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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lazybones" data-source="post: 2340605" data-attributes="member: 143">I used to like theaters. The one in the town where I went to grad school had red curtains before the screen, instrumental movie music before curtain rising, cool games in the arcades, and an employee who would come before the crowd and greet you before the performance. Now you have (at least in my town):<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Commercials, including the noxious "Twenty" at the Regal cinemas;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">10 previews, including some that have nothing to do with the genre you've come to see; </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Parents who bring children (including toddlers!) to an R-rated feature;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">People who talk on cell-phones before and during the performance, without concern for those around them. At a recent showing, a man started a conversation during the opening credits, and when people shuushed him, he turned around and flipped them off, and started talking louder. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Parking problems. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Crappy sound systems. At the Century where I saw RotS, the dialogue seemed to only be coming from the two front speakers (everything else was surround).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Ten dollar tickets.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Overpriced concessions with 500% markup over retail costs.</li> </ul>I am getting a projection home theater system in late 2005 or early 2006, and if I can get my wife to go along, I may never go to a movie in a theater again.</blockquote>

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