Do you still go to the movies?

Leland · Post by **Leland** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 10:10 pm

Doug@GT wrote:The best action movie to come out this year was "The Great Raid."

Which, of course, probably has dozens and dozens more shots fired than throughout all of "Jarhead" (I don't think there were any shots fired after boot camp... well, at least shots actually aimed at something besides the sky).

MaryAnn · Post by **MaryAnn** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 5:21 pm

We went to see Broken Flowers this weekend; wasn't half bad, especially for an American movie. My better half is an aficionado and pouts if I want to watch a movie on a TV sized screen, so occasionally I cave in and go to the smelly, sticky-floored movie theater and listen to the people talking around me while he watches the cinematography.

MA

ThomasDodd · Post by **ThomasDodd** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 2:27 pm

Joe Baker wrote:I LOVE movies, and I watch a lot of them. But I hardly ever go to the movies. I usually let the movies come to ME!

Netflix member since April 2000. Still have the 4 at a time plan for about the same money as th ecurrent 3 at a time! I remeber when all the movies shipped for CA too.

For those of us who are past adolescence, movie-watching is better in every way at home.

Agreed on all counts.

The only time I ever choose to see a movie in the theater is if it's visually "big", a la "LOTR".

The 11 yr old has a way of getting us there ocasionaly. After LOTR, I've been for Potter and Spiderman. Seldom opening weekend, and if them that Sunday afternoon.
smaller crowd=more enjoyable
And it's cheaper then too (adults same price as kids)

ThomasDodd · Post by **ThomasDodd** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 2:37 pm

Leland wrote:Two of the last movies I saw were Jarhead ... Jarhead doesn't really support violence, it just shows things as they were back in the first Gulf War.

So would that be a thumbs up review from a Marine?

I've been debating it, worried it was another Hollywood "America is Evil" kind of thing.

ThomasDodd · Post by **ThomasDodd** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 2:41 pm

MaryAnn wrote:if I want to watch a movie on a TV sized screen

What's a TV sized screen? My cureent viewing is on a 36" diagonal tube. Which in letter box is about the height of a 27" screen full frame.

This wll do untill I can find a projector I like and figure out a mounting method for it, and a 4ft high screen, about 7 ft wide. The sound system is already better than the theater.

Leland · Post by **Leland** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 7:08 pm

ThomasDodd wrote:So would that be a thumbs up review from a Marine?

I've been debating it, worried it was another Hollywood "America is Evil" kind of thing.

Yeah, thumbs up from me (Ebert & Roper both liked it, too).

It doesn't make any judgments one way or the other, it just shows how things went for Swofford and lets the viewer decide.

TubeNet

Do you still go to the movies?

How many times this year have you gone out to see a move?