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Cinemas will be fine. I don't want to go to your house to watch movies.

by shanghaiaway 9y ago

johnmaguire2013 9y ago
Why do you want to leave your house to watch movies?
- guelo 9y ago
  Because I'm not a hermit. I like to meet up with friends, have a shared experience, go to dinner and talk about it.
  - dorfsmay 9y ago
    I do that, discovered lots of good movie that way, and discussed different perspectives etc... Why would you need a cinema or watch a movie together? Do you only discuss books you have read with and at the same time as your friends?
  - logfromblammo 9y ago
    You sound like an antihermitite. Are you an antihermitite? Do you have some kind of a problem with me watching a movie at home in my mountaintop retreat, next to my bearfriend, who is watching a completely different movie on another screen? Does it disgust you that we enjoy each other's company without ever having a single conversation? If I wanted to go to dinner and talk, I'd hang out at roadkill point with the crows, and make fun of the redtailed hawk behind her back.~ I remember back when going to the movies at a cinema was a great way to date someone without letting them know exactly where you lived--in case they turned out to be both wrong for you and obsessive--and without revealing immediately that you can't hold up your end of an unprompted, free-form conversation for four whole hours. It's a lot better value when you don't have to pay for your kids' tickets and meals, too.
- milesrout 9y ago
  For the same reason I want to leave my house at all: social interaction.
dorfsmay 9y ago
Right. This is exactly why I don't go to cinema, just somebody else's house full of rude guests!
- shanghaiaway 9y ago
  Right. And you don't use public transportation because it's full of serial killers.
  - dorfsmay 9y ago
    I do. Public transportation is cheaper and less stressful than other options if I cannot walk there, or arriving all sweaty from riding my bycicle isn't a good option. Watching a movie at home is cheaper (7 $ HD for the whole family), a better experience (no smell of whatever food they sell in cinemas), not having to deal with people who talk during the movies, etc...), less effort (I'm home already), you could even argue better for the environment since we don't need to use any mean of transport. I really do not understand your analogies, they don't make sense to me.

Cinemas will be fine. I don't want to go to your house to watch movies.

johnmaguire2013 9y ago

Why do you want to leave your house to watch movies?

guelo 9y ago
Because I'm not a hermit. I like to meet up with friends, have a shared experience, go to dinner and talk about it.
- dorfsmay 9y ago
  I do that, discovered lots of good movie that way, and discussed different perspectives etc... Why would you need a cinema or watch a movie together? Do you only discuss books you have read with and at the same time as your friends?
- logfromblammo 9y ago
  You sound like an antihermitite. Are you an antihermitite? Do you have some kind of a problem with me watching a movie at home in my mountaintop retreat, next to my bearfriend, who is watching a completely different movie on another screen? Does it disgust you that we enjoy each other's company without ever having a single conversation? If I wanted to go to dinner and talk, I'd hang out at roadkill point with the crows, and make fun of the redtailed hawk behind her back.~ I remember back when going to the movies at a cinema was a great way to date someone without letting them know exactly where you lived--in case they turned out to be both wrong for you and obsessive--and without revealing immediately that you can't hold up your end of an unprompted, free-form conversation for four whole hours. It's a lot better value when you don't have to pay for your kids' tickets and meals, too.
milesrout 9y ago
For the same reason I want to leave my house at all: social interaction.

dorfsmay 9y ago

Right. This is exactly why I don't go to cinema, just somebody else's house full of rude guests!

shanghaiaway 9y ago
Right. And you don't use public transportation because it's full of serial killers.
- dorfsmay 9y ago
  I do. Public transportation is cheaper and less stressful than other options if I cannot walk there, or arriving all sweaty from riding my bycicle isn't a good option. Watching a movie at home is cheaper (7 $ HD for the whole family), a better experience (no smell of whatever food they sell in cinemas), not having to deal with people who talk during the movies, etc...), less effort (I'm home already), you could even argue better for the environment since we don't need to use any mean of transport. I really do not understand your analogies, they don't make sense to me.