Prefer to Watch Movies at Home or the Theatre

[DonTadow]

Then there is the talking, not just to each other but on the cell phones. .

That's why i stopped going to see movies in my old neighborhood (DETROIT). Two weeks in a row a few years ago there was someone having a loud conversation on the cell phone about the movie. The ushers didnt care because "they don't get paid to do security". A few years before that at the same theater i lie not that some guy had a 40 oz of beer while watching the movie and talking to himself.

 

[Desdichado]

And this is my favorite, tall people or people with tall headgear sits in front of you. Some days, I just want to have a portable chainsaw handy.

Yeah, those tall people! They're all jerks, every one of them! Why can't they be decently average in height, like most other people?

Hey, what happened to the smiley?

 

[Kanegrundar]

Or better yet, be like this couple:

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200506/200506140037.html

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I saw that the other day. That was just sad. The kid's grandmother lived right upstairs!!!! Pathetic, simply pathetic.

Kane

 

[takyris]

Hey, my little dude was just fine during Revenge of the Sith. And if you can hear a baby crying (the early stages, when the parents walk around with them, and not the full-on wail) during a fight scene in that movie, you should demand your money back from the theater for having the sound turned down too low.

I prefer to watch movies at home. It's a combination of a) the fact that I'm not impressed by sheer scale where effects are concerned, so big screens and loud noise doesn't win any points with me, b) the convenience of pausing whenever I want to go to the bathroom, making my own (much better) popcorn, and cuddling under a blanket with my wife, and c) the absence of any of the problems that folks have brought up -- although I haven't personally had any truly bad theater-person problems.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

i go to the theater if it's a movie I really need to see, otherwise I have a hard time fitting the time in to go see it. Plus its so damn expensive. I enjoy seeing movies on the big screeen more than my 19" TV but I don't have the time more often than not.

 

[Psychic Warrior]

Once in a discount theater, after watching 3 punks swear and yell at the poor woman behind them when they were shushed for the 10th time I bellowed across the theater to them to "shut the hell up, you little punks!" One came by my seat near the end of the movie and said something like'You're dead!'. I stood up - he looked about 13 years old and I had a foot of height and 80 pounds on him. I didn't say anything but he scampered away. Other than that, though, they never said a word.

 

[Fast Learner]

For a year straight, I watched movies standing in the back of the theater with my daughter in my arms. The moment she made any noise (or, more commonly, I sensed she was about to make noise), I was out in the lobby, quieting her. Sure, I missed bits of the movie, but it was still well worth it.

Seriously, I had a responsibility to my child, and a responsibility to society, and lived up to both. I am quite frustrated by parents who can't seem to live up to either one.

 

[glass]

I voted other, because I like both.

Cinema has big pictures, big sound, and a sense of occasion. Home has the ability to pause if the phone rings or whatever. Swings and roundabouts!


glass.

 

[Viking Bastard]

You are a extremely lucky then.

Or simply different theatre cultures.

I'll throw this into my buddie's face next time he complains of Icelanders being
rude (he's never been abroad, how would he know!).

 

[sniffles]

Hey, my little dude was just fine during Revenge of the Sith. And if you can hear a baby crying (the early stages, when the parents walk around with them, and not the full-on wail) during a fight scene in that movie, you should demand your money back from the theater for having the sound turned down too low.

You're very fortunate, and so were the other patrons in the theatre. But I don't think the movie sound should have to be loud enough to drown out a crying baby. I know babysitters are expensive, but I never understand why anyone would want to take an infant or toddler to a movie. The child doesn't get anything out of the film, and the parents may spend the whole film being distracted by the child instead of getting to enjoy the movie themselves.

On a different note, I am happy that so many theatre chains have started having "stadium-style" raked seating. The tall people/hats/big hair problem is a thing of the past with those theatres. Century Theatres also have alternating rows of "rocker" seats and stationary seats with folding cup holders, so larger people don't feel cramped by the seat arms and no one has to get a backache from constantly leaning back. Now if they'd just install headphones in every seat, the experience would be almost perfect.