Your preference of watching movies?

DVDs are my preference.You can't fast forward the boring bits in a cinema.

If it's a movie I'm really interested in like Django Unchained or The Avengers I might watch it in theaters but I prefer watching movies at home on DVD. They're cheaper that way, I can pause or rewind them as needed, and there are no annoying @$$holes talking on their cell phones that way.

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I used to watch a lot on my computer, but now I seem to get too easily distracted. So even if it's from my computer, I link it up to the TV, much better and the quality is brilliant still I find.

I do love Blu-rays though, with a HD tv and speakers the film quality is superb, although I obviously can't afford to buy every film in this format.

There are certain movie genres that I think only completely satisfy in a theater, but as the OP mentioned, going to an actual movie theater can be a very expensive evening. When I was a kid, one dollar, covered my ticket, a large popcorn, and a large coke.

DVD for me. I don't like theaters much, kind of get anxiety in them sometimes depending on how crowded it is. I like to enjoy movies at home, Redbox is a good way to see if you like a movie, if I do I buy the DVD.

I love blu ray. I watch all my movies on my PS3 from a DVD or a Blu Ray disc.

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I used to love going to the cinema but the price is too high and the quality isn't that great so I would rather wait to have the dvd in the comfort of my own home- that way I can also pass it if I need to pee!

While I wholly disagree with that philosophy, I prefer his method.

Similarly, I try to watch films on my TV, usually linked up to my computer, but that's not as easy while I'm at school so I resort to just my computer and try to close out anything I have running so as not to get distracted. I've actually had really annoying and bad experiences at the cinema. When I watched Before Midnight, the entire audience laughed through what biting humor there was in the arguments. I hope those laughs had a bit of an aftertaste. The only time recently I've enjoyed watching a film in a theater was when I saw Ozu's Late Autumn with a great audience, and when I saw Certified Copy for the second time in a theater. It was really fun with the latter one to observe people's laughter slowly die down once they realized there might be more to it than they originally thought.

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I try to go to the cinema every Sunday for a new release. But I watch them throughout the week as well. Whether DVD or streaming. To me, every way to see them is my favorite way.

I used to watch them with a friend from another country. We would pick a film we both could view and chat through Yahoo while we did it. We don't do it as much anymore but I have seen some great films that way. We both enjoy many of the same genres.

To be honest, gizzieySykes, I still prefer to watch movies as they're really meant to be viewed; on a great big, wide screen, in a real movie theatre, with the lights down low. Watching good films on TV/DVD, etc., are not the same as watching such films in a movie theatre, regardless of what anytbody says or thinks. I prefer the movie theatre experience despite the fact that it costs a bit more money, and holding memberships to two independent, non-profit movie theatres in my area really does help a great deal, since I can get into those theatres on a considerable discount.

Another thing about attending a movie theatre to see a film is that one shares the whole experience with a whole slew of other people, whether one knows them or not, thus creating a temporary community to experience the movie experience with. I also like getting out of the house every so often as well, but that's me.

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You watch movies at school? The Chinese kids are studying at school and they outnumber us by 4 to 1.

I'm in college, so by at school, I mean in a dorm. I'm also a chemical engineering student with a near 4.0 at a top university for the major, so I think it's safe to say that I'm doing my part.

@Guapo

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The US universities suffer from grade inflation. I know that because I am teaching undergrads and they advised me that students in the US always expect to get A's.

YOU are teaching??

Oh my...

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Of course. Why would you think that my pedagogical skills are low?

They don't really understand engineering do they? This is not an isolated incident, but last semester I scored a 96% on a test where the average was a 42%, which was the highest anyone scored on the test. Care to continue to be an a**hole or are you finished?

Oh, that was impressive but you are being an ******* by bragging about your grades in a movie forum.

You should have answered: "by school I mean the university dormitory." Without any reference to your grades or your major.

It was only brought about because you got defensive and began to be insulting and rude, I never do this, but your desire to recover from that blanket comment you made above made you get offensive.

What do you teach, Guap?