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Airbolt 
"teil mann, teil maschine"
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 Posted - 11/02/2011 : 20:05:27
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It occured to me after just watching Shutter Island ( 2010 ) that I'm never in any tearing rush to watch the latest movie. Theres the odd exception like Captain America and ( possibly )Tintin but in general I can wait until the mood takes me.
Assuming it's a movie you want to see how long is it before you see it?
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lemmycaution 
"Long mired in film"
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Posted - 11/02/2011 : 20:26:29
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I'm like you. I can wait. Just caught up with the Social Network last week as well as Bureau of Missing Persons (1933)  |
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randall
"I like to watch."
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Posted - 11/02/2011 : 20:28:14
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Only a handful of times per year, paying regular rates in an actual cinema. Otherwise we wait to rent the DVD.
The exceptions are large-scale flix where we think the cinema experience is going to be essential [e.g., any HARRY POTTER, INCEPTION, AVATAR, etc.] or something that depends on a huge plot twist -- in these social-media days we can no longer count on *not* knowing by the time we get around to it.
Not knowing much in advance is why we love seeing movies before the general public at film festivals or FSLC. If you count those showings as "actual cinema" [they're always on a big screen in a big room packed with people], then raise the total to 30-40 films per year. But in those cases the films are sorta chosen by somebody else, so the decision to attend early doesn't rest with us.
P.S. We just saw CAPTAIN AMERICA last weekend...on a Netflix DVD. *Which ones* you decide to wait for just depend on the waiter, no?
P.P.S. Having seen a rough cut, I can assure you that if you love movies, you should fork out the money to see Martin Scorsese's forthcoming HUGO in a cinema *in 3-D*. If I knew what I actually do know, this would be one of the few that would make Ms. randall and me hie ourselves hence to the cinema. |
Edited by - randall on 11/02/2011 20:34:33 |
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Sean
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
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Posted - 11/02/2011 : 20:39:17
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Yeah, when there's something at the cinema that I want to see, I add it to the netflix queue, bump it to the top... and a few months later it'll turn up in my mailbox. Once I've put it in the queue I forget about it totally.  |
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How long before you watch?
