I almost put them on it but the list was getting a bit unwieldy. I had to draw the line. 
When McCartney dies there will have already been dead Beatles. If Dylan dies before me I’ll be seriously bummed. If I die first, I won’t know it, verdad¿
Eric Clapton hasn’t been interesting since the '70’s, and yet we still pay attention to him. His death will paradoxically be the most heralded.
I’m relieved everyone here has eyebrows. 
Paul McCartney’s death will unquestionably make the biggest splash of all those musicians (may it be many, many years from now!). I wonder if he and Ringo have had any awkward conversations about who will be The Last Beatle Standing.
Of the 2023 Best Picture nominees, I’ve only seen Top Gun: Maverick and Triangle of Sadness. Neither of them are remotely worthy of being thus nominated IMHO.
I haven’t been in a movie theater in the past ten years, preferring to wait for Netflix/Amazon to stream it.
If movie theaters ever offer movies with closed captions on, I might reconsider, but there’s still the issue of the other theater goers and their cellphones, talking, etc.
Humph. I seldom if ever have a problem with distractions from an audience, even a large one. It’s too bad when people abandon public spaces. Go to a movie, this weekend, and report back your experience.
I go to 100+ movies a year in theaters, across a gamut of genres, times, audiences. I very seldom run into distracting audience behavior (though I make allowances for children in movies like Puss in Boots). Maybe we’re just more civilized in Los Angeles (but I doubt it).
Can’t help with the closed captions, though foreign language films essentially have this (and if you haven’t watched RRR in a theater, you’re missing out)
I don’t mind other theater goers. But going to a movie is a drag. I need to drive, park, fight for a seat, sit through a lot of ads, and i can’t pause it if i need to pee or cough or something. There are a small number of movies that are really better on a big screen, but mostly I’m happy to watch at home. And if i had a larger TV, there might be no movies that tempted me to the theater.
I do love live theater, though. I should do that again.
The wife was never a huge fan of going to the movies pre-covid, and since the pandemic (you may have read about it in the papers), I’ve been thinking she may never want to go again.
It’s a problem because I would go 2-3 times a week if I could.
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ETA: I always try very hard to see all of the Best Picture nominees before the Oscars. This year, I have not seen any of them yet.
I’ve only seen Everything Everywhere All at Once.
This is totally random but it reminds me of the last time a child was distracting at the movies. We were watching Shazam (which was quite endearing and heartwarming, btw) and it got to the part where the villain seems as if he’s defeated the hero. This little kid cries out, with genuine anguish, “He’s gonna die! First the Avengers and now this!”
Apparently The Snap completely broke his faith in the good guys always winning. Poor little guy.
Without captions it’s a waste of money. The crowd is secondary to my hearing loss.
RRR is being rereleased in February. It’s subtitled.
AMC used to screen all of the nominees over the course of two Saturdays for one ticket price. I did that several times and it was always a blast. They’re still advertising a “Best Picture Showcase,” but it looks like ala carte ticketing and they’re not even necessarily playing at the same theater. Not the same thing, sadly.
But most movies now have an open caption option, meaning if you inform the theater ahead of time, they may run it that way for you. Also many places have headphones you can borrow, and set the level to where you want.
We did that every year from 2010 up through Covid, though we missed a few weekends here and there. I was very disappointed to see their bullshit BPS announcement.
I don’t go to the movies, and I don’t cook. But I do read a fair amount and I listen to lots and lots of music. So I didn’t know how to answer the question.
I don’t watch movies much (I almost never watch a movie twice). I read a lot of books but most of them are tawdry romances. I like music, but most of it is pop, or middle eastern. I don’t cook much.
But i’m not a loser and neither are you.
Yeah, I had a problem with the choices on that one too. @Procrustus may well be doing other things that they find interesting and/or useful. Nobody has to pick the same things to be into that everybody else does.
Sigh, American Movie Channel…