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I'm Done With The Movies

I really do miss going to the movies.... in 1998!


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I'm Done With The Movies

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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

I 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

They'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

The 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

As 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

Regarding 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


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