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First movie you went to see by yourself in the cinema?

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Question threads are making a comeback, friends.

 

This question just occurred to me because I went and saw The Grand Budapest Hotel the other day, and it was the first time I'd just gone to the cinema myself to watch a film rather than doing it as part of a group. It seems like one of those things people often don't do, but I wonder how many of you would go and watch a movie in the cinema by yourself, if only to hear what movies you would be interested enough in watching to go and see just yourself.

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By myself in a theater? Gotta be Dark Knight Rises. I saw it over the summer a few years ago while I was in my hometown. I think there's this weird stigma about seeing a movie by yourself that doesn't make any sense. To be honest I find it more enjoyable, because I don't have to think about who I'm there with and I only have to focus on what's going on in the movie.

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I have never been to the theater by myself. I thought that was like, a shameful thing to do or something. :x

 

Not that I think you guys are silly for doing it that's just how I was taught.

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Why would it even be shameful. Like people will be all 'look at him enjoying a movie by himself'. Shouldn't it be shameful to judge others for how they want to spend their time instead? That sounds like the more reasonable thing to count as being shameful. Silly.

 

It's like saying a woman in revealing clothing is shameful, and she should just cover it up, when we are all sensible enough here to know that it's the judgers who are in the wrong.

 

How people spend their own time isn't really shameful at all, unless they're getting off in public or something. That would be weird. Maybe not in 3000 years but we'll see.

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Now hang on, I don't judge people for doing it but nonetheless I've been taught that I should be averse to going to the movie theater alone. It's the same way with eating alone at my college; it's seen as silly by other people and you're looked down upon if you don't eat at least lunch and dinner with friends.

 

I didn't make it that way and don't think it should be that way, but I'm just saying it's what I thought was expected of me and everyone else, so to see it being celebrated here is a little surprising is all.

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I wasn't saying that you judge people for it, but saying that anybody who does judge people for it is silly. Not a personal attack on you, just criticising your understanding. Making social events out of things is a good way to be too, but I wouldn't say it should be the way to be. But on top of that, finding one way of doing things as shameful is probably a good way to steer you towards doing something that would be better for you socially. Like, there's nothing wrong with eating alone, but if you've learned to make an effort to engage with other people and eat as a group, then that's better, because eating together is good too. Like, if you learned to do everything alone, you might just end up escaping to that isolation, and so in that way feeling like you have to be with others might encourage you to reach out to others.

 

Merits for both sides again, but nothing shameful about doing things alone/independently. I used a pretty harsh example in making my point, and I'm sorry that it kind of sounded like a personal attack because of that.

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I saw Les Miserables in theaters alone as soon as they opened at like 10 am. I saw it with my friend the night before, and I got home late. I attempted to go to bed, but all of the songs were stuck in my head and I didn't sleep at all. 

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Eating alone is the weirdest stigma too. Back when I lived in the dorms I would go to dinner by myself every day, and all the time people were coming and sitting with me or inviting me to sit with them, whether they were strangers or friends of mine. Either way I usually like to just eat alone anyways. It's just the way I prefer it. But you meet some interesting people who insist on not letting anyone eat alone.

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That's pretty patronizing


Sometimes I get the feelings that people talk to me because they think I feel left out of something. I don't know if I am just being critical of them. It makes me wonder if I give off a pathetic vibe or something. I think maybe a shy or reserved vibe, but the pathetic vibe annoys me.

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I would get the same feeling whenever I was eating alone. I'm fine with just going somewhere and getting food by myself, but sometimes people would be like "it's okay, you can eat with us if you want to!" As if I had no friends or no one to eat with if I wanted to or something.

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the food thing has never happened to me because I'll have headphones or something

 

Idk if those people are terrible or good. Whome care's

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I would probably never consider going to the theaters alone. Seems like a waste of an experience. Also i'd probably feel like a dweeb if i were there alone.

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