Alamo Drafthouse and also politics of talking during the movies thread

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.

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.

9,000 is greater than six

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

But surely they are the only places you can eat food, drink alcohol or check text messages. In the dark.

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

and yes i need more than one makers on the rocks to sit through something exhausting like infinity wars

I'm cool with filling up a Sprite bottle with vodka and eating popcorn off the floor

But surely they are the only places you can eat food, drink alcohol or check text messages. In the dark.

― President Keyes, Thursday, May 3, 2018 11:39 AM (twenty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a.k.a. life

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.

AFI Silver is one of the things I miss about not living in the DC area anymore.

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, 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

americans never eat with a knife and fork, c'mon

so you just totally made up an imaginary version of what going to one of these theaters is like or

wins posts ITT, in a nutshell

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True, pretty much every Alamo visit for me involves wings, pizza, or a sandwich.

Amber’s insistence that the food at Alamo is bad sends me into paryoxsms of self-doubt

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it's good actually imo

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.

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

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.

yes, often some of that

but y'know, a packed MARVEL audience must be a whole different species

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.

i mean damn dude that is a pretty punishing move to pull tho... egg salad?

ya ya i deserved it but man that movies lasts all day

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

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.

185 minutes of top Kubrick is not "all day" esp vs 160 minutes of The Avengers

damn when you put it that way

Barry Lyndon is hilarious and I felt awkward being with people who wondered why I was cracking up one time

I tried to read the Thackeray book once, and it's even more flat-out satire

Nothing in The Avengers is as shocking as Leon Vitali's face.

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.

Barry Lyndon is hilarious and I felt awkward being with people who wondered why I was cracking up one time

― 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.

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!

de Oliveira was funnier than he gets credit for. 'Os Canibais' is one of the great surreal art-commedies.

i saw barry lyndon near-fatally hungover on new year’s day a few years ago. even then it wasn’t that long

_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

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.

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!

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, 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.

really? boycott them? seems like they handled that situation to the best of their abilities?

“who you should probably be boycotting anyway” that’s a real loaded ass parenthetical

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

They're also the people who employed Harry Knowles

lol @ shortened url

wait did harry knowles get in trouble for something

sexual assault

welp

yah i thought if you were calling for a boycott it would be over the devin faraci stuff! that dude is a fucking idiot and so is tim for keeping him around.

My buddy won’t watch the whole of Barry Lyndon without putting laundry or tasks on in the background. He finds it boring. Needless to say he’s not my buddy anymore