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at least I really enjoyed it because Indiana and I talked about how we watch movies in 2025 we talked about watching movies at home versus going to the movie theater to watch movies we talked about some of our favorite movie snacks we talked about some of the changes that we've seen in movie theaters and how they've evolved over the years we talked about about watching movies alone versus watching them with friends or family, and so much more.
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Here we go. Joining me now to talk all about watching movies is my co -host Indiana.
Hello there, Indiana.
How are you doing today?
I'm doing really good.
How are you, Andrew?
I'm good as well. Thank you so much. And our topic is one that I think is near and dear to both of our hearts.
Indiana, it's about movies and we're both movie fans.
and today we're going to talk not necessarily about the kinds of movies we like or the directors that we like but more about the traditions and the habits and the culture that surround watching movies so how we like to watch movies and how we enjoy them so i think this will be a really interesting discussion and i thought for the first half of our conversation we could could talk about going to the movie theater and watching movies in the theater and then for part two of the conversation we'll bring things back home and we'll talk about watching movies at home because yeah who doesn't love a movie
night at home so let's get into it let's start with part one going to watch movies at the theater and i'll throw things over to you first indiana maybe i could just ask you how often you go to the theater to watch a movie like is it something you do once a week once a month once a year how frequently do you go to the theater i would say that i tend to go to the movies maybe once every other month i usually just go when there's something new coming out and it's something i'm really excited for maybe it's a movie that would really benefit from being seen in the theater on the big screen with good
sound quality um or sometimes my my My local theater will play old movies, like maybe this month, actually, they're doing David Lynch Month, who's a very famous and beloved director who just passed away recently.
So like every Monday or Tuesday, they've got a couple of David Lynch movies.
So, yeah, if there's some old movie I really I really like, I might go see go see it.
But otherwise, I always tend to watch movies at home.
What about you, Andrew?
What do you do? Yeah, I would say that I am almost the same as you.
Probably once every two months seems about right.
I mean, I love going to the movie theater.
It's something that I wish I could do every day if I had time to do it.
And if there were movies that were good enough to watch, I would, you know, love going to the movie theater.
I think these days for me, watching a movie at home, maybe we can get into this a little bit later, is harder and harder and harder than ever before, just because of different commitments that I have, or just because of smartphones, which I tend to pull out if the movie is dragging or something like that.
But when you're in the theater, you get that immersive experience, right?
Either the lights are down, you can focus on the movie.
There's no breaks, you just watch it the whole way through.
And for me, it's one of the best movie watching experiences out there.
So I love it. But yeah, I'm kind of the same way.
If there's a new movie that I really want to watch, then I go to the theater.
Or Yeah, I also like watching old movies at the theater.
there's this cool indie cinema here in seoul and i'll give them a shout out it's called emu cinema and i love going to emu cinema it's just this really small intimate theater it's got maybe i want to say 40 seats in it like it's pretty small and yeah they do they play a lot of new indie films and films by some great korean directors but they also do old films and and retrospectives and foreign films. So those are the kind of movies that are right down my alley.
And not too long ago, they played an old Korean movie.
And the English title is something like, Please Take Care of My Cat.
It's a Korean movie that I really love.
So when I saw that they were playing it at the theater, I was like, I got to go see it.
Like I never had that opportunity to watch it when it was first released.
So I went to the theater and watched it there.
And that that was a really cool experience.
So yeah, I guess I'm pretty similar to you.
Not too often. I don't go too often, but for directors I really love or those movies that you must see in the cinema, right?
Sometimes those come out.
It's like you have to watch this because of the special effects or because of something or other, you must watch it in the theater.
And those movies I'll go see, but yeah, otherwise I guess I mostly watch movies at home.
Yeah, you know, I just went to see Mickey 17, the new Bong Joon -ho movie.
That was definitely one that I was like, oh, yeah, I got to get some friends together and see this in the theater.
I'm so excited. Yeah, I was excited for that movie as well.
And I saw it, I think it was the opening weekend that it was released here in Korea.
My wife and I were fans of him.
And so we went to go watch that movie and we both really enjoyed it.
It was a fun and wacky and interesting movie.
So that's cool that you saw it as well.
Indiana, I'm wondering when you go to the theater, do you buy snacks from the concession?
And the concession is what we call the snack selling area, the place where you can go and buy popcorn or a drink or chocolate bars, all kinds of things that they sell at the concession.
I know in Canada, and it's probably like this in the States as well, it's notorious for being expensive, right?
Like a bag of popcorn is prohibitively expensive.
Sometimes it's like crazy expensive.
So because of that, some people don't like to snack during a movie, but what's your style?
Are you a snacker while you're watching a movie, or do you like to just sit and enjoy the film?
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today. I have to admit that I tend to sneak candy or some snacks in covertly, secretively, even though you're not really supposed to.
Yeah, definitely candy during a movie is a great combo, and I'll bring like a water bottle.
But yeah, it's a little bit against the rules.
Yeah, the concessions are very, very expensive, but my local theater does have this mint brownie, which is like homemade and it's like really good and it's worth the five dollars so sometimes i get that but usually i'm sneaking them in yeah that's really funny that that's that's even a thing but in canada as well you know movie theaters they well maybe we can talk about this a little bit later but they're not doing so well these days right it's really easy to watch movies at home.
And a lot of people have big TVs or projectors at home and good surround sound stereos.
And so that kind of unique movie theater experience that you could never get at home back in the day, now almost everybody has access to it.
Maybe even if you don't have that setup at your home, probably one of your friends does so you could go over there and watch it.
So because of that, I think there aren't as many people watching movies in the theaters these days.
and so they rely on that concession business as a way to make money and to stay around but you know even as somebody who loves the theater and loves going to the movies it's like come on guys you got to be fair to us and we'll be fair to you if you're charging these outrageous prices for popcorn it's hard for me to support you and so I think yeah many people are just upset about out those extremely high snack prices.
And so they'll sneak candy in just like you, you know, maybe put it in your bag.
And then when the lights go out, then you can sneak it out and yeah, eat in there.
But there are rules in North American theaters, like no outside food, right?
If you want to eat a snack, it must be from the concession.
But I don't think people follow that rule very closely.
And here in Korea, I think there probably is a rule like that.
But I definitely definitely no people don't follow it it's like very common for people just to bring their own snacks in here yeah I think um there's a new kind of business model with some theaters uh I think it's based on the the first chain that probably did it is Alamo Draft House and this I think they're they probably started in New York City but um it's sort of like a dinner service movie theater where like you're going to order a burger and fries while you're watching the movie and then like a waiter brings it to you during the movie so I think like some theaters are shifting to this kind
of like combination business model um maybe it's yeah part of a way to make more money um I don't know maybe they'll catch you if you're sneaking food in when the waiter sees you I kind of find it annoying um because like then you get distracted when you when you see the waiter they're like whispering to the to the person trying to order a beer and it's like i'm trying to watch a movie this is like a sad scene or something or a really scary scene you're taking me out of it um i don't know if there are any kinds of yeah like sort of combination movie restaurant kind of places like that and in korea yeah
i'm trying to think there are lots of different concept theaters here so to tell you the truth i've never been to them but if you go to the websites of different movie theaters.
Almost every theater is going to have like at least one theater in the cineplex that has some kind of unique concept.
Like sometimes there will be ones with reclining chairs.
So like an armchair, you know, like a reclining chair that maybe you'd have in your living room instead of just the regular movie chair.
And I know one I think was for couples and it had love seats.
So like a two person sofa.
So you could sit with your significant other and sort of cuddle up and watch the movie together and yeah i think even one had beds i think that is like kind of a dangerous concept i'm not sure how well that went i to be honest with you i don't think i'd want to to get in one of those beds and watch a movie that way but yeah there are different concepts here i haven't heard of like the food service that's a little nuts to me i think yeah i would love that if it were like my private theater theater, you know, but like, if I was making the order, I'd be okay with it.
But if somebody else was making the order, and the server was helping them, then I'd probably be like, come on, you're taking me out of this movie.
So I don't know if I'd like that or not.
Yeah. Speaking of prices, I'm curious about how much it costs to see a movie these days in the States.
Is it expensive to go to the theater?
Are there any discounts or ways that you can save money when watching a movie?
So there are like these big chains that have really, really nice like IMAX screens or whatever that you'll find all over the country.
And they're usually in shopping malls.
I feel like those tend to be the most expensive.
You might be paying like over upwards of $20 for a movie.
movie. I try to go to like the local not chain movie theaters and they tend to be a little cheaper, but really not that much cheaper than that.
But another thing that I'll do is maybe I'll go to a matinee.
So that's like a daytime showing of a movie.
And those tend to be like half price or at least somewhat discounted.
So yeah, matinees would be a good way to save money.
But yeah, movie theaters have really gotten quite expensive.
Yeah, the matinee. It's interesting.
I forgot about what a matinee is.
And like you said, that's a movie that's usually in the morning or perhaps the early afternoon, but not in the evening when most people go to watch a movie.
But here in Korea, we have that matinee culture in Canada as well.
It's a little bit cheaper if you go to see an earlier movie.
movie. But here in Korea, I think the matinee culture doesn't really exist. If you look at the schedules, I mean, there are matinees, but you don't get a discount because if you look at the theater schedule, they start movies pretty early in the morning.
Like, I don't know, I'd have to check.
But I have a feeling that some theaters may start as early as like, maybe seven or eight or nine in the morning.
Yeah, so I think there are some people probably out there who are watching a movie before they go to work.
They start a little bit later in the day.
So they'll start early in the morning and the movies will continue all the way until probably the last movie finishes after 1am, for example.
So yeah, you have lots of time options here in Korea.
But unfortunately, as far as I know, no discounts.
There is one day, I think it's the last Wednesday of each month, where it's a kind of culture day in korea and so you can get a discount for different cultural events and thankfully movies fall under this category for cultural events so you know if you were to go see a performance a play uh yeah a movie or any kind of cultural event you can get a small discount so i think the last wednesday of every month maybe there's yeah maybe 25 discount discount, I'd have to look into the details that you can get to go and see a movie.
So that day is always really popular.
I think maybe there are many sold out shows on that last Wednesday of the month.
In Canada, I remember when I was growing up, times have changed.
And it's sad, I'm too old now.
But when I was a high school student, back in I guess this would have been around the late 90s or early 2000s we had this amazing thing called toonie tuesday and for everyone who doesn't know a toonie is the name of the canadian two dollar coin so you could go watch a movie for two dollars and yeah that was awesome that was always a really popular time to go watch a movie i think now i would probably hate it because it was like everybody in my high school would go and watch a movie every tuesday so it's just filled with high school students and you can imagine that is pretty loud and reckless
in the theater not a lot of people may be focusing on the movie and more joking around and stuff like that so the days of the toonie tuesday are long gone unfortunately but we still have a discounted tuesday evening so i think going to watch a movie on a tuesday evening is the best time in canada if you want to get a cheaper ticket than the usual price.
I feel like I'm always learning Canadian slang from whenever I talk to you, Andrew.
A while ago, you told me about Dooley for dual citizenship.
I was like, what is that?
Okay. Good lesson for me.
Okay, Toonie. Toonie Tuesday.
We have two coins in Canada that are kind of worth keeping.
The other smaller coins you can get rid of, and it doesn't really affect you at all because they're small denomination, but we have the one dollar coin which is called the loony and that's because it has a picture of the loon on it that bird so because of the loon we called it the loony and then after the loony was released maybe i don't know five years later then we replaced our two dollar bill with a two dollar coin and it's got a polar bear on the back but for some reason we just called it the tuney because it's like two loonies together you get the two dollar coin so yeah that's the official
name it's kind of funny but oh wow the toonie yeah it's not slang that's that's official that's dictionary canadian english anyways indiana let's see what next did i want to talk about well maybe this is a good time to transition to talking about watching movies at home so like we said earlier you know these days the prices of tvs have dropped substantially exponentially tvs are just getting bigger and better and brighter and cheaper and same with stereos as well so i think it's easy to replicate the theater experience in your home these days and so yeah i guess if you watch i'll ask you the same question as
before if you watch a movie once every couple of months at the theater how often are you watching movies at home at least once a a week.
I bet. Yeah. I'm a big, big movie head.
You could call me a cinephile.
Yeah, big movie fan.
Yeah, at least once a week.
That's what I would say.
How about you, Andrew?
What's your schedule for watching movies at home?
Probably once every two weeks.
And again, if I had the time, I would love to watch a movie every day.
I'm also, to an extent, a cinephile, but I just don't have the time unfortunately to watch as many movies as i would like but yeah i i love watching movies it's amazing i think it's one of the best art forms out there i find it incredible and yeah i love it just have a hard time fitting it in my schedule unfortunately i'm curious indiana when you watch a movie at home do you prefer to watch it alone do you like watching them with your husband do you like watching it with groups of friends do you ever have like a movie night over at your place what's your preferred configuration for watching a movie
usually i'm watching movies just with my husband because we i think we have generally the same taste and we agree that like if it's a serious movie both of us need to zip our lips and just watch and like if you need to go to the bathroom that's fine we'll pause it but like don't talk during the movie.
But like when you get one friend, two friends, three friends together, it's almost impossible not to just like chat or have some banter and make jokes during a movie.
And it drives me crazy.
If it's like a movie I really want to see, I'm like, shut up, just be quiet.
So I will have movie nights with my friends if it's like a non -serious or even a movie that I i know is going to actually be a bad movie but like it's like okay this will be fun to watch we can riff we can make jokes but like i don't care if i miss some of the plot you know yeah do you have the same experience with with uh your friends or what do you usually do are you a solo movie watcher yeah i used to have movie nights when i was younger with my friends and even when when I first moved to Korea, me and some of my foreign friends, we had a Korean movie night and just as a way to try and watch
more Korean films and learn about the culture and stuff.
That was like my first year or two that I spent in the country, but I had the same exact issue.
You know, if you get like, I would say more than three people together, then suddenly it just turns into a party.
And there's always somebody who's not interested in the movie and they're talking and then it's hard to follow the plot.
And it's just, you know, you're just hanging out at that point.
You're not really watching the movie.
So yeah, I like to focus on the film.
So my preferred way to watch a movie, and even this I think is in the theater as well, is just by myself these days.
I know there's always that stigma, at least in Canada, there's a stigma about going to watch a movie alone.
Like, oh, you're a loser or a loner.
You going with my wife to the cinema is great.
She's really observant and much more intelligent than I am, I think.
And so whenever we finish watching the movie, I love to hear her opinion and her analysis and breakdown of the film.
Because, yeah, for me, I guess I'm kind of a slow person.
So sometimes it takes me like two or three times to watch a movie before I can really break down and analyze it, and see some of the bigger themes or character development, those kinds of more deeper analytical things takes me a while, I need to watch it a few times.
The first time I watch it, I'm just following the plot story.
But my wife, on the other hand, she notices so many fine details.
And she can put together things and analyze it from really unique perspectives, just after watching it one time.
So I love watching movies with her.
And then after talking with her and hearing her perspective, and she always blows my mind.
I'm like, Whoa, I didn't even think about that aspect of it.
How did you notice that?
It's amazing. So yeah, it's great to watch movies with her in the cinema.
But when we watch movies at home, I actually prefer to watch them alone.
And that's because of the sound issue.
I don't know if you've had this issue at all, Indiana.
But I find these days, for whatever reason, watching a movie at home can be really frustrating.
Sometimes the discrepancy, the discrepancy and guys, that word means the difference.
Sometimes the discrepancy in the volume between dialogue when the characters are talking and then maybe a sound in the background, like an explosion or a song that's playing in the film.
The volume levels can be really, really different, and it's annoying to watch. I feel like I have to watch with the remote control in my hands, and I'm kind of like putting the volume up and down.
And so because of this, I prefer to watch movies with my headphones on.
I've got a pair of Bluetooth headphones and they sound great and I can connect them to my TV.
And yeah, I also like watching Korean movies a lot.
I'm lucky here that Korea's got this amazing movie industry and they produce a lot of really great films. Something very different than my home country, Canada.
so canadian films there are some good ones of course i don't want to like write off the whole canadian film industry but not as good as some other countries around the world and korea's got an amazing film culture and film industry so i like to watch korean movies and also of course korean is my second language so i'm not perfect at that at all and so having the headphones on allows me to focus on the dialogue.
I'm also one of those kind of guys, as a language learner, nerd and English teacher as well, you know, I know the importance of training our ears and getting the language into our head.
So I don't like to use the subtitles.
I like to just listen and learn that way.
And so because of that sound is so important to me.
And so I like to watch alone.
And I like to wear my headphones.
And my wife says I'm a geek and I look ridiculous with my headphones on watching the movies, but it helps me get immersed, helps me get into the movie.
And I think it's the best experience for me.
How about you, Indiana?
Do you have any quirks like that when it comes to watching anything that you like to do, any special habits or anything?
I'm fortunate that my husband is really into like sound setup and sound quality.
so like he has arranged this great 5 .1 sound system for us so 5 .1 i think is when you have front speakers and then also mounted back speakers and then there's also a subwoofer or maybe like a central something in the center so it's like five different points um so yes you know somebody's knocking on the door in the movie you're gonna hear it behind you you're gonna go oh is somebody knocking at my door right so it's good it's a nice immersive immersive movie experience but i can completely sympathize with what you're saying about the you know if there's an explosion and then the next the next
scene has dialogue and you can't hear the dialogue whatsoever because you turned down the aggressively loud explosion super annoying yeah so you're the friend indiana with the good home theater setup maybe all your friends want to come watch a movie at your place yeah and i even when we bought our couch when you know we We moved into this, this house and we needed a new couch. It was like, that was the number one like criteria.
Is this going to be ideal for movie watching?
We have a, a sectional, so like it can fit a bunch of people and there's like a good view to the TV.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay. Next time I'm visiting the States, it's movie night at your place.
Sounds like. We'll watch some Korean cinema.
There we go. There we go.
Okay, I've got one final question for you, Indiana, that I would love your perspective on.
These days, as I said, unfortunately, I don't have enough time in my life to watch the movies that I want to watch. And I also find, I don't know, maybe this is just part of our culture these days.
Maybe, maybe it's a me thing.
I'm not sure. But it seems like it's harder and harder for me to focus for a long period of time.
And it's harder for me to pay attention for a long period of time.
And so unfortunately, that's snuck into the way that I watch movies.
And I find that not all the time, but often I'll watch movies in chunks.
So I'll watch like 30 minutes one day, 30 minutes the next day.
And I guess I watch it in installments, we would say.
And here an installment just means pieces or chunks, right?
We also use this word when we're talking about maybe making a larger purchase.
If you had to buy, I don't know, a new refrigerator, you might purchase it in installments so you would pay, I don't know, 25 % one month, 25 % the next month, and you would continue until you paid off the fridge.
That's called buying something in installments.
So unfortunately, I have this bad habit of watching movies in installments.
I think the directors would probably, probably be mad at me for watching that way.
But it's just, yeah, I mean, for me, my thinking is that it's better to be focused for 30 minutes than to be focused for 30 minutes and distracted for an hour and a half.
So I tend to watch movies that way.
How about you? Do you have the same issue that I do with focus and attention.
Yeah, I do. Sometimes you're just not ready for like a three hour masterpiece all in one sitting after your workday.
So like, yeah, I definitely understand.
I think I've done that too in the past. Like I remember watching Kagemusha, which is a Kurosawa movie.
That's over three hours long.
I think I split that into at least two viewings.
And it was great. I mean, and I loved it as an amazing movie.
And I'm glad I was paying attention to it the whole time instead of falling asleep.
Because I was just too tired to sit there for three hours.
That's the other thing.
I shouldn't say that I would be distracted for an hour and a half.
I'd be sleeping for an hour and a half, right?
You watch the first 30 minutes fall asleep.
Yeah. And I think maybe this is one of the reason why TV is so popular these days.
TV series is because you can enjoy this like really long, amazing story that takes place over, you know, for one season, maybe it takes 13 or 15 hours, whereas a movie is usually only two or three hours.
So in the whole scheme of things, a TV season is much longer than a movie, but because we're getting it in installments and we're getting it in like 30 minute or one hour chunks, it It seems like it's a little bit easier to digest and easier to watch. So I'm wondering, too, that maybe for this reason, that's why we're seeing so many people love TV series and not watch movies as much. And maybe this will be the final question that I'll throw over to you is, do you prefer to watch movies or a really good TV series?
If you had to choose just one.
I think I would choose movies.
um like there are some TV series that series as I might say I think usually we say just TV series because it's so hard to say the plural of that right at least I think me I always struggle too because technically the grammar rule is we should say series is but it's so awkward to pronounce that at least for me and I don't know about other English speakers but I just I don't say series is it's too difficult so I just say TV series as the the singular and the plural.
Yeah. Anyways, I cut you off.
Continue. No worries.
It was a grammar note.
It was a plurality note.
Yeah. I have a few TV series that I love so much. I think it's like a pure art masterpiece.
I was so happy that I sat through so many seasons of it.
But in general, I just don't think that TV, there's so much more time and there's so much more more time to put into a plot and developing characters.
And usually it falls flat for me.
And there's just like not enough there to be worth all that time I'm spending.
So I think definitely the movie format, you know, a two hour story and then I'm done.
I think that's like definitely my preference, even if it is in one sitting a little bit longer than an episode of TV.
But I am watching Severance right now, which is a great TV show that I'm looking forward to every Every time it comes out on Fridays.
So, yeah, that is definitely a good one.
But what about you?
If you had to pick, which would you go for?
I think I would also choose movies.
And the reason that you just said is so true.
I think it really rings true for me.
Is that it's hard to make a TV series that spans, you know, even if it's only two or three seasons.
That might still be 50 hours of content that the director needs to make.
And it's so hard to tell a 50 hour story where it's, you know, has the same impact in the end as like a three hour movie, I think some stories just don't need that much time.
And so the story may be in a long TV series starts to wander, or we've probably all watched those shows where it's like, Oh, my God, the first three seasons were amazing.
And then season five, or four, five, six, we're not so good.
And, you know, then it leaves a sour taste in your mouth.
we say it just means that you don't have a great memory or a great feeling about that show in the end.
So yeah, I think for that reason, just because it's so hard to tell a great story over so many hours in TV that for me, I prefer a movie.
But yeah, don't get me wrong.
There's still great TV shows out there.
But I'm a movie man, I think at heart.
Agreed. Agreed. Good.
Well, Indiana, Diana, I think this is a good place to wrap things up.
So thanks for your perspective and for co -hosting this episode with me today.
And everybody, also, thank you for listening and making it all the way to the end.
You did a great job.
You put in some time, you put in some effort into learning English today.
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The ending credits are finished.
Shall I put it that way?
Pardon the pun. So we'll leave things here for today, everybody.
Please take care. Have a great week of English learning up ahead, and we'll talk to you in the next brand new Q -Lips episode.
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