Your Theatre Habits

[HKpowerup]

Greetings fellow Hypers,

With many movies to look forward to in the coming months, I wonder what everyone's preferences & habits are at the cinema.
- Do you normally go with friends or family? Or both?
- Do you get concessions? And if so what kind?
- How often do you go?
- Do you typically seen genre tentpole blockbusters or the smaller scale independents/dramas?

Feel free to share anything not covererd above.

I occasionally go with friends, and we usually combine it with dinner (i.e. dinner+movie). We see a variety that's not focused on one particular genre. I would like to go more often as I love the theatre experience, but it is challenging for everyone's schedules to align, and there are days when we would rather meet up just & chill over a meal or drinks instead of going to the movies.

 

[Immortalfire]

- I have no friends, and my fam typically doesn’t share my fandom of most films. So yeah I go alone.
- Usually just a soda with free refills
- I saw two movies at the theater last year, so not often.
- Mostly superhero movies these days. I don’t say that as a nerd fan, well partly I do, but mostly because other big time releases just don’t strike my fancy

 

[terry78]

^No friends my ass.


- I try and go by myself opening weekend because going with the family or the girlfriend will distract me. Sometimes if it's a screening I'll go with people from the same Meetup I know.
- I only get a drink or some candy if my Stubs reward points are available, I don't pay out of pocket for that stuff
- Usually every other week, but now with summer once a week
- Try to see both if I can

 

[tzarinna]

The friends that I do have are a bit older than me by about 20-30 years, and aren't movie goers. They're more plays/musical type, and even then they're afraid of the dark or something. We don't get together past 8PM, lmao.

Anyway, I try my best to see horror films in theaters, but my work hours are nights and weekends. I like to sneak in a little booze to add to my Icee, vodka or maybe just wine. I'm not a popcorn and candy person. So, I'll try to eat before hand, sneak in a nosh or purchase some overpriced/gross food at concessions.

Since becoming a mommy most of my film going revolves around kid films, but his taste is changing at the ripe old age of 8. I caught my son really getting into The Breakfast Club one night. He's extremely verbal during trailers about what he wants to see lately. moya lyubov' (моя любовь)

 

[Donner]

I live 7 hours away from my family and in a mountain town with only one theatre. I fly or drive back home to see all new Marvel movies with my dad in a VIP theatre.

7pm-ish on the Friday the movie comes out. Wine and food beforehand and then drinks afterwards. Then I generally watch the same movie in the days afterwards depending on which friends want to go.

 

[B]

- Normally go with a couple of friends, occasionally family & very rarely alone depending on my work schedule or what I want to see.

- Don't really get anything with any concessions with any sort of regularity, largely because at my local cinema the prices for like a drink or popcorn are really extortionate but occasionally I'll get a drink & maybe a popcorn.

- How often I go really depends on what's showing really, fortunately my cinema isn't expensive as some of the other ones closer to the centre of town in which you could be talking £25+ to go to those, which is preposterous. My local's usually in & around £10 which I think's reasonable.

- I don't have a particular genre I go to see, if I like the look of the trailer & have some time/money to go, I'll usually watch just about anything.

 

[Dark Raven]

I usually go on my own, because if I have to wait for others to find a mutually convenient date, it can be weeks after the film has come out. And films don't even stay in my local cinema that long - maybe at most 2 weeks, and by the 2nd week the film has moved to a smaller screen. So I would have to wait weeks to see a Marvel film.

It's not a social event for me either but just a viewing experience. Others want to make it a social event, and then it escalates into something way bigger than I imagined. And then sometimes people might not even want to end up seeing that film, but just going for the sake of going. So all that waiting is for nothing.

So if people want to see a film as a social event, that's fine, but I am not waiting around to watch films I actually want to watch.

I only go maybe at most 3 times a year anyway.

 

[the last son]

I go by myself. Usually when the movie is almost done showing so I can be the only there. I don't go see many movies anymore opening day unless I have nothing to do and don't care about people talking through it.

 

[Morg]

I go alone and usually get a drink in case I get dry throat and start coughing and I try to sit midway in the middle section so those CC(closed caption) device I'm wearing I can read the words without moving my head back and forth

 

[Mandon Knight]

Varies on both film and timing of release and geographic parameters. Have a core 'local' friend base in which we see all the genre / super-hero films with, (4 of us, a lovely couple, my bro and me) then I go watch the big 'super-hero' films with good buddy @Iceman in London but I also go see the 'must-see' DCEU films with another 'bestie' on here @Mach2Infinity to which we go see the DCEU films without fail, all 3 are special to me.

I go on my own too to central London to see 'indie', documentary or specialist films.

In terms of my eating habits, it's all dependent on my Type 1, I can't have all the 'treats' of going to the cinema sadly so it's usually a bottle of water only.

 

[Dark Raven]

I never drink anything at the cinema. With the air conditioning and then all the drink I would need the toilet, and since I've paid for the film I don't want to have to duck out. I don't eat popcorn either because then my throat would get dry and I'd need to drink.

 

[terry78]

That's the idea.

 

[psylockolussus]

I take a nap during the middle of the film, just recently happened with Spider-Verse and Shazam! Its becoming a theater habit.

 

[the last son]

THeyre making the seats too comfy. I've come close a bunch recently.

 

[Lasirius]

I go either with my significant other or by myself. With a friend here and there but not too often.

Now that theaters serve alcohol, I tend to either get one beer or one wine to sit back and relax. More than that will make me want to use the restroom. Don't really get snacks nor popcorn but I might on a rare occasion.

 

[GunBlade]

I bring a bottle of water and sometimes my own snack(s). I tend to go alone. That way, I enjoy the movie more.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Greetings fellow Hypers,

With many movies to look forward to in the coming months, I've always wondered what everyone's preferences & habits are at the cinema.
- Do you normally go with friends or family? Or both?
- Do you normally get concessions? And if so what kind?
- How often do you go?
- Do you normally seen genre tentpole or the smaller scale independents/dramas?

Feel free to share anything not covererd above.

I occasionally go with friends, and we usually combine it with dinner (i.e. dinner+movie). We usually see a variety that's not focused on any one particular genre. I would like to go more often as I love the theatre experience, but it is challenging for everyone's schedules to align, and there are days when we would rather meet up just & chill over a meal or drinks, instead of going to the movies.

My habits have changed dramatically the past three years because of this podcast I do. So now I have to see the films much earlier than I usually chose to do so in the past. Oh, sure, some films I would see opening weekend or day but that was a rare case. I normally would like to give a film a week or two weeks before I would see them. Get the sense of what others say, see if it's worth my time (RT and the like NEVER figure into my decisions, and while I like to read reviews, the reviewer or critic's opinion never factor as much as people I know's opinions do. And by "know" I mean offline. Sorry but... Online, even here, there's too many agendas, too much group think and too many would be iconoclasts... But I digress.).

I haven't bought food at a theater... Never. Even as a kid my family never spent money at the food concessions. So when I go out with people and the first thing they do after the usher lets us into the lobby is head to the concessions I always get annoyed. It's a racket, for one, way too overpriced, and I want to get better seating and see the trailers on the big screen yadda-yadda. Ain't got time for drinks and popcorn. Frankly until about five-six years ago if I ate anything while watching a film I brought my own stuff. Then they started checking bags for outside food, which is... Yeah, **** that Gestapos ****. Besides... I don't want to go to the bathroom at the movies. I want to see the movie. So I tend to not eat or drink much before I go in.

As I work nights I unfortunately don't get many chances to go to the movies with friends. Which has it's upsides since my daylight hours are free so I often see films in the afternoons.

 

[Hotwire]

I'll go as close to opening day as possible. I almost always go with my wife and occasionally with friends as well. We make a date night out of it. The classic dinner & a movie. Anymore, the only films I want to go to the theater to see are superhero/"nerd" films. We usually grab a soda and some Twizzlers.

 

[ComicChick]

ive gone to movies alone, i've gone with friends, i'm up for either. but sadly dont get to go as much anymore.

i dont tend to buy concessions cuz prices be crazy yall lol. but sometimes whoever i am with, we'll go in together on a big popcorn or split a drink or something. if we arent' going to eat after, we'll probably sneak food in. hoodies ftw

this post sounds like a 13 yr old CC wrote it

 

[Web-Head]

I'll go by myself, with family or with a friend - it just depends, but usually I go with my brother.

It just depends on what's out how often I go. Typically once every two weeks, but sometimes more. It was a lot more when I had MoviePass.

I'll get popcorn and a drink occasionally, but usually only if I go around lunchtime or if I have enough points to get it for free.

I'll see just about anything that interests me or is getting good reviews, but typically I'll see more blockbuster types.

My best friend and I have a tradition of going to see the new MCU films that opening Thursday night in IMAX and grab food beforehand.

 

[Mandon Knight]

I do think the 'stigma' of lone cinema-going is lessening now, thank goodness. I love going on my own (or should I say, I don't 'love it' as much as company, but I like the complete immersion one has by oneself).

 

[Dark Raven]

I do think the 'stigma' of lone cinema-going is lessening now, thank goodness. I love going on my own (or should I say, I don't 'love it' as much as company, but I like the complete immersion one has by oneself).

Well, if the others in the audience are paying more attention to you than the film, then they can't be very interested in it. I don't think anyone really notices. Or if they do, I don't care. It's not like I will see them again or they will see me. And I know that it's not that I couldn't find anyone else to go, but that I don't want to have to wait several weeks to arrange a trip to the cinema just to see a film that is out now.

 

[terry78]

Nobody cares nowadays if you're by yourself. A lot of people review these things online and are just going out of obligation for work so it's not a huge issue.

 

[Mandon Knight]

Yes, I'd say going by your own is less 'problematicly seen' as such, but going to a Pixar film (for example) as a singular male not accompanied by any children is still going to carry 'weird looks' or judgement, sadly.

 

[terry78]

I guess I'm ****ed then come June.