18 thoughts on “Going To The Movies”

  1. I stopped because other people seem to talk more and louder. I had tried going only to the earliest showings when only a few people would be in the theater, but sometimes even then they would talk through the movie.

  2. Number of reasons but one of the last straws was the advertising. There’s actually more of that now than upcoming movie trailers. Not hard to see why: captive audience and all. Still… thanks but no thanks.

  4. I just didn’t see anything they were selling that I wanted to go through all the hassle of the ‘movie theater experience’. I remember being on row 5 when Star Wars came out (Han shot first!) and there were scenes that were made for the big screen …movies lately, not so much.

  5. Crime. Auto theft & vandalism is off the charts here (Boulder / Denver), you can’t relax and enjoy a movie when you’re dreading broken glass, stolen cat converters or worse.

  6. I got a lot more hours of enjoyment from playing Assassin’s Creed than I did watching the movie. In a game, I’m directing the action. In a movie I’m passively absorbing the story.

  7. We have a couple of lux-o-plexes close to us, and we’ve seen a couple of first-run movies this year, but 90% of our attendance is their Wednesday $5 classic movie night; usually at least one per month worth seeing. And the audience is usually well-behaved.

    Of course, during the early September heat wave here in SoCal, we went more than once just to get a little A/C for a few hours and didn’t really care what was on!

  8. I stopped going to the movies about 15 years ago, partly due to content, partly due to changes in the patron population, and partly because I moved to Upper Southeastern Bumfuck (a.k.a. Sassafras Fork) about 12 years ago. I used to go to occasional sf movies (like Alien) and to some chickflicks (nothing like a chickflick to put a chick in the right frame of mind) and some comedies. Boobish sf, chickdeathtomenflicks, and dead fart joke comedies put and end to all that. These days, I buy dvds of all the tv shows I missed when I had tv. But you get to about ten years back and those start deteriorating as well. Right now I’m watching White Collar (who the fuck picked a fruiter to play a cishet romantic lead?) and The Duchess of Duke Street (from the 1970s). Biggest waste of hot pussy: Kim Dickens.

  9. Went to see Topgun Maverick at the movies. Before that, Apollo 11 which has to be the best thing CNN has ever done.

  11. Anyone making any movies worth seeing? Seemingly not. I went a few years ago to see a re-screening of “2001,” and that’s the last movie I’ve seen in a theater.

  12. It’s clear how many of you missed the renaissance in theaters, where you can order a meal at your seat and eat it there, in a recliner, in a theater where people who make noise are kicked out (see, for example, Alamo Drafthouse.)

    Now, there are, indeed, a lot fewer good movies being made, and a lot more woke garbage, or just plain garbage, but if you didn’t see Willy’s Wonderland in theater, you missed out (unless you’re one of those people who don’t like Nic Cage.)

      1. No, regular theaters with power recliner seats with fold-away tables, or with every other row of seats gone, replaced with a full-length bench. I’ve been going to these since the late 90s, and even old-school mainstream places like AMC are retrofitting their theaters, although they don’t quite have the “boot disruptive elements” mindset yet.

        Independent locations/small chains have always been more proactive about kicking rude people out.

        1. Not in SoCal. Here, if it wasn’t for “disruptive elements,” there pretty much wouldn’t be any audience at all. So I have left the “theatrical experience” to them for roughly the last decade or so and watch the little that seems worthwhile at home via streaming services.

          Which, even on an ala carte basis, are also much cheaper than the “theatrical experience” these days. A single modest rental fee lets the whole family watch something. Not so at theaters.

          And then there’s the insane prices of edibles. I can snack or even eat a meal much more cheaply at home.

          Also, I’m a lot less able to hold my water for a three-hour tent pole movie than I used to be. Theaters won’t pause the action while one answers calls of nature. DVRs and streaming services are very accommodating about that.

          Theaters – and not just drive-ins – are a technology whose time has come and gone. I don’t ever expect to set foot in one again.

  13. I have no desire to return to a movie theater. First, there just isn’t anything out there (nor has there been in the past several years) that would justify the absurd pricing, both for admission and for snacks/drinks. Also, I don’t like sitting with people all around me, especially when they are worrying as much about their phone as they are about the movie. Lastly, why would I want to leave the comfort of my own house. I can eat/drink what I want, pause when necessary, and then when it is over, not worry about having to drive home.

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