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.

Thanks!

I liked Cinderalla Man a lot. It's old-fashioned, but the acting is impeccable.