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I saw The Fighter last night and the crowd was predominantly 50+ ...very few kids or teenagers ...the audience was quiet all the way through. What a joy !
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I am so sick and tired of going to movies and watching Blackberry's, iPhones and iPads light up ...I'm tired of listening to cellophane wrappers being taken off candy boxes ...I'm tired of folks shaking their boxes of M&Ms to check if there are any left ...I'm tired of listening to people shaking and playing with their bags of popcorn. Is it really that difficult to silenty extract a piece of popcorn from the bag?!?
What is with folks that chatter constantly while at the movies ...and not about the movie, about shit they can talk about anytime. Wake up folks, its not freakin' Starbucks ...you are at a MOVIE.
When we saw True Grit a fellow actually took his empty popcorn bag, blew it up and popped it. WTF ??
Its gotten to the point where audiences are generally so rude that we will wait until a movie has almost finished its run in hopes of seeing it in an near empty theater so we don't have to put up with folks that think they are on some sort of amusement park ride.
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I'd pay double the ticket price to be able to see a movie with complete silence (other than laughter or gasps that are provoked by the movie).
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
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and have very rarely had those experiences while going to the movies a lot.
Maybe it's just that the nicer theaters in L.A. and SF don't have this problem or maybe I'm just lucky or maybe I'm good at tuning it out but it's certainly unpleasant when it does happen.
Stupidity is NOT a victimless crime.
...we generally have two types of theatres: new ones with great sound and stadium seating or old ones with pathetic seating and hideous sound.
The better behaved audiences can always be found in the older theatres.
I remember seeing Apollo 13 in one of those old theatres ...when the rocket launched it sounded like a bottle rocket.
Choose your poison.
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
In Phily there is the artsy-fartsy theater called Ritz. You can always go there not expecting someone's smelly snickers stuck over your shoulders - the crowd mostly consists of the so-called intelligentsia, old ladies, clean students, etc. It is clean, orderly, and usually half-deserted.OTOH, going to a Regal 16 guarantees the opposite - dumb teenagers everywhere, popcorn and chewing gum on the carpet.
Since I never pay to see American movies, we only go to the Ritz, where you mostly get foreign films. Life is way too short to spend portions of it watching iPhone screens. We simply never go to Regal - hence we have no problem with modern day audience.
People here can avoid their frustration the same way.
Edits: 01/04/11
Once in a while you will get a good experience at King of Prussia. VK, do you ever get over there? We are stay at home'ers. 60" pioneer plasma, basic 5.1... and just love it.
Peter
and films, in terms of crowds.
If I do go see a "Hollywood" film at a Regal I'm prepared for and generally not bothered by the audience.
Stupidity is NOT a victimless crime.
They are part of the experience.
zactly!
Stupidity is NOT a victimless crime.
Haven't been to a theater in quite a few years due to the reasons you so eloquently write about above.
On my way home I was behind a newer car with LED tail and brake lights and wondered if we happen to share the same opinion of them as we do theaters?
Cheers, Craig
Make sure you have Valentine One detector on your dash, set to high volume. It just loves them LED's. Guaranteed to boost your pleasure three-fold... especially with a wife in the right seat.
Ordering now..
...following a newer car with LED tail and brake lights all the way to a large room full of noisy people to watch a movie together.
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
Rainy night, four minutes waiting in a left turn lane, car in front with turn signal on the whole time..
going to see Scorsese's Cape Fear when it had come out in NYC. When the movie "finished" and the credits started to roll, the columnist Liz Smith stood up in front of me to leave, and I had to yell at her to sit down. You'd have thought she would have understood the etiquette! The ubiquitousness of those who wish to interfer while others are concentrating is nothing new...
A few thoughts ...
There are no patrolling ushers ...
I wonder if I'm spoiled by the controlled, high tech environment of my living room ... or if folks simply forget they aren't alone in their own living room?
Popcorn, hard candy etc is loud... Went to a film in Geneva, Switzerland many years ago that offered beverages and popsicles only... I asked why this was and my date said " because popsicles are quiet". I'm sure that concept is long gone.
You get what you bargain for.
nt
Don't strain yourself - you will only make things worse!
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We must be the change we wish to see in the world. -Gandhi
I'm totally with you on that. Add just about every large rock/arena concert I've been to in the last three years. I would rather watch movies at home now, and concerts aren't too far behind, IMHO...
"If the audio industry built gear that sounded as good as it did 50 years ago, there would NEVER be a need to re-issued anything!"
We saw 'True Grit' over the new year's holiday as well (in one of those movie taverns with limited seating, countertops for food/drink and plenty of legroom), and while we came away wowed by the Coens' latest, we had 2 audience incidents that marred the experience (ridiculous confrontation over a saved seat for one of our kids, and someone sitting next to me sputtering/hacking through what sounded like the final stages of emphysema).
Someone once said "Courtesy is the oil that keeps civilization running smoothly". Now that the American empire is falling, this kind of rudeness and indifference to one's fellow man will only get worse.
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reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
Me too!
In my opinion the most serious of the theater transgressions.
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We must be the change we wish to see in the world. -Gandhi
...At a recent showing the person in front of me was constantly texting and the screen of the thing was in plain sight, very bright and super distracting. About 30 min into the show I shifted my position in my seat and "accidentally" gave the guy's seat a solid kick. He was startled but apparently got the message because he immediately went off-line and stayed that way for the remainder of the movie.
I know two wrongs don't make a right but....
The lady behind my date was kicking her to the point where she mentioned it to me twice. First time I did a 3/4 head turn and partial stare. It was some old bat sitting behind her. The old bag probably didn't even know she was kicking someone. It happened a couple more times and I leaned back and said firmly "You need to stop kicking the chair please" I think it continued, as the lady showed no signs she heard me, but at least I scored some points with my date.
Yeah, the sight of handheld devices was in frequent display throughout the audience, and one arsehole even used his pen-pointer laser to move a red dot around the screen...while the movie was playing! Where are ushers and cops when you need them. I don't blame you at all for kicking the texting guy. I once had to tell some dude on his phone to shutup after he talked all through the previews and showed no signs of letting up as the opening credits were rolling for the movie. His date told me *I* was being rude! I wanted to take them both outside and teach them some manners.
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We must be the change we wish to see in the world. -Gandhi
So what did you think of Little Fockers?
Totally entertained and laughed throughout. Little Fockers did a good job of straddling the line between the more vulgar comedies that have become fashionable and wholesome comedies that are more my style. Granted, most of the humor wasn't wholesome but the physical comedy was very good. As I mentioned below, the scene with Harvey Keitel and De Niro had hilarious punch beyond the situation in LF because of the many films with both actors.
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We must be the change we wish to see in the world. -Gandhi
Did you pick the movie or did you go see it at your date's suggestion?
NT
Anyone who's been a fan of their work would bust up to watch this scene starring two aging stars who no longer take themselves so seriously. If you can't enjoy a couple hours of harmless vulgarity and levity, what good are you? This was by far the best of the trilogy.
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We must be the change we wish to see in the world. -Gandhi
My daughter seems to attract the chair kickers. So, we change seats.Last night, a woman sat in front of my son. His legs were crossed and when she threw her fur coat over her seat half of it landed in his lap and naturally on his shoes.
She gave him a look that said "You had better not get my coat dirty."
He gave her a look that said "If I were you I'd move your coat."
He won.
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
Edits: 01/02/11
I think I was 13 or so, maybe back in 1967.
We went to visit our Grandmother in South Ozone Park, Queens NY.
My brother and I went to a nearby movie theatre. When the lights went down, and the picture started, there were then around 1/2 a dozen women in their 40's and fifties around the sides of the theatre with flashlights.
Anytime a young guy put his arm around a girl, they would shine the flashlight on them.
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We must be the change we wish to see in the world. -Gandhi
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