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General Category => Off the Record => Topic started by: Ideologue on October 25, 2013, 03:58:32 PM

Poll
Question: How many movies do you go see in the theater a year?
Option 1: 20+ votes: 3
Option 2: 10-19 votes: 4
Option 3: 5-9 votes: 4
Option 4: 1-4 votes: 16
Option 5: Movies are for the plebs votes: 6
Option 6: I see the live Jaron sex show whenever I get the chance votes: 0
Title: Theater attendance
Post by: Ideologue on October 25, 2013, 03:58:32 PM
Just curious.  You can count new/theatrical run movies released in your area as VODs, I suppose, since the pricing isn't terribly different and the principle is the same, and stuff like Rifftrax Live and other events I think should count as well just because you're literally there in a theater.

It's obviously 20+ for me (43 so far this year, iirc).  But I get the feeling most of you go far less often, not even in the 10-19 category, probably averaging 5-9. :hmm:
Title: Re: Theater attendance
Post by: Malthus on October 25, 2013, 04:11:39 PM
I'm probably in the 10-19 category.
Title: Re: Theater attendance
Post by: The Brain on October 25, 2013, 04:12:37 PM
Damn Languish is low-brow. I thought this would be about real theater.
Title: Re: Theater attendance
Post by: Ideologue on October 25, 2013, 04:13:53 PM
Actually I just crunched the numbers and if you count repeat views and the VODs and the Rifftrax Lives, it's 52. :wacko:
Title: Re: Theater attendance
Post by: sbr on October 25, 2013, 04:15:13 PM
I can't see the polls options on the mobile version,  but I have been to many more high school drama productions than movies in the last 5 years.  I can't remember the last time I went to s movie theater.

Btw it was my daughter before you all get creepy.
Title: Re: Theater attendance
Post by: Ideologue on October 25, 2013, 04:17:10 PM
Quote from: sbr on October 25, 2013, 04:15:13 PM
I can't see the polls options on the mobile version,  but I have been to many more high school drama productions than movies in the last 5 years.  I can't remember the last time I went to s movie theater.

[Siegebreaker joke]
Title: Re: Theater attendance
Post by: CountDeMoney on October 25, 2013, 04:17:40 PM
Maybe once or twice a year, if that. 
I hate people with children, groups of teenagers, people who talk loudly on cell phones, couples with their PDAs and most other humans in groups in general, so why go where they all form up and co-mingle in one giant herd?
Title: Re: Theater attendance
Post by: sbr on October 25, 2013, 04:18:23 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on October 25, 2013, 04:17:10 PM
Quote from: sbr on October 25, 2013, 04:15:13 PM
I can't see the polls options on the mobile version,  but I have been to many more high school drama productions than movies in the last 5 years.  I can't remember the last time I went to s movie theater.

[Siegebreaker joke]

See edit.
Title: Re: Theater attendance
Post by: Ideologue on October 25, 2013, 04:19:53 PM
Quote from: sbr on October 25, 2013, 04:18:23 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on October 25, 2013, 04:17:10 PM
Quote from: sbr on October 25, 2013, 04:15:13 PM
I can't see the polls options on the mobile version,  but I have been to many more high school drama productions than movies in the last 5 years.  I can't remember the last time I went to s movie theater.

[Siegebreaker joke]

See edit.

There's still a Siegebreaker joke to be made somewhere.
Title: Re: Theater attendance
Post by: Razgovory on October 25, 2013, 04:24:20 PM
Zero or maybe one a year.  The principle is not the same.  I can order a movie on my Kindle without leaving my house.  Or even my bed.
Title: Re: Theater attendance
Post by: mongers on October 25, 2013, 04:25:48 PM
I thought this was going to be about THeatre.   :(
Title: Re: Theater attendance
Post by: Ideologue on October 25, 2013, 04:26:24 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on October 25, 2013, 04:24:20 PM
Zero or maybe one a year.  The principle is not the same.  I can order a movie on my Kindle without leaving my house.  Or even my bed.

If it's new, the principle is the same.  You think I hang out with scumbags at my local megaplex or something?
Title: Re: Theater attendance
Post by: Eddie Teach on October 25, 2013, 04:57:53 PM
I see lots of movies, but very few in the theater. Haven't been to a play since my drama class made me.
Title: Re: Theater attendance
Post by: Razgovory on October 25, 2013, 05:01:09 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on October 25, 2013, 04:26:24 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on October 25, 2013, 04:24:20 PM
Zero or maybe one a year.  The principle is not the same.  I can order a movie on my Kindle without leaving my house.  Or even my bed.

If it's new, the principle is the same.  You think I hang out with scumbags at my local megaplex or something?

I don't like going outside.   I also don't want to go to the movies alone.
Title: Re: Theater attendance
Post by: Barrister on October 25, 2013, 05:08:43 PM
1-4 for me.  I think in 2013 the total is 2 - Into Darkness and Planes.  My wife really enjoys going out to the movies though, so it was a pretty good go-to date night before we had kids.
Title: Re: Theater attendance
Post by: Ideologue on October 25, 2013, 05:17:15 PM
Two movies, and they were what was surely the worst Star Trek feature of past, present, or future, and a movie about planes that doesn't even feature area bombing. :(
Title: Re: Theater attendance
Post by: Barrister on October 25, 2013, 05:19:10 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on October 25, 2013, 05:17:15 PM
Two movies, and they were what was surely the worst Star Trek feature of past, present, or future, and a movie about planes that doesn't even feature area bombing. :(

Star Trek V.

Star Trek: Nemesis
Title: Re: Theater attendance
Post by: Ideologue on October 25, 2013, 05:25:45 PM
Nemesis ain't good, but it's not only better than Star Trek Into Darkness, it's marginally better than Insurrection.

Final Frontier is an okay movie, but I can't really effectively judge the quality Star Trek against films outside the franchise.  In any event, it is better then Into Darkness, simply by dint of being an actual film.
Title: Re: Theater attendance
Post by: Zanza on October 25, 2013, 05:27:30 PM
I seem to watch most new movies in airplanes, not in movie theaters...
Title: Re: Theater attendance
Post by: Admiral Yi on October 25, 2013, 05:41:01 PM
Almost never.  Last time I was in a theater was Star Trek: Teh Reboot.

Can't seem to get off my ass for Gravity either.
Title: Re: Theater attendance
Post by: Ideologue on October 25, 2013, 05:41:59 PM
Quote from: Zanza on October 25, 2013, 05:27:30 PM
I seem to watch most new movies in airplanes, not in movie theaters...

"For [United 93], choose channel 1.  For [Flight], choose channel 2.  For [Millennium], choose channel 3.  For [The Giant Claw], choose channel 4.  [Airport] was too obvious for this joke."

Quote from: YiCan't seem to get off my ass for Gravity either.

More movie for me.
Title: Re: Theater attendance
Post by: Zanza on October 25, 2013, 05:54:18 PM
The obvious reference would have been Up in the Air, Ide. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1193138/
Title: Re: Theater attendance
Post by: Ideologue on October 25, 2013, 05:59:19 PM
Does it crash?
Title: Re: Theater attendance
Post by: katmai on October 25, 2013, 05:59:30 PM
I'm at 15 so far but have 4 more plan to see in next two weeks not to mention the ones coming out holiday season.
Title: Re: Theater attendance
Post by: Sheilbh on October 25, 2013, 06:10:32 PM
Used to be over 20. Now far fewer, probably around 10-12.
Title: Re: Theater attendance
Post by: Grey Fox on October 25, 2013, 06:13:17 PM
Last movie I saw in the theater was the Star Trek remake, just like Yi.
Title: Re: Theater attendance
Post by: Ideologue on October 25, 2013, 07:51:32 PM
Next poll idea: does having children suck?
Title: Re: Theater attendance
Post by: Caliga on October 25, 2013, 07:53:31 PM
I see something in the neighborhood of 5-9 movies a year in the theater.  Probably won't see another one this year till the Ron Burgundy sequel comes out.
Title: Re: Theater attendance
Post by: Ed Anger on October 25, 2013, 07:56:11 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on October 25, 2013, 07:51:32 PM
Next poll idea: does having children suck?

To take to the movies? Sometimes.

Hell is other people's children.
Title: Re: Theater attendance
Post by: garbon on October 25, 2013, 09:10:19 PM
So no one watches the live Jaron sex show?
Title: Re: Theater attendance
Post by: Eddie Teach on October 25, 2013, 09:18:07 PM
I don't think the Prophet would approve.
Title: Re: Theater attendance
Post by: Syt on October 25, 2013, 11:09:28 PM
Quote from: The Brain on October 25, 2013, 04:12:37 PM
Damn Languish is low-brow. I thought this would be about real theater.

So did I.

Well, 5-9 movies, and 2 or 3 stage plays.
Title: Re: Theater attendance
Post by: Ideologue on October 25, 2013, 11:15:14 PM
Sure, that's what I'm known for, going to plays. -_-

Not that I dislike them.  Just not my thing.
Title: Re: Theater attendance
Post by: CountDeMoney on October 25, 2013, 11:40:28 PM
Quote from: The Brain on October 25, 2013, 04:12:37 PM
Damn Languish is low-brow. I thought this would be about real theater.

Then it would've been "theatre". Duh.
Title: Re: Theater attendance
Post by: Maladict on October 26, 2013, 01:16:51 AM
1 play, 0 movies. Guess nothing caught my interest this year.
Title: Re: Theater attendance
Post by: Duque de Bragança on October 26, 2013, 01:34:23 AM
More than 20 easily. Even if not in Paris, I still keep the Cinémathèque Pass so I do most of my screenings in arthouses which means no rowdy crowds and better movies.
Title: Re: Theater attendance
Post by: The Brain on October 26, 2013, 02:00:35 AM
Quote from: garbon on October 25, 2013, 09:10:19 PM
So no one watches the live Jaron sex show?

Rumor has it parts of it are pre-recorded.
Title: Re: Theater attendance
Post by: MadImmortalMan on October 26, 2013, 02:03:11 AM
I've not seen anything not directed by Peter Jackson in a theater since Episode I came out. I've seen all the LOTR and the Hobbit, but that's it. Why endure other people when I can wait until later and see it on Netflix/HBO/PPV/DVD? Meh.
Title: Re: Theater attendance
Post by: katmai on October 26, 2013, 03:23:40 AM
Quote from: The Brain on October 26, 2013, 02:00:35 AM
Quote from: garbon on October 25, 2013, 09:10:19 PM
So no one watches the live Jaron sex show?

Rumor has it parts of it are pre-recorded.

In front of a live studio audience?
Title: Re: Theater attendance
Post by: The Brain on October 26, 2013, 03:32:03 AM
Quote from: katmai on October 26, 2013, 03:23:40 AM
Quote from: The Brain on October 26, 2013, 02:00:35 AM
Quote from: garbon on October 25, 2013, 09:10:19 PM
So no one watches the live Jaron sex show?

Rumor has it parts of it are pre-recorded.

In front of a live studio audience?

No, it's a laugh track.
Title: Re: Theater attendance
Post by: Josquius on October 26, 2013, 05:27:07 AM
Very few. $20 to see a movie on a nicer screen but surrounded by strangers a month or two before it will be available much cheaper to watch at home? No thanks.