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Is it wierd to go to the cinema on your own?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60 ✭✭mrnobodyfan87


    I wouldn't bother unless I had kill time. I don't see anything wrong with it but I like discussing the movie afterwards.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,507 ✭✭✭Nino Brown


    I wouldn't bother unless I had kill time. I don't see anything wrong with it but I like discussing the movie afterwards.

    That's one of the reasons I like going alone, when I bring my GF she wants to analyze the movie the whole way home.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60 ✭✭mrnobodyfan87


    Nino Brown wrote: »
    That's one of the reasons I like going alone, when I bring my GF she wants to analyze the movie the whole way home.

    Is she single? :p

    Why go see a movie and then pretend you haven't seen it?? :D Might as well talk about it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭Lyaiera


    Has anyone ever ended up in a cinema on their own or with just their friends there?

    It happened to me once and it was the best cinema experience of my life. The film was complete rubbish, and after 45 minutes we just burst out laughing at how bad it was. It was great being able to do that. Then we spent the rest of the film laughing at the awfulness. We couldn't have gotten away with that if there was other people there. So now my own cinema is on my list of millionaire dreams.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,728 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    Well as Earthhorse said, people might view the cinema as a social activity because of associating it with going with a group of friends all the time as kids, and with a partner/date later on. It's a case of what people are used to.

    What? What are you on about?

    I never said anything about going on a date to the cinema. :mad:

    :(
    It's only weird if you put your own arm around yourself while pretending to yawn and proceed to shift your own face.

    Agreed. Save this for the theatre and ballet.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    If you're touching yourself, then it's creepy.

    Are you saying that **** in the cinema is weird?


    Thats the best part


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,670 ✭✭✭jonnny68


    Does anyone remember the Cameo cinema in the mid 80's on Middle Abbey Street opposite the old Adelphi cinema they used to show Porkys and other such soft porn and you'd get dirty old men in there ****, mostly kids on here and wouldn't remember but a mad place, we used to bunk in through the exit door as kids it was an eye opener :-)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,987 ✭✭✭Legs.Eleven


    No. I've done it for years, even while at university because there were films I wanted to see and a cinema seemed like a good place to watch them with all the screens and films and stuff.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    Anyone thet goes to the cinema on their own has mental issues.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,987 ✭✭✭Legs.Eleven


    WikiHow wrote: »
    Anyone thet goes to the cinema on their own has mental issues.


    OH MY GAWD HOW DARE YOU TAKE THAT BACK! :)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭Mint Aero


    WikiHow wrote: »
    Anyone thet goes to the cinema on their own has mental issues.

    50% of the population have mental issues.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,965 ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Perfectly normal to go to the cinema on your own in my opinion. I do it a few times a year.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 510 ✭✭✭Balaclava1991


    The Onion nailed this subject a few months ago :D
    NEW YORK—Sources are confirming that a sad ****ing loser, who many speculate has no friends or anyone in his life to talk to, is currently attending a 1:30 p.m. screening of the film Red 2 all by himself.

    The poor bastard reportedly purchased his single ticket from a kiosk inside the theater complex, ordered a medium popcorn, a pack of Twizzlers, and a medium Diet Coke from the concession stand, and then proceeded to meticulously scout out a seat near the front of the theater, where, according to the pathetic dork, “nobody really bothers you.”
    The man also took care to shut off his cell phone and place it in the backpack on the seat next to his, which, witnesses confirmed, made it seem as if his backpack was his closest friend.

    The sad sack then watched the two-hour action-comedy all by himself, giggling at several Bruce Willis lines, but for the most part staring blankly at the movie screen. When the closing credits began to roll, the man grabbed his backpack and was the first one to leave the theater.

    “It was okay,” the man, who has reportedly reached an old enough age where it’s not inconceivable that he’ll be alone all his life, said. “Nothing special.”

    At press time, the heartbreaking loser had entered his apartment, sat on his couch, sighed, and turned on his television.

    http://www.theonion.com/articles/****ing-loser-at-movie-all-by-himself,33302/


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    Mint Aero wrote: »
    50% of the population have mental issues.
    Have we the resources to deal with this?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,080 ✭✭✭McChubbin


    I often go to the cinema on my own. No shame in it whatsoever- matter of fact, I prefer to go it alone. I once went on an outing to the cinema to see Rock of Ages- I was really looking forward to it any everything. Invited a male friend who I was sort of crushing on at the time. Welp, he certainly popped that bubble- he WOULD NOT STOP TALKING.
    Seriously was tempted to remove one of my socks and gag him. Nowaday I don't bother inviting anyone to the cinema unless I'm 100% certain they're not the chatty type.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,448 ✭✭✭crockholm


    Only felt weird once going to the Cinema alone,that was when I Went to see the Spongebob squarepants Movie, lots of women with their kids in attendence, some looking back a Little nervously at me.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭Mint Aero


    WikiHow wrote: »
    Have we the resources to deal with this?

    Yeps :)


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