Cinema on your own : Sad or Independent?

sitstill

What do people think? Going to the cinema on your own during the day? Is it a bit sad?

Mena

Who cares? Go alone if you want, nobody is watching you.

AlmightyCushion

About as sad as having a **** in my opinion.

GhostInTheRuins

No, I've done it a few times myself. You're hardly going to the cinema to socialise for two hours.

Max Power1

i'd normally consider going to the cinema for dating purposes only - but then again im not really into films

whatever youre into tho - its no worse than going to a bar on your own!!

wudangclan

sitstill wrote: »

What do people think? Going to the cinema on your own during the day? Is it a bit sad?

i do it all the time.who cares really?

galwayrush

Yes when the wife doesn't like the film i want to see and vice versa.

Sea Sharp

Personally, I go to the cinema with my friends. As opposed to watching the movie I spend two hours looking around the cinema judging other people for being on their own.

builttospill

sitstill wrote: »

What do people think? Going to the cinema on your own during the day? Is it a bit sad?

What a ridiculous question. Anyone who suggests this is sad has serious emotional problems.

bronte

If I'm out shopping and get tired, I'll often go to a flick to sit down for a bit :pac:
Some films are good to watch in company, but there's plenty that are grand on your own.

Blush_01

I used to work near Screen, and my shifts used to finish at funny times. My bus (the 84, before they moved it) was near the cinema too. Sometimes the next bus wouldn't be for an hour or so, so I'd just go to the cinema.

I like going to the cinema on my own, total escapism.

phasers

Depends on the film.

Rom Com/Chick Flick = ghey or loser
Anythig else is grand.

Captain-America

It's the most anti social activity friends do. Go on your own.

Captain-America

phasers wrote: »

Depends on the film.

Rom Com/Chick Flick = ghey or loser
Anythig else is grand.

What about a porn flick?

Zaph

If I'm going to see a film in the cinema I'm not going to spend the two hours chatting to the person next to me, so it doesn't really matter if I'm with someone or alone, but either's fine by me and going alone definitely isn't sad.

phasers

Captain-America wrote: »

What about a porn flick?

That makes you AWESOME!

Unless it's ghey porn

dotsman

Have done in the past if it's a movie I want to see and all my friends have either already seen it or have no interest.

Nothing wrong about it at all. Do you watch tv alone or do you always need company?

Ultimately, the only time 'going with friends' would be a big plus would be if you are watching a comedy or something similar as laughing out loud on your own might be a bit weird!

Shacklebolt

I wonder if the OP also regards watching DVDs alone as being sad or unusual.

GrumPy

There's something sexually arousing about someone on their own in a cinema.....

fryup

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

About as sad as having a **** in my opinion.

Captain-America wrote: »

What about a porn flick?

well then, you're a sad lonely w*nker;)

but seriously who cares you're in the dark anyway no one can see you

Overheal

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

About as sad as having a **** in my opinion.

What if I have the **** AT the cinema?

wudangclan

Overheal wrote: »

What if I have the **** AT the cinema?

....watching a comedy.could that be considered sad?

*balconybabe*

Independent

6th

Its no more sad than going and trying on wedding dresses when your single ... on your own.

Zaph

6th wrote: »

Its no more sad than going and trying on wedding dresses when your single ... on your own.

And is that something you did regularly when you were single?

Vinta81

Well sometimes my mates don't want to see a particular film so I'll pop along by myself one night, I don't mind. Besides I'm not going for a chat/gossip and sometimes girls tend to do that and oh my godding at this and that part. I probably would of had the same reaction had you let me watch the bloody scene with your bloody tapping of my arm lol.

tommmy1979

I feel sorry for people that feel as though they can't go alone...

It's so much better.. you don't jave to share your coke, you don't have to share your popcorn, you don't have to share your m'n'm's.. you don't have to hold hands..

I've also developed a technique for making sure i'm not sitting beside someone.. basically i take the 2nd seat in from the isle, if anyone asks about the isle seat, i'm waiting for my girlfriend.. movie starts and i move out to the isle seat ... hahah suckers.

T

phasers

tommmy1979 wrote: »

I feel sorry for people that feel as though they can't go alone...

It's so much better.. you don't jave to share your coke, you don't have to share your popcorn, you don't have to share your m'n'm's.. you don't have to hold hands..

You share coke? :eek:

enjoy your herpes

stovelid

Not sad at all.

Sit in one of those double seats* just to piss off potential groping couples.



/*do these exist still?

Overheal

stovelid wrote: »

Not sad at all.

Sit in one of those double seats* just to piss off potential groping couples.



/*do these exist still?

Not a bad idea at all

Also dont forget to buy any kind of snack with really crinkly wrapping, and make calls on your mobile.

Galvasean

Sometimes its nice to go see a film without having someone lean over to you and say, "Is that teh fella from the start of the film?"

kraggy

I go to the cinema quite often and can't remember the last time I went WITH someone.

I'm into my films and can't stand some tool beside me going "DID YA SEE THAT?!" or talking during a scene.

Some people think that just because a scene is quiet/not much appearing to be going on that it's a free time to laugh and chat. Often it's actually a crucial part of a story or character's journey.

Makes my blood boil.

So I go alone, nearly all the time.

I nearly alway sgo on my own. It's proven to be a particular annoyance to my gf who feels that I should go with her or a friend more often. I find that by going on your own the experience is far more enjoyable as your'e not constanlty tempted to comment to a friend and that the isolation you feel creates an atmosphere which lends it's self to viewing a film.

Vinta81

Galvasean wrote: »

Sometimes its nice to go see a film without having someone lean over to you and say, "Is that teh fella from the start of the film?"

I hate that! A lot of my friends don't have proper cinema ethics lol.

Tirabaralla

tommmy1979 wrote: »

It's so much better.. you don't jave to share your coke, you don't have to share your popcorn, you don't have to share your m'n'm's.. you don't have to hold hands..
T

Awwwww...but...but....that is fun, lovely stuff! Expecially the m'n'ms!

R.D. aka MR.D

i've never understood why people think its nesacary to have some one with you to sit in a dark room watching a film.

i think its only the seriously insecure that have this problem.

i sometimes perfer going on my own because you don't have to worry if the person with you is enjoying it if you've picked it or stufflike that.
also no annoy arguments afterwards about what the plot was actually about cause they weren't paying attention for 5 mins!

coillcam

Rarely go to the cinema these days. For me I'd only go there as a couple thing or if there was a film that needed the cinema experience with cgi/effects etc. It's a rip off anyway.

I'd go on my own no problem though but I'd be much more inclined to download or get a DVD for convenience mainly.

Firetrap

Why does going to see a film have to be something you need to do with other people? Do you need your friends with you when you buy your groceries or wander around the shops? Or watching TV at home. All you're doing is paying to sit in a dark room for a couple of hours looking at a film.

JerryHandbag

Went plenty of times on my own, when waiting for a bus/lift etc, or goddammit I just wanted to see a particular film that none of my mates had any urge to see.....I remember doing this for Armageddon, Saving Private Ryan, The Truman Show....oh those were the days, and more recently the last Star Wars film....middle of the day, cinema empty cept for me, heaven! Dont go anymore, oh the joys of illegal downloading :cool:

What really gets my goat is when I say to people I was at the cinema, and they reply "Oh? Who is she?!", as if they presume it was a date. Muppetts, as if the cinema is ONLY for couples. :rolleyes:

Holsten

Neither sad nor independent.

It's... just.. going to the cinema on your own, a non-issue.

Overheal

Anyone ever hear of DLP?

Regal Cinemas wrote:

DLP™ shows are projected digitally rather than using conventional film. DLP™ technology is a revolutionary display solution that uses an optical semiconductor to manipulate light digitally. The result is maximum fidelity: a picture with impressive clarity, brilliance and color and a lack of scratches, fading and flutter.

Im just wondering if its worth the extra $3 to see it in DLP than an old fashioned matinee.

galwayguy22

I go to the cinema on my own because I have no one to go with.

tommmy1979

Overheal wrote: »

Anyone ever hear of DLP?



Im just wondering if its worth the extra $3 to see it in DLP than an old fashioned matinee.

Sounds like what you've got in your standard home or office projector???

I reckon all modern cinemas are using this technology no ???

tommmy1979

Tirabaralla wrote: »

Awwwww...but...but....that is fun, lovely stuff! Expecially the m'n'ms!

NO!!! My MnM's !! My feckin Coke!!

6th

I've never done it but dont see the problem. It actually seems like a good idea! Might try it tomorrow if anyone wants to come along?

Tirabaralla

tommmy1979 wrote: »

NO!!! My MnM's !! My feckin Coke!!

Awwwww...u scared me
*steals anyway*

Overheal

tommmy1979 wrote: »

Sounds like what you've got in your standard home or office projector???

I reckon all modern cinemas are using this technology no ???

I guess they dont.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie_projector

which is why you get the grainy film look. Which I suppose if I was going to see a zombie flick I would want gratuitous amounts of. But I was thinking Star Trek tbh :pac:

stovelid

It's far less embarrassing and distracting to crack one off by yourself too, as opposed to having somebody there with you.

Heisenberg.

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AnonoBoy

When I feel lonely at the cinema on my own I just ring my mates and have a chat.

Best of both worlds.

Elliemental

I went to see Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix on my todd. The guy at the counter even made an attempt to joke about the fact that I was on my own. It was the night before my mother`s funeral, I didn`t want to talk to anyone, I`d drunk so much tea over the last few days I was beginning to perspire the stuff, I`d had it with the whole world and it`s dogs feeling sorry for me, and the film itself was coming up to the end of it`s run, so the cinema was mercifully empty. It was such a liberating experience, to sit there alone, in the dark, unnoticed. That being said, i`ve not been to the cinema alone since.