Posted on 06/17/2005 9:56:34 PM PDT by RayChuang88
A new poll released Thursday reveals that a large majority of people – 73 per cent – prefer to watch movies at home on DVD, VHS or pay-per-view.
The same poll found that only 22 per cent of people preferred to see movies the old-fashioned way – in a movie theatre.
The numbers may provide fodder for those who believe the proliferation of at-home entertainment technologies is permanently changing moviegoing patterns.
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I ask a young couple to shut up during a film. They say f$#% you! I go to the snack bar buy a bucket of coke. Come back from up the aisle and pour it on them. He pulls out a gun and shoots me.
Could easilly happen.
Past couple times that I have been in a movie theater it was not even 1/4 full and no rude movie goers. Maybe they are stay ing home to refine and perfect their rudeness for other venues.
the margin on ticket sales is pretty small, so thats why food and drinks are so expensive.
Paying exorbitant prices to see overpriced and overvalued H'weirdos playacting is for the birds.
Yup... Netflix is awesome.
Oftentimes the big screen provides a totally different viewing experience. If you watch a very visual movie like Jurassic Park on a TV set you lose much of it's impact.
Wow, where do you go to movies?
I agree on prices for tickets and concessions. If movies cost less, I'd go see more movies. $6.50 for a matinee (in Overland Park, KS) is outrageous. Toss in popcorn and soda for 2 and we're already at $20-$25. I can't imagine how parents with 1 or more kids bothers to afford it. At home you can rent a DVD for $3, pop your own popcorn for 4 for $2 and pour drinks out of 2-liters for $1.29/2 liter. Should be able to do the same thing for 4 people for under $10!
Get real. Those "(so-and-so-company) prohibits guns on this premises" should deter them from bringing/using firearms, shouldn't it?
I'm a Netflix Junkie!
I hear you. I've got some pretty ugly war stories from movie theaters, and I'm not talking "Saving Private Ryan" if you catch my drift.
My problem is that if people push me too far, I get even. And when I do the same thing to them that they were doing to me, I'm the one who leaves the theater feeling like a heel. They are mystified that anyone could act that way (the way they had been acting towards everyone else), before I administer the payback.
I find that people who have kicked my seat non-stop for one hour suddenly think it's terribly rude when I walk around behind their chairs, sit down and kick the livin' sh-t out of their seats for the next hour.
We've got a ten year old Zenith 52". I purchase the DVDs in widescreen format, and enjoy them just fine at home.
I will go to the theater if it's clearly a blockbuster movie, but I do so knowing that the experience will likely be sub-par, due to the idiots that I will be watching the with.
You haven't lived until...
1. Someone in the seat right behind you is translating the movie to a friend in another language...
2. Someone in the seat to your left has already seen the movie and just has to tell their friend about the next exciting scene throughout the movie, short circuiting every impactful scene
3. Some kid sitting right behind you kicking your seat about once every three seconds, mother oblivious to the known universe, even if you ask her nicely to please stop her child from kicking your seat
4. You get to the theater about 40 minutes before the screening so you can get a good seat, only to have some jackass draging his wife, her hat, her mom, her sister, their four kids and their three friends, entering the movie after the coming attractions, after the actual movie has started, and they want seats dead center one row in front of you and they're asking everyone to move while they stand in front of you...
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...so many scenarios, so little time.
DVD is king!
In all the theatres in my area if someone sits in front of you the view is hindered. I attended a theatre in Jacksonville Florida and it was sloped so no one's view is hindered. I will continue to attend theatres in my area very infrequently until they show concern for the viewer. Also, in order to show more movies they have divided up the original theatre and made it into six small ones. Yuk!
regardless of what you've heard about California, when you rent a car at LAX if you don't have a gun they give you one.
If it's a chick flick or something else with a lot of dialogue and close-ups, then of course seeing it at home is fine. But if it's a special-effects with lots of spaceships and elves and dinosaurs and stuff blowing up, I want to see the special effects right in my face, on a big screen. So I only go to a movie occasionally. (My ideal movie would feature Catherine Zeta-Jones and Gwyneth Paltrow wearing really excellent long gowns and hanging around castles, while a lot of hot guys middle-aged guys like Mel Gibson, Russell Crowe, Denzel Washington, Kieffer Sutherland, and Bruce Willis gallop around on fine horses and rescue them. There should be swordfights and F-16s and aircraft carriers and submarines and Air Force One and a hero president, spaceships and aliens and Will Smith beating up the aliens whilst using a lot of bad language. Elves, orcs, hobbits, and ents are good, too. Things should blow up and there should be a lot of big guns. The bad guys must die horribly at the end. Full frontal nudity on the part of the heroes.
What can I say? When it comes to movies I have the tastes of a thirteen-year-old boy (except for the full frontal nudity for the heroes, that is).
When I saw Fatal Attraction, there were just a few of us in the theatre. Two nice black women sat in the row behind me. While the camera zoomed into the kitchen, one yelled out "Giiiiiiirlllll, she done boiled her rabbit." I alomst jumped over the seat in front of me.
One time there was a kid running up and down the aisle, while mom just sat and watched the movie. I reached out and snatched the kid and yelled, "knock it off" Got an ovation. The kid never got out of his seat again.
Monday night. La Mirada CA. Only person in the theatre. Lights go down. Couple comes in and sits right in front of me. 3 of us in the movie.
Newport Beach, Friday night. The Graduate. Packed. Seat in front of me open. Wait. Just as the lights go down, this guys comes down the aisle in front of us with a shipload of popcorn, soda and goodies. Just before it gets dark, he stumbles, takes a header into his seat. Junk food all over the place. Everyone going crazy. They had to turn on the house lights.
LOL, we must have been in the same theater on some of those. Sure seems like it anyway.
You've got to wonder how some of these people go to the theater in the first place, some of them are so lame (common sense wise).
ROTFL
No, it's not that. It's that at the theater, I can't stop the movie for a bathroom run.
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