Why Do You Go To The Movies?

[NOIRTRASH]

I read that a significant chunk of tonights Academy Award contenders exist to change your thinking about blacks and gays and etc.

Do you go to the movies for enlightenment or what?

The last time I went the experience was a mother fucker with high prices for everything and an hour of commercials.

The Chinese are buying up Hollywood, will they put up with all the liberal nonsense as movies are losing money left and right?

 

[OldJourno]

I go to movies to be entertained. I'm not spending movie for something I can appreciate just as much on my TV at home. I go for visually awesome.

As for the Oscars, I figured out the year Brokeback Mountain was nominated that the awards were more about what Hollywood wanted us to think than about the quality of the movie.

Of all the major award nominees tonight, I saw Arrival on video last week and that's it. Many of them I hadn't even heard of.

 

[Mello_SixtyNine]

That's where they tend to show the new movies...that's why I go.

 

[silver gurl]

I went a few years ago, to take my niece to a kid movie. I have never been with my husband.
We watch movies all the time, from the comfort of home.

 

[FL30]

I haven't been to the movies since 2004.

Haven't missed much, either.

Most of the crap that comes out of Hollywood these days are poorly conceived movies with no plot lines, are remakes of something that I've already seen, or just another addition to the original franchise to make even more money off of the fans even though that franchise should have died long ago, (think Transformers or Fast & Furious).

Some of the movies are so poorly planned that the plots are not even believable. i.e., Bruce Willis hanging onto a jet while it spins out of control, yea, right.

Again, I haven't really missed much at all. Just saved a lot of money from not buying overpriced tickets to pay for overrated actors that make way to much money for bad acting.

And, not having to deal with inconsiderate and rude people that refuse to turn off their phones or try to carry on a conversation on them while the movie is playing.

 

[OldJourno]

One of those visually awesome movies I went to was San Andreas.
I realize it's not a deep-thinker, and Dwayne Johnson's first line was such a cliché it was embarrassing. BTW, not sure I've got the name right.
But that last line, "Now ... we rebuild" as a huge American flag is magically unfurled from the remains of the Golden Gate bridge was even worse. I remember slouching down in the seat, hoping no one would recognize me.

 

[oggbashan]

I only go for live transmissions of opera, ballet and classic plays.

Last year I saw the Royal Opera, Glyndebourne, Metropolitan Opera, Royal Ballet, Royal Shakespeare and Shakespeare from The Globe. There were also documentaries on art exhibitions in London and elsewhere.

The live transmissions cost far less than going to London and are better for my back. I get a comfortable seat, a much better view than I would get in the Royal Opera House Covent Garden - plus popcorn and crap coffee!

 

[BotanyBoy]

I don't....because screaming fuckin' kids and assholes on their phones.

I just stay in my underwear and internet whatever the fuck I want, usually commercial free.

 

[cfuhrer]

I go for visually awesome.

This. We only go when we feel the film merits a large screen and even then we never go opening weekend.

 

[Tryharder62]

I love to go to the movies. There is just something about seeing it on the big screen with movie popcorn and a drink. It is so expensive I really don't go much. I think I have seen 1 movie in the last couple years. It's usually something the kids are dying to see so we go as a family.

I used to ask to go to the movies on my birthday instead of a gift. The last movie that comes to mind that I really really loved was at a $5 movie theater. On an afternoon, you could get the movie, an individual popcorn and a small drink for $5. Needless to say the super saver theater is no more. I saw Mr. Holland's Opus. LOVE THAT MOVIE.

I go to a movie to be entertained. Maybe an escape for a few hours.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

I love to go to the movies. There is just something about seeing it on the big screen with movie popcorn and a drink. It is so expensive I really don't go much. I think I have seen 1 movie in the last couple years. It's usually something the kids are dying to see so we go as a family.

I used to ask to go to the movies on my birthday instead of a gift. The last movie that comes to mind that I really really loved was at a $5 movie theater. On an afternoon, you could get the movie, an individual popcorn and a small drink for $5. Needless to say the super saver theater is no more. I saw Mr. Holland's Opus. LOVE THAT MOVIE.

I go to a movie to be entertained. Maybe an escape for a few hours.

You go for the brainwashing

 

[Tryharder62]

You go for the brainwashing

Is that all you got from my poignant story? Frankly Noirtrash - I don't give a damn!

 

[quietlylooking]

These days I go to the movies because it is something I can do with my Mom. She has dementia (still not too bad), is frail, and lives in an assisted living home. I try to pick movies that are colorful, have lots of music, and don't have complicated plots.

She was confused by La La Land's story, but enjoyed the singing, dancing, costumes, and bright scenery.

Other movies that I want to see I watch while on the treadmill or elliptical, or in the comfort of my living room with my husband and adult beverages.

 

[Tryharder62]

These days I go to the movies because it is something I can do with my Mom. She has dementia (still not too bad), is frail, and lives in an assisted living home. I try to pick movies that are colorful, have lots of music, and don't have complicated plots.

She was confused by La La Land's story, but enjoyed the singing, dancing, costumes, and bright scenery.

Other movies that I want to see I watch while on the treadmill or elliptical, or in the comfort of my living room with my husband and adult beverages.

That is really great!

 

[Libsam]

Hopefully, after foxcon replaces all their human labor with robots, they'll replace all these useless movie star elites with CGI. Fuck those assholes, make em work on a Broadway stage where they have to actually work to earn their $$$.

 

[quietlylooking]

That is really great!

Thanks. Sometimes I even really enjoy the movies (that I would probably not otherwise see) that I take my Mom to see. And I'm lucky as my Mom loves everything I take her to.

 

[Ramone45]

Movie theaters are disgusting. The audience are assholes. Most movies suck. I rarely go.

 

[Wrong Element]

I go to movies to be entertained. I'm not spending movie for something I can appreciate just as much on my TV at home. I go for visually awesome.

There are some things that really need to be seen on a large screen to be fully appreciated.

Other than those films, though, I'd just as soon watch at home. Prices are increasingly ridiculous, the advertising is interminable (I don't mind the occasional preview, but 10-12 is way too many), and the audiences get more intrusive every year.

 

[jomar]

To see big special effects movies, otherwise see them at home.

 

[Ramone45]

I love to go to the movies. There is just something about seeing it on the big screen with movie popcorn and a drink. It is so expensive I really don't go much. I think I have seen 1 movie in the last couple years. It's usually something the kids are dying to see so we go as a family.

I used to ask to go to the movies on my birthday instead of a gift. The last movie that comes to mind that I really really loved was at a $5 movie theater. On an afternoon, you could get the movie, an individual popcorn and a small drink for $5. Needless to say the super saver theater is no more. I saw Mr. Holland's Opus. LOVE THAT MOVIE.

I go to a movie to be entertained. Maybe an escape for a few hours.

It is a crime how expensive movie house popcorn is.