To the editor: Senior editor Ryan Faughnder fails to even point out the actual the reason why so many individuals select to look at a film at residence on their tv moderately than go to a theater (“The 2025 field workplace is off to a horrible begin. Is the issue provide or demand?” March 25).
First, the necessity to arrive early sufficient to pick out an honest seat. With theaters so small now, there are solely a handful of acceptable seats. Second, the 20 minutes or extra of loud adverts and trailers for films of no curiosity are disagreeable to take a seat by way of. Third, too many impolite patrons who suppose nothing of speaking aloud. Their telephones ring they usually reply and speak — or they textual content, creating disturbing and distracting lights. It’s rather more nice to remain residence, 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 enjoying or the instances. By the point I get residence, I’m too busy to lookup 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. Instances once more as a result of, because the saying goes, “out of sight is out of thoughts.” That is very true for us retired of us who nonetheless learn the onerous copy newspaper and who’ve time to go to the flicks throughout the week.
My film attendance has dropped to virtually nothing. Possibly they’ll’t price range for full-page adverts 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 earn money.”
Gisele Fontaine, Inglewood
