Yeah, maybe if you live in LA or London, your theater experience is great, i dunno, but personally i've had mostly absolute shitty experiences at the cinema, both in terms of rude public, as well as just plain bad screens, bad projections, wrong audio mixing etc.
I can't travel up to the best cinema in Milan, just to watch a movie.
On top of that i just have a pet peeve (perhaps somewhat irrational) with just the blatant waste of money in some of these productions.
BR2077 was great, but it didn't need to spend millions to have a digital recreation of Sean Young, you could've gotten a look alike and people would've got it, or use some other cheap creative trick (even leave her in shadow with her android eyes shining through or whatever).
The Irishman didn't need to spend millions and millions on a complete gimmick that is at best just distracting (because you're thinking about the effect, before the story) and at worst comical, like seeing a supposedly 40s DeNiro move like a 75 y/o.
Meanwhile Dark (the TV show) showed the same characters at different life stages, using different actors, and everybody immediately got it, because of great casting.
It feels like an obscene waste of money for complete gimmicks.
But i can concede that perhaps the history of VFX has always moved and evolved in this manner.
I just struggle to think of a recent movie that cost that kind of numbers, and justified its choice with artistic merits.
These aren't Apocalypse Now.
