Adam & Amber’s Blog

When I was in high school the thought of going to a movie alone was terrifying, the feeling of utter rejection one must feel to walk in and sit down alone. There were times when I would walk into a theater alone (when the person I came with was getting concessions or something) and I would feel like I needed to explain to people that I was not one of those people that went to the theaters alone. I am sure all that says something about my self confidence as a teenager but these are different times.

I have seen two movies alone in my life and I am afraid that what they are might say something about me. The first I saw because there was no one to see it with which I assume is the reason most people go alone to a movie. I was in Rochester on a co-op and it was in a time when everyone I knew here had either gone back to school or wasn’t around and I really wanted to see the movie. That movie was “Lord Of The Rings: Two Towers”, does that make me a dork? Probably, but I am OK with that. The best part was it was on opening day, yeah I know that definitely makes me a dork but the beauty was the theater was packed (I can only presume with a couple hundred other people who were there alone) so I didn’t feel too uncomfortable.

The second movie I went alone to was because no one wanted to go see it. This was fairly recently when there was a number of movies I wanted to see and my friends wanted to see one less then I. I setup to go see four movies of varying goodness over the course of two weeks. The movies were fairly well attended until it came to the last one, “Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny”. A movie that, from looking at how it did in the box office, I may have been the only person in the US that wanted to see it. This time it was the opposite situation, I was the only person in the entire theater. For those of you (which assume is all of you) who have never had the opportunity to watch a movie in a theater completely alone it is cool experience. You can laugh as loud as you want, although laughing is a bit weird when there is no one there to hear it or laugh with. Also, the theater is a very creepy and dark place when no one else is in it. Even though it is a little weird, there is no reason to be uncomfortable because there was no one there to make me feel uncomfortable.

My point is that in high school I was stupid. There is nothing wrong with seeing a movie alone, as a matter of fact it would seem to be one of the best things to go do by yourself. I mean you sit in a dark room and quietly watch a large screen, the experience really isn’t that different with or without someone else. And yet, it is still something that most people won’t go and do and even though I know it is irrational I wouldn’t choose to do it. How about you? Have you ever seen a movie alone? Do you think you could? Maybe your answer says as much about you as “Two Towers” and “Tenacious D” say about me.