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I think I would. I was actually just saying to someone the other day that I am too busy most days to cut 4 hours out of my day to see a movie, because of travel and parking and all that in LA.

I wouldn't pay that kind of money for myself, but if there was a movie that several friends or family wanted to watch I could definitely see doing this. Especially kiddie flicks--the amount of money we end up spending to take four or five kids to a movie and get them all overpriced snacks and drinks gets obscene. They can sit in my living room and eat microwave popcorn. Builds character!

This reminds me of when my grandpops was the first person to get a TV.

He filled his living room with benches and charged admission.

Be prepared for the beginning of the mini neighborhood theater/brew pub.

Yeah...at first I thought this was outrageous, but the truth is that the difference between taking 2 people to the theater and taking....4 or 5 is pretty huge. And it would definitely make up the costs--plus you can make 50 cent bags of popcorn and canned soda and you're done. And if you already had a giant TV, why not?

I wouldn't do it NOW but I'd consider it later on.

As is, I don't go out to theaters more than once every few months. As the price of one theatrical viewing begins to rival the cost of buying the DVD and watching it whenever I please without strangers performing various unsavory acts behind me, children crying in front of me, and soda remnants cementing me to my seat, I just don't see the point. Few options out there will sway me from using Netflix for 99% of my movie viewing.

Although, this comment does come from one of the major contributing factors to a local theater placing a limit on container size for fifty cent bring-your-own-bucket popcorn night. A small trashcan is basically a bucket, right? I'm frugal, damn it!

I would only consider buying into such insanity in one of two cases: movies I'm very eager to see but can't readily find through other avenues (back in the small town Midwest, Jeunet flicks were always impossible to find) and movies I'm far too ashamed to watch publicly but would otherwise see in theaters (like Human Centipede).

I guess if I was comfortable charging my friends to come watch a movie at my house I would be willing to pay twenty to thirty dollars dollars for a movie. But I don't want to charge my friends so I don't think I'll avail myself of that option, should it become available. I have both a second run theater (three bucks, baby) and a drive through in my community, so I can go see a movie pretty damn cheap, even factoring in snacks which I honestly almost never buy. Yay for big purses!

I do see it being a viable option for families with kids. Or, as someone mentioned, it could most def work in a dorm setting. But other than that? Not so much.

I would pay $20-$30 to watch a movie in a theater where everyone was there to shut the fuck up and watch the movie.

Financials aside, this is worth it just so you don't have to sit in front of or behind the passive soccer mom and her screaming kids/the pervert/the guy who is too cool for every scene and MUST make sure his date knows/the couple who is groping (please note, I do not mind this couple unless they're fatties)/tall people/flatulent people/teenagers/TK...

The list is endless. Because I have to tell you, four out of the last five movies I've gone to see, I've had to (politely) ask someone to be quiet so I can enjoy the movie.

"Oh Em Gee, Debbie just called! She doesn't know we're seeing Iron Man 2!"
"Miss, can you please be quiet? We're trying to watch the movie."

"Heh, that hat looks stupid on Johnny Depp. This movie sucks!"
"Sir, my fiance' and I are trying to enjoy the movie. Do you mind?"

"Mommy what is wrong with that man's face?"
"He was burnt in a fire, you little fuck, and he terrorizes bad children in their dreams! HAHAHA! Now Shh!"

Yeah, I'm not going to miss the theatre.

Eh... by the time we pay for tickets, sodas, popocorn, my Junior Mints (because I NEED MY MINTS) and the damn babysitter, we're looking at $100 bucks for three hours. Yeah, bitches. One hundred dollars. This is why we don't do movies that often. Quite frankly, I can wait 3 months. There hasn't been anything in the last 10 years that I couldn't wait to watch, sorry.

My viewing conditions at home exceed many theaters in my area. Not in total space of course, but in comfort for sure, image fidelity (I take my theater equipment seriously), and the food is better.

I'd only do such a thing rarely, but if the image quality was really pristine, I'd seriously think about it.

-Frob

Not worth it for me. The theatre screen is BIIIIIG and my TV is... well, still decently big, but even if it filled up my entire wall, it still wouldn't be as big as the theatre's screen.

So if I'm going to watch something at home, I'll just wait a few months and rent it on Netflix for the same monthly flat fee. That $30 for one movie on PPV is like 3 months worth of Netflix movies, and that includes an UNLIMITED number of instant viewings. So uh... yeah.

Maybe if you live in a movie theatre or something, or have a gigantic personal theatre (and I am not impressed by home projectors that take up the wall since that's still not as big as the theatre screen; we'd have to be talking about projecting the image on, like, the side of a building or something) it would make sense. Otherwise, just rent it later. Or buy it. Then you can have MULTIPLE SHOWINGS ANYTIME YOU WANT FOR NO ADDED COST. Ooh. Aah.

So this biggest reason for participating in this that I can see based on the posts here is that we as a society have degenerated into uncivil, obnoxious assholes in the theaters who can't manage to behave our collective selves even when we've invested money in it.

Whatever happened to sitting down, shutting up, leaving the kids at home with the sitter if the movie is too late and inappropriate and throwing the noisy pricks out who can't keep quiet?

Why the hell should I have to retreat further into my home and pay even more money to do so because we can't give ushers the authority to crack fucktard theater monkeys in the back of their skulls with a 18-inch steel Mag-Lite when they act up? Fuck it, give me free admission and popcorn and for the duration of the movie I'll gladly be the theater's enforcer myself.

I say it costs roughly $20 to take the SO to the theater, which still has somewhat better sound and a more immersive experience than almost all home theaters out there, plus you get points for "going out." So basically this will do at best zero to combat the issue of people thinking that theater prices are an outrage and deciding instead to find pirated copies of things online. You don't understand, movie houses, we resent the fact that we are charged an arm and a leg for a viewing that costs you next to nothing (I realize that the production of the movie is what we're paying for, but that cost is distant to us as the consumer). Furthermore it feels less like theft when you're not depriving anyone else of what you're taking. The way to combat this is by streamlining distribution and making it cheaper to view your product. If it costs me $5.00 or less to watch a movie that I can download in a reasonable timeframe, I start to feel like a jerk for trying to skirt the system. I want to support the people that entertain me well, but when I'm gambling $20 and up that a one-time viewing that takes hours of my life will be entertaining, I start to resent your model.

Goddamn right I would pay $20 to watch at my house instead of dealing with a room full of assholes while trying to enjoy a film.

That's still cheaper than it is to get tickets for the wife and I, anyway.

Bring this shit the fuck on.