I'm Done With The Movies
Added 2023-08-07 13:14:36 +0000 UTCI really do miss going to the movies.... in 1998!
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I gave up on theaters years ago. I certainly haven't been in one since the pandemic (which is still raging, people!) but even before that it became a miserable experience. These days people are just constantly on their phones (I saw/heard someone ANSWER A PHONE CALL during a movie once!) but even before that, people started treating a movie theater like their living room - they'd chat with people around them, etc. It's also horribly expensive and to get to a decent theater from my town involves a drive of a half hour minimum, 45+ minutes for the really nice one with the comfy recliners. Couple all this with the outrageous prices and there's just no way I'm going to a theater any more. I'll watch in my living room at 4K, thanks.
Circuitmike
2023-08-15 14:16:49 +0000 UTCI remember when 70mm theaters were local. Dome I-max use was shut down here in 2017. People with their noisy fat American popcorn feed bags on along with their constant cell phone use is bad. I usually wait for a while for the movie to become stale and see during the day. Oppenheimer spends way too much time on trial and not enough on the science details.
Don
2023-08-09 21:37:52 +0000 UTCThey've got vibration in the seats at a specialty theater where I've been here. I have noticed the overuse of a synthetic kettle drum in most movie music these days. You know that thumping in every trailer? I am going to Oppenheimer next week. They even have reclining padded chairs.
PFitzart
2023-08-08 02:24:21 +0000 UTCThe movie was so worth seeing in iMAX - enjoyed every minute of the 3 hours. Unfortunately, the sound was WAY TOO LOUD. We had to use balled-up tissue to knock the sound down to a reasonable listening level and we were in the back row!
Donald J Arndt
2023-08-07 18:07:48 +0000 UTCAs usual, Fran, I completely agree with everything you say! No, of course not everything you said. But the General gist of what you say. The world is rapidly becoming a place of ignorance; in the UK, I firmly believe that successive right-wing governments have engineered this to suppress the ability of the people to oppose what they do.
Dr Andy Hill
2023-08-07 17:11:16 +0000 UTCRegarding intermissions in films: I lived in the UK in the 70's and ALL movies had intermissions, not just the really long ones, so the cinema could sell concessions. I can't recall that being the case in the US in the same era, or since.
Travis Hartnett
2023-08-07 15:09:58 +0000 UTC
