Do You Go To the Movies Alone?

on October 29, 2009 at 12:00 PM

My mom and I were talking last night about movies that we'd like to see. We're both excited to catch New Moon when it comes out next month. But, unfortunately, since we live 200 miles apart, we can't go see it together. I will probably go see it, but she probably won't. Here's why...

I will happily go see the movie by myself. Since I had kids, I've found unexpected pleasure in going to the movies alone. I love going into the darkened theater, settling into the comfy chair, and knowing nobody will disturb me for the next two hours. Sometimes I even buy myself some Junior Mints to munch on.

As much as I love my husband and love seeing movies with him, babysitters are expensive and I'd rather get one so we can go out to dinner and actually talk (something we don't always find a lot of time for nowadays) instead of sitting silently next to each other. If there's a movie we both really want to see, we've been known to arrange movie days where one of us will catch the 1pm show while the other watches the kids then we'll swap so the other can go to the next showing of the movie. This way we still get to discuss the movie together.

But, my mom is a different story. She's never gone to the movies by herself. No matter how much she wants to see a movie, she can't get over her uneasiness about going to go to the movies alone. I think she worries she'll see someone she knows and they'll think she's lonely or friendless. So far I've been unable to convince her to put her anxiety aside and just try it.

How about you -- do you go to the movies alone? Any advice for someone scared to do it?

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LuminousMom

on Oct 29, 2009 at 3:32 PM

I've never done it because there has never been a movie I have been dying to see enough to do it... then again, I hate paying to go to the regular theatre anyways. $9 bucks will buy me the DVD when it comes out. My DH has gone to movies by himself though.. usually when he was in the Navy and he was deployed somewhere and bored.. or when my kids and I go to Washington for a few weeks to visit our family. Never bothered him to be there alone.

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jgal29

on Oct 29, 2009 at 6:00 PM

I have once I wanted to watch a girly movie so I went without hubby

NYCSingleMom1

on Oct 29, 2009 at 8:20 PM

i have been going to the movies by myself since high school. I have never been able to understand this overwhelming need to see movies with other people. People have different interests and so because someone doesnt want to see a movie, people dont go, I dont get it. maybe because i live in NYC and people dont care if you go to the movies alone that its not a big deal. I f I waited for others, I would never see a movie ever, its the same with plays, good lord trying to explain to someone what the play is about and then making dates is just too complicated.

zassymama2

on Oct 30, 2009 at 1:18 AM

I wanted to see Brokeback Mountain, and of course he wouldn't dare. So he saw one and I saw the other. It was nice. Funny though, we rented and watched it together and he liked the movie. But totally, if you can do it, do it!

Rachael06

on Oct 31, 2009 at 11:02 AM

I can't go to the movies alone either. It's too lonely for me.

Mariah94

on Nov 2, 2009 at 3:21 PM

The only movie I ever saw by myself was in HS. Silence of the Lambs...IDK why. But now I have moved away from my sister and so we go on movie "dates" with each other. We see the movie @ similar times and then call and talk about it:)

Cheesy, right?

cassie_kellison

on Nov 3, 2009 at 6:00 AM

I have no problem going to the movies alone. I havent had to since Devil Wears Prada was in theater, but if there was a movie I wanted to see and no one was available, I would so go alone.