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Airbolt 
"teil mann, teil maschine"
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 Posted - 04/19/2007 : 00:29:08
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Very occasionally , I arrive up at a cinema with no idea what's playing . Last time it was a coin toss between Nic Cage on a motorbike or Jim Carrey playing another of his straight roles.
Judging by some of the conversations I have overheard waiting for a ticket , a large proportion of the viewing public do this regularly ie make their minds up in the queue usually bending to peer pressure or lead-lined hints from their partners. A scientific correlation of reasons 
1. "My friends all want to see the Nic Cage film . I will appear unmanly if i suggest the artsy-fartsy subtitled film "
2. " Oh , thats got Actor A in it. Actor A or Actress X are nice looking. Thats the one for me "
3 " If i put up with this Renee Zellwegger film where nothing happens and they talk about relationships i might get lucky later on I just hope none of my friends see me! "
4. As 3 - substitute Nic Cage
5. " This film subtly explores the underlying tensions between the growing geopolitical aspirations of the underclass and the angst of the materially obsessed consumer . Ooh plus Rennee/Nic ( substitute where appropriate ) get naked in it! "
So - if you arrive undecided what makes you decide?
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Sean
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
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Posted - 04/19/2007 : 00:43:38
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I never arrive at the cinema undecided.  And if what I wanted to see happens to be fully booked then I go home.  Although it helps that the cinema is 3 minutes away.  |
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Sal[Au]pian 
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 04/19/2007 : 09:32:26
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| I often arrive at the cinema undecided, but I'm just undecided as to what to see then, as I see almost all mainstream releases. I usually just base it on whatever starts soonest, or whatever fits with watching something else immediately afterwards. |
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Beanmimo 
"August review site"
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Posted - 04/19/2007 : 09:41:14
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Usually I have made my mind up and pre-bought the tickets as in the case of 300 the other week where three of us decided to go and two days later and after many unexpected phone calls I had to but 12 tickets, it was like a kids party (but with adults).
It is so rare that a screening is sold out these days that I haven't had to think on my feet in a long time but I'm sure i'd probably just see if anything worthy was on and see that....or rent out a dvd instead. |
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 04/19/2007 : 11:56:17
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I usually go to the cinema with a particular film I want to see in mind. However, if there's a long line, I'll start to get paranoid and start looking to see if there's another choice, just in case. That's when I go for the lesser of all evils. I look to see who is in the other films and what they're about, then decide which one looks the least disgusting for me to see. Seriously. That's the way it is for me.
(Ah, but who remembers back in the day when a movie theatre had one hall with one screen? Wasn't life simple back then? Now a place that has less than four films running at the same time is considered to be a stone-age cinema!)
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Downtown
"Welcome back, Billy Buck"
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Posted - 04/19/2007 : 12:51:06
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Rovark
"Luck-pushing, rule-bending, chance-taking reviewer"
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Posted - 04/19/2007 : 18:22:20
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I always arrive at the cinema knowing exactly what I'm going to see. Sometimes though, I know I want to go, but have no specific film in mind.
Earlier this week, we decided we wanted to go catch a film, so checked what was on at the 4 most local cenemas at about the time we wanted to go. There was nothing that particularly stood out that we hadn't already seen so we went for the path of least resistance, ie the one most likely to be ok.
We saw Wild Hogs
Pretty much on the basis Macy and Liotta are always good value, Allen and Travolta are sometimes good, sometimes meh, but enough to make up for Lawrence.
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w22dheartlivie
"Kitty Lover"
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Posted - 04/19/2007 : 19:00:41
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| I rarely, if ever, go to the cinema (eyes). However, when I do go, we are going to see a particular film. As far as deciding what film I would actually GO to the cinema to see, it's varied. Mostly, it's the actor in it (Johnny Depp usually gets me out). Often, though, it's the story in the film (Pirates on the big screen - oh wait, that's Johnny Depp too... ). At one point, it was to see the new Shyamalan film, but he's fallen off my radar. |
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randall 
"I like to watch."
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Posted - 04/20/2007 : 00:05:06
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For us, a trip to the cinema is always carefully planned in advance: we watch most movies on DVD. [Aside from the Sundance and NYF Festivals, which we attend nearly every year.]
To attain a cinema trip, the movie must be:
1) So loud that louts are drowned out [any summer blockbuster that seems interesting, such as BATMAN BEGINS, SUPERMAN RETURNS, PIRATES anything, etc.]
2) So off the radar that such louts will not show [BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, etc.]
The rest we watch on DVD. And yep, we missed SUNSHINE at Sundance, but not HUSTLE & FLOW, WHALE RIDER, or even GRACE IS GONE. Haven't heard of that one? You will. |
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Airbolt
"teil mann, teil maschine"
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Posted - 04/21/2007 : 21:20:34
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Originally posted by Randall
For us, a trip to the cinema is always carefully planned in advance: we watch most movies on DVD. [Aside from the Sundance and NYF Festivals, which we attend nearly every year.]
To attain a cinema trip, the movie must be:
1) So loud that louts are drowned out [any summer blockbuster that seems interesting, such as BATMAN BEGINS, SUPERMAN RETURNS, PIRATES anything, etc.]
2) So off the radar that such louts will not show [BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, etc.]
What about covering all bets with obscure films that are very loud? I recommend
" Algerian mollusc herders holler at each other ",(1969 Thierry Riboflavin )
" Jacques and his Jack-Hammer " ( Jacques Tramline , 1975 )or
" Mein Haus is auf der autobahn und also ich habe ein rottweiller " ( Otto Deaf , 1982 ) |
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Airbolt
"teil mann, teil maschine"
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Posted - 04/21/2007 : 21:24:45
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Originally posted by wildhartlivie
I rarely, if ever, go to the cinema (eyes). However, when I do go, we are going to see a particular film. As far as deciding what film I would actually GO to the cinema to see, it's varied. Mostly, it's the actor in it (Johnny Depp usually gets me out). Often, though, it's the story in the film (Pirates on the big screen - oh wait, that's Johnny Depp too... ). At one point, it was to see the new Shyamalan film, but he's fallen off my radar.
So , " Johnny Depp angsts it up something fierce " by M Night Shymalan would be a winner then? |
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ragingfluff 
"Currently lost in Canada"
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Posted - 04/22/2007 : 21:05:08
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I haven't darkened the door of a cinema in a long time (I live many miles from the nearest picture house and it only plays rubbish that appeals to wastrel teenagers or rednecks), but when I was a regular cinema-goer, I always knw what I was going to see, and if it was sold out, I would turn around and go home (or wait for the next showing). I needed to be in the mood for certain films, and second choices were always not quite right for the frame of mind I was in at the time. I suppose that makes me inflexible, and I'm probably worse now because I'm old and stuck in my ways.
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Koli
"Striving lackadaisically for perfection."
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Posted - 04/22/2007 : 21:31:26
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It's rare for me to arrive at a cinema without having decided what to watch. I can only think of one example: about a year ago I had a couple of hours to kill between meetings in Birmingham. How did I decide what to see? I ruled out the 15s and 12s because I'd be able to watch them with the family at home (eventually), and of the 18s on offer only one was clearly not going to appeal to my other half. In other words, I decided to watch something I wouldn't get to see while with wife or family.
And that, dear Reader, is how I came to watch  The Devil's Rejects on a wet Wednesday in Birmingham.
Okay, I was making up that last bit: I have no idea what day it was or what the weather was like. |
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randall
"I like to watch."
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Posted - 04/23/2007 : 02:37:41
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Originally posted by AIRBOLT
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Originally posted by Randall
For us, a trip to the cinema is always carefully planned in advance: we watch most movies on DVD. [Aside from the Sundance and NYF Festivals, which we attend nearly every year.]
To attain a cinema trip, the movie must be:
1) So loud that louts are drowned out [any summer blockbuster that seems interesting, such as BATMAN BEGINS, SUPERMAN RETURNS, PIRATES anything, etc.]
2) So off the radar that such louts will not show [BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, etc.]
What about covering all bets with obscure films that are very loud? I recommend
" Algerian mollusc herders holler at each other ",(1969 Thierry Riboflavin )
" Jacques and his Jack-Hammer " ( Jacques Tramline , 1975 )or
" Mein Haus is auf der autobahn und also ich habe ein rottweiller " ( Otto Deaf , 1982 )
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lemmycaution
"Long mired in film"
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Posted - 04/23/2007 : 02:48:57
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quote:
Originally posted by Randall
For us, a trip to the cinema is always carefully planned in advance: we watch most movies on DVD. [Aside from the Sundance and NYF Festivals, which we attend nearly every year.]
To attain a cinema trip, the movie must be:
1) So loud that louts are drowned out [any summer blockbuster that seems interesting, such as BATMAN BEGINS, SUPERMAN RETURNS, PIRATES anything, etc.]
2) So off the radar that such louts will not show [BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, etc.]
The rest we watch on DVD. And yep, we missed SUNSHINE at Sundance, but not HUSTLE & FLOW, WHALE RIDER, or even GRACE IS GONE. Haven't heard of that one? You will.
Grace gone? Shurely shome mishtake! |
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randall
"I like to watch."
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Posted - 04/23/2007 : 03:21:19
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Originally posted by lemmycaution
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Originally posted by Randall
For us, a trip to the cinema is always carefully planned in advance: we watch most movies on DVD. [Aside from the Sundance and NYF Festivals, which we attend nearly every year.]
To attain a cinema trip, the movie must be:
1) So loud that louts are drowned out [any summer blockbuster that seems interesting, such as BATMAN BEGINS, SUPERMAN RETURNS, PIRATES anything, etc.]
2) So off the radar that such louts will not show [BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, etc.]
The rest we watch on DVD. And yep, we missed SUNSHINE at Sundance, but not HUSTLE & FLOW, WHALE RIDER, or even GRACE IS GONE. Haven't heard of that one? You will.
Grace gone? Shurely shome mishtake!
Ha, ha. As Ben Stiller might say, touche!
But wait about six months [the weird Sundance effect; reviewers are giving YEAR OF THE DOG better props than I did in Park City!]. You may want to talk about GRACE IS GONE again. With all its readily admitted flaws, it still choked us up... |
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Why do we choose a film?
