and the kid behind me explaining to his friend the plot as he understood it (he was 100%) except for a couple bits, resulting in the question: "should I have watched the series?"
:D
― mh, Thursday, 3 May 2018 01:18 (six years ago) link
once i got too drunk before a showing of Withnail and got loudly told to shut up by a lady cos i kept reciting all the funny lines :/ it’s Withnail it’s like Python everyone does it dammit
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 3 May 2018 02:36 (six years ago) link
Lynch films might be the only thing I'd forgive an audience for laughing at inappropriately. He treads such a fine tonal line and practically challenges the viewer to not laugh when, say, something absurd yet horrifying is taking place onscreen.
― Love Theme From Oh God! You Devil (Old Lunch), Thursday, 3 May 2018 02:55 (six years ago) link
TIL that Trayce is a monster :/
The biggest Rep cinema in London does a lot of quote-along / sing-along / some The Room thing that sounds like he’ll on earth.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 3 May 2018 06:37 (six years ago) link
lol i deserved that
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 3 May 2018 09:08 (six years ago) link
I saw the Beastie Boys’ mid-00s concert movie and a woman snuck in partway through to ask me and everyone in the audience individually for money. There were only 5 of us though so it didn’t take long.
― Chris L, Thursday, 3 May 2018 09:33 (six years ago) link
I don't mind ppl eating during movies, usually it's not much of a noise issue, but if we're gonna go True Cinephile they're also definitley cheating themselves out of a good experience because their attention's gonna be divided. As illustrated by that Michael Jackson gif - popcorn one of the few foods where you keep your attention on the screen and if it drops it's no biggie.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 3 May 2018 10:14 (six years ago) link
I watched Mulholland Drive in a big tent at a festival and the smell of marihuana was everywhere and the whole crowd was just majorly confused. Then during the sexscene, all of a sudden there was the blink of a camera flash, and everyone started laughing and taking pictures and got really into the second part of the film.
Another good one was going to Wim Wenders Kings of the Road at the Cinemateque, and there were these three old ladies behind me who had a really good talk going before the film, and then when the lights dimmed, and then while the credits rolled, and then one said 'oh, we better be quiet now', and then they were quiet for a beat, and then another went 'wait, I don't remember this being in black and white?' You probably have to have seen Kings of the Road to fully get how hilarious it was for me to sit in front of them and think that they were watching all three hours of this after going to the wrong film. But in the end they seemed pretty appreciative of the experience. Old ladies are by far the most underrated movie audience.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 3 May 2018 10:26 (six years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell, 3. maj 2018 08:37 (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I don't know, I snuck into a Sound of Music sing-along for a bit, and it seemed pretty awesome.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 3 May 2018 10:27 (six years ago) link
The woman w/ aspergers who got thrown out of a BFI screening of "The Good, The Bad & The Ugly" for laughing too loudly at comedic moments was a real bummer tho, fuck the narcs in that case.― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, May 2, 2018 5:32 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, May 2, 2018 5:32 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Just catching up so apols if this has already been said. I'll have a skim of this thread later.
At the BFI (and this goes right back to NFT days) there is a culture of silent respect given to a film - like this was the only way ever to engage with something coming out of the screen, which then goes into certain ways to act when you are at a cinema - and onto ways of policing behaviour and to exercise control over another person's actions. Certainly a lot of the older crowd come over aggressive if you are eating or using a mobile before a film. There is this weird cranky impatience that has never been challenged because its too low-level - but by not challenging it is enabled - and then it spills over. That's the background to that story. And what happens in a perhaps dying artform.
As someone who has gone to almost every damn cinema in this town I would say its specific to the BFI though.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 3 May 2018 10:32 (six years ago) link
Daniel otm it’s insane to me to be strict about distractions & pretend a film has your undivided attention when you’re eating a full meal with a knife & fork, using this checkpad system to order more stuff (how much food do these people need over the course of a film btw?) etc. Just seems like the worst of both worlds to me, as an experience. I’m happy to keep these two activities separate as god intended
― type your stinkin prose off me, ur damned qwerty uiop (wins), Thursday, 3 May 2018 12:11 (six years ago) link
i don't even like eating at home if i'm trying to watch a movie tbh
― the vomming of the snark (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 3 May 2018 12:23 (six years ago) link
"it’s Withnail it’s like Python everyone does it dammit"
no, this is why watching Python with people is painful
― akm, Thursday, 3 May 2018 12:57 (six years ago) link
The biggest problem with this tendency is that people think they're more entertaining than what's happening on the screen and they're almost always wrong.
― Love Theme From Oh God! You Devil (Old Lunch), Thursday, 3 May 2018 13:02 (six years ago) link
https://m.imgur.com/nLSLnYf
― we æt so many shimripl (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 3 May 2018 13:44 (six years ago) link
i think you can strike the almost there OL
― hepatitis groan (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 3 May 2018 13:48 (six years ago) link
altho whichever ILX thread contains the story about the guy letting off an airhorn when the first kill happened in Rambo still makes me lol
― hepatitis groan (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 3 May 2018 13:54 (six years ago) link
Flix generally encourages people to get there early and I've finished my food by the time the trailers are over 90% of the time
the only thing I've ordered mid-movie is more beer. because beer.
― mh, Thursday, 3 May 2018 13:55 (six years ago) link
― hepatitis groan (Noodle Vague), Thursday, May 3, 2018 8:54 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
oh man, I've gotta find this
i'm going to go against my own firmly-held beliefs here and say that it's actually fine to make noise in the cinema if the noise you're making is an airhorn synced to an onscreen murder
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 3 May 2018 14:16 (six years ago) link
you know what would be cool to have? an air horn.-- s1ocki, Sunday, February 10, 2008 2:57 AMwhen i went to see rambo the other day some dude let off an air horn at the first kill. he was promptly escorted out. it was fucking awesome.-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 10 February 2008 15:17 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link
-- s1ocki, Sunday, February 10, 2008 2:57 AM
when i went to see rambo the other day some dude let off an air horn at the first kill. he was promptly escorted out. it was fucking awesome.
-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 10 February 2008 15:17 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link
― hepatitis groan (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 3 May 2018 14:22 (six years ago) link
lol
― we æt so many shimripl (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 3 May 2018 14:27 (six years ago) link
One of my friends does this thing where he laughs to let you know that he appreciates the non-funny but, y'know, smart choices the film-makers made throughout the movie. It is not enjoyable.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 3 May 2018 15:23 (six years ago) link
smug knowing chuckles make me want to strangle
― akm, Thursday, 3 May 2018 15:24 (six years ago) link
Who are all these voluntary laughers
― valorous wokelord (silby), Thursday, 3 May 2018 15:28 (six years ago) link
I saw a festival screening of Bela Tarr's The Turin House where someone kept knowingly chuckling at all the grueling aesthetic choices. Others kept murmuring in discomfort until some guy blurted out "you don't have to stay, guys" toward the end.
― Chris L, Thursday, 3 May 2018 15:29 (six years ago) link
Uncomfortable laughter is fine. Self-congratulatory laughter is not, which is why I will not see any more Sirk melodramas (or Johnny Guitar) with a NYC theater audience.
There's a guy I've heard in theaters lately -- he was at Rudolph's Breakfast of Champions the other night -- who generally laughs at the right stuff but it's the most annoying HAW HAW sound.
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 May 2018 16:20 (six years ago) link
if im in a good mood & it feels appropriate in the air ill loudly WHOOP! whenever a character says the title of the movie. I’ve done this >6 times total so I don’t feel like a punisher.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 3 May 2018 16:23 (six years ago) link
I am generally totally silent during movies, with two recent exceptions. When I saw A Quiet Place, I did chuckle the 15th or whatever time somebody put their finger to their mouth and made a shush face. And then when I saw Avengers, my daughter and I were killing time outside the theater, and I told her it would be really funny to just walk around pretending to have an animated conversation and giving out out fake spoilers, like about the time one of the heroes turns into a giant spider, so that if anybody heard me they'd go into the movie waiting for someone to turn into a spider and then it would never happen. And then, to our surprise, one of the characters does turn into a spider! I wasn't really paying attention, but she looked at me wide-eyed and said, how did you know, and I started laughing. And I may have yelled Spider!, out of sheer joy, the way Roger Ebert would yell fruit cart! every time somebody crashed into a fruit cart during a chase. And yes, I can tell you with first-hand experience he often really did do that.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 3 May 2018 16:27 (six years ago) link
9,000 is greater than six
― chilis=lyrics...hypocrits (sic), Thursday, 3 May 2018 16:29 (six years ago) link
this thread is really great in that it's letting me realize how much i hate going to the theater and since it's a voluntary leisure activity, i don't actually have to ever do it again
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 3 May 2018 16:35 (six years ago) link
But surely they are the only places you can eat food, drink alcohol or check text messages. In the dark.
― President Keyes, Thursday, 3 May 2018 16:39 (six years ago) link
so you just totally made up an imaginary version of what going to one of these theaters is like or
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 3 May 2018 16:54 (six years ago) link
and yes i need more than one makers on the rocks to sit through something exhausting like infinity wars
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 3 May 2018 16:55 (six years ago) link
I'm cool with filling up a Sprite bottle with vodka and eating popcorn off the floor
― President Keyes, Thursday, 3 May 2018 17:00 (six years ago) link
― President Keyes, Thursday, May 3, 2018 11:39 AM (twenty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
a.k.a. life
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 3 May 2018 17:01 (six years ago) link
I've been going there for years and I don't think I've ever had a negative audience experience w/ the repertory fare at the AFI Silver in Silver Spring, MD. No one laughed inappropriately during Women in Love the other day, which I'd think would be a pretty big test.
― Chris L, Thursday, 3 May 2018 17:03 (six years ago) link
AFI Silver is one of the things I miss about not living in the DC area anymore.
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, May 3, 2018 12:20 PM (forty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Is it this guy?
http://media.chick.com/tractimages67491/1010/1010_13.gif
― Millennial Whoop, wanna fight about it? (Phil D.), Thursday, 3 May 2018 17:12 (six years ago) link
americans never eat with a knife and fork, c'mon
― mh, Thursday, 3 May 2018 17:15 (six years ago) link
wins posts ITT, in a nutshell
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 3 May 2018 17:17 (six years ago) link
xp
True, pretty much every Alamo visit for me involves wings, pizza, or a sandwich.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 3 May 2018 17:18 (six years ago) link
Amber’s insistence that the food at Alamo is bad sends me into paryoxsms of self-doubt
― we æt so many shimripl (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 3 May 2018 17:42 (six years ago) link
puppy.jpg
― we æt so many shimripl (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 3 May 2018 17:44 (six years ago) link
it's good actually imo
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 3 May 2018 17:46 (six years ago) link
shit man if you want bad theater food check out The Kabuki here in SF it's way more expensive than Alamo and has like Cicis Pizza level quality.
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 3 May 2018 17:52 (six years ago) link
it helps if you go to art films that hardly anyone goes to (me)
however, if there is one savage making noise i will be near them
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 May 2018 18:16 (six years ago) link
well no morbs, even there you are not safe, because there is the arguably worse cinephile movie theater punisher which i'm sure you've experienced as well: not only people taking pictures of the screen with the flash on (??), but old men very loudly going "WOOWWWWWW" or "AMAAAAAZING" or "BEAAAAAAUTIFUL" at every other cool shot in the movie. and yes people laughing at shit that's not funny in old movies, like rotary phones and facial expressions.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 3 May 2018 18:19 (six years ago) link
yes, often some of that
but y'know, a packed MARVEL audience must be a whole different species
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 May 2018 18:21 (six years ago) link
One time I was watching Barry Lyndon at like 11 am - during the intermission I got an egg salad sando at the bodega across the st and came back and proceeded to open it during act 2 and these 2 cinefile old men SCREAMED AT ME. It ruled.
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 3 May 2018 18:22 (six years ago) link
i mean damn dude that is a pretty punishing move to pull tho... egg salad?
― flappy bird, Thursday, 3 May 2018 18:27 (six years ago) link