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Just had one of the worst Movie Theatre Experiences while watching Hereditary
- Thread starter Armadilo
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I think I had my worst movie watching experience last week when I saw avengers again. Couple of parents let their kids run around the theater screaming during the movie and management just didn't give a shit.
This lol. You ever watch a movie without the soundtrack? Its weird.
I haven't seen the film yet, but if you watch the trailer, there's a clicking sound made by the tongue that's prevalent throughout. People are probably just making fun of that since I've heard quite a few people mimic it whenever the trailer comes on before the feature presentation.
Makes sense tbh. I just prefer going to the cinema at night :p Weekdays for me!
That sucks OP. Historically, I've been pretty lucky with theater experiences and crowds, though I went to see IT last year for a second time and it was one of the worst experiences I'd ever had in the theater. Like, unbelievably bad.
Was a group of young teen girls who were just talking constantly and then laughing and being over-the-top loud during any scene. And when they were just generally chatting, it wasn't like they were whispering, it was like they were just straight up TALKING over the movie. Eventually, someone in the audience had enough after ~40 minutes or so and they were removed by ushers. The only time I've ever actually people removed from a theater. It felt great though, lmao.
But then in the same audience, there was also these two girls sitting dead center of the theater, and over the course of the movie, they probably took over TEN SELFIES WITH THE FLASH ON. Like, who the fuck does that? What the fuck is wrong with people? I'm the kind of person who doesn't let shit get to me/make a scene in public, but man, I almost made a scene with these two different groups of people because they were both incredibly obnoxious and inconsiderate.
So yeah, people being jackasses ruining a film people paid money for is super annoying.
Was a group of young teen girls who were just talking constantly and then laughing and being over-the-top loud during any scene. And when they were just generally chatting, it wasn't like they were whispering, it was like they were just straight up TALKING over the movie. Eventually, someone in the audience had enough after ~40 minutes or so and they were removed by ushers. The only time I've ever actually people removed from a theater. It felt great though, lmao.
But then in the same audience, there was also these two girls sitting dead center of the theater, and over the course of the movie, they probably took over TEN SELFIES WITH THE FLASH ON. Like, who the fuck does that? What the fuck is wrong with people? I'm the kind of person who doesn't let shit get to me/make a scene in public, but man, I almost made a scene with these two different groups of people because they were both incredibly obnoxious and inconsiderate.
So yeah, people being jackasses ruining a film people paid money for is super annoying.
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a character in the film does that and people like to copy what they see and hear sadly
This is why I invested in a home theater. I only go to the movies about 4x a year now. It's terrible.
I wish they made movies streamable sooner, make it expensive if you have to. I'll pay.
Sooner or later it's just going to be Disney movies at the cinema. I didn't think I would ever say this but I'm ready for the death of cinema :p.
Sooner or later it's just going to be Disney movies at the cinema. I didn't think I would ever say this but I'm ready for the death of cinema :p.
i just go to expensive theaters. moviepass ruined cheap theaters tho, I don't do regular hours for movies. either the second matinee showing of the day to avoid olds or I just wait a week when most buzz for most movies die.
they did. and it failed four years in.
they did. and it failed four years in.
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that article is from 2016 and their website is currently a black screen with a bit of info http://www.primacinema.com/
too high of a bar for entry and the service just wasn't there. Maybe one day when the US gets unlimited, uncapped and free bandwith and the costs are reduced substantially, it'll take off.
Sean Parker also tried his hand at it in 2016:
https://deadline.com/2016/03/the-sc...stribution-exhibition-controversy-1201717454/
Ah ok, thanks for the info. But as you say, it's way to much per movie.
I always forget that the US has capped bandwith and it has to start in the US to take off I guess.
Hahaha I was just about to post something similar but lets be serious its probably mostly due to an overabundance of confusion. To my shame the most aggressive I have ever been at a theater was when a group made up of a mix of the Golden Girls and Matlock were loudly trying to play catch to the plot and after trying to whisper to them to be quiet (Which they didn't hear) I finally had to get pretty loud. They hushed up for the rest of the movie but I could feel their eyes on me like I was Biff.
When I went to see Infinity War, there was one guy in a group of friends sitting in the row in front of me that would laugh WAY louder and WAY more often than everyone else in the theater. Sometimes he was laughing at legit jokes, but sometimes at just... nothing. He made it so we legit couldn't hear any follow up lines after a joke.
There's a part early on where it shows a diorama of the mother and grandma in the hospital after the former has given birth, and it's portrayed like a classical art piece or religious scene. The doll of the grandma's wearing clothing that leaves one of her breasts bare, and one girl at the back of the theatre very loudly yells, "OMG, is that a boob?!" and starts laughing. At one point later on someone else just started losing it and had to have someone behind them tell them to shut up.
Thankfully everyone shut the fuck up for that scene but there were definitely some shitlords in the audience tonight. It didn't ruin the movie, but I'll be glad to rewatch it alone when it comes out.
Thankfully everyone shut the fuck up for that scene but there were definitely some shitlords in the audience tonight. It didn't ruin the movie, but I'll be glad to rewatch it alone when it comes out.
Old people are all about the running commentary to their partners and explaining that they understood the joke.
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So imagine you're trying to watch a movie and every couple of minutes someone starts making a noise and it's people in front and even behind you, they even do it when it's dead silence, it was that bad
is it too much for you youngsters to walk up and say "excuse me, sir. May I pass?" it's like people are afraid to talk to one another these days.
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For that film the Premiere Day might be the best since the hardcore fans would most likely be the first ones to get tickets, which might lead to a greater experience
Shouldn't have to. When I am walking slow, I keep to the right side.
nothing beats the bro behind me at ready player one who felt the need to tell his friend every reference he noticed.
"heh. the shining."
"heh. the shining."
Yeah, but this is true for any dine-in movie experience here.
It's a trade-off I'll take, if it means having staff constantly at the ready to take care of rude people.
It was a really fucking lazy device that was leaned on hard by the filmmakers and deserved to be mocked. I refrained from doing that, though.
I mean, it wasn't? it was something she did compulsively, and it was used effectively later on in the movie.
On a Sunday? You'll probably experience chatty seniors, at the worst. Roll snake eyes, a senior medical emergency from the tension.
That sucks OP. I was hoping it wouldn't have this problem being R rated. A lot of horror films nowadays are PG-13 so they can get the highschool moviegoers and because they don't think R movies can make money. My viewing of A Quiet Place had a problem because of that.
I waited MONTHS for The VVitch to finally hit my local one-screen theatre...and had a woman show up halfway through, yelling to her friend, talked shit the ENTIRE time, and at the end yelled out "Well that was fucking stupid".
Absolutely ruined the experience for me, and I had been waiting ages for that film. I'm still pissed off about it.
Had plenty of bad experiences with horror films in cinemas.
Problem is horror films attract a certain crowd of people that go in to shit on it. 'It thinks it's scary? While I'll show them! Lololol'.
Horror films are also usually quite 'arty' or 'lowest common denominator' - so when you can get a horror film that tries something it isn't appreciated by people who want to see people getting stabbed whilst having sex.
People see horror films as a bit of a challenge, and to be honest you need to take the films at face value to like them. If you go in with a 'it's just a film made by other people with tricks to try and make you scared' of course you'll see through it and it becomes transparent.
In the last couple of years alone I've had viewings of The Babadook, It Follows, The VVitch and others kinda spoiled by people loudly laughing or shouting things like 'this is shit' in the middle of the film. I can't remember which film it was but one showing at the end someone stood up and shouted 'what a load of shit that was!' And like 30 people roared laughing and applauded him - what the fuck?
Horror films are great. Horror film fans are great. General audiences in horror screenings suck.
Problem is horror films attract a certain crowd of people that go in to shit on it. 'It thinks it's scary? While I'll show them! Lololol'.
Horror films are also usually quite 'arty' or 'lowest common denominator' - so when you can get a horror film that tries something it isn't appreciated by people who want to see people getting stabbed whilst having sex.
People see horror films as a bit of a challenge, and to be honest you need to take the films at face value to like them. If you go in with a 'it's just a film made by other people with tricks to try and make you scared' of course you'll see through it and it becomes transparent.
In the last couple of years alone I've had viewings of The Babadook, It Follows, The VVitch and others kinda spoiled by people loudly laughing or shouting things like 'this is shit' in the middle of the film. I can't remember which film it was but one showing at the end someone stood up and shouted 'what a load of shit that was!' And like 30 people roared laughing and applauded him - what the fuck?
Horror films are great. Horror film fans are great. General audiences in horror screenings suck.
listen, there's nothing wrong with wanting to see people getting stabbed while they're having sex.
To add a more obvious one -
always see animated kids movies at like, 10:30pm on a school night, lol. Had a few brutal Pixar screenings.
nah, opening weekend, especially opening night, is the absolute best way to watch a blockbuster.
That's why me and my brother are going to see it on opening. I am lucky enough my local theater and horror crowds usually gel well when all the fans hit opening night. I saw Freddy VS. Jason like this for instance, and most of my love and nostalgia for that film is less quality related and more I saw it in a audience that were all fans too. Audience reactions were always on sync and in the right moments.
Not sure I would want to watch a serious horror film with that audience though.
People were giggling a lot when I saw Hereditary, but it was the nervous kind where they were all paying attention to the movie and just couldn't believe what they were seeing. There are at least 2 moments that would make ANYONE either laugh or gasp.
I got annoyed at a theater once and stood up and shouted at a group of 5 to be quite - they would not stop talking after multiple sushs 30 mins into a film. Some people clapped after I shouted and they group suddenly learned to whisper.
I am never usually that aggressive, but I was that one time, and it worked that one time, and I did not die afterwards walking home, so everything worked out.
I am never usually that aggressive, but I was that one time, and it worked that one time, and I did not die afterwards walking home, so everything worked out.
I got lucky with Hereditary since there were teens in the theater and I sat close to them. Only one of them did a clicking noise near the end of the movie, and I think someone told her to shut up because she didn't do it again.
It was a little annoying when the credits rolled and she kinda loudly said "Well i'm not telling anyone to see this piece of shit!" or something to that effect.
I thought it was real good ._.
It was a little annoying when the credits rolled and she kinda loudly said "Well i'm not telling anyone to see this piece of shit!" or something to that effect.
I thought it was real good ._.