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
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
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
ya ya i deserved it but man that movies lasts all day
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 3 May 2018 18:28 (six years ago) link
true, only time i've seen Barry Lyndon was after i got my wisdom teeth pulled & had a bunch of vicodin, i remember thinking "this is the only situation i'm ever going to watch this." it was ok
― flappy bird, Thursday, 3 May 2018 18:29 (six years ago) link
xxxp I go to a lot of tentpole movies at the Cinemark nearby and audiences are actually pretty good. Applause and cheers at appropriate "hero" moments, but not a lot of extraneous yammer, phone use, etc. Or if there is, they're sitting way behind me.
― Millennial Whoop, wanna fight about it? (Phil D.), Thursday, 3 May 2018 18:33 (six years ago) link
185 minutes of top Kubrick is not "all day" esp vs 160 minutes of The Avengers
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 May 2018 18:35 (six years ago) link
damn when you put it that way
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 3 May 2018 18:35 (six years ago) link
Barry Lyndon is hilarious and I felt awkward being with people who wondered why I was cracking up one time
― mh, Thursday, 3 May 2018 18:37 (six years ago) link
I tried to read the Thackeray book once, and it's even more flat-out satire
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 May 2018 18:38 (six years ago) link
Nothing in The Avengers is as shocking as Leon Vitali's face.
― Millennial Whoop, wanna fight about it? (Phil D.), Thursday, 3 May 2018 18:45 (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, May 3, 2018 1:02 PM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Picturing these people and fans of "Family Guy" as two Venn circles on top of each other.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Thursday, 3 May 2018 18:46 (six years ago) link
― mh, 3. maj 2018 20:37 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yeah, hilarity in art films is the best. There's that Kierkegaard joke in Ordet which always kills, especially because nobody thinks there will be jokes in a Dreyer-film. It's also one of the great things about Corneliu Poumboiu's new Infinite Football. I've seen it twice, and both times there's a nervous laughter that gets louder and louder as people realize this weird Romanian documentary is actually meant to be funny.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 3 May 2018 19:54 (six years ago) link
I found a sequence in one of the last Manoel de Oliveira movies completely, laugh-out-loud hilarious, but it must have been unintentional cause I was the only person in the theater cracking up, I felt like an asshole but I couldn't help it!
― Simon H., Thursday, 3 May 2018 19:57 (six years ago) link
de Oliveira was funnier than he gets credit for. 'Os Canibais' is one of the great surreal art-commedies.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 3 May 2018 20:38 (six years ago) link
i saw barry lyndon near-fatally hungover on new year’s day a few years ago. even then it wasn’t that long
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 3 May 2018 20:46 (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_so you just totally made up an imaginary version of what going to one of these theaters is like or
― type your stinkin prose off me, ur damned qwerty uiop (wins), Thursday, 3 May 2018 21:01 (six years ago) link
It's been a while since I went to an Alamo (who you should probably be boycotting anyway - latest, http://www.kxan.com/news/crime/woman-watching-infinity-war-at-alamo-drafthouse-groped-by-man/1151976123) but the movie grills near me definitely serve fork and knife food.
― louise ck (milo z), Thursday, 3 May 2018 21:53 (six years ago) link
I used to read a book and watch television at the same time as a kid, don't even get me started on my ability to pay attention!
― mh, Thursday, 3 May 2018 21:58 (six years ago) link
― Chris L, Thursday, May 3, 2018 1:03 PM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
It might be just the shows I go to. I won't forget any time soon the NGA screening of The Crusades (1935), during which the audience howled at every time DeMille showed Richard the Lionhearted as heterosexual. (And I was probably howling along with them.)
And then there was the Losey centennial at the NGA. A retired reviewer was giving an insightful overview of the man's career, when someone in the audience yelled at him to shut up so that the movie could play.
― Polly of the Pre-Codes (j.lu), Thursday, 3 May 2018 22:24 (six years ago) link
really? boycott them? seems like they handled that situation to the best of their abilities?
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 3 May 2018 22:33 (six years ago) link
“who you should probably be boycotting anyway” that’s a real loaded ass parenthetical
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 3 May 2018 22:37 (six years ago) link
Not calling the cops on a guy who groped a woman, telling her to enjoy the rest of the movie after getting groped and then doing nothing more than warning her to not go outside because the groper is still there does not equal "handling the situation" IMO.
It's hardly an isolated issue with Alamo:https://splinternews.com/alamo-drafthouses-long-history-of-minimizing-sexual-ass-1822816916
― louise ck (milo z), Thursday, 3 May 2018 22:39 (six years ago) link