#11: How often do you go to the cinema?

(as opposed to renting films out or watching them at home)

I didn't really go to the cinema as a kid. My parents weren't those kinds of parents. The first movie I saw in an actual proper cinema (as opposed to a cabaret set-up in an RSL) was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III. It was for a friend's brother's birthday (hi Beq! Hi Benny!) and I was 12 at the time.

In my teenage years, cinema-going was still rather sporadic; it was not until uni that I started going to the cinema at Macquarie Centre during long breaks between classes (I went to Macquarie Uni). Student ticket prices helped.

The past few years has seen my cinema consumption go up from about once a fortnight to 3-4 times a month despite the fact that I consider movie ticket prices exorbitant. I rarely pay full price anyway, it's just nice to bitch about it sometimes.

A lot of this comes from film festivals where I'll see anything from 5-10 movies in the season. I also like to enter competitions that have movie tickets as prizes, as well as bid for a place at free preview screenings.

Compared to my DVD/home consumption, this is high. I don't own a lot of DVDs—maybe 20 movies and 20 TV shows/music DVDs—and I don't watch movies on TV. I do have a Quickflix account, which gives me four rentals a month, but they tend to be for hard-to-get TV series or docos rather than films I miss at the cinema.

If I want to see a film I'll see it at the cinema, I guess. Or sometimes on a plane.

Day 12 - What’s the last film you saw in the cinema?
Day 13 - What’s your favourite/preferred genre of film?
Day 14 - What’s the first film you remember seeing in the cinema?
Day 15 - What film do you wish you had never seen?
Day 16 - What is the scariest film you’ve seen?
Day 17 - If you could be any character portrayed in a movie, who would it be?
Day 18 - Favourite movie hero?
Day 19 - Favourite movie villain?
Day 20 - Favourite movie adaptation (from book, play, musical, graphic novel etc)?
Day 21 - Favourite movie quote?
Day 22 - Favourite documentary?
Day 23 - Favourite director?
Day 24 - Favourite sequel?
Day 25 - Favourite movie franchise/series?
Day 26 - Popcorn?
Day 27 - Total number of films you own on DVD and video.
Day 28 - Last film you bought.
Day 29 - Last film you watched.
Day 30 - Five films that mean a lot to you.

Twenty-one categories of this meme are from Books and Movies and Wordsmithsonia. The rest of the categories are my own creation.