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Smallville
12/10/2024
11:35 AM
#1
Which
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pazzy
12/10/2024
11:36 AM
#2
Movie theaters. With the spiking prices of snacks, and the fact that some movies are only coming out to streaming services, it's easier to go the way of the dinosaur.
SpawnShadow
12/10/2024
11:37 AM
#3
Shopping malls are basically already dead, so them. But movie theaters probably aren't far behind.
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FL81
12/10/2024
11:38 AM
#4
Visiting a mall a week before it closes is a surreal experience I'd recommend to everyone

there's something ominous about the faint echo of the music in a large, empty space
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CableZL
12/10/2024
11:39 AM
#6
Highland Mall in Austin, TX used to be such a popular place to be, especially on the weekends. I went there a couple times years before it got turned into a community college campus and it was weird. Most of the place was dead. The food court was still there, but there were maybe like 3 or 4 stores left at the most.
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JaiCSC
12/10/2024
11:45 AM
#7
In the UK I'm surprised that some shopping centres are hanging on.

I genuinely think my nearest one is holding on sim

Cinemas are a slow death. Cinemas will only survive if Netflix's sudden and inevitable implosion happens beforehand.
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TheOnionKnight
12/10/2024
11:50 AM
#8
I think there will always be some demand to see movies on a big screen. Might be reserved to spectacles like IMAX but I don't see theaters completely disappearing.
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buddhamonster
12/10/2024
11:54 AM
#9
Malls are already dead, while the latest movies are still churning out hundreds of millions of dollars in a weekend.

I think it's pretty obvious which one is "more bleak" at the moment...
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Time
12/10/2024
11:54 AM
#10
Malls with a decent food court don't have any issues in my area
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doesntcare
12/10/2024
11:57 AM
#11
1 mall that I go to for the lego store is usually fairly packed at any given time. The rest im not so sure. There are a total of 5 traditional malls here.
Kaldrenthebold
12/10/2024
12:00 PM
#12
Malls and it isn't even close
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NoxObscuras
12/10/2024
12:05 PM
#13
Neither are looking bleak here in Los Angeles. Malls and theaters are still packed every weekend. We had to buy tickets for Wicked a week in advance to get seats in time.

But if one died first, it would definitely be malls.
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nocturnal_traveler
12/10/2024
12:06 PM
#14
FL81 posted...
Visiting a mall a week before it closes is a surreal experience I'd recommend to everyone

there's something ominous about the faint echo of the music in a large, empty space
I know what you mean. It's also kind of sad.
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Board_hunter567
12/10/2024
12:11 PM
#15
The movie theater in my mall outlived the mall itself.
The other, historically more popular mall, is a shell of it's former self.
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GranTurismo
12/10/2024
12:12 PM
#16
NoxObscuras posted...
Neither are looking bleak here in Los Angeles. Malls and theaters are still packed every weekend. We had to buy tickets for Wicked a week in advance to get seats in time.

But if one died first, it would definitely be malls.
You really like going to both of them still? I like malls more than theaters
NoxObscuras
12/10/2024
12:16 PM
#17
GranTurismo posted...
You really like going to both of them still? I like malls more than theaters
I don't care for malls really, the department stores in them overcharge. But a lot of AMC locations happen to be in malls. So I see all of the people walking around while on my way to the movie
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PiOverlord
12/10/2024
12:26 PM
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Movie theaters are too important to let die.
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dezeree
12/10/2024
12:39 PM
#20
You people must frequent some really obscure, rural malls or something.

Malls can have restaurants and those will never go.
gatorsPENSbucs
12/10/2024
12:41 PM
#21
Neither, really.
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NoxObscuras
12/10/2024
12:49 PM
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dezeree posted...
You people must frequent some really obscure, rural malls or something.

Malls can have restaurants and those will never go.
Most of the malls here have restaurants and movie theaters, so they're still bustling. But I have also seen a mall die. There was a mall called the Hawthorne Plaza, which was in the southern part of LA County. It opened in 1977 and closed down in 1999. It's still there, 25 years later, sitting empty.

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Kaldrenthebold
12/11/2024
10:08 AM
#23
dezeree posted...
You people must frequent some really obscure, rural malls or something.

Malls can have restaurants and those will never go.

I live in New Jersey. The mall in my college town which is quite vibrant is demolished and gone. I know of at least two other malls in my highly populated county that have failed as well. There's also the American Dream mall that is expensive as shit and drowning in debt. All of them had restaurants and movie theaters.

So it isn't just rural.
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