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Consumers Prefer Movies At Home
Ubergrendle writes "A poll conducted by Ipsos on behalf of the Associated Press and AOL confirmed that 73% of movie viewers prefer to watch movies at home rather than at a theater. This article comes on the heels of a consistently poor box office this year, even despite the presence of the new Star Wars film. Despite this demand for home viewing, only 5% admitted to downloading a movie from the internet."
Home Theater: Private bathroom (icky)
Theater: Public restroom. (ickier)
Sex is better at home during a movie than in a theater too :)
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I went to "Revenge of the Sith". In the middle of the movie there was this constant babbling behind me. I turned around and looked and there was this slob on his cell phone and he promptly gave me the finger.
Though I went and got the usher, I still feel inclined that I should have used my own physical force.
MPAA - if people stop going to your movies it's because they might be getting tired of cell phones in theatres.
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Man, if there's one thing that would drive me to murder, it would be being forced to watch adverts on my own dvd. Death to hollywood.
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When I view a flick at home, I don't have to worry about attendants in night vision goggles trying to take my camcorder. I can just set the camcorder on a tripod, perfectly centered on the screen I might add, although I had to then shift a little right or left to see the movie. Regardless, when filmed at home, there is much less hassle and I don't have ticket collectors asking me if that's a tripod in my pocket.--and I get a perfect miniDV recording of the movie on my 60" TV as it was meant to be seen.
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An intriguing combination...
Home Theater: You can cry into your ice cream while watching your favorite romantic comedy for the fifteenth time
Public Theater: You can't cry because you're afraid the tears will blur your vision; causing you to miss a second of your fifteen dollar movie. You can't cry because you're afraid to get your 5 dollar popcorn soggy. You can't cry because the guy sitting next to you is an ex-convict.
Home Theater is clearly the better choice for cry babies across the globe.
j/k sweetybear
Nah.... I have respect for those who like seeing live theatre/plays. But it's not my "cup of tea". For starters, live productions tend not to even cover some of the genres I like best (such as good sci-fi). They lend themsleves better to love stories, or perhaps "whodunnit" types of drama.
It's really a completely different "art form" than movies, especially nowdays with CGI and everything in the movies. To me, a movie works best when it takes you someplace you couldn't really go in "real life". Plays and theatrical performances are forced to use costumes, small props and painted backdrops to do this. If you're just into the minimalist aspect of it all, great. But if I want to see a story about a mission to Mars, I'd rather have the CGI and everything making it as believable as possible that I'm really watching the story unfold there. People pretending to walk around in low gravity on a stage with some painted "Mars-scape" backdrop behind them isn't going to compare.
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This post is blatant bs.