Have Viewers lost their love affair with the Big Screen?

I personally am very interesting in going to see "Oppenheimer" in the theater. Sure I know what happened, but I'm interesting in seeing another telling of it, much like people might see varying takes on a certain Shakespeare work. Maybe it's the engineer in me, but the whole "all the best minds working together designing this thing in a very short amount of time and nobody knows for sure what is going to happen" is very exciting.

Probably nobody's heard of it, but years ago I saw a 1989 film with Paul Newman called "Fat Man and Little Boy" and I found it thrilling beyond compare. Good chance most would find it quite a snooze-fest.

All that said, there's always a lot going on, and there's always a reasonable chance that we won't get around to going to the theater to see the movie. In which case I probably won't bother making a point to watch it at home, either. I'm very interested in see the "Mission Impossible" movie and we might not get around to that, either.

Sometimes I just can't be bothered to watch anything at all...my formative teenage years were spent in a love affair with the Indiana Jones movies (I bought the official fedora at the store in Hollywood Studios back in like 1990 as well as the "Last Crusade" soundtrack and if a laser could burn out a cd, it would have burned out) but for some reason I have a "meh" attitude to the latest movie, which I haven't seen yet but who knows. I even dressed like Indy for halloween and used to take my Indiana Jones fedora hiking (pro tip: the dark brown fedora is not the appropriate hat for desert hikes, despite what the movies would have you believe) and I would never been seen without my trusty Zippo in my pocket just in case I needed to light up a dark room. In fact, hilarious anecdote - the one year I got tired of carrying the Zippo and it's constant need to be filled, I left it home on a trip to Mexico so I wouldn't have to worry about it through security and stuff. Well, here we come to Chichen Itza where I broke off from the crown and found a dark passageway under the pyramid, I was pissed that I carried that lighter for all those years, and here was when I needed it most and I didn't have it. I went down the passageway by dragging my hands along the walls, until in pitch darkness, the walls disappeared on both my left and right. Not wanting to be lost under the pyramid for all time, I turned around and left. Sad times. If I would have had my Zippo lighter, ~I~ would have been Indiana Jones, exploring the underground Mayan ruins!

My 82” Samsung is big enough for me to see all of those movies. Plus we don’t have to deal with people checking their phones every five minutes.

I guess I am the only person with a family that behaves that way at home around our big screen.
And I never bother with popcorn or Red Vines sitting at home….

I think that you are correct. Oppenheimer brought in $80 million over the weekend while Barbie made $155 million.

I like the concept and the imagery looks good in the previews, looks like being in the Haunted Mansion and kind-of creepy. But then I cringe when I see some of the big names, I feel like they would pull me out of the story, so I am scared of it being a lame let-down. I'm sure lots will love it, but I can see it being kind-of bad.
A bunch of years ago I was reading stuff about Guillermo Del Toro looking to make a version of a "Haunted Mansion" movie, and I was pretty excited for a dark version of it. But that did not happen and now we get silly comedy bits.

DW, DD, and I saw Oppenheimer in a regular theater yesterday.  For myself, I thought it was okay.  I figured more Manhattan Project and less jumping back and forth in time but my fault for not having a better handle on the movie before I went.  I am tired of all these very long movies (180 minutes for Oppenheimer, Indiana Jones 5 - 154 minutes).  My guess is that Oppenheimer will get a number of awards for the acting, which was very good from a very large cast.

The question the three of us had, "why was it so important to see in Imax."  Other than the Trinity test explosion which took roughly 2 minutes of the movie, most of it was talking between characters. None of us saw any reason why it had to be seem in IMAX or a big screen.  At least it was "new" and not a reboot, remake (e.g., animated movie remade as live action), a sequel, etc.  I hope I am wrong for Disney's sake but Haunted Mansion looked stupid.  I am sure that Disney is hoping to recapture the glory that was the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie.  Of course, then Disney created all these sequels which got worse and worse.