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EVIL DEAD RISE was not good but they could not have possibly picked a better lead actress.
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flashy_mcflash posted:I enjoyed EDR but I saw it in the theatre with the worst possible fuckboi/girl audience. I think the fact that I enjoyed it even a little with people openly talking all the way through it and getting up and walking around to talk to other groups of people in the theatre is a testament to the quality of the movie itself. I get so infuriated when I hear about this and count my lucky stars I have so many nice theater options and rarely have to go to the multiplex. Why the gently caress do these people spend money on movie tickets? I absolutely will tell people to shut the gently caress up, but it sounds your theater was such a circus that would have been pointless.
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Dec 22, 2023 14:53
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lotta people in here acting like there's any bad evil dead movies
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Dec 22, 2023 15:06
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Crescent Wrench posted:I get so infuriated when I hear about this and count my lucky stars I have so many nice theater options and rarely have to go to the multiplex. Why the gently caress do these people spend money on movie tickets? I absolutely will tell people to shut the gently caress up, but it sounds your theater was such a circus that would have been pointless. I very rarely have issues at my movie theater but all of my bad experiences have been at horror movies: Invisible Man - two old ladies were incredibly confused and started asking people in the audience to explain the movie. When the Invisible Man was in the hospital attacking everyone they started screaming "YOU GOTTA SHOOT THE AIR! THE AIR IS ATTACKING YOU!" A Quiet Place Part 2 - this was the first movie my wife and I saw since 2020 in theaters, some dude literally took a cell phone call in the middle of it until we booed him enough to leave. Last Voyage of the Demeter - I think some guy dumped his girlfriend at the beginning of the movie or something because they started arguing like crazy, then another woman in the group started backing up the guy and the two women ended up getting into a straight up fight in the theater. The whole group of 5 people then basically ran outta there by the time the previews started. There was also a guy and his wife that came in and sat real close to my wife and I. He goes "I can't wait for Dracula to kick some rear end" so I thought he was going to be cool, but like 45 min into the movie he and his wife got up and he loudly goes "THIS SUCKS rear end" and left.
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Dec 22, 2023 15:14
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A Fancy Hat posted:When the Invisible Man was in the hospital attacking everyone they started screaming "YOU GOTTA SHOOT THE AIR! THE AIR IS ATTACKING YOU!" This one kind of rules.
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Dec 22, 2023 15:19
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Crescent Wrench posted:I get so infuriated when I hear about this and count my lucky stars I have so many nice theater options and rarely have to go to the multiplex. Why the gently caress do these people spend money on movie tickets? I absolutely will tell people to shut the gently caress up, but it sounds your theater was such a circus that would have been pointless. Yeah I absolutely can and have told people to shut up but this was like half the theatre. It was actually one of the more bizarre experiences I've had because it was like a bunch of people just decided to have a party in a full movie theatre. Not quite as bad as the time a guy sat in the row in front of me in a 4DX screening of Prometheus with his very drunk girlfriend and she was extremely using the water spraying gimmick to masturbate though.
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Dec 22, 2023 15:27
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A Fancy Hat posted:I very rarely have issues at my movie theater but all of my bad experiences have been at horror movies: Yeah, my last terrible experience seeing a movie at the theater was when we went to the AMC nearby because our local place around the corner wasn't showing The VVitch, and there was a family sitting next to us where one of the younger members was whispering in Vietnamese to an older member in what sounded like them translating/explaining the entire movie as they went.
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Dec 22, 2023 15:31
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I think I've shared my NOPE story here before but a guy sitting by himself near the front got plastered because there's a liquor store next to this theater and was doing the whole "yell at the screen" thing, but he was the only person doing it. Eventually someone told him to shut up and he basically turned into Lincoln from that WKUK sketch, except instead of threatening to fight John Wilkes Booth he was threatening to suck everyone in the theater's dicks and eventually the cops had to pull him out.
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Dec 22, 2023 15:33
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Nikumatic posted:Yeah, my last terrible experience seeing a movie at the theater was when we went to the AMC nearby because our local place around the corner wasn't showing The VVitch, and there was a family sitting next to us where one of the younger members was whispering in Vietnamese to an older member in what sounded like them translating/explaining the entire movie as they went. Not a bad experience exactly, but the first time I saw The Witch was also at a big chain. I saw it at a random 1 p.m. showing or something on a weekday in a sparsely populated theater. After it ended, I was sitting there blown away by an instant classic I absolutely loved. My reverie was broken up by a woman shouting "ARE YOU KIDDING ME? JUST WHEN IT WAS STARTING TO GET GOOD!"
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Dec 22, 2023 15:39
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My favorite theatre experience is Ang Lee's Hulk where some 10 year old kid behind kept yelling "Burn!", but he didn't quite get it so he was using in place of "Awesome/Cool"
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Dec 22, 2023 16:06
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Nikumatic posted:lotta people in here acting like there's any bad evil dead movies EDR is by far the worst but it's still quite good with a lot of things to love about it.
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Dec 22, 2023 16:10
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the only bad experiences i have had is before the recliner days one of my buddies was a magnet for people behind to kick his chair every loving movie was him facing backwards yelling at people who likely accidentally bumped his chair because they gave you 2" between aisles i do not miss those days. if i ever see a non-recliner again im turning right around and getting my money back
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Dec 22, 2023 16:30
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There's only one theater near me that has the recliner and I went to go see It: Chapter 2 there. I fell asleep and had one of the most restful naps of my life through the last 20 minutes or so of that movie, it was awesome, except I was seeing it with two friends who have a podcast and wanted my opinion on the movie vs the book for the podcast. So I had really detailed thoughts for like half the film, then a bunch of "you know it kinda drags here" and then "obviously you can't really film the book ending in the same way but I just felt like the movie ending lacked the emotional punch of the book".
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Dec 22, 2023 17:21
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I'm willing to bet that a lot of reviews are based on that experience. I've certainly fallen asleep and written things kinda like that for a review (not often, I feel like it's a little dishonest), and I've been to many press screenings where multiple people are snoring away (this is always funny and a little sad when the director and/or cast is in attendance).
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Dec 22, 2023 18:02
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I'd rather have an uncomfortable chair than a recliner. These recliners are just bad for the general public and lead to people treating the theater like their home and arriving in top to bottom sweats and sandals with a bag of dim sum (this literally happened to me at a screening of Ferrari the other night) and a blanket. Take all that poo poo out of the theater and give us some stone steps to sit on. People dont deserve poo poo.
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Dec 22, 2023 18:29
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Recliners in theatres are great for the first few rows, so you're not craning your neck, but I hate when the seats in the back half recline because now you have to tilt your head down to see the movie or else you're just staring at the ceiling. It almost feels like a mistake, especially when they're the kind of seat that reclines if you lean against the back at all. The true horror is bad posture.
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Dec 22, 2023 18:34
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dorium posted:I'd rather have an uncomfortable chair than a recliner. These recliners are just bad for the general public and lead to people treating the theater like their home and arriving in top to bottom sweats and sandals with a bag of dim sum (this literally happened to me at a screening of Ferrari the other night) and a blanket. The dim sum might be crossing a line but I do not and never will dress up to go to a theatre ever again unless it's like a festival screening with a red carpet or something and even then, I might not. E: to be clear, I'm going to be clean, but I'm wearing sweats to most screenings these days.
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Dec 22, 2023 18:39
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dorium posted:I'd rather have an uncomfortable chair than a recliner. These recliners are just bad for the general public and lead to people treating the theater like their home and arriving in top to bottom sweats and sandals with a bag of dim sum (this literally happened to me at a screening of Ferrari the other night) and a blanket. We used to wear suits on planes!!
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Dec 22, 2023 18:40
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dorium posted:arriving in top to bottom sweats and sandals with a bag of dim sum (this literally happened to me at a screening of Ferrari the other night) and a blanket. lol nothing wrong with this
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Dec 22, 2023 18:42
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I dont want to be smelling anyones sweats fog or boiled pork juices when im trying to watch a movie. I can just go visit my father for that.
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Dec 22, 2023 18:45
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Lmao new thread title when I get home " The air is attacking you!"
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Dec 22, 2023 18:47
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Lord strike me down the day I don’t like the smell of boiled pork juices
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Dec 22, 2023 18:49
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Goddamn I wish theatres just ditched the popcorn machines and just had a crew of people making dumplings back there. Dumplings are a pretty drat perfect movie food.
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Dec 22, 2023 18:54
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WeaponX posted:Lord strike me down the day I don’t like the smell of boiled pork juices hey i like em, but when im getting engrossed in a Michael Mann movie the last thing i need is someone loudly masticating and slurping up soup dumplings as the release another fart attack through well worn sweats.
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Dec 22, 2023 18:55
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dorium posted:I'd rather have an uncomfortable chair than a recliner. These recliners are just bad for the general public and lead to people treating the theater like their home and arriving in top to bottom sweats and sandals with a bag of dim sum (this literally happened to me at a screening of Ferrari the other night) and a blanket. I love the recliners. I'm at a theater now about to see Poor Things and this theater has chairs, which aren't terribly uncomfortable or anything, but I miss the recliners when they aren't available. I know it's not a horror movie, but how was Ferrari? I'm seeing it the day after Christmas.
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Dec 22, 2023 18:58
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dorium posted:hey i like em, but when im getting engrossed in a Michael Mann movie the last thing i need is someone loudly masticating and slurping up soup dumplings as the release another fart attack through well worn sweats. Look if it helps a smelly fart monster is still going to be smelly in any clothing really
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Dec 22, 2023 18:59
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Rageaholic posted:lmao Penelope Cruz completely steals the movie. She went deep into her bag on this one. Adam Driver dials down the crazy Italian accent into something reasonable. Mann delivered a solid film that’s way more character study than racing action movie. He used the same cinematographer that Fincher had on The Killer and the movie MOVES when it needs to but finds some real great angles for character moments. It’s also a dad movie through and through. I had this dude next to me in the screening with the Ferrari Mechanic hat on his knee and he went “drat” during big character moments “what the hell” when something shocking happened and clapped when the Ferrari company was cleared of wrongful deaths. Mann really built out another gem for his cap.
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Dec 22, 2023 19:01
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Bringing dim sum to a movie is an absolute king move, gently caress your popcorn I want har gow E: most of the theaters in town have switched to recliner all around, but the multiplex where I saw The Matrix when it came out turned into a second-run theater, and is basically unchanged except for that they pulled the arcade out, so if I ever get nostalgic for the feeling of bubble gum crusted into a fabric seat I know where to go Phy fucked around with this message at 19:06 on Dec 22, 2023 |
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Dec 22, 2023 19:02
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Baron von Eevl posted:Eventually someone told him to shut up and he basically turned into Lincoln from that WKUK sketch, except instead of threatening to fight John Wilkes Booth he was threatening to suck everyone in the theater's dicks and eventually the cops had to pull him out. *I stand up, unbuckling my belt* Come on, people!! He can't possibly suck all our dicks!!
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Dec 22, 2023 19:04
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WeaponX posted:lol nothing wrong with this you're wildly underestimating how loud people are when they're trying to eat out of take-out containers in the dark. it sounds stupid but holy poo poo it's noisy and it always takes them forever.
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Dec 22, 2023 19:23
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flashy_mcflash posted:I enjoyed EDR but I saw it in the theatre with the worst possible fuckboi/girl audience. I think the fact that I enjoyed it even a little with people openly talking all the way through it and getting up and walking around to talk to other groups of people in the theatre is a testament to the quality of the movie itself. flashy_mcflash posted:Yeah I absolutely can and have told people to shut up but this was like half the theatre. It was actually one of the more bizarre experiences I've had because it was like a bunch of people just decided to have a party in a full movie theatre. A Fancy Hat posted:I very rarely have issues at my movie theater but all of my bad experiences have been at horror movies: For everyone who's had a poor experience at the theater, I'm very sorry that happened to you. You made the effort to head out to the theater and spent good money to have a nice time out. I do hope you gave the theater the chance to make things right for you. At my theater, we have managers that it absolutely makes their day to deal with someone being disruptive. That said, I would say that one of the negatives from quarantine is that people have forgotten how to behave in public. For a while in the preshow stuff after reopening, we had a PSA of sorts reminding people that you're not at home so no vaping/smoking, don't be loud, get off your phone and stay dressed. That one struck me as so odd I asked my boss about it and he was 'yep, you should hear the stories during the conference calls'. Granted, not every disruptive is going to be like the night we had some underage manage to get into a R rated movie, snuck in booze, and ended up fully stripping and having sex in the auditorium. I was heading out for the night and got to see security arguing with a can barely stand naked girl about putting her clothes back on. As far as recliners go, that's pretty much the norm at this point. By me, the only theater that still has the old row rack bolted to the floor seating's over at The Guild which is the indie old single screen theater. Our recliners at least have a button to adjust how much you recline. I will admit they're very comfy and I've dozed off on occasion in one.
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Dec 22, 2023 19:27
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My personal thing with these end of year lists is that people keep putting Scream 6 on them and that's one of my least favorite horror movies I saw all year, and definitely my least favorite that's actually getting praise places. Stuff like Blood and Honey was worse, but everyone knew that going in.
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Dec 22, 2023 19:34
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Scream 5 was passable if only for the old characters having some good moments, but 6 was one of the worst movies I've seen in recent years horror or not. It flew past the line of satirizing horror genres and became a real time self-parody. \/  I even completely forgot about that, but yes.
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Dec 22, 2023 19:46
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Scream 6's biggest problem was nobody goddam dying. Everyone was invulnerable and walked just fine after getting stabbed 50 times
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long-rear end nips Diane posted:My personal thing with these end of year lists is that people keep putting Scream 6 on them and that's one of my least favorite horror movies I saw all year, and definitely my least favorite that's actually getting praise places. Stuff like Blood and Honey was worse, but everyone knew that going in. I think there's just such a surplus of goodwill built up around Scream that any serviceable Scream sequel is going to probably get a little too much praise. Also, these lists always try to make sure they have at least a few big mainstream movies on them, they typically try to mix those in so that they don't seem too far up their own rear end.
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flashy_mcflash posted:Yeah I absolutely can and have told people to shut up but this was like half the theatre. It was actually one of the more bizarre experiences I've had because it was like a bunch of people just decided to have a party in a full movie theatre. so i've never sat in a 4dx screening and i'm finding this hard to picture. like has she got a full on showerhead over there or what dorium posted:Penelope Cruz completely steals the movie. She went deep into her bag on this one. Adam Driver dials down the crazy Italian accent into something reasonable. Mann delivered a solid film that’s way more character study than racing action movie. He used the same cinematographer that Fincher had on The Killer and the movie MOVES when it needs to but finds some real great angles for character moments. cruz is 100% the highlight, does some serious facial acting. this is a big time face movie, and as a lover of cinema featuring weird faces I appreciated it. this was the first time I did a dolby cinema and there's no way this movie lives up to that in any other setting, the doppler effect and vibrating seats when a car blasts across the screen was a hoot
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DeimosRising posted:so i've never sat in a 4dx screening and i'm finding this hard to picture. like has she got a full on showerhead over there or what There are two little mister/sprayer nozzles on a little rail in front of your seat that spray at various points during the movie (in Prometheus, for example, when the eggs would explode). This lady had her feet up on the rail so the mister would spray directly into her business while she giggled and moaned. This was my first and last 4DX screening.
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Dec 22, 2023 20:19
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DeimosRising posted:so i've never sat in a 4dx screening and i'm finding this hard to picture. like has she got a full on showerhead over there or what I've heard a lot of mixed about 4dx, most of it leaning towards the negative. From my understanding the water effect is you get hit with a misting.
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Dec 22, 2023 20:30
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D-Box was the peak of interactive seat cinema when I saw Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift in them. Sliding with the cars in the seat was sick.
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dorium posted:D-Box was the peak of interactive seat cinema when I saw Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift in them. Sliding with the cars in the seat was sick. DBox is one of those where for some movies it's incredibly worth it, and others it's a total 'meh'.
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