I went to a movie about 6 months ago. $12 for the ticket, $14 for soda and popcorn…20 minutes of commercials…20 minutes of coming attractions. Forget it! It cheaper to buy the Blu-ray DVD and watch it home on the large flat screen.
It’s usually about once a week, though lately there’s been fuck all to see, so it’s been 'bout two months. There have been some interesting looking independent movies that have come out in that time, but I live on the edge of fucking nowhere, so if it don’t have a Marvel logo on it chances are it ain’t coming to a theater near me.
I have a decent home theater setup, and I actually just bought a new TV (since @RiotDemon laughed at how small my screen was) so I will be watching them at home even more now!
@RiotDemon My screen is just barely shorter than me, I am 5’6" and it’s 65". The tv with frame is bigger than me. I wanted a bigger one, but I wanted a Samsung and 65" was the biggest Samsung available locally. I prefer to buy large electronucs locally for convenient returns.
@moondrake that’s a big TV. When I was talking to @ELUNO, i was basically commenting that I like movie theatres because the screen is huge. Some movies just need to be seen on the big screen.
@ELUNO I spend a lot of time watching tv, so I figured whatever investment I put into it would be a good one. I wanted the Samsung brand because I had a Samsung home entertainment system/blu ray and a Samsung tablet, so I want to maximize my access to Smarthub and screen casting.
@trisk There was a good deal last week on one, but it was a 1080P set.
I also saw a couple of deals on last year’s sets, but they didn’t have the latest version of HDMI, making HDR impossible.
So I skipped them because I don’t want to buy something that isn’t quite future proof…
@ELUNO The EF9500’s a solid performer (4K, 10-bit HDR sans Dolby Vision). Its curved sibling, the EG9600 might be easier to find, though the design is slightly gimmicky and more prone to reflections.
Blue moon, as in: once in a. Too effin expensive for noisy, inconsiderate assholes that are in the theatres. Rather wait for the DVD. We have ancient CRT TV’s, one 25" and one 20". Decent enough pictures. Would love a 42" flat screen, but budget says otherwise.
@Lurker I’ve mentioned this before. I love going to the movies during the week. Usually will go to a 10 or 11 am showing because there’s hardly anyone there.
I watch them on computer sometimes. If thefilm is not amazing, I’m multitasking. You can really tell something about quality, by putting the film on your phablet screen. If you still wanna watch every second, not multitask, that’s a fine movie.
@looseneck
My watchlist kinda includes stuff going back to at least the 30’s. And I’ve never seen Wings. And there are some Buster Leaton, Charlie Chaplain and plenty of noir I need to see again, or for the first time.
Not being a nerd here. I just used to go to rep theater a lot, and try to see so much, including a buncha EU stuff, and then movies started being marketed to teenagers, and the PC revolution took over a lot of my time, and now I’m way way behind.
Once every ten years. I took my son to see Kicking and Screaming in 2005 when he was 11 and took my daughter to see Minions in 2015 when she was 8. Both of these were a waste of time and money. I don’t want to pay a ton of money to listen to people talk over the movie and play on their damn phones. I used to love going to the dollar movies by myself when I was younger, but those no longer exist, sadly. I think my last favorite movie was Idiocracy, so I can’t say I’ve kept up with the times.
@melwin there used to be a $2 theatre that I would go to. It was the movies that had been out for a while. It was nice to be able to see stuff in the theatre without paying an arm and a leg.
@melwin we still have a $2 theater but it’s clear across town. But people here are much more polite than where you are. You rarely here people talk, and if someone turns on a phone they are asked by those around them (usually those with them) to turn it off. Crying babies are usually taken to the lobby.
@moondrake We used to have two dollar theaters, but they tore them both down to make parking lots. We had a regular theater in the mall, but they built a new Hollywood theater across the street from the mall and shut down the one in the mall. I prefer to binge watch series now anyway, so I have no use for theaters that are going to cost me at least $20 per person to watch and listen to other people play on their phones. Even if they ask people to shut off their phones, they don’t.
@melwin I think there’s a Cinemark nearby (15min?) that has $2-3 shows, when they’re a few weeks old. We also have a Movie Tavern Grill just up the street that has $5 matinees. They want you to eat their overpriced pub food, but no pressure to do so.
Nothing like seeing a movie on a real movie screen
Up until a few months ago my best friend and I went at least once a week, sometimes twice a week. He died in March and going alone makes me so sad that I have only been going when I can find someone to go with. Most of my friends are like most people here, they only go to the theater for a few special movies. Bob and I were movie fans, we saw almost everything that came out. It kills me that the last film we saw together was the godawful Grimsby Brothers.
First saw Night of the Living Dead and M.A.S.H. at drive-ins because that’s were they were booked as first run.
A local drive-in got an exclusive first run on M.A.S.H. and just ran the film forever. Every teenager or person who could persuade a teenager to take them along went again and again and again.
Our local drive-in is newish and has three screens. They do a bunch of nice double features, always including at least one kid-ok double-feature.
For the weekend that started 10/07/16:
Deepwater Horizon
Hell Or High Water
Girl On The Train
Suicide Squad
Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children
The Magnificent Seven
Storks
Sully
My college has a deal with the local movie theater: $3 movie-night once a semester (I think it’s $6 for 3D). The theater is tiny, but the price is right, and the campus buses ferry students to and from the theater, so no car needed.
@PocketBrain I’m in precisely the same camp. Will splurge once a year when extended family is here for the holidays to do a dinner and show night, the latter being a big, quaility franchise release (such as Star Wars) in IMAX 3D at the local AMC. Most of our regular film viewing is through Netflix or Amazon streaming to a nice home setup. Also a heavy user of TCM.
@dannybeans That & MST3k would probably be the only way I would consider going to a movie theater if stars align and R’lyeh rises and nations fall, so that I have free time to dedicate to entertainment.
I think I have cited this reference before. George Costanza said on “Seinfeld” that if he watches a movie at Jerry’s house he is “doing something” but if he watches the same movie at home he isn’t doing anyhing. That is my view on going to the movies. While I know it is cheaper to watch a DVD/Netflix at home and I don’t have to deal with the inconsiderate jerks who insist on talking the whole time, I still feel like I am “doing something” if I go to the theater.
@thelegendjp Yes, we have a theater where standard tickets are $5 all day on Tuesday, and concessions are discounted by about 30%. I can get a movie ticket, a medium soda and small popcorn for $10. A movie with a large soda and popcorn with a free refill on both is $13.
I don’t really see it being worth the time or effort for me.
Going to see Shin Godzilla this week…
@somf69 I was coming here to alert people to this!
@somf69 Forgot this was getting a US release. Heck yeah.
I went to a movie about 6 months ago. $12 for the ticket, $14 for soda and popcorn…20 minutes of commercials…20 minutes of coming attractions. Forget it! It cheaper to buy the Blu-ray DVD and watch it home on the large flat screen.
Never more than once
@matthew
It’s usually about once a week, though lately there’s been fuck all to see, so it’s been 'bout two months. There have been some interesting looking independent movies that have come out in that time, but I live on the edge of fucking nowhere, so if it don’t have a Marvel logo on it chances are it ain’t coming to a theater near me.
@nogoodwithnames That’s a shame. I live in a rural area but we have a great tiny indie movie place. Maybe you should open your own? There might be a market.
I have a decent home theater setup, and I actually just bought a new TV (since @RiotDemon laughed at how small my screen was) so I will be watching them at home even more now!
@ELUNO but is the screen bigger than you???
@RiotDemon BRB… going to to return it and going to sell my kidney to afford an even bigger screen…
@ELUNO now you’re thinking.
@RiotDemon My screen is just barely shorter than me, I am 5’6" and it’s 65". The tv with frame is bigger than me. I wanted a bigger one, but I wanted a Samsung and 65" was the biggest Samsung available locally. I prefer to buy large electronucs locally for convenient returns.
@moondrake that’s a big TV. When I was talking to @ELUNO, i was basically commenting that I like movie theatres because the screen is huge. Some movies just need to be seen on the big screen.
@moondrake I need to get a 75" for it to be bigger than me, and sadly prices grow exponentially with size
@ELUNO I spend a lot of time watching tv, so I figured whatever investment I put into it would be a good one. I wanted the Samsung brand because I had a Samsung home entertainment system/blu ray and a Samsung tablet, so I want to maximize my access to Smarthub and screen casting.
@moondrake Yeah, I went with LG since they seem to be one of the few ones left producing 3D TVs, and I’ve had a good experience with them so far.
@ELUNO Good choice, LG’s OLED TVs look better than some theater screens.
@trisk Oh, but I need to sell both kidneys for that!
@ELUNO Prices on last year’s sets have tumbled, so you might be able to get away with just one kidney, or a couple pints of blood.
I lucked out recently on an Amazon warehouse deal, but only because of a camelcamelcamel alert I set back in February.
@trisk There was a good deal last week on one, but it was a 1080P set.
I also saw a couple of deals on last year’s sets, but they didn’t have the latest version of HDMI, making HDR impossible.
So I skipped them because I don’t want to buy something that isn’t quite future proof…
@ELUNO The EF9500’s a solid performer (4K, 10-bit HDR sans Dolby Vision). Its curved sibling, the EG9600 might be easier to find, though the design is slightly gimmicky and more prone to reflections.
Blue moon, as in: once in a. Too effin expensive for noisy, inconsiderate assholes that are in the theatres. Rather wait for the DVD. We have ancient CRT TV’s, one 25" and one 20". Decent enough pictures. Would love a 42" flat screen, but budget says otherwise.
@Lurker I’ve mentioned this before. I love going to the movies during the week. Usually will go to a 10 or 11 am showing because there’s hardly anyone there.
People are so inconsiderate.
I watch them on computer sometimes. If thefilm is not amazing, I’m multitasking. You can really tell something about quality, by putting the film on your phablet screen. If you still wanna watch every second, not multitask, that’s a fine movie.
Have a really really long “to watch” list.
@f00l My watch list includes movies from the 80s.
@looseneck
My watchlist kinda includes stuff going back to at least the 30’s. And I’ve never seen Wings. And there are some Buster Leaton, Charlie Chaplain and plenty of noir I need to see again, or for the first time.
Not being a nerd here. I just used to go to rep theater a lot, and try to see so much, including a buncha EU stuff, and then movies started being marketed to teenagers, and the PC revolution took over a lot of my time, and now I’m way way behind.
I’m not claiming to watch intelligently.
@f00l I’m too busy reading the internet. When I’m finished with that, I’ll get back to watching movies
/image too much internet
@looseneck
That internet. It fucked me over, being so ever expanding, and I had to learn to read without comprehension or memory in order to keep up.
But I don’t smoke ciggies. I only smoke the shit I read on the net.
Once every ten years. I took my son to see Kicking and Screaming in 2005 when he was 11 and took my daughter to see Minions in 2015 when she was 8. Both of these were a waste of time and money. I don’t want to pay a ton of money to listen to people talk over the movie and play on their damn phones. I used to love going to the dollar movies by myself when I was younger, but those no longer exist, sadly. I think my last favorite movie was Idiocracy, so I can’t say I’ve kept up with the times.
@melwin there used to be a $2 theatre that I would go to. It was the movies that had been out for a while. It was nice to be able to see stuff in the theatre without paying an arm and a leg.
@melwin we still have a $2 theater but it’s clear across town. But people here are much more polite than where you are. You rarely here people talk, and if someone turns on a phone they are asked by those around them (usually those with them) to turn it off. Crying babies are usually taken to the lobby.
@moondrake We used to have two dollar theaters, but they tore them both down to make parking lots. We had a regular theater in the mall, but they built a new Hollywood theater across the street from the mall and shut down the one in the mall. I prefer to binge watch series now anyway, so I have no use for theaters that are going to cost me at least $20 per person to watch and listen to other people play on their phones. Even if they ask people to shut off their phones, they don’t.
@melwin I think there’s a Cinemark nearby (15min?) that has $2-3 shows, when they’re a few weeks old. We also have a Movie Tavern Grill just up the street that has $5 matinees. They want you to eat their overpriced pub food, but no pressure to do so.
Nothing like seeing a movie on a real movie screen
Up until a few months ago my best friend and I went at least once a week, sometimes twice a week. He died in March and going alone makes me so sad that I have only been going when I can find someone to go with. Most of my friends are like most people here, they only go to the theater for a few special movies. Bob and I were movie fans, we saw almost everything that came out. It kills me that the last film we saw together was the godawful Grimsby Brothers.
Theater? Bleh. That means I have to get out of my car.
(Yes, drive-in theaters still exist. This is the one’s local to me: http://missiontiki.com/)
@narfcake too damn hot here. People get annoyed if you leave your car running, apparently.
@narfcake I used to live about 20 minutes from this one:
http://www.floridaswapshop.com
Place is insanely huge. 80 acres.
@narfcake
Gotta love drive-ins.
First saw Night of the Living Dead and M.A.S.H. at drive-ins because that’s were they were booked as first run.
A local drive-in got an exclusive first run on M.A.S.H. and just ran the film forever. Every teenager or person who could persuade a teenager to take them along went again and again and again.
Our local drive-in is newish and has three screens. They do a bunch of nice double features, always including at least one kid-ok double-feature.
http://coyotedrive-in.com/fortworth/
For the weekend that started 10/07/16:
Deepwater Horizon
Hell Or High Water
Girl On The Train
Suicide Squad
Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children
The Magnificent Seven
Storks
Sully
^^^THIS
My college has a deal with the local movie theater: $3 movie-night once a semester (I think it’s $6 for 3D). The theater is tiny, but the price is right, and the campus buses ferry students to and from the theater, so no car needed.
/giphy struggle bus
Once a year, now that a new Star Wars is scheduled for release every holiday season for the near future.
@PocketBrain I’m in precisely the same camp. Will splurge once a year when extended family is here for the holidays to do a dinner and show night, the latter being a big, quaility franchise release (such as Star Wars) in IMAX 3D at the local AMC. Most of our regular film viewing is through Netflix or Amazon streaming to a nice home setup. Also a heavy user of TCM.
Do Rifftrax live events count? 'Cause those account for probably half the movies I see in the theater these days.
@dannybeans That & MST3k would probably be the only way I would consider going to a movie theater if stars align and R’lyeh rises and nations fall, so that I have free time to dedicate to entertainment.
@Pavlov & @MrsPavlov - how many movies do you two see in theaters a year?
I go quite a bit, it is often the excursion the kids I work with on the weekends want to do.
I think I have cited this reference before. George Costanza said on “Seinfeld” that if he watches a movie at Jerry’s house he is “doing something” but if he watches the same movie at home he isn’t doing anyhing. That is my view on going to the movies. While I know it is cheaper to watch a DVD/Netflix at home and I don’t have to deal with the inconsiderate jerks who insist on talking the whole time, I still feel like I am “doing something” if I go to the theater.
Movie theaters are for lowly plebeians.
@serpent redundant much??
@chienfou Yes, these days movie theaters are redundant. I could give you a thousand of reasons why, but that also is redundant.
Every tuesday cheaper day to go in new york
@thelegendjp Yes, we have a theater where standard tickets are $5 all day on Tuesday, and concessions are discounted by about 30%. I can get a movie ticket, a medium soda and small popcorn for $10. A movie with a large soda and popcorn with a free refill on both is $13.