Movie Theater Experiences

[mfunk9786]

This thread makes me wonder if there's a general thread about odd happenings at the movie theater? I think I stumbled on one before. I wonder if any of our knowledgeable posters know when the culture of movie-going changed. Scorsese always talks, when he reminisces about going to movies in his childhood, about walking into various theaters and people showing up late to movies and just watching them to the end then again to the point where they started. Was Psycho the point when things changed or was it gradual? I've read of the French New Wavers also being of the type to just walk in and out of movies.

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[Big Ben]

You've seen disruptive people, you've encountered "fatty olds" (???) but have you ever encountered "Loud man who announces his proclivities"?

Sitting in the theater for Atomic Blonde in the dump known as AMC Theaters in Great Falls Montana a gentleman loudly proclaimed during a sequence involving Charlize Theron and Sofia Boutella that he forgot to bring his lube and then proceeded to talk (albeit quieter) about how hot he found the scene. I happened to be sitting in front of the gentleman. Aside from the obvious interruption I cannot fathom why anyone would do this in a public space.

This sadly is technically not the worst thing to happen in this building however but that's a story for another day.

[mfunk9786]

I had a similar experience (though nonverbal) during that scene and I am still totally puzzled by how such a banal, dull love scene has managed to result in multiple outbursts

[tenia]

I'm always wondering what these people are trying to achieve by this. Do they have somebody in the audience they know and want to impress by being loud, stupid and obnoxious ?

I often saw this kind of behaviour from guys being part of a group, but almost never from somebody alone.

[djproject]

...in the dump known as AMC Theaters in Great Falls Montana...

I wonder if that was once where my parents saw This Is Spinal Tap way back in the day. If so, they were the ones laughing at the theatre (particularly at the line: "The Boston gig has been cancelled. But I wouldn't worry about it though. Not a big college town.")

[domino harvey]

Finding Charlize Theron attractive is one of those default states I assume everyone shares, it truly does not need to be said unless one believes differently

[colinr0380]

I just think Big Ben is being rather generous in describing the chap as a "gentleman". A gentleman never reveals that he left home without his lube!

[Mungo]

My girlfriend was the only one to audibly go bonkers over Theron in the screening I saw today, though one person out of a total of four isn't a bad ratio.

[jorencain]

I was at the theater, seeing the horrible "The Nut Job 2" with my 4 year old. In the lobby, an older couple was asking for a refund for their tickets to "The Dark Tower." They left after 25 minutes because it is "too dark. And satanic." They didn't get their money back, but they compromised and watched "The Nut Job" instead. I'm just curious what makes a movie satanic.

[matrixschmatrix]

I think McConaughey's character is a pretty straight forward stand in for Satan, so it doesn't seem that unreasonable a concern.

[jorencain]

Ok, I suppose that makes sense. I just wonder what they thought they were going into.

[Big Ben]

McConaughey is playing a character who, in my mind is evil because of what was done to him I don't consider them to be related at all. As stupid as it sounds The Man in Black reminds me more of Chrisopher Nolan's version of The Joker. He does what he does because he can.

Oh and King himself says he's not representative of Satan. So there's that. There's more to The Man in Black than meets the eye though. More going on. But no spoilers!

[Ribs]

And Akiva Goldsman's last passion project casually featured a cameo from Will Smith playing Lucifer. So he might have mined on that reading for this film too.

[flyonthewall2983]

Story from a very early screening of Monster Trucks

[flyonthewall2983]

Bloomberg article on parents bringing kids into screenings of R-rated movies.

[swo17]

Those symbols of innocence sitting next to me ruined my enjoyment of the filthy movie.

[flyonthewall2983]

Charging full or double price for kids seems at best risky. They start screaming or causing trouble, their idiot parents who paid that much can claim a good defense out of that.

[Ribs]

I had a new one last week: guy in front of me just took off his shirt for the duration of the movie at the first previews.

[Big Ben]

When I saw It two weeks ago a woman behind me screamed through the whole film stating "I hate this movie! I hate this movie!" And then when it was revealed there would be a second chapter she expressed a loud groan and proclaimed "This is bullshit! I have to come back for another one?!?"

And on the topic of children in R rated films sitting several rows below me where two parents and four or five children who could not have been older than ten. They were better behaved than the woman behind me.

The film however aside from the woman was very well received by the audience. Probably one of the most enjoyable experiences I've had with one. Everyone was really into it.

[cdnchris]

And on the topic of children in R rated films sitting several rows below me where two parents and four or five children who could not have been older than ten. They were better behaved than the woman behind me.

I was rather horrified to see a 5-year old in our screening. I'm judging and I shouldn't as I've let my kids watch plenty of shit they shouldn't but there's no way I'd let them watch It now, despite my daughter begging us to take her. At one point the child and her mother left and I figured the kid got scared and wanted to leave. But nope, apparently it was just a bathroom break because they came back shortly thereafter and the kid was running back to her seat, looking pretty excited.

The kid was quiet too.

[Professor Wagstaff]

Regal theaters plan to test demand-based pricing for movie tickets

[Morbii]

I was rather horrified to see a 5-year old in our screening.

Years ago, I saw 8mm in the theater. There was a mother with her kid that couldn’t have been more than 5 there. I never forgot that.

[flyonthewall2983]

I heard one story about a guy who played it on a Greyhound bus, which had parents and their kids on it. When one of the parents began to object, the driver was rude to them in response.

[Lost Highway]

Finding Charlize Theron attractive is one of those default states I assume everyone shares, it truly does not need to be said unless one believes differently

No I feel under pressure to loudly announce that I‘m not attracted to her, the next time I watch a film starring Theron.

[med]

Don't know when they started doing this, but AMC Theatres no longer masks their projections