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Krowley posted:The people who genuinely think VR helmets are gonna be the new cinematic experience don't really have many friends VR in gaming is going to be a bust too.
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duz posted:The only time I've been to the Drafthouse and it approached that was for How To Train Your Dragon at an afternoon showing where they let kids in. You have to remember the types of people that go to the Drafthouse are generally the types that also want a pleasant viewing experience. And you get to do things like see Magnificent Seven on the big screen. This is outstanding. There's a new Alamo Drafthouse being built in Omaha and until now I just assumed it would be another movie/grill/bar experience like a lot of the other theaters in town have done. If they really do enforce the no talking/texting that might actually get me to go there (more than the food and beer, since that's not a novelty anymore). It surprises me, though, that they're building where they are... it's in the suburbs and I'd think most of the moviegoers there would be teens and families.
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Krowley posted:The people who genuinely think VR helmets are gonna be the new cinematic experience don't really have many friends They'll likely prop up the VR porn industry for quite some time.
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VR gaming will be (is?) neat, but watching a film in oculus would be like watching a play while sitting on the stage, amidst the actors and in the set. And if it isn't, why wouldn't you just watch it on a screen? Honestly, some kind of TV that can produce a real 3D effect (wherein the layers have some amount of physical depth, enough to trick the eye but not requiring any kind of special glasses) would be way cooler, and far more preferable to watch. EDIT: Dead people with an oculus on their head, fleshlight on their dick, and an exploded heart in their chest is going to be the way many goons pass from this mortal coil, I'd imagine
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Surlaw posted:I'm American and therefore required to buy three meals worth of theater food before I can properly complain about how gross and loud everyone else around me is. It's only fair. 30 bucks for a non-matinee including the pint of rum I bring in for my coke. This is in Chicago. Plus, with the AMC stubs card and how often I go to the movies (along with friends using my stubs number to buy their online tickets and not pay a fee) my tickets to every second or third film are basically free.
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It's closer to $65 when I factor in the pants I need to buy to leave the house. No thanks
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Surlaw posted:It's closer to $65 when I factor in the pants I need to buy to leave the house. No thanks
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Seaniqua posted:It surprises me, though, that they're building where they are... it's in the suburbs and I'd think most of the moviegoers there would be teens and families. You have to be over 18 to enter the theater without a parent or guardian.
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Seaniqua posted:This is outstanding. There's a new Alamo Drafthouse being built in Omaha and until now I just assumed it would be another movie/grill/bar experience like a lot of the other theaters in town have done. If they really do enforce the no talking/texting that might actually get me to go there (more than the food and beer, since that's not a novelty anymore). It surprises me, though, that they're building where they are... it's in the suburbs and I'd think most of the moviegoers there would be teens and families. Ugh. It's so frustrating going back to Vegas from Omaha because the theater options here are poo poo and the limited release stuff might get a pity screen for a week in one of the casinos if I'm lucky. I miss Filmstreams enough as it is and now they get a Drafthouse.
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Why isn't the Drafthouse building a theater in actually inhabited New York City? Its crazy that I have to travel a good distance to get anything approaching a good cinema experience.
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Seaniqua posted:This is outstanding. There's a new Alamo Drafthouse being built in Omaha and until now I just assumed it would be another movie/grill/bar experience like a lot of the other theaters in town have done. If they really do enforce the no talking/texting that might actually get me to go there (more than the food and beer, since that's not a novelty anymore). It surprises me, though, that they're building where they are... it's in the suburbs and I'd think most of the moviegoers there would be teens and families. They'll enforce it if you raise an order card to let the server know since they're not just hanging out in the theater. Only time I got to see it in action was during a Back to the Future marathon, a couple groups got warned during an intermission and reminded that was their one warning, next time was ejection. Shageletic posted:Why isn't the Drafthouse building a theater in actually inhabited New York City? Its crazy that I have to travel a good distance to get anything approaching a good cinema experience. They only just started expanding this past year(ish), and under a franchise structure. Give them time and they'll end up everywhere with the way the cinema business is going.
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duz posted:They'll enforce it if you raise an order card to let the server know since they're not just hanging out in the theater. Only time I got to see it in action was during a Back to the Future marathon, a couple groups got warned during an intermission and reminded that was their one warning, next time was ejection. Intermission? Like the pause between two movies where there isn't anything to watch? That's like the time a guy yelled at me for pulling my phone out after the screen cut to black and the credits started to roll during Ghost Busters.
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i'm still just glad i have movie theaters here where people are quiet and respectful and i'm not surrounded by drunk guys eating philly cheesesteaks
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Seaniqua posted:This is outstanding. There's a new Alamo Drafthouse being built in Omaha and until now I just assumed it would be another movie/grill/bar experience like a lot of the other theaters in town have done. If they really do enforce the no talking/texting that might actually get me to go there (more than the food and beer, since that's not a novelty anymore). It surprises me, though, that they're building where they are... it's in the suburbs and I'd think most of the moviegoers there would be teens and families. They do enforce it heavily. You first put up a card on your table saying that a specific person is talking if he isn't caught. I one time got this dude kicked out because he kept talking throughout some random movie I went to go see and was also constantly on his phone. Its legit. Uncle Boogeyman posted:i'm still just glad i have movie theaters here where people are quiet and respectful and i'm not surrounded by drunk guys eating philly cheesesteaks Ok calm down no one is actually getting loving hammered.
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I must just have good luck. The only time in years where an audience member was consistently loud was at an 11 AM John Wick matinee where some dude in the front was just tipping back 40s and occasionally shouting at the screen. But I was bored by the movie so I actually kinda appreciated that.
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Len posted:Intermission? Like the pause between two movies where there isn't anything to watch? No, that's when the server warned them, probably because someone complained in person when everyone was walking around instead of raising a card during the final act of BttF2.
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The REAL Goobusters posted:
Ol' Coor's jacket is.
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http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/12/feds-sony-hackers-next-target-will-be-an-unnamed-news-organization/ GoP have announced that their next target will be a US news organization. Sounds like a hollow threat to me but if it is true I hope it's Gawker.
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I wish I could've seen The Newsroom version of the this whole event.
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If it's Fox News, all is forgiven. I'd love to see the dirt behind that place.
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Stare-Out posted:If it's Fox News, all is forgiven. I'd love to see the dirt behind that place.
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Oh my god... http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/south-korean-activists-to-drop-the-interview-into-north-by-balloon-1.2887230?cmp=rss
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The REAL Goobusters posted:Ok calm down no one is actually getting loving hammered. the cheesesteaks are the real dealbreaker
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Stare-Out posted:If it's Fox News, all is forgiven. I'd love to see the dirt behind that place. We already know about the anti-gay bunker so I can't imagine it gets much worse.
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The irony of the Drafthouse is that for all their pride in getting people to be quiet for the movie, there will always be the intermittent scuttling around of servers in front of you to see if anyone's made new drink orders, and the occasional whispering to ask a question about said order, which always takes me out of the movie.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Oh my god... I read about this and assumed they were going to be air-dropping ipad clones so the movie is ready to be played as soon as it lands. But nope, just regular old DVDs in a country that still hasn't embraced VHS
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CelticPredator posted:You have to be over 18 to enter the theater without a parent or guardian. One of our Cinebarres is 21 to enter without parent/guardian 
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32MB OF ESRAM posted:I read about this and assumed they were going to be air-dropping ipad clones so the movie is ready to be played as soon as it lands. But nope, just regular old DVDs in a country that still hasn't embraced VHS I read that article earlier and one of the more misguided things is dropping copies of "Real Housewives". You're supposed to give them something ideal of Western life for them to work toward fixing their country, or at least defect, not something repulsive that they retreat back to their farm and factory life.
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Eggnogium posted:http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/12/feds-sony-hackers-next-target-will-be-an-unnamed-news-organization/ Oh man, no matter who it is, you know what they spill is going to be terrible. I'll go for the wildcard and say that they're going to spill NPR's secrets. Looking forward to the e-mails: "Re: Caught Ira with the totebags, again. CAN WE PLEASE DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS?!" Humbug Scoolbus posted:Oh my god... I'm going to go out on a limb and say that now that they've announced this, they don't actually do it beyond a few photo-opportunity releases. It's useless, meaningless, and stupidly expensive. It's a bare minimum of $10 per balloon so if they did it the way that they're claiming they're going to then they'd blow over a million dollars on this stunt with absolutely no benefit since no one in North Korea could watch it anyway.
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oh and some blogger found earlier redacted GoP threats where they didnt yet edit out "CNN" so i guess tahts who theyre gonna target
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Random Stranger posted:Oh man, no matter who it is, you know what they spill is going to be terrible. What? I hope the dirt they have on Ira Glass is this.
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32MB OF ESRAM posted:oh and some blogger found earlier redacted GoP threats where they didnt yet edit out "CNN" so i guess tahts who theyre gonna target Aw man, was hoping for Fox News.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Oh my god... Life in North Korea is probably already bad enough for most of it's inhabitants without submitting them to Seth Rogen and James Franco.
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I imagine a lot of it will be Wolf Blitzer forwarding aggressively large amounts of dad jokes and spurious trivia he found online to every one in the building
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32MB OF ESRAM posted:oh and some blogger found earlier redacted GoP threats where they didnt yet edit out "CNN" so i guess tahts who theyre gonna target
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TetsuoTW posted:Good. CNN are loving clowns, they deserve public shaming for how thoroughly terrible they are and for how absolutely they've abandoned anything but the facade of being a news organization. Yeah but in a world where Fox News exists... Also they're going to attack them for some imaginary liberal bias and it's going to be completely asinine.
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It is weird that the hackers are called the GOP and have so far targeted "liberal" hollywood and now the "liberal" CNN.
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mr. mephistopheles posted:Yeah but in a world where Fox News exists... Also they're going to attack them for some imaginary liberal bias and it's going to be completely asinine. CNN has slowly become Fox News over the years, serious talk.
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Young Freud posted:CNN has slowly become Fox News over the years, serious talk. "Obviously, there's a smell of marijuana in the air."
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