Is there any point to watch movies in the theaters anymore?

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[Rob1981]

[Myst]

I disagree with your rather aggressive disagree-al You clap at a performance to show appreciation to the performers. In a movie, there's no performers present to show appreciation to. You're hardly going to clap the movie theatre staff who played a bunch of ads at the start of the movie, and didn't really do anything throughout.

Laughing is the expression of an emotion, it does something for you. Clapping is showing appreciation - it doesn't do anything for you, it does things for the performers.

So yeah, clapping is a bit pointless.

[Rob1981]

You might think it's pointless, but people still have the right to do it. Until theaters ban it (which I doubt will ever happen), just deal with it.

I would take clapping at the end of every movie, rather than loud people during the movie anyday.
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[Necromis]

Agreed, clapping is a showing of appreciation. However, it does not mean that the appreciation has to be displayed for a live person. How many performers who are currently deceased get praised and remembered every year. The symbolic jesture of clapping at the end of the movie is a display of your appreciation of it. You are right that the person might not be hearing it, but the media at some occasion might, and that applause is then made public via the media, and that person in turn learns of it. It also passes by word of mouth, to in turn end up back to the person who made the movie. I know myself I have heard of many occasions where audiences gave standing ovations to films they thought were remarkable. If you don't think that matters to the films creator you would be foolish.

[eggman75]

Being married with two kids by the time we pay for a movie and popcorn and drinks etc it is well over $60 with most movies coming out a few months later and for about $30 we would rather buy the movie on dvd and watch the movie here at home, where if someone chucks a tantrum or falls asleep it isn't really a big deal. And it can be watched again. We went and watch the Simpsons Movie and had to leave as our eldest child ran riot and was spoiling it for everyone else. We have a pretty big tv and sound system at home so it pretty good.

[Duck]

The theatre is an entirely different experience from watching a movie on DVD. It's a bigger screen. You're watching with more people. It's a more social experience. It's a lot more fun to be drunk in a movie theatre than drunk in your living room. The theatre is how film is meant to be experienced, and film as a medium will die before the theatre does.
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[Jacky]

Couples dating wouldn't really want to buy DVDs and enjoy their time at home watching it on television.

I did miss a popular movie in the cinema and instead wait for its DVD release. With the DVD I can watch it multiple time at home, doing what I like while watching.

I only go to the cinema when my friends ask me out to go with them. That's when I buy popcorn (which I hardly buy outside).
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[Jacky]

[Rob1981]

What kind of theater lets drunk people in? That type of theater should be shut down, or get new management at least. Get drunk somewhere else, don't wreck a movie for the decent people that don't need alcohol to have a good time.
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[spock]

Well, basically I already see this happening in the local cinemas/theatres for a few years. You see less and less people, and basically if you watch a movie there most of the time the room is just filled like 25% or something.

I think it's not the fast transitions to dvd, but more or less the pre-release movies downloaded from the internet that basically have this effect on the cinemas.

But however you look at it, I think going to the movies is nice because of the sound at cinemas (which I think is really nice), and of course it also has some social value. It's a great thing to do, just going to the movies with your girlfriend, your date or your friends. And that's why I think whatever happens, the cinemas won't cease to exist.
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