Does anyone else find the movie theatre experience over stimulating?

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pensmama87 said:
I found out recently that my astigmatism has had a big impact on my movie going experience. We don’t go often, but several times we’d go see a movie and I’d complain to my husband about how blurry some of the scenes were, and he’d have no idea what I was talking about. This only happens in the movie theater - never at home.

When we do go, we always sit in the last row. Partially so no one can kick my seat, but also so I don’t get motion sickness. I don’t do well in IMAX movies, and I haven’t ever seen a 3D movie.

(Oh yeah, I’m only 26. So I’m not pining for the good ole days - I don’t remember what those were like! Though I do remember paying $4 for a matinee, which isn’t too bad for 2-3 hours entertainment!)
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Interesting. I wonder if that’s my problem too. We went to see the hobbit in a very nice theater last night, but had to move to the very last row before the movie even started because I was getting motion sickness from the blurring and jumpiness on the screen.

I did cover my eyes for a bit of the major fight scene but overall enjoyed the movie. 👍
 
Book_Worm said:
I guess I’m the oddball on this thread. When I “watch” a movie at home, I never just sit and watch it; that seems like a terrific waste of time. So I’m doing needlework, checking email, doing paper work, folding laundry, etc., while the movie is on. When I’m in the movie theatre, I actually give the movie my undivided attention and enjoy it much more.

I think my near-sightedness might also have something to do with it. My vision isn’t bad enough that I need to wear glasses all the time, but I often have difficulty seeing words written on a screen, so when there’s an important plot device contained in a note or portion of a printed page shown, I generally can’t read it. I find that very frustrating.
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I’m the exact opposite! When I watch a movie or TV show at home or in the theater I like to give it my undivided attention, I like to focus on every scene, every word spoken, every camera angle and get **everything **the writer is trying to convey in the movie/story, I focus on the characters and who they are I don’t like to miss anything. You miss a lot of subtle things that are important in the show or movie if you’re doing other things. I like to think when I watch movies and I love movies that make you think. 🙂 Everything in a movie/story is there for a reason and I want to know why, everything they say or do, everything about the character, the scenes, the clothes etc is there for a reason and means something in the story or movie, at least to me, so I focus on it all and if I can’t give a show or movie my undivided attention, I don’t watch it. I’m the viewer who reads the signs on the wall in the background and the pictures on the wall behind the character and billboards they drive past and things like that. That’s why I can’t stand dumb movies or silly mindless movies or characters etc. It has to make sense in my mind and if it doesn’t I lose interest. Even if it’s fantasy, it has to at least make some kind of sense. LOL.
 
Mrs_Sally said:
Interesting. I wonder if that’s my problem too. We went to see the hobbit in a very nice theater last night, but had to move to the very last row before the movie even started because I was getting motion sickness from the blurring and jumpiness on the screen.

I did cover my eyes for a bit of the major fight scene but overall enjoyed the movie. 👍
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Yeah I love action in movies as long as it makes sense, and because I like to focus on everything, I can’t sit too close to the screen either, it’s too close up and gives me a headache. I can’t stand action like disconnected killing and action for reasons not connected to the story, like if someone just walks into a room and shoots or kills someone for no reason then the scene cuts to something else totally, I can’t stand that. I don’t like action just for the sake of action or showing blood, it has to be connected to the story in some way.
 
Skye_Ariel said:
Yeah I love action in movies as long as it makes sense, and because I like to focus on everything, I can’t sit too close to the screen either, it’s too close up and gives me a headache. I can’t stand action like disconnected killing and action for reasons not connected to the story, like if someone just walks into a room and shoots or kills someone for no reason then the scene cuts to something else totally, I can’t stand that. I don’t like action just for the sake of action or showing blood, it has to be connected to the story in some way.
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I took my two young grandsons to see Monsters University this summer. We arrived at the theater just as the movie was starting so we ended up sitting in the very front row. We were so close I fully expect that the next time I see the movie I will see the three of us in the movie.

DGB
 
Irish_Cabbie said:
I love going to the movies. Yesterday I went to the movies and watched the movie in a reclining Lazy Boy-type chair. (See the link below.) It was almost like being at home.

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I saw the second Hobbit movie in a Fox theater which was like that. I didn’t realize till the end*that I could have raised the footrest, though.

Where I live and work, it’s usually so utterly quiet that I don’t mind small doses of noise and over stimulation in movies. The crickets and I make it up later.

Hmm…I was at a gloriously air-trembling organ/ baritone vocalist concert recently, which was in a candle-lit all-stone Lutheran church with a seventy foot high open ceiling over the nave. It was in the center of a large city; the twilight darkness of the high ceiling combined with the massive but graceful stone interior balanced out the vibrancy of the organ, so that it really felt like a haven, a sanctuary, amidst the noise and movement of the city. It had a high, medieval-looking reredos with Christ, the Apostles, and Seraphim, and a very high stained glass window; apart from the reredos and window, though, the church was dimly lit so that it was easy to focus on the carved altarpiece. If the had been brightly lit and more visually “busy”, I might have found the organ too loud.
 
I used to go and ask the movie people to turn down the volume, since I didn’t like being deafened. Sometimes they even did so.
Now I just stick earplugs in my ears. I can still hear fine.
Call me weird.
 
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