Yup.
I have a nice projector and sound system. I can take an edible, watch a movie at home, and pause it when I need to pee.
It’s beautiful
Also, subtitles. Also it doesn’t cost an extra $40
No shit. Rather pay 20$/m then spend $80per movies to go to the movies. Ticket prices + the obligatory popcorn drinks
The popcorn and drinks are not obligatory. I once snuck a whole KFC combo meal into the theater.
I smell that fresh popcorn and I’m sold. For me, it basically is obligatory…
Waiting is a small price to pay for a superior experience.
Seriously. The exit lights in theatres light up the movie screen. I’m obviously not saying to turn them off, but my screen at home doesn’t have that issue. It’s a better picture for less money.
Forget the exit lights. One of my local theaters leaves the house lights on, just dimmed. Completely washes out the screen…
Oof. There should be laws against that.
I don’t go very often because almost every time I go there is an annoying issue. People being obnoxious is one problem but audio is almost always fucked up and video is half the time too. I can’t stand going to the place whose sole business is to play movies and they fuck it up. It’s not just one theatre either, I’ve been to probably a dozen in my area and they are all shit.
I hate watching it with people. Every fuckin movie I always end up with a person using their phone next to me. That’s why I wait a while to watch it and go early sat or sun morning.
Oppenheimer was 3 hours long. We watched it from home over three nights with plenty of food, booze, pee breaks, etc. I could pause and rewind observe a visual effect again or rehear a piece of dialogue. Watching from home is a superior experience most of the time.
The exception is when socializing is part of the experience. Like watching Rocky Horror or going to an outdoor screening where people are milling about between picnic blankets chatting and sharing food or theaters that have an established etiquette of talking and shouting more than you would find in other theaters, typically associated with black neighborhoods but not always. Not your generic AMC theaters.
Well, I would go to the theater if there was anything worth watching. These days, I can’t seem to find the excitement I used to have to go to the theater and watch a movie I’m interested in.
That last bit is a S tier depression sign.
Nahhh I’ve wanted to watch a new movie several times over the past year while I was out and about with my kiddo. We drove by the theater and I saw the selection
Madame web? Goodburger 2 “we’re old now”? Some kind of Winnie the pooh horror movie? Magic Mike 2??? Well, at least I know what “the flash” is. What do you think about that hun? He goes really fast and saves people like 🦸♂️ superman??
Yeah let’s see what’s on at home okay okay yeah idk what these things are either 😅
That happened to me 3x at least
Yeah, because when I go I count at least five blindingly bright phones in use during the fucking film. If I’m going to have a sub-par experience, I’m not overpaying for popcorn and soda, too. I’d rather wait for physical or streaming.
I also don’t like having my hearing destroyed just so the theater can continue to have a dick measuring contest with itself
@neme That’s for the best. The movie theaters are mostly complete garbage as an experience, and a total waste of real estate. Hopefully if this trend continues we can free up a bunch of land that’s utterly meaningless.
5·10 months agoto be fair some of the really old ones are designed around airborne infections in mind, and are a good place to do public events of sizes greater than tiny circles most buildings are more appropriate for
Oh 100%. If I take my wife to a movie, with the tickets and snacks, we’re looking at over $50 in Canada, to go to a movie with someone. Or I can wait a few months and it ends up on streaming or the high seas. There are so many movies to catch up on now that it works out anyways
A new movie ticket is $19. Chances are, it’ll be like 2-3 hours and half of the films today bore me.
I could buy a high quality indie video game for about $15, that I’ll play for a week or two.
I only go out to see IMAX movies. Saw Dune pt. II that way.
More comfortable.
Cheaper.
Higher resolution.
No idiots hooting and hollering and shooting up the screen.
Pause.
Subtitles.
Gee, I wonder why.
I’m fortunate in that my city the cinema is never very crowded. I saw Dune 2 opening weekend and it was only one-third full. It’s not bad paying and feeling like I have the place to myself.
I already have my tickets for the Ghostbusters and Godzilla movies.
Though, the last really enjoyable theatre experience I had was going to a pre-release showing of “Shang-chi” - a theatre packed full of fans enjoying a fun movie. I miss that type of experience.
I live in central Europe and I usually just go to the movie theater around the corner. They only have one screen so we check the schedule when there is a movie we want to see and plan for it. Or we go when they play an interesting movie, they often have some independent movies that can be quite interesting. Anyway, we pay 6€ per ticket and we usually take some tea in a flask with.
That is a movie experience I enjoy, because we go see movies we want to see (as opposed going to the movie theater and just watch something that’s playing), the price is very affordable and I don’t feel like I’m treated as a walking wallet.
In the larger cities around we can also have the full commercial experience with popcorn and snacks, 12 different movies to choose from including IMAX, but that kind of experience we don’t enjoy (although I used to when younger).
My parents try to take me to the drive in every summer and I absolutely hate it. I can’t see the screen and there’s always some people fucking in the grass and kids playing. I just wanna sit in my house and watch stuff where I can appreciate it fully
I’m having trouble picturing why you wouldn’t be able to see the screen at a drive-in.
Honestly the screen isn’t super reflective from the weather so the movie ends up being at 50% opacity.
Because people are walking around constantly and the drive in by me is bad quality so the details of shit aren’t clear. Also, people don’t turn off their car lights
The one I used to live near would start a movie the moment the sun dipped below the horizon, so there was still plenty of ambient light. In my case, it was usually fine because they did double-features and the second movie was often the only one I cared to watch, so I fucked around in the arcade during the first movie.
