Danny McBride's solution for the theatrical movie experience: Less outdated cineplexes in the suburbs

Asked, unsubtly, as somebody outside the "LA and New York bubble" what Hollywood movies are getting wrong, McBride pivoted to what he believes the real issue is:

In some regard, it’s not about finding what the audience wants to see. It’s about reestablishing why it’s important to go to movies in the first place. In L.A. or New York, you still have these badass movie  theaters that have state-of-the-art sound and screens. I’ll buy a ticket to a theater around here, and it feels like you’re in a halfway house. There’ll be movies where I’ll go in, see what screen it’s on and walk right out because I know that the speaker hums or there’s a smell in there.

After the interviewer vouched for this reality, McBride hammered the point home:

In these suburban towns, they built all these big 16-screen megaplexes in the late nineties, and now those places, feel like relics of a bygone era. There’s six movies playing in there. It feels like you’re in the fall of Rome. Even if what’s Hollywood is making is good, it’s hard to convince people to not watch it in the comfort of their home and their massive TV set when they might go and spend all this money for 30  minutes of commercials and the projectionist to forget to turn the lights off.

It's true that going to the movies requires a level of efforting that staying at home doesn't. The draw should be that the theatrical experience is well worth it (and also will help you avoid those damn "Thunderbolts*" spoilers that entertainment websites are being super casual with). However, if the theater itself is bad, so bad it takes away from the viewing experience, what would be the draw for moviegoers, even movie lovers?

Maybe across these United States movie theaters will heed the words of Man of the People Danny McBride - Why, he doesn't even live in Los Angeles! - and start taking the quality of their establishments more seriously.

(h/t The Hollywood Reporter)