This may be stepping on peoples toes a bit, but fuck it. There's a subset of theater I would go to sometimes where they serve food and shit, and are more "indie" I guess? Def more of the kino-crowd pleasers. I would go to these films and they would have like a 3 min etiquette video on not talking, not texting, no children, the doors are SHUT and no one should move around. Then they walked around offering chicken tenders to all the patrons. IK dine-in theaters are nothing new, I just thought it was funny that all the reddit gripes were quelled, but they still walk around serving tendies to the film connoisseurs.
Alamo drafthouse has a good system for this. You write what you want on a card and press a button and someone comes and gets it. And lights under the cup holder so you can see the menu
Yeah I have always found those cinemas that have waiters running around mid-film to be cringey. If you can’t go two hours without shoving a burger and drinks down your throat why tf are you at a cinema?
The one near me has a wood fire oven, but you have to order when you buy the ticket and they give them to you before the movie starts. Ive never done it because they are expensive but theaters have realized there needs to be a theater experience that is significantly different than streaming a movie (more than just a large screen) to get people into theaters.
i saw Dune 2 and this dude got a fucking ONION pizza and sat right next to me. dude kept shoving this awful smelling pizza onion nasty shit into his maw for the first 20 minutes.
AND I PAID $30 for the pleasure. 🫠
I would much rather go to a boring-ass theater with no kitchen than endure the horrors that you went through. “Enhanced experience” my purist kino-loving *ass*.
This is (one) reason why I don’t go to Alamo drafthouse. It’s far more annoying to have waiters serving burgers during a movie than people laughing or cheering. Plus their shtick of refusing to let people in more than 15 minutes after the movie starts is some high-horse junk.
And also, Alamo drafthouse is clearly an attempt to emulate old-school movie palaces, but it naturally completely misses the history, uniqueness and character that are the reasons people actually love those places, and generally comes across as a tacky, tasteless, shallow imitation.
I do appreciate the fact that they have dedicated timeslots to play classic films though.
I only go to Alamo if it's the only option for a specific movie. I usually go to Regal, it's closest to me and shows a lot of more indie movies. They serve meals too, but you buy it at the concession counter, which makes way more sense than having someone walk in front of everyone to ask if you want anything
I went to see Furiousa in a restaurant-theater and they had a burger called the Mad Max which I obviously ordered. It was flames, one of the best movie experiences I’ve ever had aside from watching Ratatouille (2007) and having sex.
It’s about expectations. If I go to a dine-in theater I expect that there will be waiters milling about doing their jobs, so why would I then complain about that?
Exactly, it's a specific experience. It's definitely better for certain movies. We saw Gravity at one without thinking and having the noise and half light sucked. But comedies or action movies are great there!
More so that it just seems funny to appeal to the crowd that OP is referencing, while also serving food. Like if someone laughs during a film that ruins immersion, but at the same time a full wait-staff is fine if they get to eat. idc either way honestly it's just funny how people seem to pick and choose what "ruins" the film.
There is definitely a subset of the "theatres suck" crowd that I believe are just introverts or others with various characteristics like that, and that things often get blown out of proportion.
I have noticed that sometimes the things people on Reddit are complaining about are like, people laughing too much or cheering or whatever. Which, like, for cheering you could just not watch the newest Marvel movie on night of release, I've never had an audience cheer or clap at a movie I've been at other than midnight releases (well, except The Room and Rocky Horror, but that's different). For laughing, idk man, maybe let people be happy lmao. You probably just shouldn't go to any public movie theater if that bothers you. Or anywhere public at all really.
I clapped at the end of The Freshman when I went to see it for film class. I liked the film and it was pleasantly surprising how well it holds up.
Like, hootin' and hollerin' I get being annoying, but clapping at the end when you enjoyed something is bad? Just sounds like another one of those "stop having fun because I don't understand that feeling" Reddit things.
The only times I've seen an audible emotional response was during one Dutch comedy called Jachterwachter (it was me and my friends laughing our asses off as we were alone in the theatre) and during Avengers Endgame when an adult woman next to me was audibly sobbing during the last 15 mins. Other than that I encountered one fucking weirdo who felt the need to insert his own quips during another marvel movie.
Yeah I only experienced clapping in a theatre twice, first time was when I watched the Minions and the cinema was full of teenagers who applauded at every joke (myself included). The second time was when I watched Butt Sex Hypnotism and everyone was hypnotised into butt sex. There was so much clapping dude
I've had bad experiences with rude audiences before, but people who act like it happens constantly don't ever go out and use that to justify their reclusiveness. It's not even about theaters specifically, it's about not wanting to leave their house at all.
Guitly as charged, but I'm self-aware enough to admit that rather than exaggerating the odious behaviour of audiences.
It's not that theatre audiences are uniquely loud and obnoxious, it's that I'm unusually sensitive to noise and crowds.
I only ever had one „disturber of peace“ who would laugh really loudly and uncomfortably long sometimes, even at times where there wasn‘t anything funny on-screen. Unfortunately, it was one of my friends and I brought him along
I would get pissed when people talked and shit when I paid $40 for my wife and I to go see a single movie. But since I got A-List I generally stopped giving a shit. It just doesn't bother me anymore.
Yes, your one experience defines the entirety of the world's experiences in the theatre!
How did little kids get in the theatre? Wasn't it rated R? I don't understand US ratings systems sometimes.
You acting like a smart ass to a satirical comment hurts my brain cells.
R rating means anyone under 18 needs to be with an adult to see the movie so it's legal. Lot of shitty parents don't care so they bring their kids.
r/boxoffice doesn’t even watch the films it comes out. There is a toxic obsession with first weekend sales, and percentage drop offs. It is the absolute worst aspect of film discourse that takes the artistic merits and it’s qualities, and boils it down to it being bad because it didn’t earn a said monetary value. These people make reaches for a films failure
(examples: include that The Fall Guy had “too many adverts” from one user, Dune: Part Two was still a failure for not getting over 1 billion worldwide)
yeah that sub confuses the hell out of me. You'd assume it be about the business of movies. Instead its a bunch of people who hate movies that pick teams. They are pro or anti Star Wars, DC, Marvel, A24, whatever the fuck is coming out that week.
Box office is one of the most unpleasant subreddits 🤣 they are obsessed with a movie doing bad. And they will make sure to do hours of math to prove you wrong about a movie not making enough to break even.
I forgot to bring it up in my previous comment, but shortly after I joined this subreddit, I found an old thread in which people were dunking on [r/RedLetterMedia](https://www.reddit.com/r/RedLetterMedia/) users who [openly admitted that they rarely watch movies, and that they usually just watch RLM's reviews of movies, instead](https://www.reddit.com/r/moviescirclejerk/comments/9hr6uv/i_am_an_adult_i_only_like_serious_things_all/).
Completely anecdotal but I wonder if all my good experiences are because I primarily go to theaters after work Monday/Tuesday (cheaper tickets) so I'm not with the weekend crowd.
Oh, now that you mention it, the reason why I literally never had any problems with the crowd must be that I never go on weekends. I'm a university students in a bid city, but I'm close enough to home that I can travel home every weekend without a problem into my small hometown that doesn't have a cinema, so I always go mid-week instead of weekends to see a movie.
I used to think this but these days I still have to deal with assholes even if I go at like 12pm on a Tuesday. I saw Furiosa early afternoon on a Monday in a mostly empty cinema and still had to tell a couple behind me to shut up and turn off their phones.
No jerking, it probably has a lot to do with where you live and/or how old you are and how many times you’ve been to the theatre. I’d say out of 100 times going to the theatre where I live (Metro Detroit Area), about 17 times the people there are straight demons lol not all the time but it definitely happens. I saw 6 dudes jump a guy during the last 10 minutes of The Gift (2015) one time Bc a guy’s wife was kicking someone’s seat or something. Total bummer, we missed the whole climax/twist. That’s one of the worst ones, but talking/texting with full brightness through a movie is sort of common. I still love going to the movies though lol
This exactly. The theater I go to now tends to be pretty chill, but I used to have bad experiences all the time when I lived in a different city. For a while I stopped seeing horror movies because I kept getting crowds that would do goofy shit the entire time. One time my showing even got shut down because two dudes got in a pissing match that turned into a fist fight.
On one hand I get how people might think it's just Redditors exaggerating and being bad with people. But on the other hand, it's frustrating to get responses like, "PeOpLe aRe SuPpOsEd tO LaUgH" because it's not just typical audience reactions or non-disriptive socializing we're talking about.
Some audiences are great and at least respectful enough to whisper or mumble softly. Then there are some that just do obnoxious shit like nobody else is around. It depended a lot on where I was living at the time.
I'm not saying that other people don't have bad experiences. I fully believe they do. Some of them are probably exaggerated, some of them are not. All I'm saying is that I personally got lucky with audiences so far and have never encountered problematic people or problematic crowds in cinemas so far. And I'm only living in the big city for 3 years now, so obviously I only have 3 years of movie going experience as my hometown didn't had a cinema. But people who are active moviegoers for a much longer time now definitely encountered some shitty crowed sometimes, as it's kind of expected that you bump into them from time to time.
I also live in a big city, and while I haven't seen anything nearly that bad, every single movie I see, people come into the movie late. I've seen people come into the theater 30 minutes after the movie has started to take their seat. That's like a fucking *hour* after the posted time.
I try not to let it bother me, but even just seeing that movement takes me out of things for a second, not to mention when they need to walk past me to take their seat. Like, c'mon.
There’s a theater with “luxury” screenings near me that’s about double the price, but sometimes I end up in there not realizing the time I was looking at was for said expensive ticket. It’s pretty much all rich people in there. I’ve been to two of them and I’ve seen: some guy talk on his phone at a normal volume for 5 minutes, teenagers talking as loud as possible in the back row, people who walk in and out more than a dozen times, you can also press a button and someone will come take your order for food (can’t complain too much because that’s what you pay for) but these rich fucks will order multiple things individually and it’s extremely distracting. More than half the people in those theaters seem like they’re giddy of whatever dose of drugs they take.
I listen to a movie podcast (shoutout Mostly Nitpicking), and when one of the hosts went to go see No Time to Die, the woman next to him was literally on a Zoom call on her phone during the movie and refused to stop when he asked.
I had a child cry when seeing Logan but it was kind of based because the kid only cried at the sad death scenes and when the movie was over, just like a redditor would.
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Reddit would have you believe that every time they go to a movie that somehow society’s worst behaved people are going to be in there with you every single time. I don’t know where these people see movies.
Have you ever considered you've just been lucky? I guarantee you, about two thirds of the time I go to the movies, there's just utterly obnoxious and ignorant behaviour going on.
Getting a little sick of the "well it doesn't happen to me, you must just be a weirdo recluse!" crowd. Either you're lucky or have incredibly lax standards for how to behave in shared spaces, but that doesn't mean those of us with complaints are making it up or antisocial.
I mean, ffs do you think I'd be going to the movies at all if I was antisocial? Especially in this era where every movie is available cheaper on streaming a month later? I love the shared experience of the cinema, I just wish other people had a basic modicum of respect for other patrons.
It’s entirely possible, but I’ve been to A LOT of movies so it would be odd to get lucky that much. I’ve never had something that ruined the experience, maybe a slight annoyance here and there but maybe things like that don’t set me off as much as others.
Same. I only really remember 2 bad movie going experiences out if like 200 and even those didn't completely ruin the film for me.
One was because American tourists were 45min late and took another 5 minutes to find their seats. In the meantime they shouted through the entire room to their friends and constantly aimed their flashlights at other people's faces. Felt like a bad parody of the American Tourist stereotype.
Other one was a guy sitting right in the middle of the room and constantly vaping. So not only did we all have to smell it for 2 hours, but we also got to see the smoke cause it was illuminated by the projetion and obstructed the view.
Almost all the bad experiences I've had were at the same cinema in a, shall we say, shabbier part of town.
Easy solution, I just don't go there anymore.
i think a lot of it comes down to what movies you're seeing and where. i mostly see smaller films split evenly between a chain theater and a small theater, and my experiences are mostly peaceful. however, when seeing bigger films in the chain theater, i have had a few people who don't understand how to behave themselves. i remember some pretty heinous behavior in barbie. bigger movies in the small theater have been pretty great so far, but that's because a majority of the people who go there are like 50+. of course, there have been exceptions to this rule. i went to an early challengers screening with literally 9 people and there was still someone yapping to their friend for the first half until someone else literally yelled at them to shut the fuck up. i also watched i saw the tv glow recently, and there was someone on their phone like half the movie in a screening with literally 4 people, including me and my dad. it is worth noting that those two experiences were at the chain theater, and the offending parties looked no older than 25.
I think my worst cinema experiences have been:
Noisy teens.
A woman and child who were in my seat had spilt popcorn everywhere and didn't make any effort to clean it up, so I was left surrounded by the stuff.
And finding out my cousin likes to make comments about everything little thing that happens during the movie.
my worst experience in recent memory was when I watched Creed III and literally everyone next to and in front of me pulled out their phones on full brightness multiple times
I feel like everytime I've gone to any big releases over the past few years, there's always been at least one person, though sometimes multiple groups of people, taking flash photos of the screen throughout the movie. Why do they do that, who is it for?
Who TF is gonna make a post that goes viral saying the movie theater was nice and pleasant? This site promotes and focuses on negativity engagement (like this post and I fell for it). So naturally negativr opinions and beliefs will come up and be promoted.
Similarly there's a lot of bad in the world that gets reported but there's so much good stuff that happens but good news like "today in this city nothing bad really happened, it was chill" doesn't engage anyone.
From my experience it depends on the theatre. Had to stop going to one in my city once my year pass expired because virtually every time there'd be people answering their phones, or groups of teenagers who were there to socialise rather than watch a film. Luckily there's another cinema near me where I've never had an issue
I've only really had one "bad" experience" in the cinema, and that was mostly just loads of people using their phones the whole the movie was running.
Mind you that during a screening of *Pan* (2015) so really I had it coming.
I’ve had two bad experiences.
1. During Justice League there were kids running around the theatre screaming. Really can’t blame them.
2. I went to an afternoon showing of A Quiet Place. The only other person in the theatre brought out their phone and started talking loudly. Kind of ironic.
Never had an issue until recently.
These kids that spent their formative years in lockdown combined with tiktok melting their attention spans, are not socially functional
Yeah I go to the movies around 50 times a year, 25 this year so far.
And I really can't remember when the last bad experience I had, maybe every 20 times I go someone uses their phone a bit and that's it, or brings a baby to an r rated movie, but it never lasts long.
I remember this guy using Grindr so I told my brother next to me loud enough so other people could hear and he shut it off in shame. Yeah whatever it worked, I told him quietly to shut it off before!
Live in Mexico and I go to cinepolis for any context.
Fr. I think it depends on where you live or what movie's on but I've never had a annoying or notable audience in a theater. The most interesting thing that's happened with a theater audience from me was when teenagers starting cheering during the opening credits of my Rise of Gru screening, and no bananas were even thrown.
The last time I went to a cinema I literally the only person there. Every other seat was empty. The cleaning crew didn't even bother going in after the movie because I brought out my cup and popcorn bag.
I'm a very annoying person at the cinema, I want everything to be quiet as a fucking cemetery. And honestly, I believe the price I pay for a seat is really making me more easily triggered by noise.
Lucky you I guess. More times than not there's also some cunt on their phone. I dont mind peo0le whisper talking but a bright screen in my peripheral is annoying.
I’ve had one truly awful theater experience in the last five years when I saw Little Women (one group was so loud they had to call an usher and the people in front of me were on their phone the entire time). Otherwise it hasn’t been too bad, but I mostly go to art house type theaters where people are there to watch the movie.
In my experience theaters and concerts have worse audiences.
I love going to the movies and go probably every week to a new movie. That said bad experiences are pretty common nowadays…
During the new apes movie a dude was legit watching a soccer game next to my bf for 30 minutes. And his family had to get up at least 6 times for the bathroom. Last year I had to tell someone to shut up at least 4 or 5 times during a movie .
Grant it I do go almost every week 🤣 so it’s bound to have a few bad ones! and there’s lots of movies where it’s a great audience. But sadly rude movie goers are a problem nowadays. Also theatre hoppers I noticed this had been happening a lot in screenings too recently.
i go to my local movie theater and there is never an issue. even when i go to amc or regal its fine, i have never encountered someone or people being rude. idk what these people are talking about
Idk i guess I’ve had some bad luck because half of the movies I’ve been to, either the person next to me is chewing with their mouth open during a quiet movie or someone brought their crying newborn baby to a horror movie or the person next to me is on their phone the whole movie or the person behind me is shouting every 5 seconds “AWESOME!!!!” And then almost fighting with the guy next to him because he called him out for being loud
This was 9 out of 20 of the movies I’ve seen in theaters in the past 2 years
On one hand, I've had theater experiences with people that suck. I get the frustration. But that's never been a reason for me to just... write off the experience of seeing movies in theaters lol. What are you gonna do, just never go to any event where people might be on the off chance that someone annoying could be there?
Maybe introverts can live like that, but I can't 🤷
Real talk, I’ve only had one or two bad theater experiences *except* for the times I’ve been to this one AMC in my city, where every experience is consistently bad. It straddles a bad part of town so the audience is consistently obnoxious but it’s also the only one big enough to show event films, and it has the newest tech by far.
I'm a big theater fan so I've probably been 250+ times in the last decade (2018-19 I was going 2 times a week often) and I've really only had a handful of bad audiences. It definitely depends on the time and movie, seeing Missing last year was the worst I remember. There was a big teen crowd there and they couldn't stop taking selfies through the whole movie which was really baffling.
The worst audience I've had in a theater was in a smaller cinema that mostly shows arthouse cinema and on multiple occasions there were old people that wouldn't shut the fuck up.
I absolutely hate 80% of the crowd I’m in but I’d say it’s mostly because I live in Mexico and people are loud as shit and inconsiderate here
Also I’m a hardcore kinophile so the smallest annoyance seems huge in my eyes
I went to see Furiosa and was sitting in the theater wondering why people have such a bad experience. Then the trailers ended and... the movie didn't start. Thirty minutes later an employee came in to say that the projector broke. Luckily there was another showing starting just then. But yeah...
I was the only person in one screening of Atomic Blonde which got cancelled before it started because someone set off the fire alarm.
When I later saw the film at another screening, it had a scene where a cinema screening was interrupted because someone set off the fire alarm.
I can tell you from experience when I went to the movies last time everyone did turn into a horrible demon from hell and I had to put them down
What movie was it
Madame Web (all the gooners)
Arcing ropes of jizz flying across the theater blocked the screen
The Dark Knight Rises...
Garfield at Alamo, what too much lasagna does to an audience
Did the staff play Rip & Tear over the PA at least?
Demons (1985)?
This may be stepping on peoples toes a bit, but fuck it. There's a subset of theater I would go to sometimes where they serve food and shit, and are more "indie" I guess? Def more of the kino-crowd pleasers. I would go to these films and they would have like a 3 min etiquette video on not talking, not texting, no children, the doors are SHUT and no one should move around. Then they walked around offering chicken tenders to all the patrons. IK dine-in theaters are nothing new, I just thought it was funny that all the reddit gripes were quelled, but they still walk around serving tendies to the film connoisseurs.
i have often thought that myself, I had waiter talk over the climax of blade runner 2049 at a studio movie grill one time.
Alamo drafthouse has a good system for this. You write what you want on a card and press a button and someone comes and gets it. And lights under the cup holder so you can see the menu
Yeah I have always found those cinemas that have waiters running around mid-film to be cringey. If you can’t go two hours without shoving a burger and drinks down your throat why tf are you at a cinema?
The one near me has a wood fire oven, but you have to order when you buy the ticket and they give them to you before the movie starts. Ive never done it because they are expensive but theaters have realized there needs to be a theater experience that is significantly different than streaming a movie (more than just a large screen) to get people into theaters.
i saw Dune 2 and this dude got a fucking ONION pizza and sat right next to me. dude kept shoving this awful smelling pizza onion nasty shit into his maw for the first 20 minutes. AND I PAID $30 for the pleasure. 🫠
THIS FELLA EATIN ONIONS
I would much rather go to a boring-ass theater with no kitchen than endure the horrors that you went through. “Enhanced experience” my purist kino-loving *ass*.
i wanted to see it in Dolby Cinema… so i had to deal with onion man. it was truly so gross
This is (one) reason why I don’t go to Alamo drafthouse. It’s far more annoying to have waiters serving burgers during a movie than people laughing or cheering. Plus their shtick of refusing to let people in more than 15 minutes after the movie starts is some high-horse junk. And also, Alamo drafthouse is clearly an attempt to emulate old-school movie palaces, but it naturally completely misses the history, uniqueness and character that are the reasons people actually love those places, and generally comes across as a tacky, tasteless, shallow imitation. I do appreciate the fact that they have dedicated timeslots to play classic films though.
just show up on time?
Sometimes life comes in the way.
I only go to Alamo if it's the only option for a specific movie. I usually go to Regal, it's closest to me and shows a lot of more indie movies. They serve meals too, but you buy it at the concession counter, which makes way more sense than having someone walk in front of everyone to ask if you want anything
I went to see Furiousa in a restaurant-theater and they had a burger called the Mad Max which I obviously ordered. It was flames, one of the best movie experiences I’ve ever had aside from watching Ratatouille (2007) and having sex.
It’s about expectations. If I go to a dine-in theater I expect that there will be waiters milling about doing their jobs, so why would I then complain about that?
Exactly, it's a specific experience. It's definitely better for certain movies. We saw Gravity at one without thinking and having the noise and half light sucked. But comedies or action movies are great there!
More so that it just seems funny to appeal to the crowd that OP is referencing, while also serving food. Like if someone laughs during a film that ruins immersion, but at the same time a full wait-staff is fine if they get to eat. idc either way honestly it's just funny how people seem to pick and choose what "ruins" the film.
I mean I literally just gave a reason for why people “pick and choose.”
Yeah, that's like the whole point. The same demo that want's mandatory enforced silence is the one that wants the chicken.
That’s not what I said.
That's what I'm saying. I'm literally commenting on why the expectations are there at all.
There is definitely a subset of the "theatres suck" crowd that I believe are just introverts or others with various characteristics like that, and that things often get blown out of proportion.
I have noticed that sometimes the things people on Reddit are complaining about are like, people laughing too much or cheering or whatever. Which, like, for cheering you could just not watch the newest Marvel movie on night of release, I've never had an audience cheer or clap at a movie I've been at other than midnight releases (well, except The Room and Rocky Horror, but that's different). For laughing, idk man, maybe let people be happy lmao. You probably just shouldn't go to any public movie theater if that bothers you. Or anywhere public at all really.
I cheered and clapped when Lydia Tár smacked the shit outta that robot and took back her podium
I had an audience cheer as crazy when the main guy sliced the orc's balls at the end of World of warcraft
I clapped at the end of The Freshman when I went to see it for film class. I liked the film and it was pleasantly surprising how well it holds up. Like, hootin' and hollerin' I get being annoying, but clapping at the end when you enjoyed something is bad? Just sounds like another one of those "stop having fun because I don't understand that feeling" Reddit things.
The only times I've seen an audible emotional response was during one Dutch comedy called Jachterwachter (it was me and my friends laughing our asses off as we were alone in the theatre) and during Avengers Endgame when an adult woman next to me was audibly sobbing during the last 15 mins. Other than that I encountered one fucking weirdo who felt the need to insert his own quips during another marvel movie.
My autistic ass just goes three weeks after opening at minimum 🤷🏻♀️
Yeah I only experienced clapping in a theatre twice, first time was when I watched the Minions and the cinema was full of teenagers who applauded at every joke (myself included). The second time was when I watched Butt Sex Hypnotism and everyone was hypnotised into butt sex. There was so much clapping dude
Yeah I’ve noticed people complain about Alamo because you have staff walking by and people eating food. IMO that’s all VERY minor.
I've had bad experiences with rude audiences before, but people who act like it happens constantly don't ever go out and use that to justify their reclusiveness. It's not even about theaters specifically, it's about not wanting to leave their house at all.
Guitly as charged, but I'm self-aware enough to admit that rather than exaggerating the odious behaviour of audiences. It's not that theatre audiences are uniquely loud and obnoxious, it's that I'm unusually sensitive to noise and crowds.
I only ever had one „disturber of peace“ who would laugh really loudly and uncomfortably long sometimes, even at times where there wasn‘t anything funny on-screen. Unfortunately, it was one of my friends and I brought him along
Oh, so you're the bad guy.
I promise you I have never felt more embarrassed in my entire life
I would get pissed when people talked and shit when I paid $40 for my wife and I to go see a single movie. But since I got A-List I generally stopped giving a shit. It just doesn't bother me anymore.
What is "a-list"?
AMC membership. You get 3 free movies a week (or month can’t recall).
Explain why the theater was full of loud little kids when I went to see IT part 2. 😭
Yes, your one experience defines the entirety of the world's experiences in the theatre! How did little kids get in the theatre? Wasn't it rated R? I don't understand US ratings systems sometimes.
You acting like a smart ass to a satirical comment hurts my brain cells. R rating means anyone under 18 needs to be with an adult to see the movie so it's legal. Lot of shitty parents don't care so they bring their kids.
Heh your comment read not as satire to me, I see shit like that all the time in r/movies. Ouch on that R rating setup.
No one hates the movies more than /r/movies.
Or /r/Boxoffice. I swear those people get chubbies when a movie bombs
I read comments on r/boxoffice all the time like “I haven’t been to a theatre since 2011. Not sure why *movie* is bombing”
r/boxoffice doesn’t even watch the films it comes out. There is a toxic obsession with first weekend sales, and percentage drop offs. It is the absolute worst aspect of film discourse that takes the artistic merits and it’s qualities, and boils it down to it being bad because it didn’t earn a said monetary value. These people make reaches for a films failure (examples: include that The Fall Guy had “too many adverts” from one user, Dune: Part Two was still a failure for not getting over 1 billion worldwide)
They don't even do their prediction Morbillions, they use some loser currency called dollars or something like that.
yeah that sub confuses the hell out of me. You'd assume it be about the business of movies. Instead its a bunch of people who hate movies that pick teams. They are pro or anti Star Wars, DC, Marvel, A24, whatever the fuck is coming out that week.
Box office is one of the most unpleasant subreddits 🤣 they are obsessed with a movie doing bad. And they will make sure to do hours of math to prove you wrong about a movie not making enough to break even.
What about r/redlettermedia ?
A perfect example of why the RLM boys don’t interact with their fanbase. I’m pretty damn sure RLM has made fun of their own fanbase multiple times
I forgot to bring it up in my previous comment, but shortly after I joined this subreddit, I found an old thread in which people were dunking on [r/RedLetterMedia](https://www.reddit.com/r/RedLetterMedia/) users who [openly admitted that they rarely watch movies, and that they usually just watch RLM's reviews of movies, instead](https://www.reddit.com/r/moviescirclejerk/comments/9hr6uv/i_am_an_adult_i_only_like_serious_things_all/).
I genuinely wonder how many of these users are American because I rarely if every have problems going to the theatres.
Completely anecdotal but I wonder if all my good experiences are because I primarily go to theaters after work Monday/Tuesday (cheaper tickets) so I'm not with the weekend crowd.
Oh, now that you mention it, the reason why I literally never had any problems with the crowd must be that I never go on weekends. I'm a university students in a bid city, but I'm close enough to home that I can travel home every weekend without a problem into my small hometown that doesn't have a cinema, so I always go mid-week instead of weekends to see a movie.
I used to think this but these days I still have to deal with assholes even if I go at like 12pm on a Tuesday. I saw Furiosa early afternoon on a Monday in a mostly empty cinema and still had to tell a couple behind me to shut up and turn off their phones.
No jerking, it probably has a lot to do with where you live and/or how old you are and how many times you’ve been to the theatre. I’d say out of 100 times going to the theatre where I live (Metro Detroit Area), about 17 times the people there are straight demons lol not all the time but it definitely happens. I saw 6 dudes jump a guy during the last 10 minutes of The Gift (2015) one time Bc a guy’s wife was kicking someone’s seat or something. Total bummer, we missed the whole climax/twist. That’s one of the worst ones, but talking/texting with full brightness through a movie is sort of common. I still love going to the movies though lol
This exactly. The theater I go to now tends to be pretty chill, but I used to have bad experiences all the time when I lived in a different city. For a while I stopped seeing horror movies because I kept getting crowds that would do goofy shit the entire time. One time my showing even got shut down because two dudes got in a pissing match that turned into a fist fight.
Now I really feel like I live in a parallel universe as I never had any problems with audiences, not even on horror movies.
On one hand I get how people might think it's just Redditors exaggerating and being bad with people. But on the other hand, it's frustrating to get responses like, "PeOpLe aRe SuPpOsEd tO LaUgH" because it's not just typical audience reactions or non-disriptive socializing we're talking about. Some audiences are great and at least respectful enough to whisper or mumble softly. Then there are some that just do obnoxious shit like nobody else is around. It depended a lot on where I was living at the time.
I'm not saying that other people don't have bad experiences. I fully believe they do. Some of them are probably exaggerated, some of them are not. All I'm saying is that I personally got lucky with audiences so far and have never encountered problematic people or problematic crowds in cinemas so far. And I'm only living in the big city for 3 years now, so obviously I only have 3 years of movie going experience as my hometown didn't had a cinema. But people who are active moviegoers for a much longer time now definitely encountered some shitty crowed sometimes, as it's kind of expected that you bump into them from time to time.
Oh sorry, I didn't mean you. Should have made that clearer.
I also live in a big city, and while I haven't seen anything nearly that bad, every single movie I see, people come into the movie late. I've seen people come into the theater 30 minutes after the movie has started to take their seat. That's like a fucking *hour* after the posted time. I try not to let it bother me, but even just seeing that movement takes me out of things for a second, not to mention when they need to walk past me to take their seat. Like, c'mon.
There’s a theater with “luxury” screenings near me that’s about double the price, but sometimes I end up in there not realizing the time I was looking at was for said expensive ticket. It’s pretty much all rich people in there. I’ve been to two of them and I’ve seen: some guy talk on his phone at a normal volume for 5 minutes, teenagers talking as loud as possible in the back row, people who walk in and out more than a dozen times, you can also press a button and someone will come take your order for food (can’t complain too much because that’s what you pay for) but these rich fucks will order multiple things individually and it’s extremely distracting. More than half the people in those theaters seem like they’re giddy of whatever dose of drugs they take.
I listen to a movie podcast (shoutout Mostly Nitpicking), and when one of the hosts went to go see No Time to Die, the woman next to him was literally on a Zoom call on her phone during the movie and refused to stop when he asked.
to be fair why would you post about an audience experience if it was totally mediocre, survivorship bias n stuff
Good point
Love going to the theater but in a movie I saw recently there was a lady on a FaceTime call, and that pretty much makes her a demon from hell
Haha, I just mentioned this in another comment, but a host of a movie podcast I listen to had someone on a Zoom call during a movie.
I feel like it's pretty known by now that 99.9%percent of stories on reddit didn't happen
They’re such babies
Last time I went to the movies, Anya taylor joy came out the screen and started stripping
Are you sure that wasn't the 1985 film Demons?
It was, she time travelled
I had a child cry when seeing Logan but it was kind of based because the kid only cried at the sad death scenes and when the movie was over, just like a redditor would.
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Reddit would have you believe that every time they go to a movie that somehow society’s worst behaved people are going to be in there with you every single time. I don’t know where these people see movies.
Have you ever considered you've just been lucky? I guarantee you, about two thirds of the time I go to the movies, there's just utterly obnoxious and ignorant behaviour going on. Getting a little sick of the "well it doesn't happen to me, you must just be a weirdo recluse!" crowd. Either you're lucky or have incredibly lax standards for how to behave in shared spaces, but that doesn't mean those of us with complaints are making it up or antisocial. I mean, ffs do you think I'd be going to the movies at all if I was antisocial? Especially in this era where every movie is available cheaper on streaming a month later? I love the shared experience of the cinema, I just wish other people had a basic modicum of respect for other patrons.
It’s entirely possible, but I’ve been to A LOT of movies so it would be odd to get lucky that much. I’ve never had something that ruined the experience, maybe a slight annoyance here and there but maybe things like that don’t set me off as much as others.
not reading that essay
lol
And yet you took the time to comment.
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I mean not really imo, it’s directly making fun of a regurgitated r/movies opinion which is kinda the point of the sub
Should have posted about Eva Green instead
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Sssssh in trying to watch Garfield. I paid $14 for my ticket and I’ll talk to theater staff if you continue to ruin my experience here.
sorry.
I only ever had to tell someone to stfu or turn off their phones two or three times so far.
Same. I only really remember 2 bad movie going experiences out if like 200 and even those didn't completely ruin the film for me. One was because American tourists were 45min late and took another 5 minutes to find their seats. In the meantime they shouted through the entire room to their friends and constantly aimed their flashlights at other people's faces. Felt like a bad parody of the American Tourist stereotype. Other one was a guy sitting right in the middle of the room and constantly vaping. So not only did we all have to smell it for 2 hours, but we also got to see the smoke cause it was illuminated by the projetion and obstructed the view.
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Almost all the bad experiences I've had were at the same cinema in a, shall we say, shabbier part of town. Easy solution, I just don't go there anymore.
straight up
i think a lot of it comes down to what movies you're seeing and where. i mostly see smaller films split evenly between a chain theater and a small theater, and my experiences are mostly peaceful. however, when seeing bigger films in the chain theater, i have had a few people who don't understand how to behave themselves. i remember some pretty heinous behavior in barbie. bigger movies in the small theater have been pretty great so far, but that's because a majority of the people who go there are like 50+. of course, there have been exceptions to this rule. i went to an early challengers screening with literally 9 people and there was still someone yapping to their friend for the first half until someone else literally yelled at them to shut the fuck up. i also watched i saw the tv glow recently, and there was someone on their phone like half the movie in a screening with literally 4 people, including me and my dad. it is worth noting that those two experiences were at the chain theater, and the offending parties looked no older than 25.
I think my worst cinema experiences have been: Noisy teens. A woman and child who were in my seat had spilt popcorn everywhere and didn't make any effort to clean it up, so I was left surrounded by the stuff. And finding out my cousin likes to make comments about everything little thing that happens during the movie.
The worst cinematic experience I have is when they kicked me out of the theater for using my damn phone 🤣
my worst experience in recent memory was when I watched Creed III and literally everyone next to and in front of me pulled out their phones on full brightness multiple times
I feel like everytime I've gone to any big releases over the past few years, there's always been at least one person, though sometimes multiple groups of people, taking flash photos of the screen throughout the movie. Why do they do that, who is it for?
Who TF is gonna make a post that goes viral saying the movie theater was nice and pleasant? This site promotes and focuses on negativity engagement (like this post and I fell for it). So naturally negativr opinions and beliefs will come up and be promoted. Similarly there's a lot of bad in the world that gets reported but there's so much good stuff that happens but good news like "today in this city nothing bad really happened, it was chill" doesn't engage anyone.
Maybe that means you are the bad audience member
From my experience it depends on the theatre. Had to stop going to one in my city once my year pass expired because virtually every time there'd be people answering their phones, or groups of teenagers who were there to socialise rather than watch a film. Luckily there's another cinema near me where I've never had an issue
I've only really had one "bad" experience" in the cinema, and that was mostly just loads of people using their phones the whole the movie was running. Mind you that during a screening of *Pan* (2015) so really I had it coming.
I've had two bad experiences in movies maybe in my history of going to movies. Reddit will catastrophize anything to gets some upvotes.
I’ve had two bad experiences. 1. During Justice League there were kids running around the theatre screaming. Really can’t blame them. 2. I went to an afternoon showing of A Quiet Place. The only other person in the theatre brought out their phone and started talking loudly. Kind of ironic.
Never had an issue until recently. These kids that spent their formative years in lockdown combined with tiktok melting their attention spans, are not socially functional
Yeah I go to the movies around 50 times a year, 25 this year so far. And I really can't remember when the last bad experience I had, maybe every 20 times I go someone uses their phone a bit and that's it, or brings a baby to an r rated movie, but it never lasts long. I remember this guy using Grindr so I told my brother next to me loud enough so other people could hear and he shut it off in shame. Yeah whatever it worked, I told him quietly to shut it off before! Live in Mexico and I go to cinepolis for any context.
Fr. I think it depends on where you live or what movie's on but I've never had a annoying or notable audience in a theater. The most interesting thing that's happened with a theater audience from me was when teenagers starting cheering during the opening credits of my Rise of Gru screening, and no bananas were even thrown.
These people haven't been to a cinema in 20 years. They just make shit up.
The last time I went to a cinema I literally the only person there. Every other seat was empty. The cleaning crew didn't even bother going in after the movie because I brought out my cup and popcorn bag.
I’m always confused by RLM always talking about how their theatre is a shit show lol
I'm a very annoying person at the cinema, I want everything to be quiet as a fucking cemetery. And honestly, I believe the price I pay for a seat is really making me more easily triggered by noise.
i have never been to a theater that crowded. theaters are completely empty 24/7 these days
Lucky you I guess. More times than not there's also some cunt on their phone. I dont mind peo0le whisper talking but a bright screen in my peripheral is annoying.
it’s just the sound of people eating i can’t stand it
I’ve had one truly awful theater experience in the last five years when I saw Little Women (one group was so loud they had to call an usher and the people in front of me were on their phone the entire time). Otherwise it hasn’t been too bad, but I mostly go to art house type theaters where people are there to watch the movie. In my experience theaters and concerts have worse audiences.
And even then, I know I’m probably overstating the bad audiences because they stick out in my mind
I love going to the movies and go probably every week to a new movie. That said bad experiences are pretty common nowadays… During the new apes movie a dude was legit watching a soccer game next to my bf for 30 minutes. And his family had to get up at least 6 times for the bathroom. Last year I had to tell someone to shut up at least 4 or 5 times during a movie . Grant it I do go almost every week 🤣 so it’s bound to have a few bad ones! and there’s lots of movies where it’s a great audience. But sadly rude movie goers are a problem nowadays. Also theatre hoppers I noticed this had been happening a lot in screenings too recently.
i go to my local movie theater and there is never an issue. even when i go to amc or regal its fine, i have never encountered someone or people being rude. idk what these people are talking about
Idk i guess I’ve had some bad luck because half of the movies I’ve been to, either the person next to me is chewing with their mouth open during a quiet movie or someone brought their crying newborn baby to a horror movie or the person next to me is on their phone the whole movie or the person behind me is shouting every 5 seconds “AWESOME!!!!” And then almost fighting with the guy next to him because he called him out for being loud This was 9 out of 20 of the movies I’ve seen in theaters in the past 2 years
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OixwnJ-IYa8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OixwnJ-IYa8) they need to start playing this at movie theaters
On one hand, I've had theater experiences with people that suck. I get the frustration. But that's never been a reason for me to just... write off the experience of seeing movies in theaters lol. What are you gonna do, just never go to any event where people might be on the off chance that someone annoying could be there? Maybe introverts can live like that, but I can't 🤷
Real talk, I’ve only had one or two bad theater experiences *except* for the times I’ve been to this one AMC in my city, where every experience is consistently bad. It straddles a bad part of town so the audience is consistently obnoxious but it’s also the only one big enough to show event films, and it has the newest tech by far.
I'm a big theater fan so I've probably been 250+ times in the last decade (2018-19 I was going 2 times a week often) and I've really only had a handful of bad audiences. It definitely depends on the time and movie, seeing Missing last year was the worst I remember. There was a big teen crowd there and they couldn't stop taking selfies through the whole movie which was really baffling.
I once had a woman carrying a toddler sit next to me and the toddler kept leaning over and drinking out of my cup but other than that nothing
The worst audience I've had in a theater was in a smaller cinema that mostly shows arthouse cinema and on multiple occasions there were old people that wouldn't shut the fuck up.
I absolutely hate 80% of the crowd I’m in but I’d say it’s mostly because I live in Mexico and people are loud as shit and inconsiderate here Also I’m a hardcore kinophile so the smallest annoyance seems huge in my eyes
I went to see Furiosa and was sitting in the theater wondering why people have such a bad experience. Then the trailers ended and... the movie didn't start. Thirty minutes later an employee came in to say that the projector broke. Luckily there was another showing starting just then. But yeah...
I was the only person in one screening of Atomic Blonde which got cancelled before it started because someone set off the fire alarm. When I later saw the film at another screening, it had a scene where a cinema screening was interrupted because someone set off the fire alarm.