Movie thread

[Dleg]

Well, think of all the high schoolers and parolees who would be out of work if they shut down the theaters and stopped selling $6 cokes.

 

[MetsFan]

Hmm, I still like going to the movie theatre.  I know I can't replicate the imax screen at my place with 24.7 surround or whatever.  

We watched Star Trek on Sunday and I thought it was pretty good.  Then we watched the older ones on my 60" and I thought to myself, "damn, I want a real home theatre".

 

[jeb6294]

Clearly, you guys are all doing it wrong.

You need to get a copy of the movie schedule and compare screen times. If you do it right, you can see 2 or 3 movies on one ticket.

As one of those high school kids who used to work at a movie theatre, the biggest thing we were worried about was selling food because almost all of the ticket money went straight to the production company. If someone came in and saw 3 movies on one ticket, we couldn't care less as long as they were getting stuff at the concession. At the end of the night, they would check sales -vs- tickets to calculate how much $$$/person you sold so it actually helped our ratio. The only thing better were the random weirdos who would come in just to buy popcorn and then leave...no movie, just popcorn.

 

[snickerd3]

^our theater sells garbage can size bags of popcorn for non-movie going consumption.  

 

[Dleg]

I loved going to movies until I moved here to Fairbanks.  While I admit that the IMAX picture and sound exceed that of my modest "home theater", that's not the case in the other 15 theaters and the whole thing smells like piss, and I'm out $45 to $80 for a 2D flick for 4 people in that environment.  F that.  IMAX would run me $80 just for the tickets, so well over $100 if the family all wants snacks.  If I go to blockbuster (yes Faribanks still has one) I'm out maybe $4.50 and can get whatever we want for snacks as well as adult beverages in my own home. 

 

[Road Guy]

I really miss blockbuster, this whole redbox thing just sucks unless you can pick up the movies mid week during the day

similar to the library thread, we buy a lot of DVD's from 2nd Charles for $3.00 bucks and then either resell them or throw them away..

Whats funny is I bought an old TOP GUN to let the kids watch it and the sound is just god awful, you have to turn the volume way up when people are talking and then when the soundtrack kicks in you get your ears blown off..

 

[Dleg]

^I need to pick up the anniversary edition of Top Gun on Bluray and watch it again. I haven't seen it in probably 25 years.  I think I saw it at least 4 times in the big Denver cinema of the time (The Century I think? 70mm with DTS!) back when it was released.

 

[Road Guy]

We recently got some good outdoor furniture (end of season sale since they now have the snow blowers out) and I want to get one of those inflatable outdoor movie screens and projector.  Someone here had one of those?

 

[Supe]

Friends down the street from us have one and seem to like it.  I see it propped on their front lawn every so often, so it must get some use.

 

[envirotex]

They used to be a lot more expensive, so we built our own with PVC and sheet...I have seen some on Amazon for less than $200 now, though.

 

[Road Guy]

Yeah I saw some on Amazon for $150..

Just have to get a projector then...

We have an oversized back porch that would be great for outdoor movies and football games- the family isn't sold yet but screw them if they don't know how to enjoy themselves...

 

[matt267 PE]

Saw Pete's Dragon today. The kid's parents die within the first 60 seconds of the movie.

Overall, my daughter and her friend liked it. I though it was a good kids movie.

 

[wilheldp_PE]

Saw Pete's Dragon today. The kid's parents die within the first 60 seconds of the movie.

Dude!  Spoilers!

 

[matt267 PE]

Dude!  Spoilers!

It's ok. You can see it coming the second the movies starts.

 

[snickerd3]

Saw Pete's Dragon today. The kid's parents die within the first 60 seconds of the movie.

Overall, my daughter and her friend liked it. I though it was a good kids movie.

is disney the company that redid pete's dragon?  THat is usually their MO

 

[FLBuff PE]

Dude!  Spoilers!

I'm fairly certain there is a dragon in it, and a kid named Pete.

 

[Road Guy]

So has anyone endured the sausage fest movie yet? I try and stay away from those personally...

 

[Supe]

I've heard it was really funny, but then again, there are a lot of people that actually find Seth Rogan funny..

 

[willsee]

Heard it was more of a "WTF" movie than anything.  Not WTF in a good way though but like WTF did I just watch.  It was not recommended.

 

[kevo_55]

Can't you say that about all of Seth Rogan's movies?