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View Poll Results: Do you enjoy going to the movies? | |||
Yes | 27 | 71.05% | |
No | 11 | 28.95% | |
Voters: 38. You may not vote on this poll |
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11-11-2020, 07:22 AM | #31 |
It's Five O'Clock Somewhere
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Billings, Montana
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I think the last time I was in a movie theater was 1998.
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11-11-2020, 09:16 AM | #32 | |
'Tis my eye!
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Chiefsplanet
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I don't care for comic book movies either... |
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11-11-2020, 06:19 PM | #33 |
For The Glory Of The City
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Kansas City
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11-11-2020, 06:22 PM | #34 |
YOU take YOUR seat
Join Date: Nov 2007
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11-11-2020, 06:46 PM | #35 |
El Gato Gordo Loco
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Earth
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Yes - but only for the sole reason that the said movie is not out yet.
I would pay the same price for it if they came out with it on video-on-demand. |
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11-11-2020, 06:59 PM | #36 |
pie is never free
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: the drivers seat
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Absolutely, when there's a cant miss blockbuster especially... now we just need some good movies to go see
Unruly crowds and choke on your wallet prices aren't a problem in my small town |
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11-11-2020, 09:50 PM | #37 |
Cheaterlover*
Join Date: May 2009
Location: RI
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As a kid, I loved going to the movies. But that was also back in the 70s and 80s when you had no choice. It was easy to appreciate (at best) or overlook (at worst) the communal theater experience because it was the only way to see the film unless you wanted to wait years for it to come out on TV (or, later, a year for it to come out on VHS). Of course, there were no cellphones back then, so people weren't yapping away or playing Candy Crush at full brightness.
Nowadays, I only go to the movies if it's a matinee during the week. And I literally ask how many tickets are already sold before I purchase. If it's only a handful, and I feel pretty assured I can sit off by myself, I go in. Some movies do, IMO, need to be seen on a big screen. Of course, I'm biased, since I worked in an IMAX theater. But I've seen some amazing giant screen films in both 2D and 3D. "The Dark Knight" was amazing. "Avatar" in 3D was probably the best 3D I've seen. Even films like the "Star Trek" reboot were incredible. Remember that scene where they see the Enterprise from the shuttle for the first time? When you're looking at it on a 60'x90' screen, you feel like you're actually there. Of course, all the Marvel films were awesome. But those tentpole films aren't that frequent; for other smaller films, I can wait for it to come out on PPV. |
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11-11-2020, 10:12 PM | #38 |
Banned
Join Date: Jan 2013
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I just go to get AMC popcorn and bring it home.
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11-11-2020, 10:14 PM | #39 |
'Tis my eye!
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11-11-2020, 10:41 PM | #40 | |
Psycho Bag Of Squanch
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11-12-2020, 10:26 AM | #41 |
El Gato Gordo Loco
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Earth
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11-12-2020, 10:58 AM | #42 | |
Hockey Town
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Kansas City, Missouri
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11-13-2020, 02:07 PM | #43 |
Veteran
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: floating in a tin can
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I used to enjoy movies at the theatre a lot. But over the last 20 years, I've only gone to about 2 a year. Too many redundant movies. Sequels almost always disappoint. Comic book movies are essentially all the same. And now.... I don't want to sit in the same room with 100 mouth breathers.
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11-13-2020, 02:56 PM | #44 |
sorta mod-ish
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: KC North
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Always have and always will for as long as they are a thing. Blockbusters to art house flicks, I've always loved the movie theater experience.
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11-13-2020, 04:03 PM | #45 |
I could of gone pro
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: The Villages, Florida
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From 1989 to 2013, we went to the movies five times, usually because of some reason. 1989 Lethal Weapon 2, my current wife and me first date. 2005 Apollo 13 my 45th birthday. 1999 The Blairwitch Project, because they made the film near us in Maryland. 2007 Zodiac, my wife and me are big true crime fans. 2011 Source Code, I had two free movie tickets.
We moved to a large retirement community in Florida in 2011, in fact it's the largest with 127,000 people. We have three 8 screen theaters and residents tickets are only $8.50. After we've been here a couple of years I told my wife we should start going to the movies, we are retired and we have nice theaters with almost no kids in the theaters. So in 2013 we went to see Gravity and from then on we went just about every month, probably at least 50 films. Our last was January we saw 1917. Since then I've lost interest in seeing films, I dropped all the premium channels from Directv and I'll watch occasionally an old B/W on TCM. |
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