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fruitpunch posted:Because I do shift work, I do most of my cinema time midweek in the afternoons, and usually it's me, my girlfriend and maybe 10 other people at most. And the most we pay for tickets is £8 for two because Orange Wednesdays are the poo poo. I love seeing movies in the theater, I would go 3/4 times a week if i could manage it Those old ladies sound great. But yeah I'm in the UK as well and only a handful of times in my cinema going life have I had people making enough noise to distract me from the movie. And I've been to the movies in America a few times as well, and the audiences were just as quiet as UK audiences. I have to think that some of the posters here are exaggerating.
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The quality of an audience seems like the sort of thing that varies based on how many people are in the auditorium, what time of day it is, what kind of movie it is, the demographic makeup of the area (especially age level), and who knows what else.
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Agreed. This'll probably pretentious as gently caress, but this is why I find myself much more frequently going to art house stuff and avoiding blockbuster type stuff.
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I'm blessed with the ability to tune out the audience and focus on what's on the screen. I can only think of one or two poor theater experiences off the top of my head. On the other hand, count me among the easily distracted if I have a laptop around me.
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Just go at night midweek, like I do. Just this year I saw Django Unchained and Argo in theaters completely empty. There were some annoying teenagers in Fruitvale Station, but they were sad and quiet by the end. Also our theater is awesome and just opened last December and has Imax. I'm pretty sure there's a theater building boom going on again in the USA, I don't know what else to tell you.
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goku im piss posted:Do you think a negative theater experience affected your opinion of a film when you first watched it? When I saw Saving Private Ryan in theaters, during the opening assault scene, I realized the woman behind me had a sleeping toddler in her lap. The kid woke up and started crying at all the noise and violence, so she started smacking him on the butt to keep him quiet. I was just a dumb teenager at the time and had no idea what to do to remedy the situation, so I felt worse for the kid behind me than I did for anything on screen. Because of the insanity behind me, I was actually annoyed at the movie's plot and that so many good kids were sacrificed for some douchebag who didn't even want to leave the front. It was a rough few hours, and clearly has haunted me since. I feel remorse for not saying something, or reporting her to the theater, or doing anything but stewing about it. I do want to rewatch the film, but I'm sure I'll just spend the whole time thinking of that poor kid and wondering what happened to him. On the flip side, I'm sure I enjoyed American Pie mostly because the audience was bonkers for it. "Say My Name, Bitch!" made me laugh harder than it should have, mainly due to the collective joy of the audience.
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goku im piss posted:How many people here have really given up on seeing theatrical features when they premiere because of negative theater experiences? I wouldn't say I've given up but I'm a lot more hesitant to go. I think the one that turned the tide was seeing District 9 in a jammed theater sitting next to a guy with three kids who either couldn't read or couldn't see the alien subtitles. Listening this guy hammer away dozens of line in a ridiculous voice was a disaster. Imagine Homer Simpson reciting Shakespeare or something like that. They could probably curb some of this behavior if they started jacking up the ticket prices, but yea, at that point I'd rather just have 2-3 months of Netflix service rather than sit in a theater for two hours and take a gamble on something I may not even like. goku im piss posted:Do you think a negative theater experience affected your opinion of a film when you first watched it? Were you able to power through the distractions and the overall crap around you and absorb the film correctly, or were you so distracted and put off that the film's negative qualities were amplified by the surroundings. Depends on the genre but it has to definitely.
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Zogo posted:I wouldn't say I've given up but I'm a lot more hesitant to go. I think the one that turned the tide was seeing District 9 in a jammed theater sitting next to a guy with three kids who either couldn't read or couldn't see the alien subtitles. Listening this guy hammer away dozens of line in a ridiculous voice was a disaster. Imagine Homer Simpson reciting Shakespeare or something like that. Yeah, the worst thing about the movies is totally a cool dad who was trying to make something with subtitles accessible to his kids. It isn't like the previews for that film clearly stated that a full half of the film needed to be read. Sounds like someone making the best of a bad situation.
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fenix down posted:Your solution is great, but don't you think your opinion is a bit of a generalization based on one time in ten years? You misunderstand. It wasn't the Django screening that had me swear off theatres, it was the hundreds of screenings 10+ years ago that made my friends and I give up on theatres. I actually dated a girl who worked at a theatre at one point, so we saw everything there was to see for about a 5 year period since it was free for us. After a while, the few pros of seeing a movie at the theatre just couldn't outweigh the ever-growing list of cons, so eventually we just said gently caress it and never went back. I can't even remember what the last movie I saw in theatres was, besides Django, it was so long ago now. Maybe one of the LoTR movies?
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Kunzelman posted:Yeah, the worst thing about the movies is totally a cool dad who was trying to make something with subtitles accessible to his kids. It isn't like the previews for that film clearly stated that a full half of the film needed to be read. Sounds like someone making the best of a bad situation. god shut up
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When I saw Pacific Rim opening weekend there was a kid in the front row who kept lifting his phone up and recording the monster parts. I was pretty far back so it wasn't too distracting but what the gently caress, man. I would've complained but I really don't want to have to miss any of the movie I just paid $12 to see to tattle on some shithead.
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Kunzelman posted:Yeah, the worst thing about the movies is totally a cool dad who was trying to make something with subtitles accessible to his kids. It isn't like the previews for that film clearly stated that a full half of the film needed to be read. Sounds like someone making the best of a bad situation. It seems bringing 6-7 year old kids to an R rated movie is a bad situation under any circumstance I can think of offhand. Even when there aren't any subtitles a kid will be prone to asking questions about many adult themes and situations that their brains cannot process. This invariably leads to asking questions or crying.
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goku im piss posted:This Dovetails into another question, I saw Kubrick's The Killing in less than ideal circumstances- at some point the picture started running backwards and upside down, and it happened that someone had put in the reel wrong. Fixing that took a while, and when the movie started up again, the tension was kinda gone and nobody took it seriously- there were a lot of chuckles at what should have been scenes of shocking violence.
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Seeing 'Freddy Vs Jason' in a full cinema of people convinced me that it was a much better film than it is. I went back to see it a week later with my friend after telling her how great it was and there was only about 10 people there and I shamefully realised my mistake. 'Drag me to Hell' was a similar thing, though it holds up much better on repeat viewings. Seeing it at a screening where a guy on my row actually screamed at one point was fantastic.
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Are there any good documentaries on Nirvana and/or grunge?
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Eight Is Legend posted:Are there any good documentaries on Nirvana and/or grunge? I haven't seen it but I think 1991: The Year Punk Broke is considered kinda authoritative on that subject.
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LtKenFrankenstein posted:I haven't seen it but I think 1991: The Year Punk Broke is considered kinda authoritative on that subject. It's pretty much just concerts plus footage of Sonic Youth and Kurt loving around if I recall, but I do remember a particularly messy performance by Nirvana where Kurt stomps through a snare drum and Dave gets on the mic. So, yes, probably.
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Eight Is Legend posted:Are there any good documentaries on Nirvana and/or grunge? Hype! is pretty decent. There's also one at Channel Awesome about Tad called Busted Circuits and Ringing Ears http://networkawesome.com/2013-2-13/doc-tad-busted-circuits-and-ringing-ears
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There's a couple of Cobain/Nirvana documentaries on Netflix Instant
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My favorite Cobain documentary is Last Days.
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I like the one with a monotonic British narrator that heavily implies that Courtney Love had Kurt killed and threw El Duce from the Mentors under a train for telling people she tried to hire him to orchestrate Kurt's death.
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FreudianSlippers posted:I like the one with a monotonic British narrator that heavily implies that Courtney Love had Kurt killed and threw El Duce from the Mentors under a train for telling people she tried to hire him to orchestrate Kurt's death. They turned that into an episode of Law & Order.
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FreudianSlippers posted:I like the one with a monotonic British narrator that heavily implies that Courtney Love had Kurt killed and threw El Duce from the Mentors under a train for telling people she tried to hire him to orchestrate Kurt's death. That's the same dude that did that BBC special about Michael Jackson probably loving kids.
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FreudianSlippers posted:I like the one with a monotonic British narrator that heavily implies that Courtney Love had Kurt killed and threw El Duce from the Mentors under a train for telling people she tried to hire him to orchestrate Kurt's death. Baron von Eevl posted:That's the same dude that did that BBC special about Michael Jackson probably loving kids. One of these things is a lot more likely than the other.
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Skwirl posted:One of these things is a lot more likely than the other. Full list of all the porn in Michael Jackson's house: http://www.sbscpublicaccess.org/docs/ctdocs/011805pltreqaseemd.pdf
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A specific movie question about BTTF 3 The movie starts out with Marty in 1955 working with 1955 Doc. From the letter left behind by 1885 Doc, they find the original Delorean. This car is in full working order. Marty takes this Delorean (A) back to 1885 and the gas tank gets damaged, and he runs out of gas. Marty meets up with Doc in 1885 and gets ready to rescue him. They can't use this Delorean (A) as is, because without gasoline (that doesn't exist in 1885) the engine won't run. They also can't use the other Delorean (B) because if they do, it won't be there in 1955 for Marty to take back to 1885, creating a paradox. This is pretty much the crux of the movie. They even go so far as to repair the gas tank and try whiskey in place of gas, destroying the fuel injector in the process. If they can repair the gas tank on Delorean (A), what would prevent them from siphoning the gas from Delorean (B)? At worst, Marty and Doc in 1955 would have to fill the gas tank with gasoline, something that existed in 1955. I know the real answer is that there'd be no movie otherwise, but is there some other in-universe reason I've glossed over?
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Wouldn't the lack of gasoline still create a paradox? I mean, he could have just filled it up, but he didn't, so...
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CzarChasm posted:A specific movie question about BTTF 3 I thought they did not have time or equipment to get to the car that was in the mine.
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Doc's smart enough to know you don't store a car with gasoline in the vehicle - it'll break down and gum the hell out of everything within a pretty short period of time. He'd have drained it out, though what he did with it is anyone's guess. Though, I'm no car-ologist, but wouldn't the leaded gasoline of 1955 have been problematic to the 1985 delorean? If Doc DID bleed out the gas before storing it in 1885, all they'd have available in the 50's would have been leaded.
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Mortanis posted:Though, I'm no car-ologist, but wouldn't the leaded gasoline of 1955 have been problematic to the 1985 delorean? If Doc DID bleed out the gas before storing it in 1885, all they'd have available in the 50's would have been leaded.
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During the scene where they're at the drive-in, getting ready to send Marty back, Doc does mention putting gas in the tank. There's no mention beforehand of the tank being dry in the mine, but I think it's probably an okay assumption to make that Doc would've drained the tank back in 1885.
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I was wondering if someone could kindly ID a film that I can't remember the title of. Here is what I remember. I think it's a short film, directed by a young female director, former student of University of Texas (I think), currently resides in California. I believe her ethnic background is Asian, or mixed. It's a biographical film, based on the family of this director whose mother either abandoned her children or left to work somewhere and did not come back. I think in the film one of the kids, or the whole family attempts to look for mother. I don't know what happens in the end. I saw an interview with the director on Vimeo where she talked that she made the film in a short period of time/on a shoe string budget. I remember hearing that the film did well either on South by South West film festival or SF Film Festival. drat it, these are very hazy details, but please can someone help me identify this film. Thank you.
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CzarChasm posted:A specific movie question about BTTF 3 I mean, it's not the in-universe explanation, but from what I read refined gasoline's chemical composition breaks down in such a way that after a certain amount of time it can no longer be processed by a combustion engine. The problem would be that because Doc had Marty come so long after he arrived that the gasoline would have already gone bad.
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bornbytheriver posted:I was wondering if someone could kindly ID a film that I can't remember the title of. You'll probably have better luck asking in this thread: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2177344
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SiKboy posted:You'll probably have better luck asking in this thread: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2177344 Thank you.
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For English language movies that have foreign characters who are supposed to be speaking their own language, usually their dialogue is conveyed in subtitles (if it's not a Hollywood blockbuster movie and/or the amount of foreign language is minimal) or they just speak English but with an accent, and the audience understands that they are supposed to be speaking their native language. The Hunt for Red October had a slightly different approach that I enjoyed -- the Russians initially spoke in Russian with subs then there was a zoom-in transition and they started speaking English with a Russian accent, with the understanding that they were in fact still speaking Russian. Was that approach original to that movie? And are there any other methods that have been tried to deal with the issue of foreign language in an English language movie? e: I guess another movie that handled it in a somewhat original manner was Inglorious Basterds, where the switch to English in the intro scene was worked into a necessary plot point (so the hidden Jewish family wouldn't understand the conversation) but I have to think at least part of the existence of that plot point was so that the entire conversation wouldn't have to be subtitled.
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regulargonzalez posted:For English language movies that have foreign characters who are supposed to be speaking their own language, usually their dialogue is conveyed in subtitles (if it's not a Hollywood blockbuster movie and/or the amount of foreign language is minimal) or they just speak English but with an accent, and the audience understands that they are supposed to be speaking their native language. The Hunt for Red October had a slightly different approach that I enjoyed -- the Russians initially spoke in Russian with subs then there was a zoom-in transition and they started speaking English with a Russian accent, with the understanding that they were in fact still speaking Russian. Was that approach original to that movie? And are there any other methods that have been tried to deal with the issue of foreign language in an English language movie? The 13th Warrior does this, and ties it into the narrative as well.
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BIZORT posted:There's a couple of Cobain/Nirvana documentaries on Netflix Instant There's an interesting one that covers the recording of Nevermind. Has Butch Vig going over the old tapes and tracks.
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