Does the Movie Theater enhance your film experience?

I'd rather go alone on a Tuesday afternoon (by myself) when I typically have a theater mostly to myself. I absolutely love the theater experience but would prefer sharing the room with as few people as possible. Less retards playing origami with their popcorn bags or talking the entire time (not hating on people eating popcorn but there's always that one guy acting like he's unwrapping Christmas gifts). And usually if I take a date, she wants to play Mystery Science Theater 3000 the whole movie... and holy frick, I don't know how you married guys manage to watch scary movies with women.

I live in Atlanta and go to the Regal at Atlantic Station a lot. Friday/Saturday nights are an utter nightmare with inconsiderate people and it never fails, someone is guaranteed to bring an infant. So if it's something I really want to see, I'm going on a weekday before 4:00pm.

Empty theaters are the best way to watch a movie. Crowds make it worse.

I’d prefer the theater as empty as possible

The more people in there the greater the chances of surrounded by dickwads who lack decorum on how to act or have their cell phones ringing and yapping throughout

I love going to the movies. But I won’t go on an opening night/weekend show. It’s usually the Thursday it opens or a Sunday matinee

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would prefer sharing the room with as few people as possible. Less retards playing origami with their popcorn bags or talking the entire time (not hating on people eating popcorn but there's always that one guy acting like he's unwrapping Christmas gifts)

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all of this. I can't even stand to hear people chewing popcorn, open mouth Neanderthals.

Yup. Michael would not have been as good on a tv as you miss out on the concert experience in the movie. Gone with the Wind, Ben Hur, saw them this year on big screen. Feels like you are in the middle of the scene.

May get a summer pass to a theater and take a few days off work and kick back on a weekday a watch a few movies there. Not tell anyone.

Depends on the movie.

Some kind of mystery or crime drama, etc. I’d rather go in the middle of a random weekday where there’s a little to no other people.

A blockbuster action/sci fi movie, horror, or comedy can be more fun with a big crowd.
Going to see Superbad in college with my buddies and a theater full of people is probably the best time I’ve ever had watching a movie. Paranormal Activity was fun too.

just the opposite - it detracts from the experience for me. So much so that the last movie I saw in a theater was Black Hawk Down.

We have a nice-to-us home theater setup; it's not Dolby Atmos but I'm happy with it.

I can pause it and go the bathroom whenever I want w/o missing anything.

I can turn on subtitles because I've become dependent on them.

I can eat my own nachos and beer.

I don't have to listen to anyone else talking during a film.

I don't have to fight traffic and people getting to / from the theater.

Having said that, there's a few movies that I'd like to see in IMAX if we had one where I live, but I don't.

Yes, I'm a grumpy old man

Yes, but like the old video arcades, they are going extinct because of home technology. It's sad, and I'll go to them as long as they last, but AMC stock is almost at penny levels.

Popcorn movie? Yes. Big screen and great surround sound make the atmosphere. Audience can help too.


Other movies? Depends on what it is.

Dramatic Oscar bait stuff typically doesn’t benefit from it.

Something very atmosphic like The Hateful Eight or The Thing would benefit, but those technically fall into the popcorn movie category.