@littlegin That's a great question. We don't go to the movies often, we tend to wait until it's on TV, but it would be more enticing if the movie was captioned.
@bookysue That is weird that some are captioned and some not. When we watch movies on TV they all seem to be.
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Most theaters do have captioning devices. However, in some places they may not. Quite possibly, those places...mostly smaller theaters...may have never been asked to provide them. Yes, they are required by the Disabilities Act, but that act also says that devices must be requested in advance, and cannot create a hardship to the provider. It's important to let the theater staff know if a device is not working properly. It's hard though, because that can mean walking out of the movie after it has started and you realize it's not working. I've found that few of the previews are captioned, so you don't know until the movie begins. Most important though; theater management needs to know if you have had problems with the equipment they provide. It won't improve otherwise. It's so easy to just sit back and complain without trying to effect positive change. Please be proactive in a nice way. It works.

went to an ear nose and throat specialist for my losing my hearing and he sent me to a dentist. This ENT doctor should know that Psoriatic arthritis can cause hearing loss. The dentist cannot help me so he says. I have said before and now again; What is wrong with the education of doctors when a layperson such as I knows more than the doctors. I know that I am not a doctor and do not have their schooling and am not smarter then they are. Do they have overload? They need to apply themselves. Perhaps when a patient such as I at 82 years of age presents themselves do they assume "Why bother she will be dead soon?" So what! I will treat myself to a good meal, watch a great movie on the boob tube and continue to spoil myself until the deafness continues and oh, I forgot I cannot read the lines on the screen because of the low vision. I will feel sorry for myself but when all comes to a head do not worry for me as I will be strong and continue to help others as this is the way I go. With love again, Peach

The best answer for helping us understand movies is a hearing loop (induction loop). The equipment is not prohibitively expensive but installation costs usually are. The next best thing is open captions (open captions are on the screen all the time). But there is so much opposition to that from a very vocal hearing population that movie makers, who make huge amounts of money, won't change. They know who pays them. Politicians tend to align their opinions with where their votes come from and that is hard to change. I don't see the influence of big money or the politicians changing anytime soon. So MY first two choices are off the list of likely possibilities.

I find so many closed captions are so poorly done they are almost useless. They are very poorly timed and displayed and contain too many errors. On my local TV news I have use either the audio only or caption only. Both together doesn't work very well for me, but confuse me even more. This issue IS fixable if they'd just do it.

ADA only requires that "reasonable accommodations" are made and the devices they now use are deemed "reasonable" even if they don't work very well for some of us. If movie theaters had hearing loops or open caption movies I'd probably go to movies. But without that I just don't go to movies. Because I have not gone to movies in the last 55 years I have no interest in Netflix or other presentation of movies available now. But I've never tried them. I'm a movie illiterate.