy And The Heron during the one week it showed, it would have been my second Ghibli film and my third anime film overall after Secret World of Arrietty and Birthday Wonderland.

also my theater had recently shown Japanese Anime Films, particularly ones from Studio Ghibli like Spirited Away and Castle in the Sky and even some Mainland Chinese productions in a crazy desperate hail mary bid to stay alive and relevant in the decade and era of COVID and inflation.

Yeah those damn ticket prices man. And popcorns and snacks/food are actually the main source of revenue for theaters rather than the movie tickets themselves? Inflation son. I have brought my own food to my theater on multiple occasions before btw and the staff sometimes gave me shit about a few things, but bringing outside food was never one of them.

Imma probably spend my Mother's Day still thinking about all the potential the theater could have had if it had just stayed up for at least one year longer or two. Imagine getting to see Alien: Romulus with my friend at the theater. And Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Deadpool and Wolverine, Venom: The Last Dance (my friend is a huge fanboy of Venom), Inside Out 2 (maybe), and Sonic the Hedgehog 3.

I mean look at these comments in the comments section of the video:

I am still in the fresh period of deeply mourning over the tragic loss of College Point Multiplex Cinemas:

@Astaro Also theater chains all across the United States are already dying at an unprecedented rate and at a record pace not seen before 2020... To put this into perspective: There were 7,000 theaters all across America in the year 2000. In 2020, that number went down to 5,800. In 2023 alone, that number decreased even further to just the lower end of the 2,000's range. Who knows what the number will be by the end of this year?

Yeah celebrities... how many times can one stand or sit in front of your telly to hear something dramatic, anecdotal, or cringe about the most painfully normie celebs in the Hollywood or American entertainment industry every day of the week on fucking ET or TMZ? Frankly it's just boring the shit out of me. In 2020, I went to see Ip Man 4, Sonic the Hedgehog 1, and the anime film Birthday Wonderland at my theater right before the COVID lockdowns: This year was the first time I actually bothered to return to the theater after the lockdowns and the pandemic was well beyond over and done with and I saw a grand total of four movies before its closing: Madame Webb, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, Fall Guy, and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. So that's literally 7 movies I watched at my theater this decade up until its state of death. Yep same, I went all the way from I think Star Wars Phantom Menace or the first Matrix movie in '99 all the way to a Kaiju film there.

So I take it theaters in your state and city aren't collapsing and going down under like mine right now? Are your area a city or urban area filled to the brim with regular movie-goers?

Yeah the relative lack of originality and creativity outside of the deluge of sequels and reboots we get from the Hollywood factory is an alarming cause for concern for the quality of their films dropping like an anvil. And who could have suspected the summer of strike we had witnessed and observed from Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists before our eyes would also be another catalyst contributing to the Hollywood's slow and painful erosion and downfall in today's age?

Also Virgin Regal Cinemas vs Basic AMC Theaters vs Chad Showcase Cinemas...

Y'all need to look at this: https://www.the-numbers.com/market/ The number of annual ticket sales in the United States all used to be above the baseline of one billion before 2020, peaking at over a billion and a half in 2002 and 2003... In 2020 it dropped by over a billion less tickets for the first time to just 200 million... And it took two years for it to be just over half a billion and we have still yet to go back to reaching the 1 billion tickets threshold. Let that sink in.

So I have a question for y'all: Are there any local theaters around your area in America (assuming any of the other people in this thread I'm addressing are my fellow Yanks)... Currently in danger of closing due to the following factors: 1. COVID (and its enduring ripples) 2. Inflation (increasing the most depending on your area) 3. Proliferation and surging of video streaming platforms and services? Or a combination of the above?

I'm just upset that she either slashed funding for disability programs/organizations or still just didn't do nearly good enough to actually move the needle.

Maybe. Either or, she still ain't nowhere near as cringe as Andrew Cuomo or Joe Biden as far as Establishment Democrat politicians go.

As a consistent Democratic voter myself and someone who voted for Kathy Hochul over Lee Zeldin in the 2022 Midterms, I still feel shocked and appalled that for all her good will and nice words, she cut funding for social programs I am a part for those with disabilities both mental and physical and still hasn't done enough for us poor New Yorkers at this point to the point of not giving a shit about us. Do better, you bitch.

Either way you slice it... I had a decent good day and night at my local theater for one last with my friend before sending him off home with a car service and watching my final movie with my family. I could go on and on and I do wish to discuss my last moments there some more, but it's late now and I need to hop into bed.

For the record, I almost got into 1st Place as Wario on "Easy" mode,, but being the receiving end of collisions with banana peels bumped me to 3rd Place in the end. Glad I tried it once and got it on camera and tried all the rides of Typhoon with my friend.

But at least my friend and I had a jolly good time spending our last moments together in the second floor of this theater talking and playing Mario Kart DX and trying out all different rides of Typhoon motion ride by Triotech. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_(simulator)

Too bad my friend didn't come to see any movie with me, since Ghostbusters Frozen Empire was the only one that interested him and he already saw it prior, even though I still had fond memories of watching no less than four movies there with him: 1. Star Wars: The Force Awakens in Early 2016 (a rewatch) 2. Alien: Covenant in Spring 2017 (he and I were huge fans of the Aliens franchise) 3. The Meg in the Spring or Summer of 2018 (another type of movie he's a fan of) 4. Good Boys in the Summer of 2019 (the only movie on this list that wasn't a sci-fi nor monster movie, surprisingly great comedy for both of us