Do you ever go to movies alone?

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All the time. I much prefer it to going with other people, due to all of the advantages:

- being able to decide to see a movie just as it's about to start
- being able to trivially change my mind about seeing a movie if I get to the cinema but haven't bought a ticket yet, or if something better's playing or some other issue comes up
- not having to co-ordinate with anyone else's schedule
- not having to stand around trying to find each other at the cinema
- not having to try and arrange seats next to each other
- not having to put up with other people in the group rattling food wrappers or talking during the movie
- not having had to arrange in advance what the group will do after the movie
- being able to change my post-movie schedule on a whim. Eat something? Something different? Go home? Go for a walk?
- not having to put up with other people either before going into the movie, or after coming out

Honestly, going to places alone is the best thing ever.

the best scenario is to have a mate living with one where we'd just naturally do things together.

Mostly but never at night. Matinees, first showings for the discount.

I never understood what was so weird about that: you aren't supposed to socially interact during a movie anyway! One of my favorite summertime activities as a bachelor was to go to the late night (11:45pm) movie every Saturday night at the downtown cinema. Strangely enough even though the theatre is located right in the nightlife district it was a introvert's paradise because it was so calm and relaxed in the movie complex! Even being married with a child I still occasionally go alone to events since my wife has no interest in them.

I've gone to movies alone hundreds of times---perhaps even thousands of times.

I started when I was about 10 years old, when I saw "Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" on my own. I don't remember if it costs $1.00 or 50 cents.

There's always been an "allure" to going to the movies, somehow.

The screen, the sound, things like that.

I rarely go to the movies; as I usually can wait until the DVD releases. I often go alone to our locally-owned theater that plays the better quality usually independent films, and documentaries.

I've viewed documentaries whose film-makers/topics are seen as controversial i.e., I viewed Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth' Truth, and Gore's 'Inconvenient Sequel' as well as film-maker Michael Moore's films.

Just viewing such moving, and provocative works in a full audio-visual environment takes my mind off of being alone; as well as being amongst an audience demonstrating that living proof of people who disagree with the film-makers/topics can behave politely - "yes, there are such people!"

What's best of all is experiencing that collective catharsis of a cheering audience when documentarians actively illustrate those important points, as well as collectively expressing such feelings as shock, and melancholy.

I hope to find the time, and meet people to attend the thoughtful (non-documentary) movies showing at our independent theater!

I've never been to the movies alone. I have not been for about 15 years. I guess I average about once every 7 or 8 years if all my life is considered, as we used to go once every two or three years when I was a child. They are all so expensive these days. The last time I remember going we paid 50p extra for a balcony seat and that came to £2.65 per person. Someone said the prices are double that now or even more.

Ask me if I have ever gone to the movies with someone else.

And I'll say "No."

Yes . " Aspie`alone ",maybe .