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- This post is so I could finish what I wanted to say (1500 word maximum)...Andy I would also like to add that I know you don't watch movies at regular theatres. You go to industry screenings where people actually have some manners and cooth. When's the last time you've been to "real" theatre?...In addition to what I said in my earlier post...If the theatre doesn%u2019t have time to clean the theatre before the next movie starts, we get to walk through smashed popcorn and soda mush on the floor, and who knows what else because of the litterbug pigs we get to keep company with while watching the movie. Annoying cell phones, and people coughing on ya. Wow, what a way to go Hollywood.. Ridiculous. Quite frankly I won%u2019t be upset if theatres go out of business. Surprisingly enough there are still fools out there willing to go to the motion picture theatres.
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- More than likely the motion picture industry is paying Andy to say good things about it with this charade of a segment he has on CBS. Let%u2019s all go to the movies. In the process we%u2019ll be solicited by the clerks before the movie starts for some bogus charity effort, and have the majority of the audience yell with expletives, throw popcorn and candy at them before they leave with disgusted looks on their faces. HA! Then we%u2019ll be tempted to smack the child in front of us that won%u2019t shut up or stop crying as well as the rude people behind us that can%u2019t speak English and won%u2019t stop talking because they need everything in the movie explained to them. On top of that we%u2019ll experience the joy of being forced to watch 15 or 20 minutes of commercials before the movie starts even though we%u2019ve paid a ridiculous fee to get in the movies ($12.00) where I live.. Oh and the lovely cramped seats, blocked view, shoebox design of the theatre, and the blocked view that the 6 foot 1 inch tall guy (This is a common tall height in U.S.A.) in front of you provides are especially "nice" features.
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- The last time I went to a theater was in 1989, I can find almost any movie I want to see at a rental place, Blockbuster etc, its much cheaper and I have more fun at home, and if by chance I did not hear some thing right I can always hit that rewind button, we have an LCD projector that projects an image on a screen hanging on the wall that measures 8 feet wide and 6 feet tall, this is our little theater..
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- Go to a movie. No way. Why risk my heath and my calmness by going to a movie where babies cry, children run up and down the aisle, cell phones sing their songs and a general murmur of people talking to each other blocking out what I want to hear or see. At home I can lean back, pause the movie to go to the bathroom or get a snack, and yes answer the phone. I don't have to worry about that person behind me coughing giving me something I don't want and I can actually hear and see the movie without children squaling or running up and down the aisle. I'll take rental any day.
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- This debate is always a tough one. I operate an independent neighborhood theater in San Francisco, The Balboa. We work hard to keep cell phones off, ask customers to respect the rest of the audience, provide customer care and service and keep our admission and concession prices below the megaplexes. We have our very loyal fans who won;t go anywhere else.
The cost of going to the movies doesn't compare to those at a concert, live theater or a sporting event. We offer a bargain in comparison.
Unfortunately, many people have rationalized the home experience where the phone rings, solicitors show up at the front door, the email alert pulls you away, the pets need to go outside, the kids won't be quiet and the popcorn butter gets all over your couch.
I urge you to seek out your local independent theaters and see if the experience changes your mind. I can't speak for all locally owned theaters but our survival is dependent on you having a good experience. Come visit us if you are in the City by the Bay.
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- It costs $9.75 for a full price movie here in Seattle. And another $5.25 for a small (that's children size) popcorn. Netflix RULES!
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- DON'T RETIRE,ANDY! No matter WHAT some of these whippersnappers (young and old) say. We need more curmudgeons like you. THEN maybe things can return to what they OUGHT to be. Like a young secretary said (in an office where I was working) when she felt her computer wasn't fast enough: "Hey, this is the nineties!" (Yes, that long ago) and I just looked at her like she had two heads and replied "What's that got to do with the price of eggs?" which makes as much sense as what SHE said. Hang in there, Andy, and "give 'em hell Harry!"
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- To Andy Rooney: I seriously doubt that any "movie experience" you might have enjoyed has been recent. No Phones?! You've got to be kidding! The cell phone usage in movie theaters has become so disruptive and annoying that theaters have to flash warnings onscreen telling people NO CELL PHONE USAGE DURING MOVIES or the phones will be confiscated, and offending person(s) may be asked to leave. These are people of ALL ages, not just young people.
People in theaters now TALK OUT LOUD constantly during movies -- evidently the old ones are deaf and/or are too dim, so their partners have to explain whole movie while it is being shown. Younger ones have not been taught any movie etiquette, so they talk out loud as if they are in their own livingrooms. There are also a number of people who love to stretch out and put their feet on top of seats in front of them -- just like at home?????
We are of a certain age where we get discounts at movie theaters, and I too, used to love the "movie experience." But due to escalating rudeness and just plain bad manners of people attending movies currently, I would rather stay at home and enjoy my own good "movie experience" on our big screen TV without all the bad distractions.
You Andy, should be aware of your subject before you blather on describing what USED TO BE. . . - Reply to this comment
- Bill Griffith's comic "Zippy the Pinhead" recently focused on going to the movies in a strip called "First Row Flip-Out":
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- Sorry Andy but but I rent for several reasons:
1. Cost; My entire family and watch the movie for less than $10.00 (that counts popcorn, soda's and candy if wanted). To take my family to the movies and we do go 2 or 3 times a year, costs almost $50.00 if you want snacks for a family of four. (When we go we buy 1 large refillable popcorn and share it and sneak in bottles of water). I'm glad you make enough to afford the movies but for use it has to be a very special occassion.
2. Convience: We can watch it on our schedule and rewatch it if we like it enough.
3. No Distractions: I can tell my kids to be quite, not so easily done in an auditorium where most people have forgotten any manners they might have learned.
About four years ago I started writting down the names of the movies I would like to go see but elected not to. Those movies I purchase as soon as they come out. That costs me between $15 and $20. I then put $30.00 away (that's what I figure I saved). I found there were almost 20 movies I was tempted to see, of which we go to about three now. I have saved well over $1500 dollars and this christmas I'm taking that money and buying a Big Screen, HD TV. Now we can enjoy the theater experience at home! - Reply to this comment
