Posted on 01/15/2011 5:43:50 AM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
After we got there, the ushers took the food from my daughter and threw it in the trash!!!
I didn't find that out until the movie was mostly over, otherwise I would have asked for my money back. As it was, we walked out with their damn 3-D glasses in our pockets, not in their stupid “glasses return” bucket.
I'll see ‘em in hell before I'll go to that theater again.
Waiting for “Atlas Shrugged”,should be Interesting to see how that Draws
Where is this theater?
I have not been to a theater since just about when obama started to pretend he was being POTUS.
I used to take the family on a 100 mile round trip drive to Anchorage to see a leading opener like Harry Potter, well we have a loacl theater but its antique dated.
Since we have Bluray and a plasma widescreen we just wait for it to come out on video now. The theater novelty just doesn’t wow us anymore.
Where is this Theater?
That sounds neat. We have a local theater on the level with that, but they charge standard prices.
1) Increasingly exorbitant ticket prices.
2) Totally exorbitant concession prices.
3) Often subpar picture and sound quality.
4) Often uncomfortable seating.
5) Audiences that talk during films and don't bother to turn off or switch to "vibrate" mode on their cellphones and pagers.
6) The price of home theater systems taking a nosedive lately--including big flat-screen TV's and Blu-ray players.
7) The movies coming out on DVD/Blu-ray about 3-4 months after theatrical debut, often in the uncut original version that the director intended for the film.
8) The availability of video streaming services from NetFlix, Apple and Amazon--in some cases in resolutions as high as 1080p.
Small wonder not only do I watch a lot of movies on my 40" flat screen, but also am watching a lot of TV shows, too. Also, if you've seen the article from Fast Company magazine I mentioned in a post earlier, the arrival of the iPad and the cheap cost of e-book readers are also starting to hurt both TV and movie viewership, too.
Yeah, but the adults have the big money, and they’re opting out.
About ten years ago I was working for several real estate developers who were in the process of building new big shopping centers. Right around the same time, nearly every one of them revised their development plans to eliminate the multi-plex theaters from their sites. I suspect they had all been privy to something in the movie industry that led them to do this.
In my opinion, it's a combination of three things that is driving this: (1) bad movies, (2) high prices for tickets and food/beverages, and (3) dislike of dealing with ill-mannered moviegoers.
You are lucky.
It's available through the Comcast's 'On Demand' feature. I clicked 'Action Movies' and that trash was in the category. Why I watched the whole thing beats me. (maybe I wanted to see how morally depraved the movie could go)
But other cable co's might have it too, so be wary.
Should have known it was utter dreck when everyone was praising it so much. It's Batman, it should be a kids' movie, and they turned it into the darkest, most depressing turn-off I have ever witnessed in a theater. There were ten and twelve year old kids balling watching that movie.
On top of it is having to pick a fight with people to get them to stop kicking your chair or putting their feet up right next to your face or quit talking on their cell phone or....ad infinitum.
Investing in a modest entertainment center is an easy payback over even occasional trips to the theater.
Small wonder why movie theaters are suffering nowadays.
DH and I loved ‘The King’s Speech’ and ‘True Grit’.
I can’t remember the last time I watched a movie. Maybe it was the Dark Knight or Terminator Salvation. I haven’t watched a Hollywood movie in a theater since.
The King’s Speech was wonderful!
They didn't want to "glorify war", so they voted for an insipid, conceited, smug movie, "Shakespeare in Love" as Best Picture.
Thirteen years later, "Saving Private Ryan" has established itself as the best and most realistic depiction of battle ever put on screen, and "Shakespeare in Love" is a forgotten film whose DVD sales are below that of "The Secret Life of Bacteria: A Documentary."
Hollywood is still capable of great things, but it seems it cannot get out of its own atheistic, liberal, Marxist, misguided world view long enough to remedy the situation.
My daughter gave me this as a Christmas present (I refused to see it when it was in the theaters).
I listened to part of the story line when they had it on the home theater while I was in the kitchen cooking. It was drivel: Dances With Wolves Via Pocahontas Meets Native/African American Global Warming Earth Worshiping Pagans Against White Capitalist Marines And Republicans.
I couldn't enjoy it. I don't know, maybe my problem is I am not a stupid mindless Democrat with an IQ of 70 who thinks this kind of claptrap is so great.
But, then again, I remember an anti-Nazi who attended a rally in Germany in 1936 saying he "desperately wanted to be like the crowd, and be caught up in this swoon of joy, but my rational mind kept getting in the way."
Angelina has lost a lot of weight and is lucky if she weighs 90 lbs.
Thanks! Looking forward to it...
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