International Young Naturists Organisation
General Talk (primarily non-naturist) => Television, Movies and Theatre => Topic started by: RforFilm on October 31, 2016, 05:05:12 pm
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As a guy who love to go to the movies, isn't it a shame when your experience is interrupted by some of the negative?
Watching the lastest Marvel movie or potential Oscar winning film in the theater is still an amazing experience that you simply can't duplicate at home. The act of going the movies is a social experience that seems to be trapped in a time when people are so determined to make the rest of the world as much of home as possible.
In the area that I live in, we have plenty of theaters to choose from (though I haven't been to the Alamo Drafthouse which has a STRICT no phone policy and I hear the theaters in Europe are better), but they eventually are faced with some of these annoyances. If you could which of the following would you completely eliminate?
For me, the crying baby would be my first choice. I was trying to watch Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children when a family brought their newborn to the theater where it wailed most of the movie. The parents walked back and forth through the aisles, but never left the theater. It was clearly pissing off the rest of the crowd, and they seemed to cheer when an user finally came in at the hour and fifteen minute mark to kick them out.
Got any theater horror stories? Which of the annoying traits would you get rid of?
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I would like the option for several but I dont find its teens who wont stop talking usually.
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All of the things!
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I voted other. By "other" I would eliminate all other movie-goers when I'm there (or with someone who's company I'd rather have).
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People texting or teens talking has never bothered me. The only real thing that ever has is people who laser point around the room. On the screen and what not.
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Leave your damn electronics at home. If I don't hear it, I can still see it. :angry:
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Wow, it feels like I have had it easy while going to the movies.
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It's always the crying babies for me. They don't stop and I get the parents that refuse to take them out. That's just inconsiderate.
Also mainly why I go to the movies on Sunday night and never on premier night. Less people that way.
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The ads. Stop showing me pretentious shots of one car after another while yelling at me, and give me the damn trailers and actual movie!
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The ads. Stop showing me pretentious shots of one car after another while yelling at me, and give me the damn trailers and actual movie!
Maybe it's a thing there? I see ads if you're there way before the movie starts. They need the filler I suppose. But once the trailers start, no more ads.
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I chose the Teenagers but struggle because People with phones was also a good contestant hehe
But maybe you could also include People eating loudly?
I mean, from time to time we all enjoy popcorn and soda while watching a movie and i don't mind if you go for candies... but in here people get nachos, crackers and all sorts of stuff that makes noise! The most ridiculous was when i noticed someone smuggling in a full roasted chicken... come on!!! :/
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sorry about sounding like a bad old lady :laugh: but when people use their phones and the display is very bright - that's very disturbing. once even had someone pick up a call during the movie :sad:
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I'd say phonecalls top the list...chatting... but the worst if bringing kids and not controlling them.
ALSO wtf is up with parents bringing their kids to R movies? I sat down to watch Logan and in walked a family with what must have been 8 year olds. :confused
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Having to wear clothes inside XD
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I'd have to say the high prices at the concession stand are the worst. It's so expensive to take a family of four to a movie these days!
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@Il_lore
There are naturist cinemas. They tend to be outdoor ones but they also tend to be in warm climates.
@newbie
I totally agree with you. It has to be the ubiquitous mobile phone. Cinemas often show a warning on the screen before the main feature starts, reminding people turn their mobile phones off, but they often miss it because they're on their phones!! ????
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In action movies it would be one person bare-hand punching another person who is wearing a helmet. That would seriously do more damage to the bare hand than it would to the device MADE FOR MINIMIZING HEAD TRAUMA.
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Ok, if we're now taking about things on the screen that annoy us, I vote for those bombs that Hollywood always shows as having a big digital countdown timer on them. They don't.
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People in general. I came to the conclusion that people are jerks when comes to movie theaters,from any age.
Bought a decent projector recently, got rid of the problem lol
I must admit that I have the "people" problem only in Italy, when I was in London I've never had any issue
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@Il_lore
There are naturist cinemas. They tend to be outdoor ones but they also tend to be in warm climates.
@newbie
I totally agree with you. It has to be the ubiquitous mobile phone. Cinemas often show a warning on the screen before the main feature starts, reminding people turn their mobile phones off, but they often miss it because they're on their phones!! ????
yes, i find most people now at least put it on silent, but still they will text or check emails during the movie - and the screen it really glaring and distracting in the darkness. :sad:
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@Il_lore
There are naturist cinemas. They tend to be outdoor ones but they also tend to be in warm climates.
not in Italy, afaik :(
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There's one in the South of France.
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Definitely the high concession costs. Our theater is run down but we pay the same prices as the big cities as the theater here is a franchise...
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Assigned seating. Who came up with that idea anyway? It was so much better when you could sit wherever you wanted.
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Assigned seating. Who came up with that idea anyway? It was so much better when you could sit wherever you wanted.
Have to disagree there, when you're in a group it's easier to find seats together looking at a screen. What does need to go is online booking fees.
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Others.
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Assigned seating. Who came up with that idea anyway? It was so much better when you could sit wherever you wanted.
Have to disagree there, when you're in a group it's easier to find seats together looking at a screen. What does need to go is online booking fees.
Would you be willing to compromise? Could we have half the theatre for booked seats and half for sitting wherever you want?
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I'd get rid of all the other ppl and stay there alone ????
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How are so many people picking crying babies? What movies are you going to where there are crying babies?
You should be nice to people with crying babies as your turn will come someday :)
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Just one thing?
Fine.
The one thing that bothers me more than anything are the noises that come from other movie goers. Crying babies. People that whisper or speak at volumes that could rival the SPL of a departing space shuttle. People who fumble through their paper/foil treat bag for what seems like minutes at a f***ing time. And then of course, there are the people who go to the movies while sick.
I can deal with the price of seeing a movie. I also have no problems with ads, though I agree with Memer that I wish that the movie would start at the actual advertised time. Heck, I even have a mild tolerance for phones. But all the noise? Look, the human brain struggles to process multiple stimuli as is, so why make the situation more difficult than it needs to be? If you're sick (coughing, sniffling, etc), stay home. If the movie is adult oriented and/or if you want to see it on release day, have some respect for other people and leave your kids at home/with a baby sitter. It's not like this is a travel situation, when sometimes you do what you gotta do and other people will have to just deal with it. This is 100% optional!
Hmm. Am I a curmudgeon? I feel like I'm a curmudgeon.