You can build a very nice theater for $5000. I built a pretty nice one for around $1300, but that was finding stuff on closeout. That’s with a projector, 93" screen, Blu-ray, HD-DVD, 7.1 sound, X-Box 360, and Wii. I even have black felt for walls.
I feel your pain, but it is August. The movies in the theaters in August are…well, for kids, people out on dates, and people who have no AC at home. The pickings are usually slim in the summer, but more so than usual this year.
Did someone say you can’t?
I walked out of “Chasing Amy” several years ago. What a piece of crap that was…
Ah, but if I go to a theater, I’ll sit and watch the movie.
I won’t pause to dust the furniture or move the laundry to the dryer, and I won’t check that Cafe Society thread on Michael Cera.
In a theater, they don’t even let you dust the furniture.
You could have asked me in my thread.
Luckily that won’t happen in my lifetime.
Depends on where you live and what’s available to you, and how eclectic your tastes are. That thread referenced above is out of date. At the beginning of August I had seen 142 movies in the theater since January 1. With a week and a half left to go in the month of August I’ve seen 23 movies in the theater, for a total of 165. I have about 10 or so more I’ll be seeing before the month is out, I think. I’m not a kid, I’m not dating (well, anyone other than my husband), we have central air and a home theater system. I go to the theater to see movies because I want to go to the theater to see movies.
I understand where Captain Midnight is coming from:
"Movie theaters should go the way of the dinosaur. Let it die. "
Except, “Cinema Paradiso” or “Diva” or “The Last Picture Show.” I could go on and on, but going to the movies means just a little bit.
The big screen can be duplicated, but the experience as art needs the seats, the audience, the popcorn and the sticky stuff on your shoe when you leave.
Cinema needs the thrill of your first girlfriend as you brush her hand to hold it. It needs the rush when the bad guy is really good, the sadness when the good dog dies and the joy when evil is thwarted and when someone says “That’ll do, pig. That’ll do” on a screen 15 feet high.
It needs Hogarth as big as he can be so that everyone knows they can be as big.
You walked out on The Expendables?! Did they take your Man Card from you on the way out? I rank it with Kick Ass as the best movies I’ve seen this year.
Each to their own I guess.
Yes, you can watch the film NOW, when everyone is talking about it- and pay $10 (10 movies for $60 at my local theater, however). Or watch it 6-12 months from now when it’s no longer current- and pay 10 bucks.
I think what really annoys you is that you can’t smoke in a theater. Talk about dinosaurs- smoking is well on it’s way out, and smokers will be dead as dinosaurs anyway.
Back to the OP- as I said, it looks like you went to see a movie when you really weren’t in the mood to see a movie.
Sure, why not?
Quote the rest of my post. Someone said you can build an awesome theater for $5000. I pointed out that I built an awesome one for a lot less than that.
I wouldn’t bet on this. I was at an Indian restaurant with a friend, and the improperly asymmetrical way the curtain was hanging on a window bothered her enough that she asked permission to futz with it and they let her.
Why is everyone walking out on my favorite movies!?!
The only movie I ever walked out on was Perfect, and that was because my ride home walked out and I had little choice.
I agree with the last part, the pickings have been slim this particular summer. But not with your first assertion, that this is typical. There’s a reason for the term "summer blockbuster’. Summer is usually the time when the big expensive popcorn movies come out… unless you are specifically targeting big expensive movies as unwatchable, in which case, I will argue that dumb is not not equivalent to unwatchable, nor is expensive equivalent to dumb (see Inception)…
I agree. No large TV can duplicate the big screen, and nothing can duplicate the experience of watching a movie with a large group of enthusiastic viewers. Plus, there is just something inexorably different between going out and staying in.
I was wondering this too. Although I secondarily wonder if it’s about smoking per se, or about smoking certain things…and drinking.
To which I say… only movies of a certain type are really enhanced by such things… and those movies are still… nay especially more impressive/affecting on the large screen or even IMAX, and the effect is much more impressive with pregaming than with coincideal intake anyway. Thereby, moot point.
Um, no. No, afraid not.
I think by August, people have already seen all the big summer blockbuster popcorn movies. There’s a slack period at the end of summer, until the big fall blockbuster Oscar worthy movies come out.
I’m watching a Harry Potter movie on TV, and there’s a scene where they’re flying on broomsticks at night down the Thames, past Parliament and Big Ben. Even watching it on TV gives me a little thrill. I can only think seeing it on a big screen in the theater, with an appreciative audience, would be awesome, and I’m sorry I missed out on it.
I agree with OP on his experiences, though I stayed for both. Though I was rather entertained by the visuals and what not during Scott Pilgrim, my lasting impression is one of dislike, mostly because I thought the actual love story (and the cultural tone behind it) was garbage. It seemed to me that the ONLY reason Scott (and supposedly the viewers) were in love with Ramona was that fact that she dyed her hair odd colors. And I am annoyed with anyone who thinks that automatically makes you an awesome person.
I believe that, if you do not watch a film all the way through, your opinion of it is based on ignorance. Sure, you can walk out, but then you lose any ability that the movie sucked. You can only say that the part you saw sucked.
I agree. My wife and I both liked Scot Pilgrim. However when it was over we acknowledged that it was going to be a very polarizing movie. Not many tweeners; people were either going to like it or hate it.
Regarding the expendables… Dude, it was written and directed by Sylvester Stallone. What did you expect? I went in expecting a bunch of explosions and a weak plot. I got what I expected, and enjoyed it.
No.
I’m far from old yet my friend and I (same age) would have walked out of the cinema had we have been sober enough to get to one and had not have pirated that… that… thing, The Expendables. How the hell this crap not go straight to video?.. Betamax at that! :dubious:
I laughed out load when I read Van Damage turned the role the juiced-up-at-60 not-so-Sly Stallone offered him citing ‘lack of character depth’. But after enduring the visual and aural excrement in question (and in light of Damme’s own performance in JVCD), I actually empathized with the Brussels sprout! : /
The worst part is not that an opportunity, likely the last (unless they churn out a sequel… which, believe it or not, is something I’ve heard mutterings of already :rolleyes:), is lost to pay homage to those ageless tongue-in-cheek action schlocks of the 80s and early 90s, no. But that barfing up such an utter, abject bunch of cinematic bile is a literal insult to film-goers. :mad: …And this is coming from someone who didn’t pay anything but an ISP subscription and an electricity bill to see the thing!
Movies like this justify piracy. -_-
I walked out on “Howard the Duck” and I felt a little guilty about it because I was just a kid and it seemed like I was breaking some kind of rule. The girl at the concession stand said I was doing the right thing, the movie sucked.
To answer the OP, yes, I walked out on “Prelude to a Kiss” and into “Cool World.” Walked out of “Cool World” quickly and into “Sister Act.”
QFT.
Fair enough.
However, as long as I’m allowed to judge what I did see, I should also be allowed an opinion on whether anything in the remaining part of the film could possibly make up for the suffering required to reach it.