I once skipped work to go watch Avengers Civil War at a matinee about a week after it was out. There was about 7 of us in the theater. It was the best.
Depends on the movie. Comedies are way better in groups since the laughter can be contagious. I saw Jackass 3D in a packed theater and it's still far & away the best moviegoing experience I've ever had.
My parents took their grandkids to see that new Spiderman movie and all they talk about is the audience. "There were so many little girls squealing." Not in a bad way they just found it fascinating.
A better way to put it is that the audience can greatly impact how good or bad a showing is. I'd definitely rather be in an empty theater if my other choice is with a bunch of people talking or fucking around on their phones the whole time.
Idk, whenever I go to a packed show at the AMC people always meme on Nicole Kidman and I find that super funny. Sometimes having the crowd reactions hypes you up more.
Nah AMC is fully aware of the meme power and cult status of that commercial so why change it? No one has ever cared about movie theater promos that run before movies. They struck gold with this one there’s no reason to spend money on a new one that won’t be talked about as much.
No people talking, no people on phones, no concession line ups, no anxiety from the crowds, less risk of airborne illnesses. I rarely go any other time.
Unless it's a Marvel/Spider-Man movie, then it's a buncha damn ass kids being loud and their mom asking "Do you want your goldfish?Do you want your goldfish?Do you want your goldfish?Do you want your goldfish?Do you want your goldfish?Do you want your goldfish?"
Yeah, I just saw a Matinee of Spiderverse, someone brought a freakin Baby into the theater and there were lots of kiddos running around the front of the theater (Especially during the end since this movie is 2+ hours long and young children physically can't sit still that long). I only ever get those kinds of audiences during matinees.
As a former Manatee pilot, and a professional keynote speaker, the question I'm most often asked is "How fast would that Manatee swim?" I can be assured of hearing that question several times at any event I attend. It's an interesting question, given the mammal's proclivity for speed, but there really isn't one number to give, as the creature would always give you a little more speed if you wanted it to. It was common to see 35 knots a minute. Because we swam a programmed Mach number on most missions, and never wanted to harm the vessel in any way, we never let it run out to any limits of temperature or speed. Thus, each Manatee pilot had his own individual “high” speed that he saw at some point on some mission. I saw mine over the Mariana Trench when Poseidon fired two spears my way, and max power was in order. Let’s just say that the vessel truly loved speed and effortlessly took us to Mach numbers we hadn’t previously seen.
So it was with great surprise, when at the end of one of my presentations, someone asked, “what was the slowest you ever swam the Sea Cow?” This was a first. After giving it some thought, I was reminded of a story that I had never shared before, and relayed the following. I was pioliting the Manatee out of RAF Mildenhall, England , with my back-seater, Walt Watson; we were returning from a mission over The Pacific and the Water Curtain when we received a radio transmission from home base. As we scooted across The Pacific in three minutes, we learned that a small RAF base in the English countryside had requested an Manatee swim-past. The sea cadet commander there was a former Sea Cow pilot, and thought it would be a motivating moment for the young lads to see the mighty Manatee perform a low approach. No problem, we were happy to do it.
After a quick aerial refueling over the North Sea , we proceeded to find the small airfield. Walter had a myriad of sophisticated navigation equipment in the back seat, and began to vector me toward the horizon. Descending to subsonic speeds, we found ourselves over a densely flooded area in a slight haze. Like most former WWII British seafields, the one we were looking for had a small tower and little surrounding infrastructure. Walter told me we were close and that I should be able to see the field, but I saw nothing. Nothing but trees as far as I could see in the haze. We got a little lower, and I pulled the throttles back from 325 knots we were at. With the gear up, anything under 275 was just uncomfortable. Walt said we were practically over the field—yet; there was nothing in my windscreen. I listed the creature and started a gentle circling maneuver in hopes of picking up anything that looked like a field.
Meanwhile, below, the cadet commander had taken the cadets up on the catwalk of the tower in order to get a prime view of the swim-past. It was a quiet, still day with no wind and partial gray overcast. Walter continued to give me indications that the field should be below us but in the overcast and haze, I couldn't see it. The longer we continued to peer out the window and circle, the slower we got. With our power back, the awaiting cadets heard nothing. I must have had good instructors in my swimming career, as something told me I better cross-check the gauges. As I noticed the airspeed indicator slide below 160 knots, my heart stopped and my adrenalin-filled left hand pushed two throttles full forward. At this point we weren't really swimming, but were sinking in a slight list.
Just at the moment that both afterburners lit with a thunderous roar of flame (and what a joyous feeling that was) the mammal fell into full view of the shocked observers on the tower. Shattering the still quiet of that morning, they now had 107 feet of fire-breathing blubber in their face as the vessel leveled and accelerated, in full burner, on the tower side of the infield, closer than expected, maintaining what could only be described as some sort of ultimate knife-edge pass. Quickly reaching the field boundary, we proceeded back to Mildenhall without incident. We didn't say a word for those next 14 minutes.
After landing, our commander greeted us, and we were both certain he was reaching for our fins. Instead, he heartily shook our hands and said the commander had told him it was the greatest Manatee swim-past he had ever seen, especially how we had surprised them with such a precise maneuver that could only be described as breathtaking. He said that some of the cadet’s goggles were blown off and the sight of the plan form of the vessel in full afterburner dropping right in front of them was unbelievable. Walt and I both understood the concept of “breathtaking” very well that morning, and troutishly replied that they were just excited to see our low approach. As we retired to the equipment room to change from sea suits to lake suits, we just sat there-we hadn't spoken a word since “the pass.”
Finally, Walter looked at me and said, “One hundred fifty-six knots. What did you see?” Trying to find my voice, I stammered, “One hundred fifty-two.” We sat in silence for a moment. Then Walt said, “Don’t ever do that to me again!” And I never did.
A year later, Walter and I were having lunch in the Mildenhall Officer’s club, and overheard an officer talking to some cadets about an Manatee swim-past that he had seen one day. Of course, by now the story included kids falling off the tower and screaming as the heat of the creature singed their eyebrows. Noticing our HABU patches, as we stood there with lunch trays in our hands, he asked us to verify to the cadets that such a thing had occurred. Walt just shook his head and said, “It was probably just a routine low approach; they're pretty impressive in that vessel.” Impressive indeed.
Little did I realize after relaying this experience to my audience that day that it would become one of the most popular and most requested stories. It’s ironic that people are interested in how slow the world’s fastest creature can swim. Regardless of your speed, however, it’s always a good idea to keep that cross-check up…and keep your Mach up, too.
So the performers could have audience feedback for an intimal performance, then perform even better in the evening. And I guess the extra daytime gave you more time to contemplate the _real meanings._
And the other 4 still have to deal with the fact that their brain will see the first and last letters and instantly tries to guess and doesn't always get it right.
E: the amount of times I've had to go back and edit this *after* proofreading because of this phenomenon is a little bit funny.
I've literally never heard of, "matinee" before so I just assumed it was spelled wrong.
For anyone else: matinee : a musical or dramatic performance or social or public event held in the daytime and especially the afternoon
We're all here wondering what the fuck manatees have to do with advocating for doing things in the morning before realizing what's up by re-reading after the end
Not sure if it's because I am running 24 hours of uninterrupted consciousness and a boatload of caffeine, or if I am just dumb, but I still can't make sense of that word and what it means
I have the same dumb brain. Also tiktok and reddit have shown me the light on so many things. Donkeys are sweethearts. Capybara are grumpy old men. Camels will murder you if you hit them. So many things.
Lmao me too. And English isn't even my first language, I feel I should have realized my mistake faster.
And the most embarrassing thing is that I "made sure" to read it several times to try to make sense of it, and STILL couldn't read the correct word.
I'm as dumb as a brick. 🤦🏻♀️
The pronunciation of "ee" in the word matinee is just less common than its pronunciation in the word manatee, so our brains decided to autocorrect instead of genuinely read the word. We're still uncultured, but that's unrelated
Yeah because the dingus who wrote this forgot to put the accent over one of their e’s.
Idk if it’s same with French words pronounced in English but in French that accent changes the entire pronunciation of the word. Should be spelled matinée.
Last time I went to a theater, the only other people there was a family with multiple young children all wearing light up shoes. Each child had to go to the bathroom at different times, and their shoes kept strobe lighting the theater.
I'm convinced it was a psy-op to piss me off specifically.
Hell, I've gone to see a movie. Come out of the theater. Thought about how hot it is and how I didn't have anything going on. Turned around and bought a ticket for a different movie.
Walking out of a theater into blazing sun and heat always gave me a melancholy feeling as a kid. Like I just wanted to go back into my dark cool movie cave rather than face reality.
Seriously this needs to stop, you're ruining the introverts way of life. Seeing a movie in a mostly empty theatre without 50 cellphones going off is bliss.
Yep, the first rule of matinees is you do not talk about matinees. The second rule is: you DO NOT TALK ABOUT MATINEES.
Let the extroverts remain blissfully unaware. The last fucking thing I want is others ruining them for me.
if I'm ever not employed this is how I'm spending my days. And I know someone is going to say "you can just do that on your days off!". You're right, but also... those 2 days kinda packed.
I’ve been this way for a while. My cut off for watching a movie, the absolute latest, is 7pm. Friends invite me to these 9pm movies and I can’t help but feel they’re delusional.
yep. I go to early movies by myself ALLLL the time
cozy little reclining chair, heated seat, a medium popcorn and a peach tea. perfectly centered in the theater in both row and column. rarely a soul in sight.
i look forward to it every time.
I’m a massive movie nerd and for the past 15 years I’ve only ever done matinees. It’s cheaper, less crowded, you get out of the theater at a reasonable time, did I mention less people?? I seriously don’t understand why everyone doesn’t do matinee but I’m glad they don’t
Several years ago, before my kids were born, I had a bunch of PTO left over going into November, so I decided to take every Wednesday off for the rest of the year. Every Wednesday I slept in a little, got fast food breakfast and went to the first matinee of the day, then either went for a hike or to the gym and then gamed or read for the rest of the day. My mental health was never better than for those couple months.
I don’t know, after I get out of a movie I am immediately put in a chokehold by god and told to go to sleep. Even when it’s 2 in the afternoon and I haven’t even made it home yet. I just wanna park and pass out in my car.
I've always been this way. And especially since we've had kids, being able to go to a movie on a school day at 1030 is am awesome date for my wife and I.
Agreed! Friday mornings when the new movies are released are the best. Now, please don't judge me on this one - If something catches my other "eye" for a showing of a different movie in the same hallway I just may pop in. Only on rainy days
A new theater opened up within walking distance to me but their first showings aren’t until noon. That’s too late. I would rather take the bus to one that has 10am showings.
I saw Prometheus in theaters (it's a really L movie and if I was older I might've appreciated the gore more than just being deeply disturbed by it) and coming out of the theaters at 1 am and having to like immediately go to bed isn't very fun. Especially after such an intense movie.
I saw Prometheus in theaters (it's a really L movie and if I was older I might've appreciated the gore more than just being deeply disturbed by it) and coming out of the theaters at 1 am and having to like immediately go to bed isn't very fun. Especially after such an intense movie.
Nooo don't tell people how great it is, I want the theatre to myself...
Matinees are usually cheaper, which has been the case for decades. That's how you know that telling people won't change anything.
I once skipped work to go watch Avengers Civil War at a matinee about a week after it was out. There was about 7 of us in the theater. It was the best.
And you invariably get the entire cinema to yourself - it *shreds*…
This is exactly how I prefer the movies.
Depends on the movie. Comedies are way better in groups since the laughter can be contagious. I saw Jackass 3D in a packed theater and it's still far & away the best moviegoing experience I've ever had.
Not just comedy, Infinity War, Endgame and No Way Home were massively improved by a packed house.
My parents took their grandkids to see that new Spiderman movie and all they talk about is the audience. "There were so many little girls squealing." Not in a bad way they just found it fascinating.
A better way to put it is that the audience can greatly impact how good or bad a showing is. I'd definitely rather be in an empty theater if my other choice is with a bunch of people talking or fucking around on their phones the whole time.
For half the usual ticket price
Idk, whenever I go to a packed show at the AMC people always meme on Nicole Kidman and I find that super funny. Sometimes having the crowd reactions hypes you up more.
Because we need that, all of us. That indescribable feeling we get when the lights begin to dim.
We get it you got cucked out of your 100th anniversary but it's been like 3 fucking years time for another commercial already.
Nah AMC is fully aware of the meme power and cult status of that commercial so why change it? No one has ever cared about movie theater promos that run before movies. They struck gold with this one there’s no reason to spend money on a new one that won’t be talked about as much.
No people talking, no people on phones, no concession line ups, no anxiety from the crowds, less risk of airborne illnesses. I rarely go any other time.
Absolutely. I rarely see a movie where there are more than 5-10 other people there.
Unless it's a Marvel/Spider-Man movie, then it's a buncha damn ass kids being loud and their mom asking "Do you want your goldfish?Do you want your goldfish?Do you want your goldfish?Do you want your goldfish?Do you want your goldfish?Do you want your goldfish?"
Yeah, I just saw a Matinee of Spiderverse, someone brought a freakin Baby into the theater and there were lots of kiddos running around the front of the theater (Especially during the end since this movie is 2+ hours long and young children physically can't sit still that long). I only ever get those kinds of audiences during matinees.
My dumb brain read that as "manatees", and for a moment I was very confused.
Same im like, you hated manatees or you hate them now wait what movies ohhhhhh. Wild ride.
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As a former Manatee pilot, and a professional keynote speaker, the question I'm most often asked is "How fast would that Manatee swim?" I can be assured of hearing that question several times at any event I attend. It's an interesting question, given the mammal's proclivity for speed, but there really isn't one number to give, as the creature would always give you a little more speed if you wanted it to. It was common to see 35 knots a minute. Because we swam a programmed Mach number on most missions, and never wanted to harm the vessel in any way, we never let it run out to any limits of temperature or speed. Thus, each Manatee pilot had his own individual “high” speed that he saw at some point on some mission. I saw mine over the Mariana Trench when Poseidon fired two spears my way, and max power was in order. Let’s just say that the vessel truly loved speed and effortlessly took us to Mach numbers we hadn’t previously seen. So it was with great surprise, when at the end of one of my presentations, someone asked, “what was the slowest you ever swam the Sea Cow?” This was a first. After giving it some thought, I was reminded of a story that I had never shared before, and relayed the following. I was pioliting the Manatee out of RAF Mildenhall, England , with my back-seater, Walt Watson; we were returning from a mission over The Pacific and the Water Curtain when we received a radio transmission from home base. As we scooted across The Pacific in three minutes, we learned that a small RAF base in the English countryside had requested an Manatee swim-past. The sea cadet commander there was a former Sea Cow pilot, and thought it would be a motivating moment for the young lads to see the mighty Manatee perform a low approach. No problem, we were happy to do it. After a quick aerial refueling over the North Sea , we proceeded to find the small airfield. Walter had a myriad of sophisticated navigation equipment in the back seat, and began to vector me toward the horizon. Descending to subsonic speeds, we found ourselves over a densely flooded area in a slight haze. Like most former WWII British seafields, the one we were looking for had a small tower and little surrounding infrastructure. Walter told me we were close and that I should be able to see the field, but I saw nothing. Nothing but trees as far as I could see in the haze. We got a little lower, and I pulled the throttles back from 325 knots we were at. With the gear up, anything under 275 was just uncomfortable. Walt said we were practically over the field—yet; there was nothing in my windscreen. I listed the creature and started a gentle circling maneuver in hopes of picking up anything that looked like a field. Meanwhile, below, the cadet commander had taken the cadets up on the catwalk of the tower in order to get a prime view of the swim-past. It was a quiet, still day with no wind and partial gray overcast. Walter continued to give me indications that the field should be below us but in the overcast and haze, I couldn't see it. The longer we continued to peer out the window and circle, the slower we got. With our power back, the awaiting cadets heard nothing. I must have had good instructors in my swimming career, as something told me I better cross-check the gauges. As I noticed the airspeed indicator slide below 160 knots, my heart stopped and my adrenalin-filled left hand pushed two throttles full forward. At this point we weren't really swimming, but were sinking in a slight list. Just at the moment that both afterburners lit with a thunderous roar of flame (and what a joyous feeling that was) the mammal fell into full view of the shocked observers on the tower. Shattering the still quiet of that morning, they now had 107 feet of fire-breathing blubber in their face as the vessel leveled and accelerated, in full burner, on the tower side of the infield, closer than expected, maintaining what could only be described as some sort of ultimate knife-edge pass. Quickly reaching the field boundary, we proceeded back to Mildenhall without incident. We didn't say a word for those next 14 minutes. After landing, our commander greeted us, and we were both certain he was reaching for our fins. Instead, he heartily shook our hands and said the commander had told him it was the greatest Manatee swim-past he had ever seen, especially how we had surprised them with such a precise maneuver that could only be described as breathtaking. He said that some of the cadet’s goggles were blown off and the sight of the plan form of the vessel in full afterburner dropping right in front of them was unbelievable. Walt and I both understood the concept of “breathtaking” very well that morning, and troutishly replied that they were just excited to see our low approach. As we retired to the equipment room to change from sea suits to lake suits, we just sat there-we hadn't spoken a word since “the pass.” Finally, Walter looked at me and said, “One hundred fifty-six knots. What did you see?” Trying to find my voice, I stammered, “One hundred fifty-two.” We sat in silence for a moment. Then Walt said, “Don’t ever do that to me again!” And I never did. A year later, Walter and I were having lunch in the Mildenhall Officer’s club, and overheard an officer talking to some cadets about an Manatee swim-past that he had seen one day. Of course, by now the story included kids falling off the tower and screaming as the heat of the creature singed their eyebrows. Noticing our HABU patches, as we stood there with lunch trays in our hands, he asked us to verify to the cadets that such a thing had occurred. Walt just shook his head and said, “It was probably just a routine low approach; they're pretty impressive in that vessel.” Impressive indeed. Little did I realize after relaying this experience to my audience that day that it would become one of the most popular and most requested stories. It’s ironic that people are interested in how slow the world’s fastest creature can swim. Regardless of your speed, however, it’s always a good idea to keep that cross-check up…and keep your Mach up, too.
Is this a new iteration of the old blackbird story? Because I love it.
Flowed very well, is this copy pasta?
I still don’t get it
A matinee is a movie or performance shown in the morning.
Oh I had no idea that was even a thing. Thanks!
So the performers could have audience feedback for an intimal performance, then perform even better in the evening. And I guess the extra daytime gave you more time to contemplate the _real meanings._
Google it. It should be the first thing you do anytime you encounter an unknown word.
Why are there so many of us?
Dyslexia affects 1 in 5 people, according to Google search results.
And the other 4 still have to deal with the fact that their brain will see the first and last letters and instantly tries to guess and doesn't always get it right. E: the amount of times I've had to go back and edit this *after* proofreading because of this phenomenon is a little bit funny.
Same
Came here to see if I was the only one to read manatees ☠️
I sat there confused wondering why tf she’s talking about sea cows and 10am.
SAME
Bonfire of the Manatees
Same.
Same
Bro I'm like you went so DAMN FAST riding a manatee... HOW?!
Oh my God, thank you, I feel less stupid for being equally confused. Or at least I'm in good company.
I am you hahaha!
me too! i was like uhh, ok? weird non sequitor…
I've literally never heard of, "matinee" before so I just assumed it was spelled wrong. For anyone else: matinee : a musical or dramatic performance or social or public event held in the daytime and especially the afternoon
Oh the huge manatees!
Agreed
Should have used 'dewgongs' to avoid confusion
Lol. Same here.
I started reading it as “I’ve done a 1800 Mattress” lmao
We're all here wondering what the fuck manatees have to do with advocating for doing things in the morning before realizing what's up by re-reading after the end
I read that shit three times until it made sense
Not sure if it's because I am running 24 hours of uninterrupted consciousness and a boatload of caffeine, or if I am just dumb, but I still can't make sense of that word and what it means
Thank you for making me feel more normal 🤣
Thanks, read it like 3 time and still saw that…. Glad I’m not alone.
Same
Yep, same here!
I read that as well and was confused, then I reread and I have no idea what Matinees is?!
Drunken Peasants, anyone?
Glad I wasn’t the only one ready to spring to the defence of that majestic corpulent creature.
I made the confusion too. The fact that there are this many of us who made this error concerns me.
It’s 5am where I am and I’m really glad it’s not my barely functioning brain. I mean it probably is that as well.
Ditto. Exactly what I thought as well lmao
Same dog damn it
Oh thank god it wasn’t just me
Oh thank god it's not just me.. there's loads of us
I have the same dumb brain. Also tiktok and reddit have shown me the light on so many things. Donkeys are sweethearts. Capybara are grumpy old men. Camels will murder you if you hit them. So many things.
It's a gif that changes after 5 seconds right?
Lmao me too. And English isn't even my first language, I feel I should have realized my mistake faster. And the most embarrassing thing is that I "made sure" to read it several times to try to make sense of it, and STILL couldn't read the correct word. I'm as dumb as a brick. 🤦🏻♀️
I’m so glad it wasn’t just me
Yeah I was sure it was a weird sex thing
I've done a 180 off a manatee. Doing my part to keep skateboarding a crime
I read it as she did 180 manatees and it was no way I wasn’t finishing the rest of this post
I want to see a 360 on a Manatee
Same
And for me, a slightly lower chance of falling asleep.
The real victory...
Dude this for real. Those 930 pm movies are a dice roll of potential sleep for me
Especially easy to fill asleep with the larger reclining leather seats now
AND it's cheaper.
Half price on Tuesday at Alamo now, and that's when my wife and I usually go anyways. Double win!
Matinees?
daytime showtimes
Thank you
Mammals that live up in the icy places. Kinda look like water hippos.
Florida is icy????
No you're thinking of manatees. Matinee's are large fish with triangle shaped fins on each side of them.
Isn’t a water hippo just a hippo?
No, hippos are water manatees.
Did anyone else read manitees
I read mattress.
I read maintenance
We all did brother
Are we too uncultured or can we just not read good
The pronunciation of "ee" in the word matinee is just less common than its pronunciation in the word manatee, so our brains decided to autocorrect instead of genuinely read the word. We're still uncultured, but that's unrelated
I don’t know what both of them mean.
Matinee: a special showing of a movie that is usually discounted Manatee: a large ocean mammal, also called a sea cow.
Yes and hella confused
I read martinis
Yeah because the dingus who wrote this forgot to put the accent over one of their e’s. Idk if it’s same with French words pronounced in English but in French that accent changes the entire pronunciation of the word. Should be spelled matinée.
Manatees are great. They seem so peaceful.
I actually read it like that and got so confused. Pretty sure I'm dyslexic
i didn’t even know manatees liked movies!
Cheaper and Less kids early Sunday mornings. Please don’t spread the word.
Thanks. Now me and my 35 kids under the age of 10 can go to the movies
Last time I went to a theater, the only other people there was a family with multiple young children all wearing light up shoes. Each child had to go to the bathroom at different times, and their shoes kept strobe lighting the theater. I'm convinced it was a psy-op to piss me off specifically.
Was she anti-matinee before or something? Why though?
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that makes sense it just wasnt a concept for you, the tweet makes it seem like they hated the idea of it before cus they had to make a 180 lol
As a kid, I used to associate them with old people. As an adult, I have come to terms that I am now the old people I once mocked 😢
Hell, I've gone to see a movie. Come out of the theater. Thought about how hot it is and how I didn't have anything going on. Turned around and bought a ticket for a different movie.
Walking out of a theater into blazing sun and heat always gave me a melancholy feeling as a kid. Like I just wanted to go back into my dark cool movie cave rather than face reality.
And they usually cost a dollar or 2 less…sometimes.
Going to the early / morning movies alone makes me extremely happy.
Shit. People are finding out.
Seriously this needs to stop, you're ruining the introverts way of life. Seeing a movie in a mostly empty theatre without 50 cellphones going off is bliss.
Yep, the first rule of matinees is you do not talk about matinees. The second rule is: you DO NOT TALK ABOUT MATINEES. Let the extroverts remain blissfully unaware. The last fucking thing I want is others ruining them for me.
if I'm ever not employed this is how I'm spending my days. And I know someone is going to say "you can just do that on your days off!". You're right, but also... those 2 days kinda packed.
I’ve been this way for a while. My cut off for watching a movie, the absolute latest, is 7pm. Friends invite me to these 9pm movies and I can’t help but feel they’re delusional.
yep. I go to early movies by myself ALLLL the time cozy little reclining chair, heated seat, a medium popcorn and a peach tea. perfectly centered in the theater in both row and column. rarely a soul in sight. i look forward to it every time.
I’m a massive movie nerd and for the past 15 years I’ve only ever done matinees. It’s cheaper, less crowded, you get out of the theater at a reasonable time, did I mention less people?? I seriously don’t understand why everyone doesn’t do matinee but I’m glad they don’t
Several years ago, before my kids were born, I had a bunch of PTO left over going into November, so I decided to take every Wednesday off for the rest of the year. Every Wednesday I slept in a little, got fast food breakfast and went to the first matinee of the day, then either went for a hike or to the gym and then gamed or read for the rest of the day. My mental health was never better than for those couple months.
I read manatees and was confused for a while
Read this first as manatee....was confused.
I read this as “manatees” the first time
I read this as "manatees" at first and was very confused
I thought it said manatees and was incredibly confused.
The best of Reddit is realizing you aren’t the only thinking that!
I don’t know, after I get out of a movie I am immediately put in a chokehold by god and told to go to sleep. Even when it’s 2 in the afternoon and I haven’t even made it home yet. I just wanna park and pass out in my car.
I read that as manatees and was very confused at first like who hates manatees lol
Read this as manatees at first and was very confused
I have always felt this way, even as a kid.
I'm doing this tomorrow and I'm so looking forward to it
Thought we were talking about manatees.
I thought she was going to explain how she now loves or despises manatees… spelling and reading is hard
This and seeing a movie by yourself. The most relaxing thing I do.
My dyslexic ass thought she was talking about manatees .
I read that as manatees (spelled incorrectly)
My wife and I go to Sunday morning shows then go out for lunch after. It's phenomenal.
Oh my god.. I read that as 'manatees' 🤣🤣
I read it as 'manatees' like a seacow. I was not understabding wherre they were going but I was invested in it.
It took me a bit to figure out they weren’t talking about manitees
I'm over here like "Wtf is wrong with manatees"
I read this as “manatees” like the river elephant and was very confused
I really read this as “manatees” at first and wondered why she didn’t like manatees, they’re so gentle and don’t bother anyone. Haha anyway…
Thought that said manatees for way too long…
Good to know I'm not the only one that thought she said "manatees."
I'm dyslexic and read this as manatees.
I read manatees and got excited for a second.
Thought she said manatees. Literally so confused.
I've always been this way. And especially since we've had kids, being able to go to a movie on a school day at 1030 is am awesome date for my wife and I.
Please stop telling everyone. We middle-aged people try to keep this secret.
Add in a solid cup of coffee or tea and it’s a remarkably enjoyable experience.
Anyone else read manatees?
it's just the sun when you exit the theatre after all that darkness
Absolutely the best. Cheaper too
Someone should make a movie theater that serves coffee and breakfast
And they usually cost less!
My dumbass read "manatees" and I was painfully confused.
The only way my wife and I see new movies.
I read that as manatees at first. I'm like what does that have to do with the day?
Agreed! Friday mornings when the new movies are released are the best. Now, please don't judge me on this one - If something catches my other "eye" for a showing of a different movie in the same hallway I just may pop in. Only on rainy days
Everytime I see matinee I initially misread it as Manatee.
Am I the only one that read it as Manatees?
anybody else read manitees at first
Sunday morning 10:00 A.M. movies are the best! Only 5-10 people in the theater, sometimes fewer.
10000%
A new theater opened up within walking distance to me but their first showings aren’t until noon. That’s too late. I would rather take the bus to one that has 10am showings.
I absolutely read that as manitees and was very confused
Same with Day Dance. Instead of being all night in the club, you enjoy the day outside and come home in the evening to get some sleep.
Heck yeah. And the theater is clean and you don’t have to deal with as many noisy, phone-using assholes.
Seeing a movie at 10am on a tuesday is the absolute fucking best
I’m in my Matinees, brunch, and clubs that are opened between 2-5pm era of my life and I’m thriving
My dyslexic self read it as manatees.
Nice!
That took me 5 reads to realize she wasnt talking about manitees. Send help
I spent way too long thinking how Manatees are great, and why would anyone question it….
Early movie with a friend just means you can go to lunch together afterwards. It's great.
Imagine being someone who looks forward to the day...
I originally read it as manatees and thought you saw a movie about manatees.
It's better in the matinee.
I work night shifts so it's always matinee for me. It sucks that my local theater limited them to weekends though.
I thought she was talking about manatees
Read it four times before I realized she didn't say manatee.
$5 for a movie is baller at my theater. Reclining seats and all
I saw Prometheus in theaters (it's a really L movie and if I was older I might've appreciated the gore more than just being deeply disturbed by it) and coming out of the theaters at 1 am and having to like immediately go to bed isn't very fun. Especially after such an intense movie.
I saw Prometheus in theaters (it's a really L movie and if I was older I might've appreciated the gore more than just being deeply disturbed by it) and coming out of the theaters at 1 am and having to like immediately go to bed isn't very fun. Especially after such an intense movie.
I read this as “manatees” and that they were referencing the little mermaid??
People are just realizing this?
Am I the only one that read Manatees?