Do you still “go to the movies”?

[SwimOdin]

Do you frequent the theatre? Streaming is king, but I see perhaps 3 to 4 films in theaters a year. What about you?

[[classic swim]]

Very rarely do I go anymore unless for something special.

I used to be that guy to preach for them to still exist, but the theaters themselves have gone all the fuck downhill. Fuckin’ up showtimes frequently without notifying, dead staff; I don’t get onto them about filth as much as everyone else but it happens.

[viperxmns]

Maybe one or two, I have nobody to go with most of the time

[Dark_Cloud_Overhead]

I stopped going for a couple years cuz of covid, but started going pretty regularly again last year. I'd say I went to see at least a dozen films.

[ghostrek]

2 hours ago, SwimOdin said:

Do you frequent the theatre? Streaming is king, but I see perhaps 3 to 4 films in theaters a year. What about you?

i'm planning to do it back to back in March goes ghostBuster's frozen Empire and and King Kong new empireodzilla versus Kong 2 new Empire or what something like that let me stupid like that

[The_annoying_one]

The last movie I saw in theaters was Guardians Of The Galaxy 3, this past summer, if memory serves.

Prior to that, the last movie I went to see was nearly 20 years ago. I would much rather stay home and stream movies.

[Top Gun]

Even pre-Covid I was usually only good for one or two per year, but I've only seen one post-Covid that I can remember, which was Me: Maverick (and that kicked ass).

[MasqueradeOverture]

A-List is a gift from God.

Usually go on average once a week. Can walk out at any point if there's too many assholes in the crowd and try again another time at no cost.

I almost exclusively go to the movies by myself too, which makes things way easier.

Edited March 8, 2024 by MasqueradeOverture

[txanimeluva]

Not really too much anymore myself, I went to see spy family because it was a special event.

[Raptorpat]

The past idk 10 or 15 years, basically only like for Star Warses or Indiana Jones. I've got so many old Regal gift cards that will outlive me.

[txanimeluva]

I’m going tomorrow to see the new badboys

the most recent was spy family 

[smiradenius]

On 2/18/2024 at 1:35 PM, SwimOdin said:

Do you frequent the theatre? Streaming is king, but I see perhaps 3 to 4 films in theaters a year. What about you?

Yeah... 

Because some movies are best viewed on the biggest screen possible.

[André Toulon]

No, I've never been fond of the experience.

[_lost_username_]

My wife and I went to a matinee and saw Beetlejuice Beetlejuice last fall, that was my only adult movie trip since 2016 or something like that. Movies in general ... I usually take my kids to the $5 midday matinee of kid flicks the theatre runs during the summer. Will probably do it again this summer. 

I don't know if it was because I was a teen who went to the movies 1-2 times a week in the 90s but I just find the newer flicks too noisy, too cookie cutter and too fan servicey. I kind of liked going to the movies and watching Striptease one week and Independence Day the next and that being it instead of nonendings teasing the next sequel.

[Noob]

It's been so many years I genuinely couldn't tell you the last movie I've seen. 

Straining to think about it, maybe a screening of Lost In La Mancha at the little independent cinema that shows old movies and foreign & "art house" type new releases. I think that was early 2020 right before covid, but if it was 2019 then I might have seen something else in a normal theater after it.

So I guess it's been more than five years. Damn. 

Edited Saturday at 01:04 AM by Noob

[Blatch]

I still do. In fact, I actually have something planned for tomorrow. My last trip was to see the new Naked Gun in August.