I don't like supporting Hollywierd with any more of my money than I have to. I seldom attend movies in the theater for that and other reasons. Our culture has deteriated to the point that it's almost a masachistic exercise to try to attend and enjoy a presentation in the theater.
I do buy previously viewed movies. I figure I spend about half what I would if I attended a movie in a theater, and I have a lasting copy to boot.
It's a mixed bag completely ignoring what Hollywierd has to offer. If you ignore it, you don't completely know what's going on. If you don't, you have to expose yourself to some pretty ripe "stuff".
There are some movies I will not see. From the titles and trailers I can tell where they are headed, and I won't go there.
Then there are the movies that are advertised as one thing, then turn out to sell a completely different set of values when you attend the viewing.
I decided I will not watch Pay per view as the last two I ordered COnstatine and Monster in law sucked so bad I was asleep in the first half hour! waste of $8.00!
I'm at the point where I wait for cable, and if I want something I just record it with a capture card and burn to DVD (and if I really want a good version of something, I buy used from Amazon). Either way, however, I wait until a movie has been thoroughly vetted. Nothing would make me happier than to read somewhere that a major studio like a Dreamworks or a Paramount has had to file Chapter 11.