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Originally Posted by HarryT
In the UK, at least, cinema attendance has been steadily increasing for the last few years. I think that people realise that they offer an "experience" that can't be replicated watching a DVD at home, and are willing to pay for that.
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In the States, the "experience" offered is listening to someone else's kids talk throughout the movie instead of your own. Then again teens have the courtesy to text their friends instead of vocally carrying on a conversation with them on the phone.
That behavior is reserved for the parents/adults who don't know how to use the damn things. They're also often the ones who bring kids entirely too young for the movie. Our Blu-Ray players have just broken the $100 mark (for those of us who have a TV which justifies the purchase in the first place) and the popcorn's cheaper at home. Call me a Luddite but I've always thought that the purpose of going to a movie theater was to see a movie; even when I was a teenager I had that respect for others.
Shel and I have every intention of visiting the UK some time; now it seems we have one more reason.
