Not quite "living" money, but big prize on a game show money.(I wouldn't trade places with the winner for anything though...he's kind of sad and has a raging gastric disorder of some type, but it does make me want to dust off my game some.) Especially since they all said women are not competitors.

Jess said what I was going to say. Also, I think I may have to change my tag to compliment hers now.

Psst! Sean, while it's possible Brain may have said "thinking" at some point, his verb of choice was "pondering".

With the crowds, and the commercials

Yes. This. Nothing like being forced to watch commercials without the recourse of changing the channel or hitting mute. Couple that with the increasing obnoxiousness of movie goers (talking back to the movie, talking to each other, talking on their cell phone, etc, people with small children who scream for 30 minutes straight but their parents never once consider taking them out of the theatre until they calm down) and it makes for a miserable experience. I think I have contemplated taking the life of a fellow human being more often in a movie theatre than in all the moments outside of a theatre put together. Special Hell, indeed.

I still go see movies in the theatre (and I never download them) but it's only stuff I really want to see right away and that having on the big screen improves the experience. Stuff I'm less excited about and/or doesn't have a lot of action/sweeping cinematagrophy waits until it's on DVD or cable.

I watch them better in the theatre.

This isn't me. I have no problems focusing on a movie at home, though being able to pause and go do something is nice. The only movie I might have watched all the way through if I'd seen it in the theatre instead of at home is "Being John Malkovich". I have never gotten up and walked out of a theatre, so I probably would have stuck with it until the end. At home on cable, I turned it off after a half-hour when I realized I absolutely hated every single one of the characters and watching it any longer would simply enrage me. Which was disappointing since I had been really interested in seeing it.

My attention span at home is about an hour, give or take. That's enough to watch a broadcast television show or pop in a Wonderfalls DVD, but I almost never make it all the way through a DVD rental in one sitting. Which results in late fees and any movie I rent costing the same as a movie ticket. The theater is a controlled separate environment where I'm not worrying about who might be calling, or deciding that pasta sounds good and getting sidetracked cooking for a half hour. Plus, it allows me to pretend that I'm social and like people.

What Matt said. Also, some movies work in a theatre and nsm on TV.

I have downloaded a couple of movies. 3 reasons - A) My wife, for a while, was, due to health reasons, unable to go to movies. So I downloaded stuff she wanted to see. B) Stuff that's unavailable on region 1. C) Stuff I had seen in the theater, and have since bought in the official version, but that I NEEDED to have.

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Hello thread! I don't think I've ever ventured into here before. Just watched Batman Begins and Y Tu Mama Tambien within the past 48 hours. Liked both exceedingly, albeit for different reasons.

Hi Fay! I also like both movies exceedingly. So much so that I may be going to the cinema tonight for a second viewing of Batman Begins. In other news, Katie Holmes is an anagram of 'Tom likes a he'. IJS.

Ireland seems to be bucking the downward trend in cinema attendance. More cinemas are opening every few weeks, and box office has been increasing every year. Odd.

Katie Holmes is an anagram of 'Tom likes a he'.

BWAH-HA-HA-HA!

I think I just broke something laughing.

Are any of these worth seeing?
War of the Worlds
Bewitched
Land of the Dead
Cinderella Man

Land of the Dead has gotten good reviews so far.

It would be wrong of me to pay to see Batman Begins and go peek at War of the Worlds instead, wouldn't it?

I hear decent things about all of those but Bewitched. Though I've seen none, here's a synopsis of what I've heard:

1) WotW: a bit horror-y, with cool special effects. Apparently Dakota Fanning, though still a bit creepy, not as creepy as usual and doing that good acting thing. Tom Cruise, decent not too crazy. Lots of explosions.

2) Bewitched: avoid, avoid, avoid. Bad, bad, bad.

3) Land of the Dead: It's a Romero zombie movie. Good if you like 'em, bad if you don't.

4) Cinderalla man: A middling Oscar-style movie that was released, inexplicably, in the summer. Russell Crowe, Renee Zelweger, and boxing. Pretty intense fight scenes, had friends that couldn't watch. Not as dramatic as, say, Million Dollar Baby - more of an actual fight movie. Decent if that's your bag, but nothing super-duper special.

Like I said, haven't seen any of them, so take these summaries as what they are: things I've read on the internets. Should see Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants if you haven't, though. Because I pimp it whenever humanly possible.