Because forty years ago movies were MADE WELL . Going to the movies forces you to spend two hours sitting next to the people who cut you off in traffic and can't find their checkbook on line at the supermarket. People treat a movie theater like their living room, discussing The Game, yakking it up, yelling at the screen. Movie theaters are retail operations that function at the level of, say, Wal-Mart. These people can basically be taught to master one specific skill, but as anyone who has seen a lot of movies knows, these morons cannot keep an image in focus or sound in sync to save their lives.
Ands speaking of sound, and modern advances, avoid like crazy anything with digital sound.
No it isn't. In fact, it is the worst case of what you spend vs. what you get in the entire entertainment industry. Many magazines, for instance, cost six bucks. But you can preview a magazine and see if there's enough in it of interest to you to justify six bucks. You can see previews of movies, too, but they are wildly misleading and you're still taking a gamble.