I do wonder if Alamo Drafthouse might change that. Unlike AMC/Regal/etc., they're not forcing you to watch 30 minutes of ads before a movie, charging absurd prices for low-effort, low-quality concessions, or hiring minimum wage workers who don't care if the theater is filled with screaming teenagers. Instead, Alamo Drafthouse feels like a cultural throwback 1990s Blockbuster, a place where you go to have movie nerds show you movies and include you in their nerd-dom, and with better food.

And yeah, the self-congratulatory nonsense that is the Oscars is out of touch with audiences, but there are lots of studios that are doing great things--they're just not trying for Oscars, so they're not winning them.