[manny613]

True True.

[MarkeyD]

I don't go because

1. I don't like screen talkers.
2. I don't want my money going to leftists.

[twigs]

I go to see the movies I wish to watch. There's not many. We do plan to see The Brothers Grimm this weekend, however.

[theFIRMbss]

> Everyone has an opinion on the reason...

Hollywood should make
more movies with giant bugs.
Big insects are cool!

[zendari]

They keep increasing prices. $10 a movie is a ripoff.

[Cagey]

At one time I did enjoy seeing a film at a theater, but now I can't stand the endless run of coming attractions and the commercials shown before the movie starts.


And then, there was the time some goof ball's cell phone went off.

[Prime Choice]

What do they expect? The low-lifes have got the upper hand in the public square thanks to the ACLU and other idiot Leftists. It's so that decent people can't go out in public without being accosted by beggars, bums, bongheads or butt-surfers. Small wonder public venues are suffering. They STINK...in more ways than one.

[RayChuang88]

I think Ms. Farrop is absolutely right about the size of the projection screen getting smaller and smaller with the multiplexes. Unless you get the biggest projection rooms, from about halfway back to the back to the theater the screen size of multiplex screening rooms don't look much bigger than the 50" (diagonal) widescreen rear-projection TV's nowadays--and rear-projection TV's with DLP, HD-ILA and LCD elements usually sport color accuracy, brightness and sharp focus that leaves most theater projection screens WAY behind.

[PMCarey]

The columnist can write whatever she wants, but unless she's willing to put down her own money to bring back big beautiful movie theatres, her opinion is just hot air. Sturgeon's law states that "90% of anything is crap" and its probably 95% for movies. However, if I wait I can find that 5 or 10% of good movies and avoid the crap. Unless the movie itself is a big spectacle like the LOTR trilogy, why would I shell out all that much money when I can see it for less at home? I wait 6 months for the film to come out on DVD - and the popcorn I make tastes better than the movie theater's.

[rhombus]

Here's my reasons...
1) The sound is always too loud and too booming - reality doesn't sound that way.
2) I get tired of watching fat people eat too much food.
3) Too many people talk through movies (when they are crunching on pop corn).
4) The floor is sticky.
5) Movie theaters have become daycare centers for teens (since they have no where else to go).
5) Holllywood leftists being obsessed with themselves and their own opinions have made every movie some sort of political statement which is applauded by the ignorant under-educated who spend too much time watching movies.

[TADSLOS]

Leftist, elitist industry through and through.

Noisy, trashy theaters filled with cell phone, screen talking bores.

Ticket and snack price gouging to the extreme.

Poor quality entertainment on the screen

Sounds like a recipe for failure to me. Skip it and read a book.

[One Proud Dad]

It is a short list of good movies that have been made since about 1975-80.

Leftywood sucks. You can tell they are hurting for original material with all the retreads.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

My prediction is that studios are going to release new movies via home pay-per-view. Movie theaters are going to become obsolete like adult theaters.

[bkepley]

I did my part last year. I saw Chicago at least eight times.

[Sloth]

It's not the theaters -- it's the movies and the prices. Most script-writing stinks, and in the rare case where it doesn't, you can wait 5 months and buy the DVD for what it costs for two people to go to the theater w/ no concessions.

[Rutles4Ever]

Reasons not to go to the theaters:

1. Audience more obnoxious than ever.

2. $10 tix + concessions? Buy the DVD for less two weeks from now.

3. Pursuit of blockbuster bottom lines have rendered talented filmmakers on the verge of extinction in Hollywood. The piss-poor quality of movies today is finally coming home to roost.

4. I see enough celebrities on the magazine rack at the supermarket. What, I have to pay $20 to see Angelina Jolie in a movie on top of this?

5. It's become harder and harder to separate the art from the political bias of the artists. Everything seems tinged with the stench of leftist drivel, even if it's not. Case in point, the latest "Star Wars" installment and charges that George Lucas had an anti-Bush message to send. Maybe he did, maybe he didn't. But it's easy to see why people think he did.

[schwing_wifey]

Like a good book, I will watch a (good) movie that appeals to me numerous times so why waste my money on a ticket when I can have the DVD?

Case in Point : "The Phantom of the Opera" - 3 times in the last 36 hours... but don't tell my husband because he's already wondering what I've been doing during that time....

;D

[End Times Sentinel]

The last time I went to the movies, I took the kids to see... I can't remember "Shark boy and Clobber Girl" or something?  Anyways, you needed special glasses and of course the theater was out of them.  I mean, it was only noon on Friday before the 4th of July weekend, who'd of expected them to have them on hand, right?

So, we decided to see "Herbie Fully Loaded".  By the time I bought the tickets, got the kids sodas and candy and a water and popcorn for me, I was out SIXTY FIVE ONES!!!

We get in the theater itself and people are talking on cell phones, it's filthy, and when my daughter needed to use the rest room, it was TRASHED!  I mean, FRAT PARTY DESTRUCTION!  PORTA-POTTY outside of a New York Giants game!  Just gross.  I asked to speak to the manager, waited 20 mins and left to use the facilities at home.

I did get 5 "free" passes after writing the manager, but I've got no interest in going to the theater ever again.

So, just in keeping with the rules, that Lindsay Lohan was SMOKIN' HOT!  She rescued that movie, or the half I saw anyways.  Here's some photos...

Owl_Eagle

(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,

 it was probably sarcasm)

[small voice in the wilderness]

The last movie we saw in a theater was The Passion of The Christ. The sound of popcorn scavenging, the smell of nachos wafting through the air, and the antsy small children climbing back and forth over their parents, who incidentally were so engrossed in the movie they were oblivious to their kids (find a babysitter. Some movies REALLY aren't for small kids). It was the last movie we will ever see in a theater.

[highnoon]

I don't go primarily because I'm not going to give the MPAA $6-8 when I can get the same movie two months later for .75 through netflix. No cell phones, no mouthy teenagers, no sticky floors, and the best part is I can smoke/drink while I watch the movie (if I choose to).

[najida]

I don't go because I have the attention span of a gnat, so I hate sitting that long.