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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 24, 2022 7:46:05 GMT -5
If it is something I will watch multiple times then I buy it as a DVD. Streaming is ok for one time viewing.
Streaming has the disadvantage that it can also be captured. As soon as the top dollar movies hit HBO Max or Disney they are uploaded on file sharing sites within minutes and pirated in brilliant 4KHD. Which doesn't bode well for movies which are still in theaters.
I'm okay with that.
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 24, 2022 7:47:06 GMT -5
But on that note, I think I'm going to see the Dr. strange movie at the theaters. First time going since Endgame.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2022 7:55:29 GMT -5
Headed to my first comic con of the year today. Only staying for a couple of hours, as I have to run our weekly D&D session this afternoon (well usually weekly, we had a couple weeks off because of the holiday and the birth of one of the player's son).
-M
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Apr 24, 2022 8:31:48 GMT -5
This morning my wife and I were abruptly awakened by a loud BRRRRRRRT! The bird from hell was back! It's a good thing we don't have immediate neighbours, because some kid might have told their parents "Mom! Dad! there's a crazy guy outside in his pajamas, shooting potato chunks at a woodpecker with a slingshot!" That kind of fame I don't need. Blue Jays are the worst. They are like humans on social media as far as how loud they are lol.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2022 9:43:06 GMT -5
But on that note, I think I'm going to see the Dr. strange movie at the theaters. First time going since Endgame.
I tend to go when I think I'll have a whole row of seats to myself....so far, so good, maybe 35-40 people in the whole cinema.
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 24, 2022 13:59:34 GMT -5
But on that note, I think I'm going to see the Dr. strange movie at the theaters. First time going since Endgame.
I tend to go when I think I'll have a whole row of seats to myself....so far, so good, maybe 35-40 people in the whole cinema.
My off days usually fall on a weekday, so I’m good in that respect.
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Post by Confessor on Apr 24, 2022 18:41:46 GMT -5
I honestly think that I'm done with visiting cinemas for good. Too many noisy a**hats, tickets too expensive, snacks too much of a rip off, and too few films I want to see. On the latter point, of the two or three films a year I really do like the look of, I can't imagine needing to see any film so badly that I wouldn't be prepared to wait 6 months or a year for it to come on TV.
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Post by tartanphantom on Apr 24, 2022 19:35:38 GMT -5
I honestly think that I'm done with visiting cinemas for good. Too many noisy a**hats, tickets too expensive, snacks too much of a rip off, and too few films I want to see. On the latter point, of the two or three films a year I really do like the look of, I can't imagine needing to see any film so badly that I wouldn't be prepared to wait 6 months or a year for it to come on TV.
I've felt this way for years.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 24, 2022 19:35:47 GMT -5
I honestly think that I'm done with visiting cinemas for good. Too many noisy a**hats, tickets too expensive, snacks too much of a rip off, and too few films I want to see. On the latter point, of the two or three films a year I really do like the look of, I can't imagine needing to see any film so badly that I wouldn't be prepared to wait 6 months or a year for it to come on TV. Do like my eldest and I... when we decide to go see a movie together, it's aways as it's ending its run and there are like five people in the theatre!
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Post by berkley on Apr 24, 2022 19:44:49 GMT -5
I honestly think that I'm done with visiting cinemas for good. Too many noisy a**hats, tickets too expensive, snacks too much of a rip off, and too few films I want to see. On the latter point, of the two or three films a year I really do like the look of, I can't imagine needing to see any film so badly that I wouldn't be prepared to wait 6 months or a year for it to come on TV. Do like my eldest and I... when we decide to go see a movie together, it's aways as it's ending its run and there are like five people in the theatre! Yeah, that's how I do it. Certain films I think the experience is enhanced by seeing them on the big screen. For some, like 2001, it's close to a necessity for me. I'm almost always going on a weekday afternoon, when crowds are sparse. Or to one of the small repertory film theatres that don't usually get enormous crowds for anything.
Although I'm a little leery aboutmy next excursion - it's a Sunday afternoon showing of Casablanca, which might draw a big crowd. But I haven't seen it on the big screen for a long time so I couldn't pass up the opportunity.
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Post by kirby101 on Apr 25, 2022 8:29:12 GMT -5
Avatar, and it's sequel this year, can only be seen at the cinema. It is not made for the home screen. Watching it without the 3D is like watching Singing in the Rain without sound.
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Post by Confessor on Apr 25, 2022 8:47:23 GMT -5
Avatar, and it's sequel this year, can only be seen at the cinema. It is not made for the home screen. Watching it without the 3D is like watching Singing in the Rain without sound. Ha...I wouldn't watch Avatar again if you paid me! Life's much too short to endure that rubbish for a second time. I also hate watching films in 3D. Film really should be a two-dimensional art form, in my book. But yeah, I get your point; there are absolutely some films that benefit from being seen on the big screen. But honestly, how often do those come along? Once a decade? Maybe less? And even if a film is that sort of production, it should still work fine on a TV -- especially a modern wide screen TV. I mean, take 2001: A Space Odyssey for example, to me that is a film that benefits from being seen at the cinema, but the first 20 or 30 times I saw it were on broadcast TV (likely with advert breaks) or at home on video or DVD. I only saw it at the cinema for the first time about 8 years ago. But the film was still good enough and an awesome visual treat enough on a small TV set to make me fall in love with it in the first place. The absolute need to watch a film on a cinema screen is generally over-stated, I think...especially since 9 times out of 10 you'll have annoying b*stards all around you talking, looking at their phones, getting up to pee, and rustling their sweets and popcorn packets all through the damn thing. Hardly the viewing experience that the director intended for you.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2022 9:07:23 GMT -5
I endorse that last paragraph, Confessor. It irks me. It’s just got worse over time. When I saw one film, one guy by me was taking calls and texts throughout the film. Screw that. I have a large TV. I enjoy watching films on it, I don’t have to listen to popcorn packets or keep moving my legs for the guy who wants his third pee. It absolutely is over-stated.
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Post by Cei-U! on Apr 25, 2022 9:09:40 GMT -5
Watching a movie on TV is like looking at a painting in a book. You do it if it's the only way to experience it, but when you take a work of art out of its proper context, you miss a thousand little details. This is also why I don't listen to audio books.
Cei-U! I summon the purist!
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Post by impulse on Apr 25, 2022 9:11:15 GMT -5
I honestly think that I'm done with visiting cinemas for good. Too many noisy a**hats, tickets too expensive, snacks too much of a rip off, and too few films I want to see. On the latter point, of the two or three films a year I really do like the look of, I can't imagine needing to see any film so badly that I wouldn't be prepared to wait 6 months or a year for it to come on TV. Rude people have all but ruined the cinema experience for me. Without exaggeration I can only recall at most two times in the last 10 years at least that at least one person didn't talk or take out their phone or, God forbid, answer it, during a movie. One of these was in the "used to be the new hotness but now the old one but still decently kept up" theaters on a random weeknight at like 9 or 10pm or something. One time I went to the super premium fancy ULTIMATE SCREEN AND BOUGIE SEATS $25 per person fancy theater and a couple walked in late, sat a few seats away from me and talked through the entire movie. That was one of the more excessive experiences, but still. It's just terrible. I probably can't get away with completely boycotting the experience as my wife likes to go and my kids are getting to that age where it will be fun, but my instances going will be few and far between. I'd rather watch at home on my large 4K screen where I can pause to go pee and the beers aren't $10 each. Do like my eldest and I... when we decide to go see a movie together, it's aways as it's ending its run and there are like five people in the theatre! This is pretty much what I have to do to make it tolerable. Late run and/or off-peak day/time.
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