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Re: Aren't there any new movies?
« Reply #25 on: January 03, 2012, 12:57:21 PM »
Quote from: JamisJockey on January 03, 2012, 12:49:38 PM
Avatar was on cable and the wife and I were arguing about watching it. I couldn't convince her that it has been done ad nauseum....Dances with ferngully, but with goofy 8' tall blue people.

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Re: Aren't there any new movies?
« Reply #26 on: January 03, 2012, 01:04:34 PM »
Don't run me out of town, I swear I resisted and resisted but...

Avatar was actually good.
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Re: Aren't there any new movies?
« Reply #27 on: January 03, 2012, 01:25:59 PM »
Quote from: HankB on January 03, 2012, 12:32:48 PM
Just read a story that movie theater attendence in 2011 was the worst in 15 years.

I can believe it, and I'm pretty sure I know why: most of the ads I've seen for new movies bring out a reaction in me somewhere between "Oh, another one of those" to "That really looks like cr@p."


Don't you think DVDs and bigger, better TVs have more to do with it? Not to mention the sluggish economy.
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Re: Aren't there any new movies?
« Reply #28 on: January 03, 2012, 01:38:57 PM »
Quote from: 41magsnub on January 03, 2012, 12:38:19 PM
  . . . Movie previews are fine, but at least around here they are 50% preview and 50% full on commercials for shampoo and cars that are mostly repeats of what is on TV.
They started that full-on commercial cr@p many years ago when I was still in high school . . . they stopped it for a while because they didn't like cleaning all the Cokes and such off the screen time after time, thrown by outraged moviegoers.
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Re: Aren't there any new movies?
« Reply #29 on: January 03, 2012, 01:42:27 PM »
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Re: Aren't there any new movies?
« Reply #30 on: January 03, 2012, 07:32:54 PM »
^^^
Bedlamite, that is so very true!
Sony DVDs are the worst offenders.
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Re: Aren't there any new movies?
« Reply #31 on: January 03, 2012, 07:50:16 PM »
Quote from: fistful on January 03, 2012, 01:25:59 PM

Don't you think DVDs and bigger, better TVs have more to do with it? Not to mention the sluggish economy.

I think it's a combination of what both you and Hank said. I've been disgusted with movie theaters for quite some time, but back in the day if it was a really good movie, like Lord of the Rings, I still went to see that on the big screen versus on a DVD viewed on my CRT screen. Nowadays, now matter how excited I am about a movie, I'm quite happy to wait till it hits DVD or Amazon, and I watch it in the best movie theater around - my living room with the barcolounger, the 52" LCD, and the only other audience members being those that I invited (and who know to not talk at the theater).
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Re: Aren't there any new movies?
« Reply #32 on: January 03, 2012, 08:41:21 PM »
For me, the biggest advantage of DVD/VHS/whatever is that I can pause and rewind. And then watch it all over again if I want to.
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