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poisonpill posted:Movies from last year that are worth seeing in theaters: Thr Boy and the Heron; Barbie; Oppenheimer Godzilla Minus One on the biggest drat screen you can find. I'm going to watch it in theaters again tomorrow 
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My biggest issue when I go to big chain theaters is the complete lack of any effort to enforce the rules for audience behavior. If you are playing on your phone or talking loudly or eating smelly outside food then your rear end should get kicked to the curb.
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Jan 26, 2024 14:05
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Finally saw Barbie. It was fun and entertaining. Did not expect to see Rob Brydon appear as Sugar Daddy Ken.
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Crescent Wrench posted:My biggest issue when I go to big chain theaters is the complete lack of any effort to enforce the rules for audience behavior. If you are playing on your phone or talking loudly or eating smelly outside food then your rear end should get kicked to the curb. I will never step foot in a theatre except alamo drafthouse ever again
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Jan 26, 2024 14:15
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Hell is other people.
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Gnome de plume posted:they missed a chance to do the Corn Jabbar The butter is... scalding hot!! *hovers twizzler over your carotid arteries* Yes, it is
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kalel posted:I will never step foot in a theatre except alamo drafthouse ever again There's an independent theater here called Nitehawk that's in the Alamo model that makes it really, really hard to settle for anything else.
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Jan 26, 2024 15:13
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Bummed that the independent cinema near me that I really liked closed the other year. There's a fundraiser trying to get it reopened but it's pretty far from its target
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think i said it before but i remember the exact moment i knew that going to the cinema was up, when i went to see the rerelease of HEAT in what would be considered one of the big arthouse cinemas in dublin. some fucker was taking photos of the screen on their phone. right then i knew cinema was dead.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:think i said it before but i remember the exact moment i knew that going to the cinema was up, when i went to see the rerelease of HEAT in what would be considered one of the big arthouse cinemas in dublin. some fucker was taking photos of the screen on their phone. right then i knew cinema was dead. Lmao some dude was doing this when I went to see Ferrari. And he wasn't taking pictures of anything notable either.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:think i said it before but i remember the exact moment i knew that going to the cinema was up, when i went to see the rerelease of HEAT in what would be considered one of the big arthouse cinemas in dublin. some fucker was taking photos of the screen on their phone. right then i knew cinema was dead.
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I put my phone on do not disturb while at Godzilla -1.0 and the loving thing still rang right in the quietest emotional breakdown scene right in the middle. I rarely even get like one phonecall a week and I thought do not disturb silenced the ringtone anyway. I was the bad patron. starkebn fucked around with this message at 16:40 on Jan 26, 2024 |
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Even though I have a slider on my phone to mute calls. I still turn my phone off. Don't trust software to work
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I always check my phone's on silent in the cinema even though I've never taken it off silent in the last decade
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The pro movie theater strat is to only go to 21+ theaters
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Or even better, don't go at all.
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Jan 26, 2024 16:47
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I go to see movies on cheap ticket day three or four weeks after release and sit close enough that the screen fills my entire field of vision. people could be fiddling with their phones and I'd never know because the movie is all I see.
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Gutcruncher posted:The pro movie theater strat is to only go to 21+ theaters I thought most of those shut down? I know there's only one left in New York, and that's mainly for the Hasidic community
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Gripweed posted:I thought most of those shut down? I know there's only one left in New York, and that's mainly for the Hasidic community I don’t know about nation wide but I live within walking distance of one and short driving distance of another, and it’s always the way to go. Truly a blessing
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Always seems like I'm going to see stuff that nobody gives a poo poo about or three weeks after the fact- never like more than 5 people in the theater Most crowded thing I went to recently was Boy and The Heron Still have not encountered a guy loudly shoving an onion pizza up his rear end or a child puking in the aisles or something in recent memory
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Gutcruncher posted:I don’t know about nation wide but I live within walking distance of one and short driving distance of another, and it’s always the way to go. Truly a blessing I think Gripweed is joking about porno theaters. Which do still kinda exist, if you are willing to count the sad simulacra that some adult book stores and bathhouses call their "theater room".
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LanceHunter posted:I think Gripweed is joking about porno theaters. They all have holes in the walls and I have no idea why. Maybe they should stop hiring contractors who do shoddy work.
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Mega Comrade posted:Even though I have a slider on my phone to mute calls. I still turn my phone off. There was a golden era where I knew how to reliably silence my phone and now I honestly have no idea. Google somehow either removed the ability to make notification sounds not happen in Do Not Disturb or they buried it beyond recognition. (I still want to see them and get them on my Fitbit, but the sound is always there unless I go full silent)
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Jose Oquendo posted:They all have holes in the walls and I have no idea why. Maybe they should stop hiring contractors who do shoddy work. Hey now, those are the video booths. Totally different than the theater rooms. Don't misrepresent pervert culture!
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it sucks, but you just cant go to big theaters on the weekend anymore. just go when kids are in school. i can still do small indie theaters on the weekend because they dont show blockbusters. saw poor things in an amazing, old theater on a saturday and it was bliss.
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Arc Hammer posted:Godzilla Minus One on the biggest drat screen you can find. I wish it was showing at any of the theatres near me
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starkebn posted:I put my phone on do not disturb while at Godzilla -1.0 and the loving thing still rang right in the quietest emotional breakdown scene right in the middle. I rarely even get like one phonecall a week and I thought do not disturb silenced the ringtone anyway. You too huh, right in that silent scene. gently caress phones
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Only reason to go to anything bigger than an alamo drafthouse is for imax, and even then it’s usually not worth it
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out of purely economic curiosity, are goons going to the cinema with friends/family/fuckbuddies or shamefully alone? not intended to shame the loners despite the previous use of the word “shamefully, it just slipped in there
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Jan 26, 2024 18:40
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Once that dune popcorn bucket comes out, the cost of movie tickets will be halved
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yeah i dont know why it is just so much more fun for me to go to theaters with someone. you cant even talk during the movie. but ive only gone alone a handful of times and it just isnt as fun. the most recent time i went alone was when i did a barbenheimer because everyone else i know is smart and didnt want to do it.
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dreezy posted:out of purely economic curiosity, are goons going to the cinema with friends/family/fuckbuddies or shamefully alone? not intended to shame the loners despite the previous use of the word “shamefully, it just slipped in there If it's a big event movie or something that has hype (Barbie, Oppenheimer, etc.) I go with people for that communal thing. Friends mostly. Dune is my Dad's fave book so the one time he goes to the movie theatre this year will be with me to see Part 2. If it's artier/weirder (Asteroid City, Zone of Interest) I go alone to have an experience. Wish the trailer wasn't so long and didn't give away so much but this got a few hell yeahs out of me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8zxiB5Qhsc
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Quantum of Phallus posted:think i said it before but i remember the exact moment i knew that going to the cinema was up, when i went to see the rerelease of HEAT in what would be considered one of the big arthouse cinemas in dublin. some fucker was taking photos of the screen on their phone. right then i knew cinema was dead. I hope they were summarily executed
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having not seen godzilla -1, is it worth going to a showing of godzilla -1 in black and white? I'd like to see the movie but this version seems to be the only one playing and I heard color being called out as an important part of the movie. I had zero interest in mad max fury road chrome edition
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kalel posted:having not seen godzilla -1, is it worth going to a showing of godzilla -1 in black and white? I'd like to see the movie but this version seems to be the only one playing and I heard color being called out as an important part of the movie. I had zero interest in mad max fury road chrome edition Apparently it's not just a filter, they actually hosed with contrast and stuff in specific shots to make it look nice in black and white. I don't really see the point, but I didn't see the point of the black and white versions of Mad Max or The Mist either.
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dreezy posted:out of purely economic curiosity, are goons going to the cinema with friends/family/fuckbuddies or shamefully alone? not intended to shame the loners despite the previous use of the word “shamefully, it just slipped in there Usually with people, but I might go see Poor Things alone because it looks like it might be a perv movie.
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I'm fine with never setting foot in a cinema again. I do have one single fond memory of going to the cinema, going with my nana to see Basil the Great Mouse Detective in what must have been 1986. Every other time it was just a terrible place filled with sticky floors and loud people. Generally I did go to the cinema with friends a few times, it seemed we ended up almost exclusively seeing terrible things like Prometheus. We also went to see the Ghostbusters anniversary rerelease and my friend spent the entire time ranting about how grainy and awful it was and maybe this was the one time the DVD blurring up the image was a bonus. Near where I lived before in Glasgow the local Odeon did adult-only midnight viewings, often I'd watch films by myself and that was fine (like often there were no other customers, I think the busiest screening I saw was some Harry Potter and it was me, one other guy, and two women together), though I can't imagine it was profitable for them.
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Yeah ill see movies with friends when possible but there’s something to be said about just loving going to the movie when you want without having to do a “find a time that works for everyone buy tickets lol oops someone now says that time doesn’t work anymore” song and dance.
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Theatres are dead, but countdown until some company starts displaying movies in the sky using a drone for each pixel and you pay for the audio like in the old drive-ins.
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dreezy posted:out of purely economic curiosity, are goons going to the cinema with friends/family/fuckbuddies or shamefully alone? not intended to shame the loners despite the previous use of the word “shamefully, it just slipped in there I either go with my partner (movies she wants to see) or on my own (movies I want to see)
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