Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:59:35 -0700 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.4 & Feed Publisher http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6180#Comment_6180 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6180#Comment_6180 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:48:36 -0800 TechnocratJT
And its not the films, I see all sorts of stuff and was once willing to sit through nearly anything just to see a movie with some friends. But I decided to wait for DVD for 30 Days of Night and and do not think I will see Juno in the theater either...

More and more cell phones are on, people are chatting away and tinkering with their brightly lit toys the entire time. That one thing has killed movie theaters for me and driven me well into my own den for my movie viewing.

Just curious if I am just being a very crotchety 30 year old or if I am far from alone... ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6192#Comment_6192 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6192#Comment_6192 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 02:10:44 -0800 Miss And I'm younger than you are. Granted, this was before everyone and their cat had a cell phone, but people still talked, right?
It's rare that a film will have me so desperate to see it that I am willing to leave the house and put up with the audience's bullshit. I might go to two films a year. The rest can be waited for, viewed without the constant worry that some bastard's obnoxious ringtone will ruin everything. Or of hearing the dread words: "Hello? Yeah, yeah, I'm at the movies. No, you don't have to call back, I can talk now..."

There's a certain lack of regard for anyone else, not just at the cinema, but in general. Everyone is in their little bubble, and it doesn't matter how many dirty looks they get, or how many people ask them to be quiet, there's a sense of entitlement that these people have. Sticking with the cinema, most of the culprits are in younger age groups (though old enough to know better, 16-25, say), and I'm thinking that it's linked to the problem children in Gen Y. Maybe not, maybe the proportion of brats to everyone else is the same as it always was. It just seems that there is a new set of young adults that haven't been taught how to act like vaguely civilised adults, and have been raised to believe their shit should be put in a nice frame with a little "great job, son!" plaque. Celebration of mediocrity and so on, leading to inflated sense of self-worth, blahblah.

It irks me that I'm put in the same group, actually. People like that are 95% of the reason I hardly ever go to public places.
Unfortunately that happens to include places I would like to go.

I don't know that poor audience conduct will solely be responsible for the death of the movie theater, but it probably has a role. If only we were allowed to punch them or shove their spiffy gadgets down their throats and let them choke. Some of them might actually learn a valuable lesson, and we could all watch the movie in peace. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6195#Comment_6195 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6195#Comment_6195 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 02:48:08 -0800 howlingdervish always existing in their living rooms. For them, movies have not been an event, but a fact of life. It's no wonder that there's a sense of entitlement in them now, as they treat the entire movie theater as their own private living room: they don't view movies as a public experience.

This single fact has disenfranchised more moviegoers than anything else. If movie theaters want to lure customers back, they're going to have to start treating their business like something important again, instead of reinforcing the living room mentality of things with self-serve drink fountains and twenty minutes of commercials before every movie.

Oh, turning each theatre into a Faraday cage couldn't hurt, either. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6219#Comment_6219 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6219#Comment_6219 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 05:50:34 -0800 Scribe http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6223#Comment_6223 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6223#Comment_6223 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 06:05:34 -0800 jona
Also I read a blog in the Guardian about food in the cinema where the writer was complaining about people now brininging in take away food, specifically pizza and fried chicken - stank the whole place out. I foresee 2008being a bleak cinema zone for me. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6232#Comment_6232 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6232#Comment_6232 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 07:11:25 -0800 Pete Martin http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6242#Comment_6242 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6242#Comment_6242 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 07:36:57 -0800 Brand
I'm not crazy about the price of movie either. Though I did pay $12 dollars to see Beowulf in 3d. But for me going out the movies is one of the few getting out of the house things I do. So for now I just do it, so I don't have to be at home. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6247#Comment_6247 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6247#Comment_6247 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 07:39:44 -0800 will_butler
Will ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6262#Comment_6262 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6262#Comment_6262 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 08:22:27 -0800 Stalker#1358
"Hello? WHAT, WHAT, I CANT HEAR YOU I AM AT THE MOVIES. SOMETHING STUPID. ABOUT TEN MINUTES IN. NO NOTHING THEY ARE JUST TALKING. YEAH IT IS PRETTY STUPID. HEY SOME GUY IS STARING AT ME(me) HE IS REALLY UGLY. NO LIKE HIS FACE IS ALL SMOOSHED UP LIKE ONE OF THOSE DOGS. NO YOU KNOW ONE OF THOSE DOGS. YEAH THOSE ONES. GOD HE WON'T STOP LOOKING. HEY FREAK YOU GOT A PROBLEM? WHY AREN'T YOU WATCHING THE MOVIE ASSHOLE. GOD I GOT TO GO THIS GUY IS A CREEPY."

That and the girl playing with her laptop in front of me eventually lead to me just walking out. This was at an art theater mind you. I expect that behavior when you go to the megaplex at the mall and have to sit in a room with screaming children and their bitter worn down parents.

It's a shame, I used to love the ritual of going to the theater. Getting dressed nicely, going to a top shelf joint for a drink and a steak. Watching the movie and being so engrossed that the entire walk home I would still be digesting it. Call me a romantic, but I miss the days when theaters mattered. The theater was alway more then just something to do on a Saturday night to me. It was a place you could go and get a little taste of another persons dreams. It was the sanctuary from a fucked up world where I could see nightmares walk, and hear words of love so perfect for a moment, that real life seemed a little less so. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6263#Comment_6263 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6263#Comment_6263 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 08:33:55 -0800 Kunundrum http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6275#Comment_6275 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6275#Comment_6275 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 09:18:13 -0800 johnmuth
But, usually the only other people at the theater with me are people are also there to watch a movie without the interruptions and immature people shooting their mouths off. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6279#Comment_6279 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6279#Comment_6279 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 09:34:56 -0800 Adam Spencer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6287#Comment_6287 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6287#Comment_6287 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 09:48:40 -0800 badger
How would one compare these rabble-filled theaters to an experience like an Alamo Drafthouse, the chain based in Austin Texas? I was there back in September... while there is food, booze, and lots of audience participation/reaction, it seems like they would boot anyone who is talking socially, and especially if they are on a cell phone. I might be mistaken though. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6288#Comment_6288 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6288#Comment_6288 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 09:50:07 -0800 gwferguson here and here). Or, even better and more fun, miniature Bowel Disruptors. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6294#Comment_6294 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6294#Comment_6294 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 10:12:24 -0800 MJSM http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6295#Comment_6295 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6295#Comment_6295 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 10:15:26 -0800 dezknife http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6357#Comment_6357 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6357#Comment_6357 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 14:18:05 -0800 Cat Vincent
"You're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater..." ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6358#Comment_6358 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6358#Comment_6358 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 14:20:15 -0800 joe.distort http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6360#Comment_6360 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6360#Comment_6360 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 14:24:15 -0800 Kunundrum http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6361#Comment_6361 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6361#Comment_6361 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 14:25:44 -0800 LBA http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6362#Comment_6362 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6362#Comment_6362 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 14:28:02 -0800 Exploder http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6367#Comment_6367 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6367#Comment_6367 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 14:57:56 -0800 joe.distort http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6381#Comment_6381 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6381#Comment_6381 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 15:22:36 -0800 Vespers http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6412#Comment_6412 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6412#Comment_6412 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 17:26:12 -0800 Scribe
I totally agree. I can count on a carpenters hand how many movies I have seen that were sold out, and still have a finger(s) left over. Yet they insist on building these huge theaters with an ungodly amount of seats that they never fill. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6420#Comment_6420 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6420#Comment_6420 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 17:46:53 -0800 Toga http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6423#Comment_6423 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6423#Comment_6423 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 17:54:50 -0800 Zachary Cole

Why?

* I can buy tea
* They have a wonderful outside restroom area. Seriously. It's as nice as the lobby.
* Great mood lighting
* No cell phone yacking/etc.
* Normal tickets are $8, and students my age can watch silent movies like NOSFERATU (with live bands) for the same price.

The other theater in town is the K-Mart of movie theaters. Ugh. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6428#Comment_6428 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6428#Comment_6428 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 18:07:38 -0800 Scribe http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6431#Comment_6431 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6431#Comment_6431 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 18:15:11 -0800 Derleth
Oh, and before that, I scream about how ludicrous five dollars for a small soda is at the manager of the place until he is reduced to a blubbering mess. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6434#Comment_6434 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6434#Comment_6434 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 18:32:42 -0800 Scribe
This makes me wish that bowel disruptor's were not just imaginary devices. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6437#Comment_6437 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6437#Comment_6437 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 19:01:43 -0800 ColdWarKid
Thanks to my irregular hour job, i tend to go during the week, right when the theater opens. As long as school is in, it's usually quiet.

I went to see "Into the Wild" a few weeks back and there was a small group of 50-60 year olds, sitting in the row in front of me, talking through most of it. So i don't think it's just the younger generation which is the problem, i think it's people in general. As others have already said, everyone is in their own bubble, and they only seem to care about their own veiwing experience. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6444#Comment_6444 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6444#Comment_6444 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 20:09:00 -0800 elizabeth I havn't seen a new film in the theatre inat least seven months. I go here:

Okay. Where the hell is that? ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6445#Comment_6445 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6445#Comment_6445 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 20:09:59 -0800 elizabeth
Of course, from here on out and until the end of time, I'm sure to notice. Thanks, everyone.

*rages* ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6452#Comment_6452 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6452#Comment_6452 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 20:48:32 -0800 TechnocratJT
Its allot like whiskey. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6460#Comment_6460 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6460#Comment_6460 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 21:11:13 -0800 Zachary Cole Okay. Where the hell is that?

Elizabeth: its the Strand Theater in Rockland, Maine. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6467#Comment_6467 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6467#Comment_6467 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 21:53:10 -0800 Kunundrum http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6474#Comment_6474 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6474#Comment_6474 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 22:36:15 -0800 Necros http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6478#Comment_6478 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6478#Comment_6478 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 23:04:08 -0800 Mark R http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6480#Comment_6480 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6480#Comment_6480 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 23:11:29 -0800 Shawn Lately most of my experiences have been great, but they've been few. I saw No Country for Old Men last night, and indeed, as Dezknife testified, it was AMAZING. What was even more amazing was for a film with pretty much NO music, and many silent, wind-swept passages, and a very nice, slow but unrelenting pace (and I mean that as a good thing) NO ONE talked. Not once. I feared it from at the start, but not one peep. And on top of it, when it ended, whereas I've heard some audiences have booed, there was an expectant collective inhale, and then actual fucking applause. APPLAUSE. I do not remember the last time that happened to me. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6484#Comment_6484 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6484#Comment_6484 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 23:15:15 -0800 Shawn
Incidentally, one time a friend of mine who did some stand up comedy for a while had an ignorant girl in the front row talking on her phone and after a while he reached down, snatched the device from her hands and told the person on the other end, 'she'll call you back'.
Great, but then the boyfriend got involved and he almost had a gang of meatheads break his face

Thought you'd appreciate that ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6491#Comment_6491 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6491#Comment_6491 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 23:51:27 -0800 Mark R
Thanks Shawn ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6497#Comment_6497 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6497#Comment_6497 Sun, 09 Dec 2007 01:33:37 -0800 secretworm
That said, I can put the lil' bastard down for a couple hours while I watch a film. Indeed, I look *forward* for those 2-hour blocks where I don't have to be attached or connected or whatever word is the current buzz for being accessible.

I have absolutely no problem asking people to shut the bloody hell up while we're sharing a film. I paid my money, and I'm just as entitled to enjoy it as much as they are. And those 20+ minutes of commercials and trailers? They also plainly explain to people to turn off their cellphones.

If people don't, I don't have a problem with getting up and finding a manager. If you state your case politely, you're likely to get free movie passes for your trouble while also getting the offending people escorted out without a refund.

This is the lesson that needs to be taught. And even if they haven't learned their lesson, you don't have to be bothered by their rude behavior. I'd rather miss out on five minutes of a film than have to suffer through two hours of inane cellphone chatter.

Again, I love my mobile. But I also know that using it has the potential of being ridiculously rude. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6514#Comment_6514 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6514#Comment_6514 Sun, 09 Dec 2007 06:11:03 -0800 babymole
I thought it was be in my local multiplex... Sit down, wait for adverts, then just as the film classifcation screen comes on a group of about 10 teens walk in and talk over the credits... Then they normally shut up. Or I get absorbed in a film and forget them.

I've stopped going to the cinema almost altogether now as prices here in UK mulitplexes are just too high for the crap that gets released. Transformers was soooooooooo bad, but needed to be seen on the big screen.

Incidently, I've actually had a proper punch up with my own BEST FRIEND in a cinema because of his mobile going off. This was during 'Eyes Wide Shut' too, so you can imagine how awful the ring tone was. His phone went off three times. Then a cell rings on the screen, and ITS THE SAME RINGTONE. Manager comes over to give us a bollocking and tells us next time, we're being kicked out. We persuade him that it was the phone on the screen that went off the last time. As the manager walks away, my friends mobile RINGS AGAIN.

So as the manager walks back over, I punched my friend in the side of the head... he hit me back.

Five minutes later, I'm on my own watching the film, after the manager threw my friend out. Weird. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6515#Comment_6515 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6515#Comment_6515 Sun, 09 Dec 2007 06:19:19 -0800 munin218 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6519#Comment_6519 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6519#Comment_6519 Sun, 09 Dec 2007 06:40:23 -0800 Elohim
Things aren't too bad in Norwich, but I nearly always sit near the back with a big 'ole set of empty seats around me and my mates (we're all giant and quite scary-looking).

But I agree that it isn't just kids, and that there should be movie police.
It's too expensive for the bastard in front of me to ruin it for me and for me not to get pissed off. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6535#Comment_6535 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6535#Comment_6535 Sun, 09 Dec 2007 09:32:18 -0800 ratjin
It is, however, possible that the kind of cultural 'progress' you describe simply hasn't reached here yet. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6549#Comment_6549 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6549#Comment_6549 Sun, 09 Dec 2007 11:56:11 -0800 Ian Mayor
BEEEEP

"hello... no I'm at the pictures... that Witch thing... no it's shit"

Which I found surprisingly entertaining. Keeping your phone on in a cinema is like smoking in a lift, it shows a lack of respect for everyone around you. And means you're a dick. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6552#Comment_6552 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6552#Comment_6552 Sun, 09 Dec 2007 12:35:54 -0800 hemlock_martini
The one thing that bothers me now, though, are the pre-preview ads that go on and on...particularly the four-minute-long propaganda piece about the National Guard that made me grind my teeth. Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti-military; that would be hard for me to do as I have family and friends who are in Iraq right now. But I do have a problem with a super-macho, ultra-jingoistic commercial (set to a rousing nu-metal score, no less!) that makes war look glamorous and fantastic, made to appeal to 18-to-22-year-olds who are just the right age to sign up, be handed a rifle and sent to a sandy hellhole to die. It really detracted from my enjoyment of the night. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6555#Comment_6555 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6555#Comment_6555 Sun, 09 Dec 2007 12:43:02 -0800 Tom Spurgeon
If your local cinema -- one that you go to five or ten times a year or more -- has a problem with people talking, the best thing to do is to politely press the issue with a manager, an owner, or both. Get your money back. Phone the owner. Write a letter. Remind them when you're waiting for the DVD and how much money you would have dropped there. Theater owners don't want to drive people away from their theaters, but they also want to run everything as cheaply as possible, as they have some difficult pricing mechanisms to figure out. Plus sometimes a good owner gets stuck with a shitheaded manager or vice versa, so the person who need to make a decision on your behalf may not be getting the information they need. Except in the case of some specialty theaters, cinemas aren't going to have a giant staff of people with flashlights patrolling each screening, not in 2007, not without finding out it's necessary. In a way, expecting the theater owner to mind-read you and your concerns is the same kind of self-absorbed thinking that leads people to talk on the phone in the movie theater.

As far as people ever not talking on the phone, or talking out loud when we want to, we've lost that battle and it's only going to get worse as Generation Entitlement gets into their 20s. I'd vote for a reverse Logan's Run if I could and take my chances with individual reprisals on the older people in the audience, but I'm not in charge. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6558#Comment_6558 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6558#Comment_6558 Sun, 09 Dec 2007 12:53:56 -0800 hemlock_martini a reverse Logan's Run

Once you turn thirty, you...become...alive? *head hurts now* ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6582#Comment_6582 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6582#Comment_6582 Sun, 09 Dec 2007 15:27:11 -0800 Unsub http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6594#Comment_6594 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6594#Comment_6594 Sun, 09 Dec 2007 15:52:32 -0800 Solario
It's pretty well indoctrinated, since before every single movie there's a varyingly humourous reminders, like This Is What Your Friends Are Doing, While You're At the Movies. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6612#Comment_6612 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6612#Comment_6612 Sun, 09 Dec 2007 17:22:54 -0800 Derleth The one thing that bothers me now, though, are the pre-preview ads that go on and on...particularly the four-minute-long propaganda piece about the National Guard that made me grind my teeth... But I do have a problem with a super-macho, ultra-jingoistic commercial (set to a rousing nu-metal score, no less!) that makes war look glamorous and fantastic...

I'll admit I was taken aback and a bit offended, myself, when I took my moms to go see The Golden Compass, which (believe it or not) wasn't pure shite, and we had to sit through that garbage. It really does glorify the troops running around shooting their semis, all the while rocking out to 3 Doors Down *gag*. I went to the theater to enjoy an alternate-reality fantasy story, not to be reminded of teenage, virgin soldiers playing cock-rock over their comms while either killing or being killed. The whole thing left a foul taste in my mouth, and I found it to be simply offensive. It was extremely clear that the intent was one of propagandistic conversion appealing directly to the Wii generation. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6616#Comment_6616 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6616#Comment_6616 Sun, 09 Dec 2007 17:45:39 -0800 roque
the next two people who come in are a blonde chick and her boyfriend. look around, see us, make a beeline for us and sit directly behind us for... some reason. even though my one friend is really tall.

the moment the theater darkens, the girl starts to chatter to her boyfriend at the top of her lungs-- so as to be heard over the previews. the first thing she says is: "Silent Hill? So is this a scary movie?"

the second thing she shouts is "Oh, I heard about this one. My friend told me the ending. What happens is--"

whereupon my friends and I clap our hands over our ears and move down front.

Japanese theaters are pretty civilized. on the downside, they're expensive as shit and it takes months for new releases to get here. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6637#Comment_6637 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6637#Comment_6637 Sun, 09 Dec 2007 18:54:11 -0800 Joe Paoli
He explained that the light could irritate other patrons. But he allowed me to continue using it so long as I obscured the display. I shut it off completely at the end of the previews. It was all very civilized. Sounds like a lot of your theaters your theaters could use a more vigilant staff. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6666#Comment_6666 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6666#Comment_6666 Sun, 09 Dec 2007 22:40:18 -0800 Mark R Sounds like a lot of your theaters your theaters could use a more vigilant staff.

Yeah, armed with billy clubs and mace, ready to snap the thumbs off the hands of the nearest celly user/texter. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6668#Comment_6668 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=6668#Comment_6668 Sun, 09 Dec 2007 22:40:34 -0800 Alan Tyson
And then I find something interesting out - it is not company policy to make people turn off their cellphones, even if they're yelling "what?! WHAT?!?" into it in the middle of Spiderman 2. So all those times I gave people The Look? According to one of my managers, that's "poor treatment of the guest."

The worst part was telling people who had complaints about a dude on his phone that there wasn't anything I could really do, because I really wanted to. There can be no greater satisfaction than giving an asshole a spoonful of social justice, but now that the manager was aware I was doing this, he'd be keeping an eye on me. For this, and other reasons, the job began to steadily suck.

So, on the one hand, we've got assholes like you guys have been giving as Exhibit A, and on the other hand, the theater dudes can't do shit about it, so there's Exhibit B. So really, next time, make the guy or gal eat their cell phone, or cover it in popcorn or something. It's up to you, apparently, lest the usher be slapped with an honest-to-badness poor service record. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=7151#Comment_7151 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=227&Focus=7151#Comment_7151 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:16:56 -0800 Joe Paoli @Mark R
Yeah, armed with billy clubs and mace, ready to snap the thumbs off the hands of the nearest celly user/texter.See, the equal hostility for the texter who's not making noise is a new phenomenon for me. It doesn't strike me as the same as someone talking out loud, and the light isn't that distracting unless it's next to you. Not that I'd be doing it during a feature anyway, though. ]]>