Alamo Drafthouse and also politics of talking during the movies thread

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

there's certainly ... precedent ... for eating food at the movies

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wins doesn't realize that we don't all eat like psycho cookie monsters at every meal

I only see movies if the theater is also a ball pit.

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yeah like i said i've never been to an Alamo Drafthouse, or a Cinebistro or any theater that has servers coming back and forth during the movie, that seems totally alien to me. i've been a theater with those sofa-style seats only once, that was stupid.

re: laughing at old movies at shit that's not funny, OTMFM... I had a particularly bad experience the other night with this, three things: yes, so much laughter where it wasn't appropriate, some idiot took a picture of the screen with the flash on... TWICE... but worst of all the guy in front of me would go "WOOOOOOOOOW!!!" or "BEAAAAAAAUTIFUL!!!" or "AMAAAAAAAAZING" every time a cool shot would come up. it was a film noir from 1944, so he was practically cumming in his pants every time there was a shot of a hat floating in a puddle, or a tracking shot thru rooms, or a closeup of Ella Raines' leggings, to which he went "OOOOOH-LA-LAAAAA!" bad cinephile behavior, it exists

Alamo has a system, don't knock it til you try it

lmao flappy

xxp "Take that man out and have him shot."

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

depends on the genre! metal dudes are always the nicest except the racist ones. shoegaze ppl are the roughest group of humans i've ever encountered. political punks still the worst.
horror ppl are always sweet and full of love. old revival film dudes are the biggest jerks on the planet. basics that go see back 2 the future or something are always rough but they pay the bills so oh well.

ftr i do a lot of work for alamo and i think they have changed the way ppl see movies for the better. if you are complaining about the food or drinks or whatev you probably haven't been to an alamo. they are pretty strict about the manners thing, which is good 90% of the time. one time i got in trouble because i encouraged dancing during a 35mm (it was QT's print!) screening of Sign O The Times after Prince died.

is that... Orson Welles as a nazi

xp

idk everyone otm here except for Adam, Alamo is fine (and p much the only theatre besides the Castro that I go to nowadays)

"WOOOOOOOOOW!!!" or "BEAAAAAAAUTIFUL!!!" or "AMAAAAAAAAZING" ... "OOOOOH-LA-LAAAAA!"

definitely into this

There's this tic among **certain** movie people that I see as completely absent in the music scene, so it's really striking for me when I encounter it.

I call it "nachos"

Like if you bring a music guy some nachos, he might say something sarcastic or funny like, "'Bout time, thanks"

But if you bring a movie guy some nachos, he will say something like, "Oh ho, cheesy comestibles for my masticating pleasure!"

When I made that comment this morning I was referring to people on their phone ie texting the kind of communication that most people use when on their phones in public for about 10 years now. Obviously if someone is holding a full conversation they will step into a lobby, to cut down on by noise if anything.

It is hilarious to see all these people that demand empathy from their leaders and fellow citizens yet in an everyday situation it’s just asking too much to move to another fucking seat

you go to movie theaters with extra seats? Alamo theaters seat like 30 people.

damn dude let me know when the shuttle lands xp

oh yah Whiney otm re: nachos. music is a social thing. movies are a world of imagination and wonder you can explore all by your lonesome!

no empathy for people texting in movie theaters. ever. go outside

Lmao Adam everyone knew you meant texting, if you need to text (you don’t) leave the film you aren’t watching instead of expecting everyone else to move seats you psycho

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)

― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Tuesday, December 3, 2019 11:21 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

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 :(