There are real people on this board, and soon ITT, who genuinely do not understand the appeal of seeing a movie. Like, their tard brain can't comprehend it. They will point to camrips or make fun of everyone who doesn't wait for a torrent, it's a purely "logical" calculation in their heads that every single person who goes to the Kinoplex is being swindled and is a normie somehow because they're not torrenting. It also applies to owning physical media. They don't get it. I see this take so often on /tv/. They don't understand why you would ever own a Blu-ray over an .mkv file on an SSD, you'll simply explain that the movie experience is fun or that seeing it on a big screen is cool or that you just like having the disc on your shelf :))) and they'll say>No argument lmaoSomething as human as watching a goddamn movie and liking that purely on an emotional basis triggers the aspie. Have you noticed this phenomenon? If a old film is showing that I've already seen in a local theater, often times I'll go see it! Despite losing $10! How is it hard to understand this
>>214841670I stopped enjoying movie theaters because of the price of tickets, commercials at the beginning, and being surrounded by people who might annoy me. It can be either a wonderful experience and best way to watch the movie, or possibly the worst way to watch a movie, depending on the people around you also in that theater.And that isn't even getting into snacks and their prices, along with working around your schedule to see the movie.
>>2148416701. I don't wanna pay something I can get for free2. I don't wanna go out and sit in a dark room with a bunch of faggots3. Theaters are often loud as fuck, pretty sure I damaged my eardrums when I watched Biutiful back in 2010 cause that shit made my ears ring3. I like to eat when I watch movies4. I like to be naked and touch my dick when I watch movies5. I like being able to pause at any time6. I just don't care about Big Fucking Screen that much, I'm too old and jaded to be excited for movies-as-events
>>2148417511. Do you shoplift then?2. You're the faggot.3. Skill issue3. Fatass4. Pervert5. You shouldn't be allowed to pause movies6. Of course you're a boomer
>>214841725For me what ruins it isn't the ads, its the upcoming film trailers that coincidentally seem to always play ugly disgusting nigger rap music. I literally put my fingers in my ears and hear people muttering around me giving me ugly looksThe second reason is the $10 drinks that are like $2 at 7/11
>>214841908>I literally put my fingers in my earsdude
>>214841908>I literally put my fingers in my earsnow THIS is actual autism at work
>>214841670One of the last movies I saw in a theater was one of the early transformers movies (prob the second one) and I literally could not follow any of the action on the screen to the point I ended up falling asleep.Aside from the content, it’s become a subpar way to experience a movie in just about every way imaginable.I am much more comfortable in my home where I can pause and play when I want.
>>214841670Even if the screen and sound system are properly adjusted (which I'll say it's 75% chance they are), paying $20 for the communal experience pales in comparison to how much picrel pisses me off.
>>214842192>calls theaters a subpar movie viewing experience>pa*ses his moviesIf Michael Bay wanted the movie to be paused he would have done it himself.
>>214842244Inb4 China. I can't escape to the movies with this bullshit in the back of my mind.
>>214842244Can't even finger a girl in the back row anymore baka
>>214842244How do you feel in grocery stores
>>214842321Pissed off
>>214841670you have to understand that the people you are talking about are sub-100 IQs while believing they are actual genius level. it's a waste of your energy to engage with them.in my experience some movies are enhanced by the big screen simply because of the big screen and the audio design. unless you drop tens of thousands of dollars, you can't replicate the theatre sound system at home. DUNC one was cool but since i saw it on my laptop, it wasn't really as engaging. DUNC 2 i saw in theatres and i didnt even get up to piss, i was pretty awestruck by some scenes. and one of my most vivid theatre memories was the opening scene of star wars episode 3 - i was 11, and we were staying in jersey to watch my cousin's vassar graduation. the theatre was in the ghetto, place had metal detectors before theatre shootings were a thing lol. but that opening scene and that place are forever etched in my brain because of the fucking audio. there's a loud vocal minority of friendless misanthropes here who have such a massive inferiority complex they have to jerk each other's hatred of other people off to keep their fragile egos intact.
>>214841670I’m 40.I used to go to the theater almost every week.A movie ticket was 5-8 dollars for new movies and like .75 cents for movies that were ending their run.My neighborhood was mostly white so the people in the theater with me weren’t disruptive.The movies were actually good back then and worth seeing.None of this is true anymore.Now all the movies have forced DEI and the theaters are filled with dangerous and disruptive brown people.Go woke go broke.
going to a theater is just a gamble and gambling is retarded
>>214842475>>214842510where do you fucks live where you can't find one theater you like? if you're in a city you're not looking hard enough for the cool ones and if you're in a small town, in the US anyway, the local theaters are always quaint and nice to visit. what reality are you living in
>>214841670Because I can enjoy a movie at home and usually cheaper. I can pause the movie if I have to go use the bathroom, someone hasn't pissed all over the seat (I have to sit down to pee) and I can make food. Then come back and put the movie on. If I have a girl over, we can have sex without having to take the time to drive home where she might change her mind. On top of that, there just are not very many movies I want to see anymore.
>>214842543>where do you fucks live where you can't find one theater you like?Anywhere but that's not really the point.I don't want to hear crumpling plastic or chewing or slurping air or loud whispers, or see bright phone screens or deal with the audience overreacting to specific scenes.It's just a shitty experience most of the time, and that's a best case scenario really.
>>214842543I haven’t been in a theater in over a decade. I bought a projector.
>>214841670i dont wanna get shot, and i can pause the movie to piss at home
>>214841670>buy a ticket …buy two
>>214841670Depends on your home theater. And have you ever seen a movie in an environment like, say black america?
>>214842543they don't go outside dudethey think what they see on social media (and here) is reality i go to watch movies on weeknights, late, which in my opinion is the best time to watch movies. they rarely have more than 10 people to a screen - i used to work at cinemark and those were the most chill times to work too. unless its a black movie you aren't going to run into packs of niggers there
>>214842805You’re delusional
>>214842854
I've always loved movie theaters. There's one right down the street. My girlfriend won't go with me though because she says it's "boring".It just dawned on me that "Movie theaters are boring" is girl code for "I can't scroll on my phone during the whole fucking movie and ask you inane questions about what I just missed unless I'm at home."
>>214841670Too loud and nothing good to see in the last decade plus
>>214841670For me, I feel stupid about going to the movies alone because it reminds me that I'm alone and how I've always wanted to take a girl on a date there and I probably never will, and there's just nothing really worth going to the movies for anymore even if I did manage to get a girl to go with me.
>>214844498> blee bloo bla blo blee bloo blegThis is why no singles policy is so important. Not because of shooters but because they're so WHINY and constantly CRYING.
>>214844740Turbo virgin hands typed this post.
>>214841670Seeing a movie for me was only ever part of a dating ritual, a thing to fill time, something to do. I'm no longer dating so don't see any reason to waste the time and money I have many other things I'd rather do and I can just watch a movie at home when it's convenient.
>>214842244holy shit a commercial building has security cameras that's it i'm staying home
movie theater in my town is closing down in two days, will have to drive 20min to get to a theater now. admittedly, it was often pretty empty there and it was way too big for how many people went (there were like 16 screens), really our town should have like 2-3 screens. The problem is the business model doesn't work, the studios need to make it where it's possible to run a boutique theater.
>paying for shit that's free on the internet>watching wokeslop in the first placelmao at you boomer scumthe future is left you a long time ago
>>214844740You've never yearned.
i dont want to be judged for going to cinema alone>inb4 no one caresyes they do and they laugh at solo movie watchers all the time
>>214841670Watching a movie in movie theatre is the best way to watch a movie, when it is not ruined by other people.My local theatre has actually been empty with the exception of me and my kids, amd I recently got to see Jaws on the big screen which was nice and I'm glad I was able to.
Because I'm tired of niggers. I'd gladly pay for the expensive food, overpriced tickets, etc. if I could have a guaranteed no nigger experience. But I can't so fuck it I give up.
>>214841725my theater does 5 dollar showings on certain days. gets me out of the house. and the viewing experience is just better than any home setup. there's never ANYONE in the theater either.
>>214845771are you memeing because no one gives a fuck at all, and if thats something youd care about you should go anyway to numb yourself to your paranoia about people judging you. exposure therapy
>>214841670Why are you so butthurt about people watching movies at home? I watch at home, you watch at cinema, let's never meet.
I do not like the almost tangible feeling of being a part of the collective consciousness experience of watching a movie. The intimacy makes my skin crawl.
>>214848156fuck off, i refuse to be their laughing stock
>>214842670But Tony, you know I always come alone here... Why do you have to rub it in?
>>214841670I rather watch a movie on my 85 oled +dolby tbhfamlam.All cinemas in my city are shit anyway. Sound is always fucked up and for some reason movies are kinda dark? Like they are saving money on electricity or something.Also niggers.
>>214841670I knew an autistic guy that would throw a fit on Youtube if he couldn't see the latest cartoon movie in theaters.
>>214841670Digital projectors are poorly maintained and the image looks bad.
>go to movie theater>nicest one in a particularly nice area of a large city>reeks of this shitty, eye-watering cleaning smell>seat was ever so slightly damp, all of them were>get used to it over the course of the movie and assume "well at least it's clean in here now">watch movie>get home, go to sleep>the skin on my arms all along where they were resting on the seat are covered in a rash>fucked arms for like a week>realize how disgusting it actually is to sit among the trash in this shit stye movie theater in a seat that has been farted in and sweat in and rolled all over and stained 1000 times>realize that if the seats aren't leather then you might as well be sitting on a patchwork quilt of unwashed barn animal ass>realize then that even if the seats ARE leather they simply cannot be cleaned deeply enough to undo that kind of damage>think about all the fat, smelly, or otherwise disgusting mongrels i've seen at any given time in a movie theater before>movies aren't even good anymore, why am i still going>no longer have any reason to waste the money>never go again
>>214841670Covid destroyed movie theaters. People would rather skip all the bullshit and watch movies at home. Theaters are going to be the next Movie Rental stores.
>>214842370Didnt read
Ticket and concession prices aren’t worth it, I’d rather just buy a projector and run a movie on the side of my house.
>>214841751>Theaters are often loud as fuckThis always annoys me. I always bring earplugs these days. Can't figure out if it's general Hollywood retardation like all the dark scenes where you can't see shit or they do it to drown out retards talking during the film
>>214841670My biggest issue is the ads at the start. If a film says it starts at 2:30pm, it should fucking start then. Sometimes the ads will make it start at 3:15. Other times they'll just rush it and it starts closer to 2:35. So If I try to wait out the ads, I could end up missing a large chunk of the film. But then if I get there by the listed time, I could spend almost half an hour still waiting for the fucking thing. And my god the movies they pick too. I do not give a shit about 28 Years Later if I am watching a fucking comedy. Why would you show me a film that isn't by the producers of the one I am watching, let alone the correct genre. Don't get me started on the Mission Impossible one playing for every movie screening for like a full fucking year.
>>214842543>>214842805Samefag
>>214841670There hasn't been a movie worth seeing in the theatres in like 20 years it's all fucking slop. I take a chance on something a couple times a year and it's never worth it
>Can autists explain to me their aversion to movie theaters?IT STARTS WITH N-
I found an arthouse movie theater near me and started going there and it's great. No nogs or annoying kids talking during the movie, always clean, high quality projection and well mixed sound, etc.
>>214842192To be fair, Transformers 2 was really ahead of the curve on shitty CGI slop. Half the shots are obviously structured to minimize the amount of work that needed to be done and the other half are just full on CGI sludge. They really gave up on the final fight specifically.
>>214841670I don't like going to theaters because I live in a diverse area and there's niggers who shout while the movie is playing and mexicans who always bring their crying infants along.
I was always a massive autismo, but I had no problem going to the movie theatre aloneIronically it Drive I went to see at some small cinema, and when the clerk saw that I was alone he made an extremely disgusted face at me. It was enough for me not to go to the movies alone again for yearsThen the exact same thing happened with another Refn movie, I went to see Neon demon alone, and the clerk made the same exact face
>>214841670If someone talks or is an ass with their phone or something I will want to kill them and won't be able to and it takes me a few days to shake off that kind of hate
>>214841670>you control absolutely no aspect of the viewing experience>don't control the volume>don't control who you watch with>can't pause>seating is restricted at best, and completely out of your hands at worstYou're the one who needs to explain what you like about this.
i frequently have diarrhea, and being out in public makes me nervous and uncomfortable, Robert. i want to see movies, i want to eat at restaurants. i can't. i can't be away from the toilet at home. you don't understand, i need a shower after the way i usually poop. gambling an hour plus just to see a movie... no, i'm sorry. i can't do it. i can't be caught shivering in a public stall with no way to clean myself after.
cinemas lack the contrast ratio that oled can produce plus brightnessHDR on a LG G5 will make you cry
>>214841670I would agree with you ten years ago. Even five years agoNow a 55 inch chinese tv and a 5.1 audio setup is chump change. The visuals look the same, audio is the same, I can paise it to take a shit, I can eat my own food, no exit sign in the corner of my eye, dont have to watch at a weird angle because all middle seats were sold, no fat guy munching and breathing heavily, no urban crowd hooting and hollering, no woman on her cellphone in front of you etcAnd now movies take two weeks to come out on streaming, dont even need camrips, I get 4k HDR Dolby Vision wuality
>>214845771I've gone to the movies alone exactly one time and it was to see Blade Runner 2049 after a night shift, so I got the first showing of the day. I was the only one in the theater and it was a weirdly kino experience
>>214851335there is a movie theater at my local science museum, it's great because coloreds won't go near a museum
>>214852778Brilliant
>>214841670>>214842370>>214842805Funny how you faggots chose to not address the fact you're paying exorbitant prices to get SHILLED TO for at least half an hour before you can even watch the movie. Imagine going out of your way to give your business to someone who thinks that little of your time. Absolute cuckold mindset.
This thread was made by big theater
>>214841670Watching movies at home is just way more enjoyable. There's nobody around being annoying and distracting you so it's easier to get immersed, you can get more comfortable, pause to go to the bathroom, not have to pay out the ass for food and drinks...It's such a significantly better experience. And with how fast movies come out on streaming now, I'm in no rush to see them early, I can wait a month or two.
>>214842370>it's high IQ to have a film ruined by retards and pay for ityou're right, it is pointless to engage with you
>>214842247if michael bay knew when i wanted to take a piss, he would've
going to the theater is the best thing ever. I only go to matinees though because I'll retard rage if I'm in a theater with zoomers who think it's okay to chat the whole movie. my buddy in montreal says the theaters over there are game over and the french canadians outright chat over the movies as if it's supposed to be a social thing as background noise.
>>214841670Anthony Mackie even addressed this. When a capeshit actor employed by Disney is straight up admitting that people stop going to the theater because watching from home is so much more convenient and easy on your wallet, things are very direhttps://youtu.be/oj8JK6c5x3M?si=K6o_2kv4Lw4Pv8aN&t=203
>>2148416701. Colored people smell2. Colored people are loud3. Half the population can't close their mouth when they eat Normally shit is too loud I'm surrounded by lesser thansEating popcorn mouth open Drinking loudlySniffling their nosesYeah no. Same reasons I gate immigration, want to deporteoole, can't use a bus or a park or libaryIf I go to a white area yeah I'll go see a movie obviously
I have autism and seeing people shifting around and hearing them whisper and shit just rips me right out of the movie. I can't stand it. I only go to the theater for late night special showings of old movies, because barely anybody goes to those. earlier this year I went to a string of Lynch movies over a week, and I was the only person there. that was great.
Black commentary enhances the experience.
>I would be more outgoing if it weren't for xStop lying, you little bitches.
>>214841670the "magic" of the theater wore off for me. like, i understand the general appeal, but i just cant be bothered anymore.im more comfortable at homei have subtitles and can pause/rewind at homemovies are needlessly expensivefood/snacks at home is better tooi can watch it whenever i want, instead of being stuck on their showtimesi just dont feel the draw to see it immediately when i can just see it more comfortably and for free later. as for physical media, i can understand the desire to own a nice collection, and i collect my own things, but i havent bought a movie in nearly 20 years. load up a website and watch the movie i want, zero problems. so i DO understand the draw and desire. but do YOU understand why other people simply dont give a shit or share in your desires?
>>214855342>the "magic" of the theaterIt has always just been about seeing the movie for me. Used to be if you missed the cinema run it would be a whole fucking year before you could rent it which was a pretty good motivator. Now movies are streaming within a month. If something came out that I just had to see ASAP I would pay for a ticket but there hasn't been a movie I have been that excited about for years.
