Alamo Drafthouse and also politics of talking during the movies thread

[q]Oh yeah CTH's take on movie theaters is fucking stupid. I've never been to an Alamo Drafthouse but anyone that uses their phone in a movie theater should be kicked out.

― flappy bird, Monday, April 30, 2018 11:55 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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IIRC it was mostly Amber complaining about people who rat out loud audience members to theater employees. She referred to them as snitches or cops or something like that.

― JRN, Tuesday, May 1, 2018 7:54 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they think people should be able to text/use their phones in movie theaters

― flappy bird, Tuesday, May 1, 2018 9:11 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Amber otm. as annoying as that is, narcs suck

― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, May 1, 2018 9:15 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Nah fuck theater goers they deserve fascism

― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, May 1, 2018 9:47 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

we need narcs

― flappy bird, Tuesday, May 1, 2018 9:48 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

especially in movie theaters

― flappy bird, Tuesday, May 1, 2018 9:48 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The Alamo experience is what you’re paying for. If you don’t like it, go to one of the many other movie theaters housed in the mostly large towns they’re in.

― we æt so many shimripl (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, May 1, 2018 9:58 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh no, this theater is full of narcs, however will I see Infinity War in New York City?!

― we æt so many shimripl (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, May 1, 2018 9:59 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tbf Amber thinks everyone is a cop

― Simon H., Tuesday, May 1, 2018 10:48 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The Alamo experience is what you’re paying for. If you don’t like it, go to one of the many other movie theaters housed in the mostly large towns they’re in.

Yeah exactly I don’t get why they don’t just go to an AMC or something
― flappy bird, Tuesday, May 1, 2018 11:08 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I get the idea that big dumb shitty movies don't require absolute silence like you're watching The Passion of Joan of Arc but that's why you find an empty matinee (okay, not really an option in NY) or pirate that shit and watch it on Virgil's floor TV.

― louise ck (milo z), Tuesday, May 1, 2018 11:39 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The best moment I've had in a theater was from audience participation (a teenage girl stood up during the reveal of Orphan and yelled "Esther got titties!") but Matt complaining and farting would not be pleasant.

― louise ck (milo z), Tuesday, May 1, 2018 11:41 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

audience reaction/participation can be amazing

― flappy bird, Tuesday, May 1, 2018 11:57 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

but ime it's only been when the audience member/whole audience was completely focused on and in tune with the movie

― flappy bird, Tuesday, May 1, 2018 11:58 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

They're not the first ones to denounce complaints over cinema talking/texting as bourgie affectations - classic Hollywood audiences didn't sit in silence, neither do Bollywood audiences, etc. It's whatever, I still like to watch movies that way.

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

being loud/reacting to stuff on screen is fine, pulling out yr fuckin' cell phone in a dark theater is vile

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, May 2, 2018 5:54 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

we need narcs

― flappy bird, Tuesday, May 1, 2018 9:48 PM (yesterday) Bookmark

this explains a lot about your politics.

what if it's a couple out on a date with their kid at home w the babysitter and they want to periodically check on how things are going? what if it's somebody with a sick parent waiting to hear news from the hospital?

i guess fuck that, "Oh mr theater authority! They are cheating!"

you are in public ffs. if you want to watch movies in a hermetically isolated chamber you can do that.

― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, May 2, 2018 6:54 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

how about maybe a new thread for this topic

― Simon H., Wednesday, May 2, 2018 7:58 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, I would post in it a lot

― we æt so many shimripl (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, May 2, 2018 9:34 AM (twenty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

okay, maybe not a new thread for this topic then

― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, May 2, 2018 9:35 AM (twenty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what if it's somebody with a sick parent waiting to hear news from the hospital?

”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

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.

There's a story on the latest This American Life about the class of kids who got kicked out of a screening of Schindler's List and became the media's face of black antisemetism

― President Keyes, Wednesday, May 2, 2018 10:01 AM (thirty-nine seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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nooooo

what if it's a couple out on a date with their kid at home w the babysitter and they want to periodically check on how things are going? what if it's somebody with a sick parent waiting to hear news from the hospital?

i guess fuck that, "Oh mr theater authority! They are cheating!"

you are in public ffs. if you want to watch movies in a hermetically isolated chamber you can do that.

― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, May 2, 2018 6:54 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Movie theaters have these things called "lobbies" now and they are AMAZING. Oh, and "rest . . . rooms?" Am I saying that right?

Also, making a little phone tent by sticking your head down your shirt.

Anyone's shirt, really.

everyone i've ever seen use their phone in a cinema seems unaware that you can turn down the screen brightness to a level lower than 'bank of floodlights'

There should be a button on the armrest of every theater seat that allows you to disintegrate anyone who's on their phone during the feature presentation. IMO.

”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

lmao

honestly sometimes i wonder if i'll ever go to a theater again, it sucks mostly

can't say i blame you - at least when i go to the cinema here in these united kingdoms i'm less likely to be killed by a mass shooter

movie theaters coming up fast on baseball stadiums in "accommodating people who really don't want to be there"

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C44-QZtWAAE25T5.jpg:large

gangs of teenagers shouting and acting the cunt are far worse than people looking at their mobile ime

what if it's a couple out on a date with their kid at home w the babysitter and they want to periodically check on how things are going? what if it's somebody with a sick parent waiting to hear news from the hospital?

yeah it's like the 80-odd years of cinemas before the mobile phone existed when all those people died

Adam's take ITT so bizarre. Like anytime i was that worried about the outside world I would just walk into the hallway and pop out my phone there. Or set it to vibrate and go out and check it.

Also p much everybody near me who has pulled out their phone recently (like Avengers) was not checking on their sick relative or their child. One of the dudes was just playing on FB, another texting a friend. It's distracting af.

Otoh removing someone for "laughing too loud" is bullshit.

I mean in like 1993 yr whole family could be eaten by a bear whike u were at Jurassic Park and you wouldn't know til u got home.

Lol NV otm

I mean in like 1993 yr whole family could be eaten by a bear whike u were at Jurassic Park

god i wish

Unless you are a doctor, there's probably nothing in your life too important that you can't responsibly check out for two hours and watch a movie

It's mostly concern trolling from people so addicted to Snapchatting that they go thru withdrawal

if yr kids are so important that you're a paranoid basket case, deepsix the movies and stop annoying those of us with small carbon footprints.

TBF, I have seen my share of movies in Chicago theaters and have never really encountered many of the stereotypical issues with theater patrons. The most raucous crowd I've encountered was a gaggle of seniors at an afternoon showing of the last Bourne flick. Lots of bellowed 'what did he just say?' and the like. It was more amusing than irritating, like watching a movie at a retirement community.

My aunt died while I was at the movies once. Weirdly me having my cell phone off isn't what killed her

Anyway, I love the Alamo, I am TOP BRASS

Love it when people pull out the “ugh cinemas shouldn’t be rarefied spaces, its supposed to be a SOCIAL activity, that’s why it’s great to be as antisocial as possible while other people are trying to enjoy it”

I go to the movies to be alone

This one lady came into A Quiet Place barking at her b/f about how they were late and couldn't see in the dsrk at a really loud volume. A few people shouted "shut up" and she responded "i don't care!", so someone else said "well get out then" and they both left and didn't return.

Must have been worried about their dying uncle obv

So much sense itt, thank you Whiney

What the hell is wrong with you, Adam? Jfc.

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?

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.

Hey u aint taking away my work heroin f u lunchie

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.

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.

Ew, that sounds like savagery.

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.

"Lol @ this car chase, that car doesn't have nitro and the rims are factory"

kurt, as someone who has also moved from rock shows to cinema do you find film people better or worse than music people

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

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.

Oh what, the Alamo is one of those cinemas that serve DINNER? Lollll wtf is this thread, burn all those places down

no way, man, put me in a dark room, bring me food and don't talk to me for two hours

Alamo Drafthouse is great, fuiud.

”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

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?

“Garçon, another beer - also I believe someone is texting in the back”

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, 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

Dinner & a movie doesn’t have to happen simultaneously, guys, you can last two hours without stuffing your faces

i ate fries

how will i be able to hear this Hans Zimmer score with all the belching going on

I deem this thread now good

luckily i spend most of my at-the-movies time at art/semi-art theaters where the expectations are more clearly understood.

like i was saying way upthread -- movies at places like museums -- where they might allow you to bring water in, but that's about it -- there is an atmosphere of seriousness as opposed to comfort and entertainment -- yeah, this awful behavior you complain about. I find it obnoxious in this context.

if my uncle was eaten by a lion while I was watching Wayne's World in the 90s, I had to wait until I got home to find out. and there's little I could have done about it unless the lion and my uncle were across the street from the theater.

wow i really missed the "if" at the beginning of this sentence

I think maybe you would enjoy a McDonald's Playland more, they have an exhaustive list of everything you aren't allowed to do in them posted at the entrance.

― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, December 3, 2019 3:10 PM (one minute ago)

uh, was that directed at me?

anyway, I didn't get kicked out of Alamo Drafthouse. It was my friend's birthday, and it would've been awkward.

lol omar

ftr nobody I know has been eaten

anyway, I'm on this live and let live crusade today because it's the 3rd anniversary of me finding out that a bunch of people I knew died in a fire, so I am probably too focused on "don't be petty about stuff like talking during movies because ... death" when in reality, this petty stuff is actually important to some people and greatly improves their quality of life.

I typically go to the movies several times a month. I can't recall ever being significantly distracted by people talking or using their phones. Seeing people say that they're aggravated by other people in the audience practically every time they go to the movies is wild to me.

So you didn't read the thread then?

Nope. I skipped to the bottom and wrote that post just to irritate you personally.

Good talk

Who’s gonna be the first to post to this thread from a movie theater? (Apologies if this bad joke has already been made)

the world is a movie theater

Set to drai-ai-ain

A quick shout out to the elderly fellow at the movie I was seeing that would turn on his lighter at random intervals during the film. Frustrating and yet charmed.

did you discern a skunk-like odor when he would do this

Eating loudly is more annoying at a theater than talking - I've had a few wonderful moments of people talking to the screen or overhearing people gossiping, I have never enjoyed the sound of someone eating loudly.

Texting with a bright-ass screen is worse than both.

last week i had two older people a couple of seats away from me. the first one kept checking her phone (very annoying), they talked a few times until they were shushed repeatedly and then the second one fell asleep and started snoring. i've had that happen a few times including one where the guy in front of me was snoring extremely loud so i had to constantly wake him up. i felt like a dick but also felt like by the second time i woke him up dude should have got the message and left

For whatever reason I witnessed the worst audience behavior at a spaghetti western festival at the Film Forum, where normally the self-policing audience will immediately shut down the slightest misbehavior. One guy not only snored loudly but every five minutes or so would wake up with a bone-chilling gasp, startling himself so much he would kick the seat in front of him with a loud smack. Another guy opened up a plate of reeking Chinese takeout mid-film. Also there was a general testiness in the crowd, with people nearly coming to blows over seating issues etc. It was if they had bused in the audience from some facility where the residents aren't normally released to do things in public.

This thread conta

I found out Lemmy died in during the intermission of Hateful Eight :(

Who’s gonna be the first to post to this thread from a movie theater? (Apologies if this bad joke has already been made)

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I have done this (before the lights went down)

Read this upthread and couldn't believe I hadn't heard it before—that Lemmy went to see The Hateful Eight and died right in the middle of it.

and it was *murder* too

Killed by all that hammy overacting.

The snoring, loud conversations, and visible phones didn't exactly help though...

Who’s gonna be the first to post to this thread from a movie theater? (Apologies if this bad joke has already been made)

hello, ignoring a trailer “from the director of Skyfall” rn

Seeing people say that they're aggravated by other people in the audience practically every time they go to the movies is wild to me.

NYC has way more assholes per capita, esp since the Sex and the City and Girls watchers moved in 8 to an apartment.

and started doing my old jobs for minimum wage

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

I loled

let's just watch Cop Land and rub one out

yessed out

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.

That is not allowed

i can’t imagine being so boring that people wouldn’t welcome my commentary during movies

Fucking with phones during a play is some bullshit.

He also was practically in my seat as he was a 6'4 guy spread eagling

Was it broadway? Those guys will generally send ushers straight to them.

(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)

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.

Whatdya see?

The Play That Goes Wrong, which coincidentally enough, I had also seen in NYC two years ago.

good weekend for mindless slapstick fun.

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.

heh well this became a non-issue real fast

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.

trenchant!

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.

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.

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.).

this thread always makes me cry laugh.

and also cry because due to the pandemic, Orlando never got its promised Alamo Drafthouse :(