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[dxmnkd316]

I've quit the theaters. My screen, sound, food, bathroom, and alcohol are significantly better

 

[aparch]

I've quit the theaters. My screen, sound, food, bathroom, and alcohol are significantly better

Same. Last couple "tentpole" MCU films the wife and I looked at each other and said we can wait until it hits Disney+.

Waiting for Top Gun Maverick to hit Paramount Plus was agonizing.


i have come to realize that I need a bigger house so I can turn part of the basement or a spare bedroom into a media room / IPIC experience.

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

My distaste is for this trend. What’s next- charging for express lane checkout at target?

 

[dxmnkd316]

My distaste is for this trend. What’s next- charging for express lane checkout at target?

I mean, we do this everywhere already. Concerts, airlines, etc. it's only natural. I don't like it at first, but I've already accepted it everywhere else. Hard to complain.

On the other hand, good luck enforcing this theaters. Lmao.

 

[Slap Shot]

Wife and I still enjoy the theater experience, but unlike when we got married 25 years ago and probably went at least once a month it's now closer to once every other month at most.

 

[Kepler]

I've quit the theaters. My screen, sound, food, bathroom, and alcohol are significantly better

Same same.

 

[mookie1995]

Sounds like the best seats (roughly in the middle areas of the theaters) will have the upcharge. The front row(s) will actually cost less than a standard ticket (which will be everything else that is not front rows or middle). Also says it will only be for showings after 4 pm for now.

Front row is the best. Sit there are turn your head side to side, being part of the conversation. Stretch out. Nobody in front of mookie fidgeting around, getting up to hit the head.
awesome

 

[Swansong]

I find that I like two kinds of theaters for two different purposes:

1. Big budget, big movie, big experience - like Star Wars or something very visual/auditory - I'll absolutely go to the big screen fancy theater and pay whatever.
2. Casual - for movies that don't benefit from the big theater experience. Cinema pubs are outstanding for these.

All in all, excluding Covid and all that, I still only go to 2-3 movies per year.

 

[French Rage]

Same same.

Yeah, even before Covid I maybe did one or two a year in theaters, certainly not as much as I did in my 20s; with DVDs from Netflix there was always something new to watch at home each weekend. Plus I could drink during. With streaming getting more movies and more quickly during Covid, it really took out any desire to go to a theater. I mean, I suppose if there was something where I had to know exactly what was going to happen the immediate second it came out, I might at some point find my way back, but hell if I know which movie that would be going forward. I'm more than willing to wait a few weeks for anyone to hit streaming now. I mean, when you get down to it, having everyone go to one central big room to watch a movie is an old-timey way of doing things. It's like waiting for the circus to travel to your town. We have these big cables coming into our houses that let us choose anything digital we want at any time, shouldn't that be the way we do movies too now?

 

[Kepler]

Yeah, even before Covid I maybe did one or two a year in theaters, certainly not as much as I did in my 20s; with DVDs from Netflix there was always something new to watch at home each weekend. Plus I could drink during. With streaming getting more movies and more quickly during Covid, it really took out any desire to go to a theater. I mean, I suppose if there was something where I had to know exactly what was going to happen the immediate second it came out, I might at some point find my way back, but hell if I know which movie that would be going forward. I'm more than willing to wait a few weeks for anyone to hit streaming now. I mean, when you get down to it, having everyone go to one central big room to watch a movie is an old-timey way of doing things. It's like waiting for the circus to travel to your town. We have these big cables coming into our houses that let us choose anything digital we want at any time, shouldn't that be the way we do movies too now?

The only time I can see going to a theater to watch a movie now is to enjoy the crowd experience. And the only way that makes sense is a crowd of people I would enjoy. So, some art films, and some old films. But for an MCU movie:

What should I do with him—dress him in my apparel and make him my waiting gentlewoman? He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man; and he that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, well, I am not for him.

 

[Slap Shot]

An independent movie experience is something I hope will not stop doing a few times a year. The TC has a few gems such as the Riverview, the Lagoon, etc. Checking now the Parkway is showing Harold and Maude. Obviously I can't avail them at the moment. : P

 

[rufus]

Can barely remember the last movie I saw in a theater. Think it was the last of the Hobbit trilogy.

Holy crap, that was 8+ years ago.

 

[bronconick]

Endgame was the last movie I went to.

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

I do like one a quarter. Last two were Tar and the whale and whew, not my faves

 

[Kepler]

I cannot remember my last movie in a theater. Yikes.

I know friend of ours rented out a theatre for his birthday and that was Ready Player One (2018). I think that's my last one, so... perhaps my last one ever.

What a sh-tty last movie ever. I should go to one of those prestige screenings of City Lights or 2001 and finish on a high.

Or see Road House in a theater. That would be a hoot.

 

[unofan]

I cannot remember my last movie in a theater. Yikes.

I know friend of ours rented out a theatre for his birthday and that was Ready Player One (2018). I think that's my last one, so... perhaps my last one ever.

What a sh-tty last movie ever. I should go to one of those prestige screenings of City Lights or 2001 and finish on a high.

Or see Road House in a theater. That would be a hoot.

I think the last movie I saw in the theater was Spectre. And I honestly think before that may have been Skyfall, though I know I saw Monty Python and the Holy Grail in the theater at some point around then, too, just not sure if it was before or after the Bond movie.

 

[dxmnkd316]

Pretty sure it was Endgame for me. Kids will probably force me to do it someday.

 

[St. Clown]

Wife and I still enjoy the theater experience, but unlike when we got married 25 years ago and probably went at least once a month it's now closer to once every other month at most.

I’ve seen all of one movie at the theater since my daughter was born. My wife and I would go to maybe two per month before then. The problem, we have to schedule about four hours for a movie these days; 15 or so minutes each way, 2.5 hours for the movie itself because nobody can edit down the content for the past number of years, and then time getting concessions and previews. It’s just too much of a time commitment for parents of a young kid.

 

[Proud2baLaker]

I saw 2 movies in theaters last year. EEAAO and The Bobs Burgers Movie. EEAAO was like the last week it was in theaters where I live (might have been the ONLY week). I had been hearing good things and was glad I did get to see it when I did. I've always liked Bob's burgers and was bored on a Saturday afternoon so good time killer. Otherwise, yeah I'm in the same boat as others. I've got access to several streaming options and a pretty good set up at home.

There are maybe 2 more I want to see in theaters this year. Guardians of the Galaxy 3 and Oppenheimer for sure. Other than that I don't think there is anything else. We do have a little art house independent theater in town so I do pay attention to what they have but haven't been able to make any shows. They had Banshees of Inisherin for a short time and tried to fit it in but couldn't. Came to HBO like a week or 2 later.

 

[Bronco]

I'm pretty sure the last movie I've watched in a theater was a Star Wars third trilogy film on Christmas day. Maybe SW8? Dunno, they're all the same.