With Popcorn, DVD's and TiVo, Moviegoers Are Staying Home

[Supreme Cmdr]

This is all Scriv's fault.

Seriously though, just watch; they're going to start taking longer to release DVDs if they figure that folks are just saying ....meh, I'll just wait for the DVD. Which is exactly what I find myself doing, more and more these days.

[Kevin Trotter]

The BL (that's bottom line for you squares out there) is that people are more boorish and ill mannered than ever, and the discerning movie goer can do without that type of behavior.

Ringing cellphones, constant prattling during the film, toddlers in R rated movies, and cheap bastards trying to sneak into the VIP section have degraded the movie going experience so much I can do without it. I still go but usually wait and go on a weekday when the the theater is less populated. Since I have to take a day off to do that I choose VERY carefully what I am going to see.

I am sure a few others feel the same way. I do occassionally go to the specialty houses but they are usually running older films. I went a little while back to see Spartacus and Lawrence of Arabia, which I had never seen on a big screen. It was an excellent experience and the audience was well behaved; there was also a discussion after the films with local film studies students and such. Really cool.I just wished I lived somewhere where that is done more often.

Generally I categorize films has one I must see when it hits the screen or one that is a DVD purchase. I don't see this changing much.

[Darkling]

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Originally posted by Race Bannon IV:

The BL (that's bottom line for you squares out there) is that people are more boorish and ill mannered than ever,...

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I don't think that's it at all. Other than Star Wars, I can't even remember the last movie that I was "Excited" to see.

I remember years ago it seemed that every year there was a BIG movie to see, like Titanic and Terminator 2. Mostly over the past couple of years I've bought DVD's of a lot of the older movies that I really liked. (Such as the Back to the Future Series)

The main problem lately is the total lack of GOOD Movies. And they don't HAVE to be expensive (My Big Fat Greek Wedding) they just have to be GOOD.

[LostInSpace]

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Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr:

Seriously though, just watch; they're going to start taking longer to release DVDs if they figure that folks are just saying

....meh, I'll just wait for the DVD

. Which is exactly what I find myself doing, more and more these days.

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Hmmm, that's a coin toss with that idea. They do make plenty of dough from the DVD sales.