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#2901789 - 11/16/09 06:35 AM Re: "2012" makes 235 Million on the first weekend. [Re: Freycinet]
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I'm really looking forward to this one, loved both Independence Day and The Day after Tomorrow.


I thought it was decent enough. The first 30 to 45 minutes were slow, but once the action started, it was pretty good. I enjoyed it but it's more of a matinee type of movie. I went to the 12:40 showing and got out at 3:30. It was defintely an action film and was short on plot. The $7 matinee price was fine. It was pretty cool seeing the end of the world on a big screen.

As far as the future of film making goes, I think one day we will be the stars of a movie in our own living rooms. Playing the part of John McLain in Die Hard sounds like fun. Being inside of a 3d holograph room just sounds like fun.

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#2901838 - 11/16/09 07:51 AM Re: "2012" makes 235 Million on the first weekend. [Re: Destructis]
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I hate going to the movies because it ticks me off that I'm paying $10 to watch Coca Cola/McDonalds commercials, local car dealership ads, as well as any other local/national advertisements. Also an advertisement on how to advertise on your local big screen. It annoys me temendously. Am I alone on this.
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#2901855 - 11/16/09 08:09 AM Re: "2012" makes 235 Million on the first weekend. [Re: DawgMan]
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It annoys me temendously. Am I alone on this.


Definitely not. What gets me is that as recently as 15 years ago, we didn't have all of these commercials and crap before a movie started. Remember when movie theaters would just have a dark screen and play music while you waited for the coming attractions to start?
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#2901863 - 11/16/09 08:16 AM Re: "2012" makes 235 Million on the first weekend. [Re: DawgMan]
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I havent been to a movie theater in over 20 years,,I would rather watch them on my system and in my chair drinking my soda or beer.

I am lucky to have been a kid in the 50's, a young man in the 60's, a long haired, tye dyed toker in the 70's. Then we got out and did things for entertainment,,now I am staying in way too much, playing on the pc, watching movies on the pc and, ahhhh, other things on the pc. Well at least I can say I used to do things lol.

As far as the future of cgi and pc simulations, yes it will be the norm and it will get better and better and one day,,maybe in your lifetime, it will be as real as real life is now.
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#2901885 - 11/16/09 08:46 AM Re: "2012" makes 235 Million on the first weekend. [Re: Warbirds]
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I do remember when the theaters would just have a dark screen and music playing before the previews. I prefered that much more. Now I just wait for the movie to come out on dvd/blueray and watch on my own entertainment system. I do go with the kids every now and then and they get aggravated with the commercials.
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#2901970 - 11/16/09 11:08 AM Re: "2012" makes 235 Million on the first weekend. [Re: DawgMan]
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I find it humorous that people are complaining about the CGI fests and then they are anxiously awaiting other CGI fests like Avatar.

I am not picking on anyone here, but different people like different things and we should just accept that. Just because we don't like something, it doesn't mean that it's horrible.

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#2902292 - 11/16/09 06:46 PM Re: "2012" makes 235 Million on the first weekend. [Re: PanzerMeyer]
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Originally Posted By: DawgMan
It annoys me temendously. Am I alone on this.


Definitely not. What gets me is that as recently as 15 years ago, we didn't have all of these commercials and crap before a movie started. Remember when movie theaters would just have a dark screen and play music while you waited for the coming attractions to start?

The other thing I remember that they did was have trivia quizzes show up on the screen.
Most of them were so easy that they became annoying.
That and it seemed like they never had more than 3 questions that they kept on rotation.

For years they also had a variation of this:



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