Our local movie theaters are fuckers.

[bhodi]

Fuck cheering nerds, and FUCK people who clap at the end of the movie. That brings out my inner raging asshole. The director isn't standing stage left, waiting for a standing fucking ovation before coming out and taking some flowers from a girl up front.

[Miasma]

Clapping?  I've never even heard of that, what movies were these people clapping for?

[Sky]

The only time I had fun in a movie theater was watching PeeWee's Big Adventure while ragingly drunk, with about 50 other ragingly drunk people. So...it was a while ago.

It's odd, because my girlfriend has always been in relationships with guys who love going to the movies. I'd rather wait for the HD version on cable and DVR it. Pause, beer, clean bathroom, no idiots, no driving, cheap popcorn...Blah.

[Llava]

Fuck cheering nerds, and FUCK people who clap at the end of the movie. That brings out my inner raging asshole. The director isn't standing stage left, waiting for a standing fucking ovation before coming out and taking some flowers from a girl up front.

You need to stay home.

The fun is in the "community" aspect of it.  If you can't enjoy that, you need to not be around people.

I may not know anyone else in this theater, but we all came to see  some motherfuckin' snakes on a motherfuckin' plane, and that makes us goddamn brothers for the next 90 minutes!

There were three parts to that experience that made it great.  The people who showed up in costume as a giant snake with a guy following them as the plane, the entire audience exploding into cheering when Sam Jackson enters with his "Do as I say and you live!" line, and the audience chanting along when the infamous line came up.  "That's it!  I am tired of these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane!"

Some movies just can't be appreciated properly without the right crowd.

[Calantus]

I haven't watched anything but those nerdy movies in theatres since forever. I watched the starwars movies, the LoTR movies... and that's all I can remember since Blade which wikipedia says came out in 1998. For me it's less about the movie theatres and more about movies themselves. I just don't see the average movie being worth my time and effort to go and see at the movies these days. I don't even bother renting. Maybe I'll see it when it comes out on TV, or maybe I'll be busy that night and never see the movie. Really I could take it or leave it. Am I the only person that thinks that movie quality has gone through the floor in the past half-dozen years, or is that just my changing tastes?

[Llava]

I just rewatched Sin City.

God damn that's a good movie.

[Velorath]

Am I the only person that thinks that movie quality has gone through the floor in the past half-dozen years, or is that just my changing tastes?

Well it doesn't sound like you actually watch a lot of movies so I'm not sure how you'd be able to make that judgement.  There's plenty of good shit out there being made, you just have to make the effort to look for it.

[Llava]

Personally, I think all the "medium X has really started to suck in the last X years" complaints are rooted in "I'm getting old and don't like things anymore! HEY, SLOW DOWN! PEOPLE LIVE IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD!"

[bhodi]

You're right. I do need to stay home.

SOAP is an exception and the only one in recent memory that is intended to be watched with an audience as sort of a group enjoyment. On the whole I prefer my movie watching to be solo or with a very small group.

The people I want to stab in the face include: The stupid guy who laughs at everything. The chatty girls on their cell phones or whispering loudly to each other. The stupid boys making noises. The guy who rumples his candy wrappers unnecessarily during dramatic scenes. People who laugh in horror movies. The crying 4 year old's mother up front who just had to see the movie and couldn't find a sitter. The one who's got a phlegm factory in his chest. People with small bladder syndrome who don't sit at the ends of the isles. Mr. I-forgot-to-turn-off-my-cellphone. Little kids kicking the back of your seat. People (especially couples) discussing the movie, while it's playing.

These types of stupid random noises break me out of the movie and that tends to ruin my movie going experience.

Clapping is mostly relegated to the super geeky movies, when I saw star wars and LotR there was clapping and cheering before and after on both. And it made me stabby.

[Calantus]

I'm not saying the movie industry is worse, just that I'm not really finding worthwhile movies anymore, for whatever reason. And I do watch a lot of movies, they just happen to be on DVD and most are not recent (most recent I think is Pirates of the Caribbean 2, which I didn't like much, but got because 1 rocks).

Of course I used to think the music industry was going to shit when all I was hearing was the shit that goes through MTV, so maybe I'm just missing the good ones.

[Velorath]

Of course I used to think the music industry was going to shit when all I was hearing was the shit that goes through MTV, so maybe I'm just missing the good ones.

Just the shit off the top of my head that I've seen that was released in 2006 that's worth watching (although obviously not every movie on the list is going to appeal to everybody):

Pan's Labyrinth
Children of Men
Perfume
The Departed
The Prestige
Borat
Letters From Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
A Scanner Darkly
Crank
Thank You for Smoking
The Dead Girl
The Illusionist

[Calantus]

I've heard of 3 of those. Where do you find out about movies?

Yes I know that's a very basic question. :P

[Velorath]

I've heard of 3 of those. Where do you find out about movies?

Yes I know that's a very basic question. :P

I work as an assistant manager at a theater which is generally how I find out about them.  I can't get my friends in to see movies for free unless I'm going to watch the movie myself, and I also have to dry run some of the movies after I put them together, which means that I tend to watch almost every movie that comes through at some point.

I suppose if you want to find out about movies though, go look through IMDB as they have a decent week by week listing of everything coming out (including limited releases you might not read about elsewhere), have fairly decent descriptions of the movies, and typically have links to trailers also.

[Stormwaltz]

Yikes. You going to West Edmonton Mall or something? I could see that tourist trap having prices like that, but otherwise... wow.

The Cineplex Odeon in South Common. It's closest to us, <10 minutes down Calgary Trail.

[sinij]

I fucking like going to dinner and movies night with my SO, still I'm doing it less than I used to due to commercials. It just pisses me off to no end.

As to watching movies - I can watch them at home, thankfully my projector and sound system is on par with movie theater's, but I still prefer movie theater experience unless its fagged up by ads. Don't fucking waste my time cock suckers - PC games, movies, internet should be add free.

[eldaec]

I've never understood the attraction of cinemas.

Out of focus pictures, crappy sound, sticky floors and even in the UK the people can't stop themselves making a racket during the film.

Films come onto DVD and onto satellite at the same rate that they appear in the cinema, so I honestly don't see the point.


The whole concept has always seemed faintly ridiculous. I can't even see how you would design a cinema to be worthwhile. Why would I want to sit in a crowd of people I don't know just to watch a film?

[stray]

It's still my preferred way of viewing films. Even with a decent home theater setup, I still prefer it. I like the crowd atmosphere and enjoying things with other people, the sound and room setup is still way better than what I have (not sure how you'd consider Dolby configured spaces to be "crappy"), and I'm too impatient to wait for some films to come out on disc.

[Sky]

Some movies just can't be appreciated properly without the right crowd.

You're a transexual, aren't you? From transylvania?

[Riggswolfe]

Some movies just can't be appreciated properly without the right crowd.

You're a transexual, aren't you? From transylvania?

That movie is THE audience participation movie. Good times going to a playing of it drunk off my ass the night the girl acting as Magenta lost her shirt.

[Abagadro]

Every time I have gone to see TRHPS "bad things" have inevitably happened.

[Llava]

Some movies just can't be appreciated properly without the right crowd.

You're a transexual, aren't you? From transylvania?

That movie I can't stand.

(And while I'm not a transexual, I do have some transylvanian heritage!)

[Sky]

I've never gone to see that movie, but I've dated several girls who were REALLY into it. They begged and plead, but there was no damned way. All really kinky bisexuals, though, so it was all good imo. I can respect it....from a distance.

[Riggswolfe]

I've never gone to see that movie, but I've dated several girls who were REALLY into it. They begged and plead, but there was no damned way. All really kinky bisexuals, though, so it was all good imo. I can respect it....from a distance.

The movie is not good by any stretch of the imagination. That said, going to see it is crazy fun with the right crowd. Especially drunk. This is also one of the few movies that I never understood why it was released on home video. Though, a dvd version with the audience participation as a commentary track might be a funny party watch.

[Furiously]

I've never gone to see that movie, but I've dated several girls who were REALLY into it. They begged and plead, but there was no damned way. All really kinky bisexuals, though, so it was all good imo. I can respect it....from a distance.

VIRGIN!!!! VIRGIN!!!!! VIRGIN!!!! VIRGIN!!!!!!

[Yoru]

I've never understood the attraction of cinemas.

Out of focus pictures, crappy sound, sticky floors and even in the UK the people can't stop themselves making a racket during the film.

You've obviously never been to a really, really good theater. 95% of theaters are just giant television halls for the masses - before visiting a good theater, I thought much the same way.

Of course, I've yet to find a good theater outside of LA... :(

[Samwise]

I've never gone to see that movie, but I've dated several girls who were REALLY into it. They begged and plead, but there was no damned way. All really kinky bisexuals, though, so it was all good imo. I can respect it....from a distance.

VIRGIN!!!! VIRGIN!!!!! VIRGIN!!!! VIRGIN!!!!!!

Can we auction him off?

[WayAbvPar]

I have never seen it either, and seriously have no desire, interest, or curiosity.

[Valmorian]

I just rewatched Sin City.

God damn that's a good movie.

When I saw that movie, I CRINGED at: "..my warrior princess, my valkyrie!".

That kind of shit might work in a comic, but spoken out loud it was just PAINFULLY nerdy.

[Morat20]

Some movies just can't be appreciated properly without the right crowd.

You're a transexual, aren't you? From transylvania?

That movie I can't stand.

(And while I'm not a transexual, I do have some transylvanian heritage!)

My theater professor considered it an entirely different thing -- not a film, not a play. Closer to performance art than movie. He was a pretentious twit, but I tend to agree with him.

What makes Rocky Horror worthwhile is everything that isn't the movie, but that goes with it.

[Samwise]

To the people that have never been to a Rocky Horror show: do you like MST3K at all?  If so, you pretty much owe it to yourself to take in a midnight showing of Rocky Horror once in your life.  If you're shy, go to a showing that has a lot of people and don't let on that it's your first time.  It's essentially MST3K performed live and refined over a period of years.  Really goddamn funny.

[NiX]

The theaters around here are $16 for an adult ticket.

Cineplex/Famous players? Or some Alberta based place? Our prices in Ontario have been hovering around 10-12 for the famous players type quality. Which isn't TOO bad, but I go less because of it.

[Sky]

Famous players?