Going to the movies alone

[Angel Tarragon]

I've gone to the theater some many times by myself, I have no qualms with continuing to do so.

 

[Priest_Sidran]

I guess that I am the only one that thinks going it alone is just too wierd. I hate going to movies, waiting in lines for popcorn, and setting in the dark, all by myself strangers on every side. You need someone to enjoy the movie with. My say.

 

[mmu1]

I don't like going to the movies alone. I'll do it if I can't get any of my friends to go and I get too impatient to wait until the next weekend, or sometimes on the spur of the moment when I just feel like getting out of the house, but the significant majority of movies I go to, I go with friends.

 

[frankthedm]

How do you keep entertained while you wait? I usually try to stare out the window, but then I still look annoyed (at least the wait staff stops by a few times to tell me my food is coming).

I go to All You Can Eat buffets when dining alone. I see what I am getting when i get it, no waiting on a chef and if something is lousy, I go get something else. And as a plus, vindictive emplyees cannot contaminate my food unless they want to get everyone.

 

[frankthedm]

My friend is someone who can't stand going to the movies alone- if I don't feel like going to the movies with him, he'll get all bent out of shape sometimes. I'll ask him later if he went to see a movie he'd been dying to see and he'll respond "I couldn't get anyone to go with me so I didn't see it," which I find strange.

I got a friend like that. I usually hit movies with him because our taste is movies matches up somewhat. Also because he drives and often buys popcorn {the local theater gives free refills].

But I have no quams against going to a movie alone.

 

[nyrfherdr]

I go to movies alone. Usually when the wife and son are not home or I'm travelling. When they are home, I either go with my wife or go with my son (depending on the movie).

I agree with a couple of you. If I'm with friends, I usually do something interactive, like play D&D. A movie is not interactive, so it isn't my first choice.

For the business traveller. Go to the movie after your work is done! It's a great way to spend some time if you don't have anything else to do. And as for dining alone... Take a book! I usually have my iPod with me too.

Just some random thoughts from a frequent flier.

 

[shilsen]

I guess that I am the only one that thinks going it alone is just too wierd. I hate going to movies, waiting in lines for popcorn, and setting in the dark, all by myself strangers on every side. You need someone to enjoy the movie with. My say.

Even if you go with friends, you're paying to watch people pretend to be characters they're not, playing out a story that isn't true, reading out lines that were written for them by someone else, and actually getting entertained by that. You're in a whole other category of weird already, and that's even without playing D&D and posting on a D&D messageboard.

I'm just saying

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

Take a book.

Quasqueton

Seriously. I eat out for dinner frequently, and I'll typically judge which restaurant I'm going to go to by if I have enough book left to keep reading through dinner (Hard Times, Moby Dick's) or not (Subway).

I don't *usually* go to a theater by myself, but I'm comfortable doing so, if it's a movie no one else wants to see, or no one else is available (3 PM on a Tuesday that I have off, nobody's available). For example, I'm likely going to have to see ATHF by myself.

Brad

 

[Cthulhudrew]

Even if you go with friends, you're paying to watch people pretend to be characters they're not, playing out a story that isn't true, reading out lines that were written for them by someone else, and actually getting entertained by that.

What if you're seeing a documentary?

 

[Mycanid]

I chose the second option ... which seems the most common amongst those enworlders who have voted in here so far.