Everyone romanticizes the theater until you do the math out loud. Two tickets at $19 each, a large popcorn split down the middle for $11, two drinks at $7, parking at $12. That's $75 to watch a movie you could rent for $6 in six weeks, and the "unmatched experience" mostly consists of trailers for other $75 evenings and a stranger's phone glowing three rows down. AMC spent the last decade converting to recliners and cocktails, which was really just a confession: the movie itself is no longer the draw... the furniture is. You don't save a dying medium with nicer chairs. You save it by giving people a reason to leave the house, and Hollywood has spent 15 years training everyone that the house is fine.
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