Cinema on your tod
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More often than not I will go to the pictures on my own. I like to sneak off from work in the afternoon to the cornerhouse.
My friend at work always asks me to go to watch films with her but she has to analyse the fuck out of everything whereas I am happy just to lose myself and sit in the dark for a few hours.
No way would I go to the pictures with my Mrs, she's a film watchers nightmare.
My friend at work always asks me to go to watch films with her but she has to analyse the fuck out of everything whereas I am happy just to lose myself and sit in the dark for a few hours.
No way would I go to the pictures with my Mrs, she's a film watchers nightmare.
kained&able
Here for the football.
Nope!
I refuse to pay money if there aren't people with me. If i go to cinema i'm sacificing the comfort of my own home and being able to chat during the film, the ability to drink and smoke. I don't care how big the screen is no point in a cinema unless you get to chat about it a lot after wards.
dave
I refuse to pay money if there aren't people with me. If i go to cinema i'm sacificing the comfort of my own home and being able to chat during the film, the ability to drink and smoke. I don't care how big the screen is no point in a cinema unless you get to chat about it a lot after wards.
dave
I do remember the first film I saw alone, 'Henry, portrait of a serial killer'
It was in the tiny screen 3 at the cornerhouse. For those who've not been there are probably about 30 seats. It was a very odd experience, in fact I think most people in there were on their own, almost all men and some very odd looking chaps.
I love screen 3 in the afternoon. I always find the audience a real mix, yet whatever the film there's always an old couple or two who've been shopping and have loads of carrier bags with them
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It was in the tiny screen 3 at the cornerhouse. For those who've not been there are probably about 30 seats. It was a very odd experience, in fact I think most people in there were on their own, almost all men and some very odd looking chaps.
I love screen 3 in the afternoon. I always find the audience a real mix, yet whatever the film there's always an old couple or two who've been shopping and have loads of carrier bags with them
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May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
I love going to the flicks on my own, should do it more often actually. Mr K isn't as keen on films as I am, so more often than not I won't get round to seeing something I want to see if I rely on us going together. Also, like Orang Utan, I hate it when a bunch of people leave the cinema and immediately start talking about what we've just seen...I like to have a bit of p+q to digest things.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Shame you can't immerse yourself in the experience the same way at home
CharlieAddict
nekomimi rocks!!!
the last film i saw alone was 'total recall.'
i don't know why but don't seem to enjoy cinemas alone.
i don't know why but don't seem to enjoy cinemas alone.
moonsi til
worked it out now!
Yep ..being going to cinema on my own since I was 18. Only thing I would never go watch on my own would be a horror film.
ruffneck23
front left
out here in dublin i dont know many peeps so im ofter going to the cinema on me tod , keeps me out of the pub ( mostly )
however back home we've got a projector and surround sound , apart from the fact my brother didnt consider how small our house is to fit an 82 inch screen into , i download em and have the cinema experience at home a la spliff
however back home we've got a projector and surround sound , apart from the fact my brother didnt consider how small our house is to fit an 82 inch screen into , i download em and have the cinema experience at home a la spliff
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
I don't enjoy going at 'normal' times at the mo because the general public drive me mad so it's usually either -as you say - the matinee or the really late night jobbie at weekends.
The real secret is the special once-a-week wrinklie special at 11.00am; cheap, a free coffee and biscuit, some old Judi Dench tat and only the occasional swish of a colostomy bag for distraction. Genius.
The real secret is the special once-a-week wrinklie special at 11.00am; cheap, a free coffee and biscuit, some old Judi Dench tat and only the occasional swish of a colostomy bag for distraction. Genius.
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
i ;love going alone - I always have done, since I was about 19, buut then for a while in my twenties I was a multiplex manager. I saw everything that came out, eithe before or after my shifts - always on my own. Four films a week, most weeks.
I miss that.
If i watch films at home, i'm likely to fall asleep.
I miss that.
If i watch films at home, i'm likely to fall asleep.
ShiftyBagLady
Thinks she is a flower to be looked at
beeboo said:I've only been a couple of times on my own - I don't know whether it's fortunate or not that both times have been major tearjerkers and I've been sat there sobbing on my own.
the last tiem i went by myself i saw a really sad film and i was quite glad nobody was there to witness me welling up or wanting to discuss it afterwards.
dynamicbaddog
run for your life
spanglechick said:If i watch films at home, i'm likely to fall asleep.
I'm like that as well, unless it's a really really good film I can't enjoy it at home, I either fall alsleep or get distracted. I can only concentrate on a film properly if I'm watching it at the cinema.
Last night when I went to see Run Fatboy Run there was only two other people in the whole place, it was like a private screening
For sure! Love going to cinema by myself.. same goes for going to gigs, exhibitions, travelling... I like my own company a lot, but also like going with other people and discussing films after over a nice pint or too.
I like to go by myself to films, get a big coke with ice and then pour some whisky in, sit back and relax! Anyway you're not by yourself if you go to a cinema, you get the reaction from the film from the audience, which is completely different from watching it at home on DVD.
I like to go by myself to films, get a big coke with ice and then pour some whisky in, sit back and relax! Anyway you're not by yourself if you go to a cinema, you get the reaction from the film from the audience, which is completely different from watching it at home on DVD.
I picked the last choice, but only because the cinema these days is so full of distractions the staff refuse to deal with and the facilities so crap that I' better off not bothering.Treebeak said:So, I went to the cinema on my own this evening (Death Proof, if you must ask - brilliant film, no story line) and I really enjoyed it! Could've invited my usual cinema going buddies but couldnt be assed to see or make small talk with em so off I went. Early showing, had a row to myself. I didnt miss anything about going with someone else but benefited from not having to share my popcorn or shelling out for drinks/dinner before hand.
So, who goes to the cinema on their own?
Poll to follow.
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