worst theater experience.

Started by NEON MERCURY, February 23, 2004, 10:12:38 PM

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Mr. Merrill Lehrl

Quote from: john on June 08, 2011, 03:46:36 PM
I didn't even use my phone last weekend during X-Men and that shit was BORING.
I'm happy you said that because I wanted to. The title sequence was okay and then the long middle section was like a boring title sequence. Meet so and so meeting so and so meeting so and so name this explain this meet this name this etc.
"If I had to hold up the most heavily fortified bank in America," Bolaño says, "I'd take a gang of poets. The attempt would probably end in disaster, but it would be beautiful."

JG

I like movies a lot, but I check my phone.

pete

I usually text with my palm or sleeve over the phone screen so light does not leak, is that ok?
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RegularKarate

Quote from: pete on June 09, 2011, 02:03:49 AM
I usually text with my palm or sleeve over the phone screen so light does not leak, is that ok?

How do you read what you wrote and what people are saying back?
It seems at some point, you're going to be blazing that screen and it's so distracting during a movie.

If you can do it without the light ever showing, then great job, text away... I don't care that people are texting, I care that that screen is so bright.

Jeremy Blackman

Also annoying:

People whose wristwatches beep every hour on the hour. Happened during ToL last night.

cinemanarchist

Quote from: pete on June 09, 2011, 02:03:49 AM
I usually text with my palm or sleeve over the phone screen so light does not leak, is that ok?

Nope. Can you not go without texting for two hours?
My assholeness knows no bounds.

Reel

I just watch movies at home and I can do what I want- get sloppy drunk, look at internet porn. It's great

cinemanarchist

Quote from: Reelist on June 09, 2011, 03:19:01 PM
I just watch movies at home and I can do what I want- get sloppy drunk, look at internet porn. It's great

Total Norman Bates move.
My assholeness knows no bounds.

Mr. Merrill Lehrl

Quote from: cinemanarkissed on June 09, 2011, 03:32:08 PM
Quote from: Reelist on June 09, 2011, 03:19:01 PM
I just watch movies at home and I can do what I want- get sloppy drunk, place flower petals in my dead mother's vagina. It's great

Total Norman Bates move.
"If I had to hold up the most heavily fortified bank in America," Bolaño says, "I'd take a gang of poets. The attempt would probably end in disaster, but it would be beautiful."

JG

Are you guys more offended by the prospect of someone disturbing your movie experience, or by the notion that somebody cannot stay "immersed" for the whole movie?

polkablues

My house, my rules, my coffee

JG

I'm actually self-conscious about the fact that I think I am a super fidgety person and worry that my constant moving and shifting in my seat pisses people off, though no one has ever said anything to me...

Mr. Merrill Lehrl

Quote from: JG on June 09, 2011, 07:36:46 PM
Are you guys more offended by the prospect of someone disturbing your movie experience, or by the notion that somebody cannot stay "immersed" for the whole movie?

It's more the former but if we're being completely honest (and why not) the latter does play a factor under some circumstances.  Just like in X-Men: First Class when Charles Xavier gives his first presentation to the CIA and because he's a mind reader he knows they were thinking about pies and other things not related to his speech, if I'm showing you a Tsai Ming-liang movie (for example) and you're picking your fingernails, eating chocolate donuts, and texting your friends I know the film isn't going to work for you.  I'm Charles Xavier for a moment, and I'm thinking the presentation isn't being given a chance and that sort of bums me out and while I'm thinking about your experience I'm also puncturing my immersion.  Although I'm not a mind reader in actuality and different people watch movies different ways and some people are not going to watch movies the way I watch movies because that's not how they watch movies so I really need to get over it and concentrate on my personal experience (being annoyed by texters for example).
"If I had to hold up the most heavily fortified bank in America," Bolaño says, "I'd take a gang of poets. The attempt would probably end in disaster, but it would be beautiful."

72teeth

if i absolutly have to text, i tuck my head into my shirt and pull the bottom over my knees and text teepee style- it looks weird, but everyones watching the screen... could we make this the official movie-text ediqute, i feel like it works. Someone make a diagram
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I think this has less to do with total immersion in a film and more with lack of immersion in your own personal life.  You can't even, for a movie you paid for, spend a couple hours not communicating with people who will likely not snap into cardiac arrest if you are silent for a little while.  God forbid you keep your thoughts to yourself for once or perhaps you skip the small talk for a little while with friends who don't need it anymore than you do.

You like movies, right?  Isn't that why you post here?  This question may answer itself, but when you read, do you constantly check your phone?  This may be an awful comparison because one may also do that.  But one does not have to, is the point.
"As a matter of fact I only work with the feeling of something magical, something seemingly significant. And to keep it magical I don't want to know the story involved, I just want the hypnotic effect of it somehow seeming significant without knowing why." - Len Lye