I’d rather see a film in the cinemas, but only if the volume is going to be reasonable (I spent the entire showing of ‘The Sorceror’s Apprentice’ with my fingers in my ears. I now go to films with ear protection, and I have yet to regret that decision.), if my fellow movie-goers are going to be quiet and if the film is something worth seeing on the big screen.
I have fond memories of the Festival Cinemas in Toronto, a chain of rep house that showed films for $2 and which were temples for film worshippers.
The Wife and I went to see **RED **over the weekend. The theater was filled with grown-ups, and it was an enjoyable experience.
The last film we saw in the theater was The Kids are All Right, which I guess also skewed to an older demographic. We seem attracted to old fart films.
I see 20-25 movies a year in the theater, and I really can’t remember any of the kind of misbehavior that some of you think is the norm. Of course, I only see 3 or 4 of those movies in a multiplex, so that may be a factor – but neither Avatar nor Inception involved audiences talking, texting, or spilling things on the floor.
5-10. Usually the blockbusters that come out in summer or around Christmas. I’d go more often, but I don’t get out of work until 6:30 or 7:30. I like to attend an early evening show, which doesn’t seem to have nearly as many teens. Movie and dinner works better for me than dinner and a movie.
The last movie I saw was Wall Street, Money Never Sleeps. The next one will probably be Harry Potter.
Less than 5 in a theater. Yet I watch hundreds on DVD each year. I’d go to see more in theaters, but I avoid it because:
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[li]Can’t fast forward through the coming attractions.[/li][li]Can’t rewind or pause in a theater.[/li][li]Other patrons are often talking/texting asswipes.[/li][li]Like to watch movies with subtitles turned on (hard of hearing).[/li][/ol]
Only 2 or 3 tops. Not crazy about a lot of the offerings, and people don’t know how to behave in a theater anymore. It’s gotta be something we want to see once on a big screen. Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, that sort of thing. Once in a great while it’ll be something we just don’t want to wait for the DVD.
When we do go, we try to go to the last showing on a Sunday or a weeknight, or maybe a midweek matinee, to try to minimize the number of jerks in the theater.
Very rarely - I guess we catch the Pixar movies, and if there’s something that’s particularly spectacle-based that we really want to see (we saw Star Trek) - and we did go to see Paranormal Activity on the spur of the moment. Before that, the last non-Pixar film we saw in the theater was either Watchmen or the last Indiana Jones movie.
I’m always amazed when people complain about this stuff, because I never see it. I think maybe once in my life I’ve had a problem with people talking during the movie.
Yeah, folks seem pretty polite at movies around here. I think it’s fun to see a film in a packed theater; big laughter and cheers, sometimes there’s clapping, it’s a fun group vibe.
I don’t go to many movies because they are so freaking expensive. I feel way too guilty to hand over that much money for ~2hrs of entertainment that I can see for free inside of a year.
I voted 5-10, but this has been a busy year of movie going for me. From 1999 to 2007, I think I saw maybe 5 movies, and 3 of them had hobbits. But this past year I made a friend who loves going to theatres, so we go maybe once a month.
I guess I tend to go to places without sticky floors and obnoxious people, and I don’t mind the prices, so it’s a positive experience for me.
I used to go see a movie every week, but now I’m down to 5-10 per year. I love the theater experience, but can’t handle all the people talking around me. The whole VCR/couch watching/talk to friends and family during a movie has ruined the movie experience (at least for me). People are so used to talking to their neighbor during a movie - they can’t stop! Every time I go to the movies, I’m always reminded why I don’t like going to the movies anymore (have experienced movie chatting in Dallas, Seattle and San Diego - it’s consistent and obnoxious).
I see less than five movies in the theater a year and I’m usually hard pressed to remember what I last saw because it was so long ago. I don’t think I’ve seen any movies in the theater this year and I think the last one I did see was Star Trek back in 2009. The reason I don’t go to the theater often is because it’s inconvenient and I don’t like to fight crowds. I’ve experienced a few occasions of obnoxious movie patrons over the years but they are certainly few and far between. The cost isn’t much of a factor because I don’t purchase snacks or drinks figuring going 2-3 hours with neither food or drink won’t kill me. When I went to see The Watchman I told myself I was going to get a popcorn and soda but I accidentally looked up and saw how much it cost before getting to the cashier which caused me to change my mind. Goddamn I felt like my father which means I must be getting old.
I voted 5-10, but it’s probably more like 10-12. I’m more likely to go out to see a obscure independent release than a mainstream movie. The audiences are not only smaller, but in general they’re better behaved at “art house” theaters.
My hubby works out of town, and is only home 2-3 long weekends a month. Most of those weekends, we will go catch a flick if there’s anything playing we want to see. The last movie we saw in a theater was Red, and the one before that was The Town. So we probably go to damn close to 100 movies a year. We do that rather than watch a movie at home because we like to go out. The closest movie theater is pretty nice, too.
In addition to the movies he and I see, I take mudgirl to probably three or four ‘regular’ movies a year, then our local movie theater has a “Summer Movie Clubhouse” deal; you pay $5.00 per person for a pass that allows you to see a second-run movie every Tuesday morning. Last summer, we saw Kung Fu Panda, The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything and Horton Hears a Who, among others. We don’t go to see all ten of the movies, but it gives us quality time together on Tuesday mornings, and at a hard-to-argue-with price!
We used to go rather frequently – maybe every couple of weeks so maybe 20 or so times a year. Since we moved to NYC and set up a home theater, the cost-convenience-experience equation has skewed so far out of whack against theatre going that we basically never go.
As a pre-teen and teenager movies were the #1 way to spend an afternoon with my friends. I remember when my friend got passes to a pre-screening of Apollo 13 through her mom - best ever! I remember searching to find a theater showing “Henry V” after we saw a clip at the Oscars (watching the Oscars- another thing I don’t do anymore). Going to see “Orlando” at the Angelika instead of going to prom oh yeah we were the coolest.
oh yeah we were the coolest.