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JazzGal said:
I have a candy dish on my desk full of individually-wrapped Lifesavers and Jolly Ranchers. It makes me crazy when people take them, open them, and leave the wrapper on my desk, especially since the trashcan is very close.
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Throw one at them next time. That'll learn'em!
 
LogGrad98 said:
One of the best movie experiences I ever had was watching The Dark Knight on iMAX. Went there to see it 3 times actually. Loved it.
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Nice. I like that Nolan keeps shooting films on the IMAX format. It really is much better than the typical cinema screen. Just so immersive.
 
LogGrad98 said:
One of the best movie experiences I ever had was watching The Dark Knight on iMAX. Went there to see it 3 times actually. Loved it.
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Me too!
 
One of my best IMAX experience was watching Beowulf on 3D IMAX years ago.... no way I'd be able to re-create that experience at home.
 
Wes Mantooth said:
I don't. IMAX is garbage because the sound quality is laughable.
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Did you go to a crappy imax theater? I went to the one at the Jordan Commons (is that where it is? the Larry Miller theater there by crab shack or whatever) and I thought everything about it was top notch. I had seats dead center in the middle of the theater (if anyone has been to this particular one, right at the top row of the lower seating area). It was an unbelievable experience watching The Dark Knight there. Just sucked you in in a way I have not experienced much in movies at all. One I will never forget.
 
Wes Mantooth said:
Wtf? That movie looked retarded and was roundly panned by critics iirc.
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I judge each movie based on its merits... I always avoid reading what critics say before watching a movie.


But since you think highly of what critics think here's what Wikipedia say:


Giving Beowulf three out of four stars, Roger Ebert argues that the film is a satire of the original poem.[41] Time magazine critic Richard Corliss describes the film as one with "power and depth" and suggests that the "effects scenes look realer [sic], more integrated into the visual fabric, because they meet the traced-over live-action elements halfway. It all suggests that this kind of a moviemaking is more than a stunt. By imagining the distant past so vividly, Zemeckis and his team prove that character capture has a future."[42] Corliss later named it the 10th best film of 2007.[43] Rolling Stone critic Peter Travers argues that “The eighth-century Beowulf, goosed into twenty-first century life by a screenplay from sci-fi guru Neil Gaiman and Pulp Fiction's Roger Avary, will have you jumping out of your skin and begging for more... I've never seen a 3-D movie pop with this kind of clarity and oomph. It's outrageously entertaining."[44]
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LogGrad98 said:
There are movies I would rather watch in a theater for the large screen experience. Also I don't have to make my own snacks or clean up the mess and I get out of the house for a while. In some ways it is the experience and it is somewhat nostalgic for me as it was an event when I was a kid. I will never forget seeing Star Wars and E.T. and other films like that on the big screen with my family. So that plays into it as well. I definitely don't go to the movies as often as I once did, but it is a nice escape once in a while.
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My wife has the same get out of the house attitude. I just don't think it's getting out of the house in any meaningful way that's different than staying at home. Either way you are sitting in the dark to watch a flick.

However, in one situation you can control the environment and in the other you are at the mercy of the theater and crowd. Movie theater experiences to me are wasting time driving through bad traffic, waiting in line to buy a ticket, waiting for the ticket check to accept you in, waiting through the endless commercials and previews, dealing with annoying people in the theater, spending $7 on a bucket of popcorn that tastes like stale ball sweat, then driving back home through bad traffic.

I'd rather stay home and save the $50 for some excellent steaks or a ton of pizza and ice cream, or, buy some 7-11 nachos and some Orville Redenbacher's and pretend I was at the theater. And is there really that much to clean up after yourself at a home movie event?
 
ONE LOVE said:
I judge each movie based on its merits... I always avoid reading what critics say before watching a movie.


But since you think highly of what critics think here's what Wikipedia say:
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It gets a 6.2 on imdb. That is mediocre as hell. That coupled with the fact that it looked retarded steered me clear.
 
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