MovieBob: Intermission: Oh, Behave!
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I, for one, am ok with the "text seats."
Not only does it let you know in advance who the jack-asses are, it segregates them in their own little area. Presumably, this will let the theatre be a little more rigid on their no texting policies as well. If you are a neurosurgeon or something, and might get a SUPER important text mid movie, you can sit in the texty area. Every one else, if I see a flicker of screen, your ass is outta here.
Not only does it let you know in advance who the jack-asses are, it segregates them in their own little area. Presumably, this will let the theatre be a little more rigid on their no texting policies as well. If you are a neurosurgeon or something, and might get a SUPER important text mid movie, you can sit in the texty area. Every one else, if I see a flicker of screen, your ass is outta here.
I have to agree with people who try to react 'ironically' to movies or try to be meta about it.
There are two places where you're allowed to have those kinds of reactions where people are not liable to kick your ass:
1) Your house, because you're watching a DVD of it.
2) A gathering of friends at some event or something, because you're watching a DVD or a special screening.
The movie theater, where it's filled with a lot of people that don't know or care about you and probably just want to watch the movie, is not the best time to try and crack a joke. The immediate relatives and friends may give you a chuckle, pity or not. Everyone that doesn't know is liable to introduce you to their straw. Through your eye.
Seriously, I hate it when people try to be witty when I'm trying to watch a movie. I can at least somewhat sympathize if it's at a small group gathering and it's one of my friends, since we're all friends and we don't expect anyone to come at us with a knife, but if you're at a social gathering, be courteous. You don't randomly start talking loudly on your phone if the president is giving an important speech and you're in attendance, so why would you try to make it difficult for us to hear the movie?
There are two places where you're allowed to have those kinds of reactions where people are not liable to kick your ass:
1) Your house, because you're watching a DVD of it.
2) A gathering of friends at some event or something, because you're watching a DVD or a special screening.
The movie theater, where it's filled with a lot of people that don't know or care about you and probably just want to watch the movie, is not the best time to try and crack a joke. The immediate relatives and friends may give you a chuckle, pity or not. Everyone that doesn't know is liable to introduce you to their straw. Through your eye.
Seriously, I hate it when people try to be witty when I'm trying to watch a movie. I can at least somewhat sympathize if it's at a small group gathering and it's one of my friends, since we're all friends and we don't expect anyone to come at us with a knife, but if you're at a social gathering, be courteous. You don't randomly start talking loudly on your phone if the president is giving an important speech and you're in attendance, so why would you try to make it difficult for us to hear the movie?
I have a simple solution for the behaviour of theatre going neandethals.
11pm Wednesday.
Kiddies are in bed (including most of the school age ones).
Party goers are off getting drunk.
Workers are in bed coz tomorow is a workday that isnt a monday or friday, and therefore isn't worth taking off sick.
Tuesday night was cheap night, so most people who go to mid week showings went then...
Wait for a week after release, and in a lot of cases the movies that are drawing packed houses at 7 have half a dozen or so people in them at 11.
Now please ignore my advice so I don't have to start putting up with you lot in my nice, quiet cinema!
11pm Wednesday.
Kiddies are in bed (including most of the school age ones).
Party goers are off getting drunk.
Workers are in bed coz tomorow is a workday that isnt a monday or friday, and therefore isn't worth taking off sick.
Tuesday night was cheap night, so most people who go to mid week showings went then...
Wait for a week after release, and in a lot of cases the movies that are drawing packed houses at 7 have half a dozen or so people in them at 11.
Now please ignore my advice so I don't have to start putting up with you lot in my nice, quiet cinema!
Uh, Bob, 20 years old here. Your parents still alive? Mine aren't. You ever face transphobia? I do. Yeah, please stop making assumptions that my life is always easy based on my age.
Yes, exactly. You either get a babysitter or you wait until your kids can stay at home alone safely. Part of having children is the responsibility to take care of them. If that means you miss out on going to fine dining restaurants, movies, sporting events or any other adult activity, that's a choice you've made and have to live with.Saxnot said:
It's not fair to everyone else to take your shitty loud kids to an adult movie (kids movie? Fine, that's what they're for) and disturb everyone else.
+1 "Magnited" States of AmericaXanthious said:
Yes, it does. What's a kid-centric movie anyway? I went to see Toy Story 3 and a mother with 2 kids were raising hell just behind me, I asked her politely to keep it down and she gave me the gaze of death and hissed "This movie is not aimed at you, mister". What the fuck is that supposed to mean? Who are you to judge what is aimed at me and what isn't? If your kids are incapable of behaving in a movie theater, then don't take them to one. It's pretty simple. Wait for the DVD and watch it at home with them.rayen020 said:
This is the only one I've really had a problem with myself. The others are right of course, but this is the only one I've actually experienced. When I went to see 'Funny People' (which I thought was actually pretty good), there were a couple of boys, likely in their late teens, there. They started faking a loud, annoying laugh... at the opening credits. It was incredibly stupid.
Then, not long after they pause for a minute, I suddenly hear this deep, evil voice saying 'is it you all laughin like that?' It honestly sounded like he was going to murder me and my friends. I quickly told him no and let him know where the laughing seemed to be coming from. He said alright and left... and I didn't hear any more laughing for the rest of the movie. While that freaked me out, I really hope it freaked the annoying assholes out just as much and they got kicked out. People like that ruin the movie.
I gotta say, I loved the comment about "emergencies". Seems like being connected 24/7 has really ramped up our idea of what counts as an "emergency". Not to sound like an old geezer who rambles on about "back in my day", but I don't even own a cell phone; I really can't imagine any scenario where someone would need to reach me so desperately that it couldn't wait two more hours. If you're a doctor or a volunteer firefighter, you can be bothered to have separate cell phones for regular use (that you turn off when you're in theaters and restaurants) and real emergencies (that you immediately leave when it goes off because you know you'll need to anyway). Otherwise, forget it.
In fact, if I may soapbox a moment about cell phone networks: They really dropped the ball by never evolving beyond the original century-old model of telephony, where everyone identifies by an impossible-to-remember random number and where a phone is either on or off. Why haven't we started transitioning to a system like instant messaging, where people can set their "status" so anyone who tries to call them not only can see, but has to see whether they're available or not first, and under what conditions. Right now, either you open yourself to being called by anyone in the world who might want to get in touch with you for any reason, or nobody at all. And theaters are definitely a "nobody at all" scenario. For the very, very rare real emergencies that can come up for ordinary people, it's very inconvenient to not be able to just click a button to change your status to "At a movie; DO NOT CALL UNLESS IT'S A LIFE-OR-DEATH SITUATION."
EDIT: Oh, forgot to add, I like how Bob italicized "Adult Swim" like it were a single show. It might as well be for how uniform its suckiness is nowadays.
In fact, if I may soapbox a moment about cell phone networks: They really dropped the ball by never evolving beyond the original century-old model of telephony, where everyone identifies by an impossible-to-remember random number and where a phone is either on or off. Why haven't we started transitioning to a system like instant messaging, where people can set their "status" so anyone who tries to call them not only can see, but has to see whether they're available or not first, and under what conditions. Right now, either you open yourself to being called by anyone in the world who might want to get in touch with you for any reason, or nobody at all. And theaters are definitely a "nobody at all" scenario. For the very, very rare real emergencies that can come up for ordinary people, it's very inconvenient to not be able to just click a button to change your status to "At a movie; DO NOT CALL UNLESS IT'S A LIFE-OR-DEATH SITUATION."
EDIT: Oh, forgot to add, I like how Bob italicized "Adult Swim" like it were a single show. It might as well be for how uniform its suckiness is nowadays.
Seen that before, and let me just say: I'm going to make an exception to my usual reservations about big conglomerates and corporate accretion and say that I wish that company would get bigger and buy out all the other theaters in the country. They sound like they would do a better job of actually giving a shit about customers than any of the other chains out there.Xanthious said:
Me and about 8 friends got kicked out of a late in its run matinee showing of Snakes on a Plane for MST3King and laughing too loud at the back of the theater. There were a total of 3 other people in the screening. I understand the rules, and I respect them, but there has to be some exceptions.
Platinum zone Bob.
It's here in Poland also known as "Grownups Zone".
The tickets are double the price but you get a nice quiet movie room, the rows of two seats each, waiters with snacks and booze and I can swear that the seats are just so bloody comfortable you want to spend a night there.
Well worth the price.
It's here in Poland also known as "Grownups Zone".
The tickets are double the price but you get a nice quiet movie room, the rows of two seats each, waiters with snacks and booze and I can swear that the seats are just so bloody comfortable you want to spend a night there.
Well worth the price.
I always wait a week or 2 before I'll go and see a movie and then I'll go for the last showing on a friday or saturday this means there usually only a handful of other people and they too are there to watch the movie. Anytime I deviate from the system I end up with talkers and what not and it kills my experience.
We still have them in the UK, sponsored by a mobile telecoms company (Orange) and with the tagline "don't let a mobile phone ruin your movie".TitanAura said:
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