Once a year or less.
I don’t much care for movies. I could read all day and consider it time well spent, but ask me to give up a solid two-hour block to watch it on a screen and I can’t be arsed.
I make exceptions for kids’ movies if they look really good. The last thing we saw in the theater was either the first Narnia or the last Harry Potter.
We rent a lot of movies, but my husband and I only go to the theater once or twice a year, to see something we are really anticipating. So far this year we’ve seen the X-Files movie.
I have some women friends who go to see sappy movies all the time, and I go with them occasionally just to be sociable. The last thing we saw was Swing Vote (yuck).
I probably average a couple of times a month. Depending on what is playing. I normally only like action/thriller/adventure stuff in theaters, because I feel you need the big screen in the dark room with the killer sound to get the whole experience. Romantic comedies and dramas can do just fine in the DVD player.
Once a week. I almost always go to an afternoon showing.
As long as I don’t pick a summer blockbuster on opening weekend, I usually don’t have too many problems with kids. Every now and then, there’s an idiot with a cell phone. Still, I’d rather see a movie in the theatre.
If you average it out probably twice per week. I go a lot more from Mid/late October to January and a lot more from May to early August because those are usually when the good movies show up in theatres.
Next year I’m going to save all of my movie stubs just out of curiosity.
Not as often as I used to - a combination of working until 8pm on weekdays, and prices here being $12 per ticket. When I do go, it’s on a Sunday before noon so I can get the matinee price ($6) and I will always stay to see 2-3 films. Last week I had some free passes that were given out from American Eagle so I went several times. It also depends on what is playing. In the coming months I will probably go more, as there will be more quality films released.
Last time I saw a movie in a theater was 2004. I’m damned if I’ll pay a lot of money for the privilege of sitting through half an hour of previews and commercials before the feature film even starts.
Eventually, sometimes, a few years after the film comes out, I’ll rent it on DVD. I’m just not that into movies.
Probably between one and two times a month on average. I have a large cinema near me, it’s just a case of being bothered to see what’s on and there being films I’m interested in. I don’t have issues with crowds/noise of others - as I said in a thread dedicated to the issue, I don’t think I’ve ever experienced the levels of people talking/being idiots that a lot of Dopers give as their reason for not enjoying going to the movies.
3 or 4 times a year. Mostly if there’s a big blockbuster that I’d like to see on the big screen, like The Dark Knight. Occasionally I’ll have $10 and some time to kill, but very very rarely.
Maybe twice a year.
Time before last, some kid blew lunch in the entry foyer…and just kept going. We just kinda threw him the thumbs up for stick-to-it-iveness and took a detour.
I’m not a fan of the multiplex experience. I like my freeze frame and smoking at will.
A couple times a year normally.
It’s usually about five or six (or more) years between. The last movie I saw in a theater was The Producers (2005). Before that, Van Helsing (2004). That’s unusually close together for me. Before that, I think I saw Jurassic Park (1993) last. It averages out.
I don’t watch movies that much. I watch movies in theaters even less often than that.
150+ times a year.
I’d see more if I could, but when traveling I often wind up having to work late. I’ve rarely had a problem with noisy and rude people. That’s probably due to carefully matching theater, showtime and film. Giant blockbusters either get seen on the very first showing (when the most dedicated fans will be there) or on a matinee on a weekday. Friday and Saturday are when your amateur moviegoers are out, so that’s for seeing tiny arthouse films (thank you “AMC Select”). Kids movies? Late at night. It’s all a matter of figuring out when the most disruptive patrons are going to appear, and not being there.
As Joe Bob Briggs said “I’m surprised I have to explain these things.”
I go 2 or 3 times a year.
I go on my own volition when there’s a show that needs to be seen on a BIG screen, like 300 or the latest James Bond.
My mom likes to go see “chick flicks” and if she’s paying I’ll go with her. So this year I saw Sex and the City and Mama Mia!
I’m a real tightwad and there’s rarely anything I can justify paying for in the theater. I guess I’ve been lucky and haven’t had any problems with rude patrons. I just like my Netflix.
Wow, 32 replies and only one other reply like mine.
We go to see movies at least 2 or 3 times a week. Yes, a week. It’s our main form of entertainment. We go to see so many movies that, for the last 5 years, the first 5 minutes of my company’s weekly Monday meeting are reserved for my capsule movie reviews from the last weekend.
J.
Aren’t you seeing the same movies over and over? There aren’t 2 or 3 movies a month that I’d like to see. Although I’m sure sometimes you could get pleasantly surprised.
I see very few movies in the theatres anymore. Shoot, the last one I saw was No Country for Old Men, and that was a while ago.
The problem for me is not the films; it’s the audience and other factors. If it isn’t the blue lights from the cell phones, it’s the yakking, the dorks with laser pointers, the sticky floors, filthy chairs, overpriced crap, high priced tickets, volume and temperature issues, babies and kids dragged into R-rated features, etc.
I like a more controlled environment–hence, the plasma screen and Netflix.
Rarely, maybe one movie every two years or so. Honestly, I can’t remember the last one I did go see. If it’s worth watching I’ll just wait and either buy the DVD or catch it on a channel.
If you do the math, both Equipoise, drm and me said we go to that many films a week.
I am the source of movie reviews for family and friends. My brother’s girlfriend can’t stand seeing any violence, and I wind up pre-screening films. I tend to resent it a bit, as it can take me out of a film “Oh, there’s something Christina won’t like” rather than just enjoying the carnage as much as I normally would.
Even during the movie drought “months” of Craptember and Crapuary (pre-Oscar Season and pre-Summer Blockbuster), there are going to be a dozen films worth seeing. It helps to have very broad tastes and live in a big city.
Here are the last six films I saw in the theater:
Death Race
Bachna ae Haseeno (Bollywood)
Mamma Mia (Sing-Along)
The Traitor
Babylon AD
Burn After Reading
I could pick out an equally random set from any other period over the last two years. (I keep my list in my iTouch.)
One of my pet peeves is film snobs who try to promote “Independent” film by denigrating “Hollywood” film (I’m looking at you, bitch who introduced the film “Sixty Six”). I enjoy both. What do I care where the funding for a film comes from? The ticket price is the same.