Aw, come on, it's not always like this.
But with a DVD you can't get the experience of sitting near the constantly-talking-on-cell-phone person, the always asking "what happens next" to someone who hasn't seen the movie either person, the person who won't take his or her crying baby out into the lobby, or the rowdy kids who would rather beat each other up and bump the seats than watch.
It is where I currently live.Aw, come on, it's not always like this.
It is where I currently live.Aw, come on, it's not always like this.
I always rolled my eyes when I heard people tell their "war stories" at theaters. At most, I used to experience one or two of those situations out of maybe a dozen movies. But when I moved here... just, my God. It's horrible. Every single showing has at least one of those situations pop up and, more often than not, many of them. It doesn't seem to matter what time you go, either. The only thing that changes is the nature of them.
I hardly ever go now because of it. The only time I do is if it's something I really wanted to see on the big screen (the last one was Inglourious Basterds). I cannot wait until I need to move again next year so I can actually enjoy the cinema again.
This is an excellent beginning to a thesis on the current state of we the movie-going public. You guys are summing it up nicely. With our HD sets, Blu-ray devices, the internets and now the recent hit of disc vending machines, here's the direction we've been going for the last few decades -- towards convenience. Apparently the cinema is no longer convenient enough for more and more people.
Personally I'm a little more old-fashioned and still prefer the experience. But honestly, who wants to see 12 Coca-Cola commercials as a reward for making it to your seat early enough? Even I have my limits.
Anyone else perplexed by this? I just read a post like this in the 2012 thread in SFF, but I see it here all the time, and on other boards as well: Someone saying that a movie looks bad / mediocre, and so they're not going to watch it in the theater. They'll instead wait to watch it on DVD.
Uhh....if you don't think a movie is going to appeal to you, then *why watch it at all*? Why not just skip it on DVD as well, and save yourself two hours of a movie that you don't think you're going to like? Is it that you feel some kind of obligation to watch everything that comes out, or at least every SF movie that comes out? Or is it that you want to watch any movie that's popular, just so you can see what all the fuss is about, and not feel out of the loop?
Am I the only one who's run into this concept of "I've got to watch everything that comes out, or at least everything that comes out that's sufficiently popular", or just the only one who's perplexed by it?
EDIT: In other words, why do I keep seeing comments on the web that go something like "This movie looks bad, I'll wait for the DVD", when one would think that the logic would go "This movie looks bad, I won't watch it at all."
I've seen other variants, here and on other internet forums, of "This movie looks like crap....I'll watch it when it hits DVD". I was just trying to figure out, what is it that drives some people to watch every major release, even if it doesn't look that good? Sure, it can cost you basically nothing in terms of $ when it's on DVD, but it still costs time.
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