Arguing that you should be allowed to check your phone in a movie theater is like arguing that you should be allowed to shoot up in your cubicle. Like, there might be something other than logic and good sense driving your argument, I think.
― Love Theme From Oh God! You Devil (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 15:22 (six years ago) link
Hey u aint taking away my work heroin f u lunchie
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 15:27 (six years ago) link
xxp ugh, I went to a showing of Argento's "Deep Red" at the Cleveland Cinematheque a couple of weeks ago and the audience laughed at everything. Like, why did you come to this movie? You can sit at home and find all the LOL IT'S TEH SEVENTIES material you want on the internet.
― Millennial Whoop, wanna fight about it? (Phil D.), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 15:28 (six years ago) link
Can we talk about how LA movie nerd audiences fucking suck and laugh at everything in old movies like people using rotary phones or whatever?
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, May 2, 2018 8:20 AM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ugh the worst. whenever i saw a movie at Cinefamily that wasn't one of their "lol it's terrible" revivals, the crowd would still act like the film was a joke.
― omar little, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 15:29 (six years ago) link
Ew, that sounds like savagery.
― how's life, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 15:30 (six years ago) link
A serious, well-intentioned audience gradually working out the film they’re watching is both bad and unintentionally funny and cracking up can be a great experience but, yes, ‘old = rofl’ people are savages.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 15:36 (six years ago) link
"Lol @ this car chase, that car doesn't have nitro and the rims are factory"
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 15:45 (six years ago) link
kurt, as someone who has also moved from rock shows to cinema do you find film people better or worse than music people
― we æt so many shimripl (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 15:51 (six years ago) link
Yeah I hate that shit but I can tune it out better than the other breaches of etiquette/basic courtesy mentioned itt. Like it’s lame as fuck if your level of engagement with something can never get beyond “this isn’t from now” but at least those rubes come by that reaction honestly, you can’t really police that. Phone ppl should be executed obv
― type your stinkin prose off me, ur damned qwerty uiop (wins), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 15:54 (six years ago) link
The thing about Alamo that's odd to me is there's so much emphasis on avoiding distractions, but there are servers walking back and forth in front of you and people clanging utensils the whole time. For me, that's okay for some movies but those are also the movies where I'm not as bothered by other behaviors either.I do get annoyed at the over-laughing of some audiences but that's not really the kind of thing that falls under those types of policies nor should it imo.I also don't expect, or really want, the same audience at every movie/movie theater.
― MrDasher, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 16:36 (six years ago) link
Oh what, the Alamo is one of those cinemas that serve DINNER? Lollll wtf is this thread, burn all those places down
― type your stinkin prose off me, ur damned qwerty uiop (wins), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 16:43 (six years ago) link
no way, man, put me in a dark room, bring me food and don't talk to me for two hours
― we æt so many shimripl (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 16:45 (six years ago) link
Alamo Drafthouse is great, fuiud.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 16:45 (six years ago) link
”Dad’s on life support, better go see Ready Player One”― we æt so many shimripl (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, May 2, 2018 9:36 AM (twenty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
fuck
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 16:46 (six years ago) link
amazing work whiney
Hope nobody looks at their phone while I’m shovelling lasagne in the dark, also there’s a film playing I guess?
― type your stinkin prose off me, ur damned qwerty uiop (wins), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 16:47 (six years ago) link
“Garçon, another beer - also I believe someone is texting in the back”
― type your stinkin prose off me, ur damned qwerty uiop (wins), Wednesday, May 2, 2018 9:43 AM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i was extremely suspicious but alamo is a surprisingly tolerable experience. loved watching the apple there
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 16:48 (six years ago) link
Dinner & a movie doesn’t have to happen simultaneously, guys, you can last two hours without stuffing your faces
― type your stinkin prose off me, ur damned qwerty uiop (wins), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 16:49 (six years ago) link
i ate fries
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 16:50 (six years ago) link
how will i be able to hear this Hans Zimmer score with all the belching going on
― omar little, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 16:51 (six years ago) link
I deem this thread now good
― Millennial Whoop, wanna fight about it? (Phil D.), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 16:53 (six years ago) link
there's certainly ... precedent ... for eating food at the movies
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― we æt so many shimripl (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 16:57 (six years ago) link
wins doesn't realize that we don't all eat like psycho cookie monsters at every meal
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 16:58 (six years ago) link
I only see movies if the theater is also a ball pit.
― Love Theme From Oh God! You Devil (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 16:58 (six years ago) link
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― we æt so many shimripl (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 16:59 (six years ago) link
yeah like i said i've never been to an Alamo Drafthouse, or a Cinebistro or any theater that has servers coming back and forth during the movie, that seems totally alien to me. i've been a theater with those sofa-style seats only once, that was stupid.
re: laughing at old movies at shit that's not funny, OTMFM... I had a particularly bad experience the other night with this, three things: yes, so much laughter where it wasn't appropriate, some idiot took a picture of the screen with the flash on... TWICE... but worst of all the guy in front of me would go "WOOOOOOOOOW!!!" or "BEAAAAAAAUTIFUL!!!" or "AMAAAAAAAAZING" every time a cool shot would come up. it was a film noir from 1944, so he was practically cumming in his pants every time there was a shot of a hat floating in a puddle, or a tracking shot thru rooms, or a closeup of Ella Raines' leggings, to which he went "OOOOOH-LA-LAAAAA!" bad cinephile behavior, it exists
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 16:59 (six years ago) link
Alamo has a system, don't knock it til you try it
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 17:00 (six years ago) link
lmao flappy
― we æt so many shimripl (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 17:00 (six years ago) link
xxp "Take that man out and have him shot."
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― Millennial Whoop, wanna fight about it? (Phil D.), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 17:01 (six years ago) link
depends on the genre! metal dudes are always the nicest except the racist ones. shoegaze ppl are the roughest group of humans i've ever encountered. political punks still the worst.horror ppl are always sweet and full of love. old revival film dudes are the biggest jerks on the planet. basics that go see back 2 the future or something are always rough but they pay the bills so oh well.
ftr i do a lot of work for alamo and i think they have changed the way ppl see movies for the better. if you are complaining about the food or drinks or whatev you probably haven't been to an alamo. they are pretty strict about the manners thing, which is good 90% of the time. one time i got in trouble because i encouraged dancing during a 35mm (it was QT's print!) screening of Sign O The Times after Prince died.
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 17:07 (six years ago) link
is that... Orson Welles as a nazi
xp
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 17:07 (six years ago) link
idk everyone otm here except for Adam, Alamo is fine (and p much the only theatre besides the Castro that I go to nowadays)
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 17:09 (six years ago) link
"WOOOOOOOOOW!!!" or "BEAAAAAAAUTIFUL!!!" or "AMAAAAAAAAZING" ... "OOOOOH-LA-LAAAAA!"definitely into this
― chilis=lyrics...hypocrits (sic), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 17:11 (six years ago) link
There's this tic among **certain** movie people that I see as completely absent in the music scene, so it's really striking for me when I encounter it.
I call it "nachos"
Like if you bring a music guy some nachos, he might say something sarcastic or funny like, "'Bout time, thanks"
But if you bring a movie guy some nachos, he will say something like, "Oh ho, cheesy comestibles for my masticating pleasure!"
― we æt so many shimripl (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 17:12 (six years ago) link
When I made that comment this morning I was referring to people on their phone ie texting the kind of communication that most people use when on their phones in public for about 10 years now. Obviously if someone is holding a full conversation they will step into a lobby, to cut down on by noise if anything.
It is hilarious to see all these people that demand empathy from their leaders and fellow citizens yet in an everyday situation it’s just asking too much to move to another fucking seat
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 17:13 (six years ago) link
you go to movie theaters with extra seats? Alamo theaters seat like 30 people.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 17:14 (six years ago) link
damn dude let me know when the shuttle lands xp
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 17:16 (six years ago) link
oh yah Whiney otm re: nachos. music is a social thing. movies are a world of imagination and wonder you can explore all by your lonesome!
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 17:17 (six years ago) link
no empathy for people texting in movie theaters. ever. go outside
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 17:17 (six years ago) link
Lmao Adam everyone knew you meant texting, if you need to text (you don’t) leave the film you aren’t watching instead of expecting everyone else to move seats you psycho
― type your stinkin prose off me, ur damned qwerty uiop (wins), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 17:18 (six years ago) link
The only majorly irritating trend I've seen of late is the spontaneous La-Z-Boy-ification of theaters. There have been a couple instances in recent memory where a theater I used to casually go to suddenly has only fourteen assigned easy chairs (with the only available seats on the aisle, natch) and everyone naturally has to recline except the foot thing like actually blocks the entire aisle and so an entire aisle of people has to noisily retract their foot thing every time some kid has to take a squirt. Just yuck.
― Love Theme From Oh God! You Devil (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 17:18 (six years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, May 2, 2018 1:07 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol no, General Dreedle in "Catch-22"
― Millennial Whoop, wanna fight about it? (Phil D.), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 17:19 (six years ago) link
What if I really feel like jerking off? What if it takes my mind off my sick relative? A little empathy from my fellow patrons, if you please
― type your stinkin prose off me, ur damned qwerty uiop (wins), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 17:20 (six years ago) link
yeah the sofa style seats in theaters = dud
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 17:21 (six years ago) link
Ah, yes, the deep empathy expressed by "Can all of you please inconvenience yourselves in the middle of a movie to accommodate my rudeness? Thanks!"
― Millennial Whoop, wanna fight about it? (Phil D.), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 17:22 (six years ago) link
Not sure if this is specifically a Washington, DC thing (or just the shows that I attend), but both film and music events in this area seem to attract people who are more interested in meeting up with their friends than watching the show. A Fugazi reunion/70mm screening of 2001 could be happening but there'd be big portions of the audience more interested in talking to the people they came with.
Which do you find more disruptive: use of a cellphone/tablet during a screening, or audience members audibly snapping at someone for using a phone? I say the latter, and it's quite common at the National Gallery of Art screenings I attend.
― Polly of the Pre-Codes (j.lu), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 17:25 (six years ago) link
recliner seats in cinemas rule hard
― chilis=lyrics...hypocrits (sic), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 17:26 (six years ago) link
There's no need to audibly snap. Just throw popcorn.
― how's life, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 17:26 (six years ago) link
yah it aint like that out here. Shakey can vouch for the certain breed of SF TRUE CINEMA LOVER. i appreciate them. xxp
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 17:27 (six years ago) link
I'm on this live and let live crusade today
Enjoying having conversations with people whose opinions differ from mine pic.twitter.com/7o2ui1aBpn— Matt Prigge (@mattprigge) December 3, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 December 2019 03:24 (four years ago) link
I loled
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 5 December 2019 03:28 (four years ago) link
let's just watch Cop Land and rub one out
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Thursday, 5 December 2019 04:07 (four years ago) link
yessed out
― flappy bird, Thursday, 5 December 2019 04:42 (four years ago) link
I'm in a THEATER theater seeing a play and this dude next to me kept whipping his phone out to play with it towards the end of the first act.
I am now bitching about him on ILX at intermission.
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Sunday, 8 December 2019 02:20 (four years ago) link
That is not allowed
― flappy bird, Sunday, 8 December 2019 02:35 (four years ago) link
i can’t imagine being so boring that people wouldn’t welcome my commentary during movies
― treeship., Sunday, 8 December 2019 02:36 (four years ago) link
Fucking with phones during a play is some bullshit.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 8 December 2019 03:22 (four years ago) link
He also was practically in my seat as he was a 6'4 guy spread eagling
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Sunday, 8 December 2019 03:27 (four years ago) link
Was it broadway? Those guys will generally send ushers straight to them.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 8 December 2019 06:08 (four years ago) link
(Forgive me i am not flexing; I just realized I have no idea - or have forgotten? - where you live so this might well be Detroit for all i know)
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 8 December 2019 06:10 (four years ago) link
Orlando. yeah if it was NYC I could just basically point and the ushers would show up.
I just glared at him and he got the hint and stopped manspreading.
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Sunday, 8 December 2019 06:13 (four years ago) link
Whatdya see?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 8 December 2019 06:19 (four years ago) link
The Play That Goes Wrong, which coincidentally enough, I had also seen in NYC two years ago.
good weekend for mindless slapstick fun.
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Sunday, 8 December 2019 06:20 (four years ago) link
Cool, i am familiar with but have not seen.I am hitting Fefu and Her Friends this upcoming week, which features an act during which different portions of the audience will leave their seats to stand extensively at different acts. I don’t know if its possible everyone will have the fortitude to avoid slipping a quick pic for the gram tbh.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 8 December 2019 06:32 (four years ago) link
heh well this became a non-issue real fast
― muntjac wagner (Neanderthal), Monday, 24 August 2020 02:33 (three years ago) link
When theaters are back after the Greater Depression, it’s going to be worse. Everyone will demand the ability to stop a screening so they can go pee or check Instagram.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Monday, 24 August 2020 02:44 (three years ago) link
trenchant!
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Monday, 24 August 2020 03:18 (three years ago) link
I am hitting Fefu and Her Friends this upcoming week, which features an act during which different portions of the audience will leave their seats to stand extensively at different acts. I don’t know if its possible everyone will have the fortitude to avoid slipping a quick pic for the gram tbh.
Literally one of my last night's out in the before times was seeing a production of Fefu that was simplified to all the action happening in a big staging area with fixed seating for the audience.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 24 August 2020 03:37 (three years ago) link
it was a good show! much more mobile for the crowd which had to get in where they fit in at the various staging areas.i miss movies. i miss theater. i miss concerts. i miss restaurants. i miss museums. i miss public spaces.going to the met this Thursday for their first day open; hope i don't die.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 24 August 2020 03:48 (three years ago) link
I've been to a few movies since things reopened in MN. In one there were maybe two other people in the theater and one of them was talking on her phone for a few minutes in the middle of the movie, in another a couple talked and joked quietly several times during the film. On both occasions I got the sense that these people didn't think normal rules applied because there were so few people in the audience — despite having to actually follow a number of new rules (wearing masks, distancing, etc.).
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Monday, 24 August 2020 03:57 (three years ago) link
this thread always makes me cry laugh.
and also cry because due to the pandemic, Orlando never got its promised Alamo Drafthouse :(
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 06:31 (one year ago) link