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Hollywood Is Weeping Over Empty Theaters While Missing the Point Entirely
The movie theater isn't dying because streaming got good. It's dying because audiences discovered something the studios spent a century hoping they'd never figure out: watching a film alone, in your own clothes, with access to a pause button and your own bathroom, is a genuinely superior experience for most movies most of the time. Hollywood isn't mourning cinema. It's mourning the last venue where it could charge you a cover to sit still.
