Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

i enjoyed Beyond the Filter and the discussion of the internet of yore (tho it sounds like im ~5 years older than Felix). exciting to hear anyone talk about Ulillillia!

Oh cool maybe he’ll talk about Seth Rich.

no new ep yet?

should be tonight, sadly I'm expecting an Infinity War ep

ideally they'll bring on every guest they've ever had and have everyone talk over each other

Lol

ugh whyyyy

is there any kind of political angle to that movie? i get Wonder Woman obv

that reminds me Red Scare ripped the new Amy Schumer movie apart https://soundcloud.com/red-scare-727066439/i-feel-petty great ep, my new favorite podcast

yeah it's really grown on me, I like that they keep it under an hour and a nice blend of high/lowbrow topics

A podcast hosted by Anna Khachiyan, avowed Camille Paglia fangirl, is a tough sell for me

they semi-regularly say shit I disagree with but it's fairly entertaining regardless

I find her twitter persona obnoxious but for some reason AK’s schtick is more palatable in podcast form

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.

thankfully I was wrong re Avengers

I was dreading more WHCD content but Matt's rant made it worthwhile.

the dennis miller thing at the beginning cracked me up

I thought they were joking about Chapo Twitch at first. Very on brand.

Well, people have been asking them to do one for like a year now, too

whats their take on movie theaters?

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.

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

Amber otm. as annoying as that is, narcs suck

Nah fuck theater goers they deserve fascism

we need narcs

especially in movie theaters

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.

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

tbf Amber thinks everyone is a cop

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.

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.

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.

audience reaction/participation can be amazing

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

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.

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

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.

how about maybe a new thread for this topic

Yeah, I would post in it a lot

okay, maybe not a new thread for this topic then

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

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

Alamo Drafthouse and also politics of talking during the movies thread

Which CTH episode is this all stemming from?

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?

“periodically”? over the course of a two hour movie?

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

they shouldn’t go to a movie theater, they should be pacing up and down the sidewalk smoking cigarettes & saying prayers for their sick parent while they wait for the phone call

there’s a leap between good movie theater etiquette and being hermetically sealed, which is overrated anyway

Which CTH episode is this all stemming from?

― jmm, Wednesday, May 2, 2018 7:16 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

most recent one

i haven't listened to it but generally people talking in theaters or looking at their phone are annoying. i don't narc on them but i will give them shit over it. equally being overly fucking sensitive to other people in the movie theatre is annoying too, an old guy gave my wife shit for looking at her phone during a fucking car commercial before the film and we both gave him an earful which i think will dissuade him from ever doing that again.

and i should've posted that in the other thread doh

Oh that guy was obviously wrong, nobody gives a shit about the ads, they haven’t even put all the lights down at that point. Once the lights are down tho it’s like, they do that for a reason, the reason is obvious, don’t be a cunt

talking & phones during commercials & even trailers is acceptable imo