Alamo Drafthouse and also politics of talking during the movies thread

I have been to the Alamo Drafthouse and am not sure how well it worked for me and there are movies I would probably not want to watch there.

if it was 2018 when those dudes were doing that they probably would have started doing video chat and showing the screen

then I could call the feds

Recliner seats + food + booze needs to happen. I want to recline and just spill shit everywhere while watching.

a guy i knew who worked at the alamo-like cinema in salt lake warned us to not sit in the sofas at the back because people would be stuffing chicken wings and the like down between the cushions.

Gross

sounds like the behavior you'd get from the dude they canned from their publication

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCjobAeMBos

cut to a minute in for the important movie etiquette

Oh, ha ha, very funny, guys. Okay, sure, the cracks between theater seats aren't for dispensing food garbage, whatever you say. Next thing I know you're gonna try to tell me those big garbage cans aren't for peeing into so you don't miss any of the movie.

If you don't know by now to bring a portable plastic urinal to your seat, I don't know what to tell you.

At Avengers during every big development of the last half hour this dude kept LOUDLY saying "whaaaaaat?" or "I'm lost" for the last 10 minutes. Trying to crowdsource his confusion.

Peeing etiquette - i always try to sit on the end so that i don't have to step over people to take a leak mid-movie (and I always have to).

I don't expect others to do this or care if people have to get by mid movie tho, i do it cos im clumsy and dont want to step on someones feet

informal poll but would third act pee break intermissions be welcome?

I'd support if a majority needed it but I don't myself (the only movie during which I can recall having to absolutely go immediately because I was going to have an accident otherwise was Revenge of the Sith and, well, no big loss there).

people who are 'disruptive' in movie theaters probably also signal before looking when they drive

their signal that they're changing lanes or turning is when they start drifting into you imo

Seriously. They're too busy texting to use a turn signal.

signalling before you look is fine. changing lanes before you signal is not.

uh oh here we go

i guess i just wonder if the early signal people expect me to brake or if they even see me or if they even care... mind reading should be kept at a minimum when driving, imo

that's all im gonna say about that

good:
glance -> signal -> look -> change lanes
decent:
glance -> no spot available -> signal -> wait and merge
acceptable:
signal -> look -> change when you can
terrible:
anything else

if you're driving in wall-to-wall traffic all the time, signaling first makes sense because taking a peek first is futile because you're going to have to wait

but yeah, if there are two cars on the road and the guy directly to my side signals they're going to merge into my lane, why did they not just slow down/speed up first

c'mon

Which requires more mind reading, early signalling or no signalling?

that is one for the ages

it reminds me of being in a theater with assigned seats over the weekend

a guy and his son sat near me and were saying something about seat numbers, and I was thinking.. great, they're going to try to sit in the wrong seats and then confuse everyone when someone else shows up

but no, they were debating whether to sit in the *worse* seats instead of the ones they actually bought?

I love the ones who plop their food or purse on the seat next to theirs qnd act aggrieved when i show up and say "excuse me, this mah seat"

if you're driving in wall-to-wall traffic all the time, signaling first makes sense because taking a peek first is futile because you're going to have to wait

― mh, Wednesday, May 2, 2018 1:48 PM (nineteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah obv when traffic is heavy it's just pure madness out there and you gotta do what you gotta do

suspect traffic vs no traffic is the root of many ILX driving disputes

alright i'm done

LA movie nerd audiences fucking suck and laugh at everything in old movies

been going on in NYC for 30+ years

that happens here on occasion, but it really depends on the audience

the kids laughing at Blue Velvet sucked, though

there was a 70ish woman yukking at Dietrich's last lines in TOUCH OF EVIL last week in Brooklyn

i once watched keaton's the general sitting next to an old dude who kept loudly scoffing "oh PLEASE!" every time anything remotely funny happened.

so I've been to Alamo in SF three times and have noticed none of this behavior there to the degree I witness it at most other theaters. So I don't really get the premise of this thread. is the SF alamo an outlier or did I just get lucky?

i mean I saw Avengers last night at an AMC cineplex and the annoying things were beyond count; the 40 minutes of commercials before hand; everyone on their phones; phones lit up and texting in th emiddle of the movie; people in front of me talking; blah blah.

I think the premise is that Alamo is lot more strict about this stuff, to which a lot of posters wondered what about all the noisy chewers and people who spill their food all over themselves?

I wasn’t big on theatre food until my buddy introduced me to flavacol on popcorn - damn

i saw johnny guitar at momi and the crowd was full of teenaged (?) stoners who laughed at EVERYTHING that happened, it was infuriating

i mean, the movie’s quality overpowered it but

talking during the movie is evil except for when i saw blade runner 2049 right before it disappeared from theaters and at the end when ryan gosling sat on the snowy steps this woman said “HIS TUSH IS GONNA GET COLD”

(or not really evil, communal experiences as outlined upthread are great, actively disruptive shit is bad)

Movies from the black and white days are hilarious. Hey, guys, did you ever hear of a little thing called color? What a bunch of nerds.

tush in the rain

lol

hey haha that sf alamo is great right haha come check out your pal chaki host TERRORVISION there on 5/15 plug plug

The worst crowd I've ever seen in a theater was for A Life Aquatic on the night it released, people would just start losing their shit laughing at every shot whether it was a joke or not including the title coming up on screen.

I've never been able to give the movie a fair chance because of that crowd.

I felt bad for my friends at Blue Velvet because I will do a little awkward laugh sometimes if I feel uneasy and the people behind us laughing at genuinely unsettling bits made me feel uneasy so I let out a couple half-stifled "hah"s

the absolute worst, though, is when people are watching an actual good movie and they laugh at unfunny stuff AND completely fail to get stuff that's genuinely funny

Laughing is fine, imo, lotsa stuff is funny.

If your phone rings, you’re a monster you need to be taught how to silence your phone.

I can’t despise anyone for looking at their phone briefly during a movie but I think it’s regrettable.

I watched The Virgin Suicides at home with friends last night and I said “Jesus Christ” a lot

giggling at Isabella Rossellini incredibly traumatized and nude at a young man's doorstep is a little bit much

I haven't watched TVS for a very long time because I walked into my living room to witness a particularly half-assed suicide attempt going on, with my copy of that movie in the dvd player as a grand dramatic gesture, a lifetime ago