In my case, I love watching movies in the theater. No need to take the car, I can walk a few blocks to the theater near my house. I would see several that are currently showing ther including Freakier Friday, The Roses, Downton Abbey.
(Unfortunately it’s a busy next few days for me and then I’m going out of town).
We don’t go out to see many movies. Typically, unless something has amazing cinematography that deserves the big screen - think Avatar - we typically wait until a new movie comes to streaming services. A period drama like Downton Abby doesn’t need to be seen on the big screen.
It certainly helps to keep it simple and spontaneous. I tend to include a movie or two with trips to Middletown. The college film series is is one of the best.
I am seeing the DA finale with a friend. I certainly wouldn’t bother taking the bus or subway to the closest movie theater and spend $7 (senior ticket) if I were alone. It’s a social occasion for me and I am sure I will enjoy talking about it with friends immediately afterward.
I went to see Wicked at the local cinema this summer and will probably go again when the sequel comes out in November. Before the pandemic, we definitely when to the local movie theaters more often than we do now.
I still enjoy going to see movies in a theatre. Since we can walk across the street to an AMC it makes it convenient for us. Tuesday movies are only $9 for seniors.
We like our 21-over movie theater where the seats are like comfy recliners, and you can order drinks and food from the menu to be brought to you. Unfortunately, they tend to show a limited selection of movies, and my husband hates anything with superheroes, and we both dislike horror and gore. Which means we don’t go there often.
We recently discovered that our symphony has a feature - Movies in Concert. The movie is being shown on a large screen above the stage, and the live orchestra on the stage plays the score! We recently watched Flow that way. I had no idea that it was a world premiere of Flow in Concert, and the movie creator/director/composer and his co-composer would be there! The organizers brought a giant blow up figurine of the cat from the movie for folks to take photos with. The theater was PACKED! The composer said that he had to completely re-write the score to adapt the electronic version to the orchestral version. And the conductor said that she had to bring out extra percussions, lol. It was an amazing, flawless performance!
The giant cat:
Gints Zilbalodis and Rihards Zalupe on the stage!
For the folks in San Diego:
Sounds intriguing but not cheap! I doubt husband would be interested, alas.
I plan to see the Downton Abbey movie in the theater. The last movie I saw in a theater was Wicked last November. I’ve never been a big movie person and now that there’s “wait until it’s streaming” it takes a special reason for me to want a movie theater experience. Although I used to love it as a special treat back in the day. When I could sit that long.
We’ll definitely see Downton Abbey in a theater, but cannot wait until it streams so I can turn on closed captions! I need to re-watch British movies with the captions so I can find out what I missed.
I recall seeing Master and Commander in a theater and jokingly asking my wife how can I turn on the captions–realized how much I had missed when I re-watched with CC.
I started a thread a few days ago, asking if anyone had used an assisted listening device because I sometimes have trouble understanding the dialogue, especially with British accents. I think I first started using closed captioning on TV when I started watching Downton Abbey 14 years ago and now I use it for nearly everything I watch on TV. I think i will try the ALD on Tuesday for Downton Abbey and I’ll report back!
I like going to movie theaters. Luckily I have a friend who likes it too. We’re seeing Downton Abbey on Sunday. We’re seeing it in the big AMC theater with the reserved reclining seats but we often go to the small independent theater.
Thanks for the reply. I don’t have any hearing aids, as they would not help my type of hearing loss. If I see a DA listing that does show captions we may give it a try. DO ALD showings provide you with some sort of earpiece, or does one’s own device tap into the system? Need to learn more about this, expecting that hearing in my still-functioning ear will deteriorate as I age further.
I don’t have hearing aids either and I wasn’t sure how they work, so I stopped in at my neighborhood theater today to ask about them. They have headphones, but I’m not sure they would really help me. But they also have a device that fits in the cup holder with a long flexible tube with a small screen at the top that shows closed captioning, so you move it right in front of you below the screen. I’m planning on giving it a try when I go on Tuesday. Hope it works!
We enjoyed the Downton Abbey movie. It wrapped up everyone’s story and tied it in a bow.
I went to see the Downton Abbey movie too, mostly as an hommage to my late parents since I’m not really a fan.
It worked well - everything you wanted or could expect was there, they didn’t forget anything or anyone. Nothing dramatic happens but everything moved along in its portrayal of the characters, the place, the period; the actors know their characters, not a wrong note among them, and they each have an ending; the production values are good (I still can’t get over the Gilded Age having its costumes seemingly held together by scotch tape) and some scenes fabulous.
My gf took 5 of us for lunch and Downtown Abbey. The plot was thin, but the costumes! OMG, beyond gorgeous. If I watched from home, I’d be stopping the film just to focus on them.
I know that AMC will show movies with captions on the screen. You will have to look for showings with open captions or on screen captions. We go to those showings a lot as their are usually less people in them and we prefer have the captions on the screens.
