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We don't go to movies anymore either. However, we haven't had a lot of issues with other audience members so that's not the problem. I don't like the cost, the 15 minutes of R rated trailers in front of our PG rated movie, and the volume is too loud. Also, some of the movie theatres are so teeny tiny I'm too close to the screen even in the back row.
"Going to the movies" used to be a nice thing to do. But, the experience has essentially changed. I'll never forget seeing the original "Star Wars" in Manhattan. The theater was so mobbed that my date had to sit in my lap. And, when I lived in San Fran in the 80's, there was a revival house called the York Theater...they showed old Bogart movies and things like that.
Well, now, we have the "Multiplex." Last time I went to one of those I felt like one of the cattle in a stockyard.
I have been in a movie theater maybe 2 times in the last 10 years, and stopped going for all the above reasons: expense, noisy, dirty, crowded and always too cold! Never a pleasant experience....and things have definitely changed as far as public behavior is concerned, and keeps worsening. And not just in theaters. EVERY public place is laced with trashy people it seems who do not know how to behave. I rarely go to a restaurant anymore for same reasons. And the teens do rove in numbers, it is a "gang" mentality, very disturbing.
I've stopped going to movie theaters for the reasons everyone else cited. The only way I'll see a movie now is renting the DVD and watching it in the comfort of my own home. I can be dressed in T-shirt, shorts and bare feet and lounging on the sofa, eating my popcorn and drinking my beverage and pause the movie for bathroom breaks. I can't even remember the last time I went to a movie theater and what I saw when I went. About the only time I'd go to a movie theater anymore is if I take a day off work and see a matinee, where I'd be the only one in the audience.
I would love it if the movies were released on DVD the same day they came out in the theatre.
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It is a shame
I can't even remember the last time I went to a movie theater and what I saw when I went. 
About the only time I'd go to a movie theater anymore is if I take a day off work and see a matinee, where I'd be the only one in the audience. 
