Our decline in movies is totally due to parenthood. We used to go a lot. I think the last movie was XMen Days of Future Past. Before that was Catching Fire.
I don't think this makes me a martyr, it's just true.
Totally agree that movies aren't worth a babysitter. We watch stuff at home. We did make it to X-Men over the summer. I used to care more about seeing things right as they came out, but it didn't used to cost an extra $10/hour to go out, and I didn't used to have to get up at 7 am on the weekend.
I saw Maleficent by myself in July. Before that it was Wolf of Wallstreet in December.
I think Netflix and iTunes plays a role too. There are very few movies we are willing and excited to pay $20+ to see when we could watch at home in our pjs. Add in having to get a babysitter and forget it!
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Post by ilikedonuts on Aug 31, 2014 22:18:54 GMT -5
Without kids? Despicable Me 2 June 2013. I was pregnant with DD2. I took both kids to see the Lego movie for a $1 showing last month. I paced for an hour with DD2 in the Tula lol while DD1 ate an entire large bag of popcorn.
umm... that muppet movie that came out a couple years ago. my lack of movie going has nothing to do with being a mommy martyr though. i actually sort of hate the whole experience. very occasionally, like once every three years, i can be convinced to go along with the crowd to the $2 theater.
i have declared that i'll make an exception for the second Pitch Perfect movie. we'll see if i follow through.
Post by gibbinator on Aug 31, 2014 22:34:30 GMT -5
Rise of the Planet of the Apes. It was a date night with dh back at the end of July. Before that was Neighbors (I think that's the title) when a girlfriend and I had a kid free afternoon date in June.
Guardians of the Galaxy. Before that... uh... Oz the Great and Powerful? And before that I'm pretty sure it was the King's Speech. So less than one a year without kids.
But we did go to 7 plays in the last year, does that count? Buying season tickets was a great move for us because there's no way we'd let them go to waste so it was a preset date night.
I saw Chef with DH last month. It was the first time I had been to the movies since seeing Harry Potter DH Pt 2 (in Leicester Square cinema, the same cinema where they had the premier--that's the only reason I remember).
Like @vicmo, I've been thinking of going by myself since DH and I also have pretty different taste. And a night out where there is no interaction required other than 'small popcorn, please,' sounds divine.
I want to see the movie about the Paris chef that's out now and looks very feel good and am on the fence about the Giver.
Last movie I saw with DH- Slumdog Millionaire, so 2008?
Last movie I saw in a movie theater- Something Borrowed, so 2011?
DH HATES going to movies. We liked it at one point, but now he hates everything about it- the expense, the other people, the seats- all of it! The only reason I went in 2011 is that someone I knew had free passes to a preview and wasn't able to use them. She gave them to me and I went with a friend.
I wonder if this will change as DS gets older. Do kids want to see all the new kid movies ASAP? They all talk about them at school, right?
Right after I got pregnant in 2011 - The Avengers. There were a bunch I wanted to see at the end of my pregnancy, but I was too uncomfortable to sit for that long.
Without kids? I think Obvious Child, maybe. About 6 weeks ago. I also saw Maleficient and X Men 3 with DS1 fairly recently, plus Earth to Echo with DS1 and DS2 (which was awful). DS1 and DS2 have seen Guardians of the Galaxy as well, but my mom took them.
We still go to probably ~6 movies without kids a year, plus another ~6 or so with them. Not nearly as many as pre-kids, but we have not stopped altogether. I love going to the movies a lot, so we make it a priority. Not going to the movies for years at a time would make me very, very sad.
Post by suburbanzookeeper on Aug 31, 2014 23:06:11 GMT -5
We see a lot at the drive-in where we can take the kids and I could nurse the baby during the movie. DD is at an age though that she'll no longer sleep through the second movie if it's something she doesn't find interest in or play contently on a tablet, so we haven't gone in a few months.
The last movie we saw in a theater together was when DS was born and my mom was out to watch him & DD... I think it was Olympus Has Fallen.