Sometimes, you just want to kill the audience

dokidoki · Post by **dokidoki** » Sun Oct 20, 2002 4:49 pm

Aw crap, wrong thing in the clipboard at 4AM...
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anime angel · Post by **anime angel** » Sun Oct 20, 2002 7:04 pm

i hate old people in audiences i mean they get pissed off over the littlest thing. like today i was watching tuck everlasting and me and my friends started to laugh and its not like we were laughing loud and some two pruny old hags like 2 rows in front of us told us to shut up...

i only wish the worst of luck to them and i hope they break a bone

Kusoyaro · Post by **Kusoyaro** » Sun Oct 20, 2002 7:07 pm

I know what you mean....

When I saw Panic Room, the theater was FULL of people who would shout "Ohh Sheeeeee-it!" every 5 minutes, and cackle moronically every time a tense scene passed. The movie was great, but the audience certainly ruined the experience for me.

Dannywilson · Post by **Dannywilson** » Mon Oct 21, 2002 12:13 am

I hate going to the movies in OKC.... There are 2 good movie theatres in this Goddamned town, and one is going to hell in a handbasket from an overcrowding problem, and the other one was built in.... how do I say this without putting it in racial terms... a "Bad" part of town. I go there, and even though its a nice theatre, I somehow always end up next to the people smoking weed (I would love to partake, but I get random drug tests due to my military enlistment), being loud, or generally making a nuiciance of themselves. I agree with Doki, I have been to several Theatre-Pubs, and the atmosphere is awesome... the people are usually just chilling out and eating their pizza/burgers and drinking their beer... they usually dont have the same crowd as the larger theatres, and often cater to an older audience. The only problem being, they often only show 1-2 month old movies. If you are in the area of Biloxi Miss, or Anchorage Alaska, get to the "Biloxi mini theatre" or the "Bears tooth pub" respectively. theirs not much better than a good movie, a slice of pizza, and a cold glass of beer if youre into the older crowd.

fyrtenheimer · Post by **fyrtenheimer** » Tue Oct 22, 2002 10:14 am

Chaos Angel wrote:I was watching The Ring with my roomate, his girlfriend, and my friend, Angel. I liked it, it had some genuinely psychologically creepy moments and it progressed nicely, I think, in terms of the narrative and the plot progression, although I think it would have been more effective if they hadn't explained everything as they went along. However, the theater experience was utterly ruined for me by one thing.

The god-damned audience. Stupid fucking dickheads.

First-off, a few guys left their pagers on, which is bad but nothing to get worked up over. What really pissed the hell out of me, however, was several things that are bad in and of themselves, and make for a horrible movie experience when combined. Movie spoilers follow, so be forewarned.

1. The movie had several instances where bizarre, creepy images flashed by very fast. It created a great sense of reality-distortion, but the effect and suspense that had been built up was ruined by the audience screaming "THAT WAS SO FUCKING COOL!!" loud enough to echo off of the walls of the theater.

2. The 8-year-olds in the bodies of 18-year-olds that kept shrieking loud enough and high enough to break glass at every scene that was gross or disturbing.

3. The people shouting about how awesome this or that special effect was, especially near the end when the girl steps out of the TV. They did not shut up for at least five minutes after that, I shit you not.

4. After every creepy or scary part where they shout and yell about how awesome it was, they all talk about it loudly for a minute afterward. Some of them were actually laughing after the parts that really scared them, because they couldn't believe how scary it was.

And this isn't the people near me. I could have asked someone to remove them. No, this is more than half the ENTIRE GODDESS-DAMNED THEATER!!

When the movie ended, I couldn't hold it in anymore. I had been suppressing the urge to yell SHUT UP!! all throughout the movie, so when it ended, I shouted it as loud as I could. Angel joined me. It was quite theraputic. I wanted to cuss them all out, but I chose the path of restraint.

One of the girls at the snack stand, when I told her about it, said that she had been in there when they were all doing it, and she sympathized.

Why can't these people wait for video if they want to talk through the whole fucking thing? It was really fucking annoying to have the psychological build-up ruined at every opportunity by the idiots I had to share a theater with.

::stress::

dude, did it ever occur to you to kick their ass?
i mean, did it? or SAY SOMETHING atleast?

kthulhu · Post by **kthulhu** » Tue Oct 22, 2002 9:55 pm

I find that a warm M60 machine gun and a backpack of ammo solves all my theater audience issues

.

Stupid motherfuckers talking during `Bambi' or a movie with Mr. T in it deserve what they get...

TheRealNeoHentaiMaster · Post by **TheRealNeoHentaiMaster** » Tue Oct 22, 2002 11:15 pm

Let me guess, the vast majority of these "audience horror stories" took place on the 8 or 10 o clock showing on a Friday or Saturday night right? You just gotta accept thats how theaters are on those times. If you dont want to deal with that kind of crap, dont go on those times. Thats that time when all the teenagers are going out on dates or with there friends all stoned or drunk so how can expect them to care about the movie. Maybe it sucks, maybe its not fare, but thats how it is, learn to deal with it.

Sushi2 · Post by **Sushi2** » Thu Oct 24, 2002 9:24 am

I agree with the last NeoHentaiMaster, I use to go to first showings of films at those times and it isn't really a pleasent experience.

Thats why I usually go in the afternoon and probably a couple of days after the films been released.

However I don't mind comedy films (preferably ones without a complicated plot) as its usually okay to watch in a packed cinema, people usually stay quite and just laugh at the jokes...and it doesn't require much concentration.

However I have to say the worst place ever to watch a film is in my house, stupid siblings WON'T LET ME WATCH ANYTHING IN PEACE.

Maybe I should just start sleeping during the day and stay up at night to get some peace............but then I'll be screwed when collage starts again.

Then again if all the stuff you saying happened didn't happen on the 8 or 10 o clock showing on a Friday or Saturday night. You have my sympathies.

Oh and fyrtenheimer, I don't know about Cruel Angel......but I dont think I would want to start shouting at half the audience never mind starting a fight with them. You would :

a) get the shit beaten out of you
b) have popcorn and good knows what else thrown at you
c) people just harass you for the rest of the night
d) people will tell you to shut up
e) people will just laugh and talk even louder.

Chaos Angel · Post by **Chaos Angel** » Sat Oct 26, 2002 11:38 am

Sushi2 wrote:...I don't know about Cruel Angel......but I dont think I would want to start shouting at half the audience never mind starting a fight with them...

-It's Chaos Angel, actually.

And, actually, I DID shout at them all, but it was after the movie was already over. I didn't want to add to the noise while it was playing, but when it ended, I just vented. It was positively theraputic.

And no one threw moldy popcorn or flat soda at me, so that's a plus!!

Kamoc · Post by **Kamoc** » Sat Oct 26, 2002 3:27 pm

maybe they were retarded.

it was me, my dad, and my little brother going to see the movie remake of Star Wars: Episode 1 that i had my first 'bad audience' thrill. well, let me put that more specifically, 'bad person in the audience' thrill. all throughout the movie, the guy kept screaming at every little thing, like when the new scene with the millenium falcon busting out through the top of the garage. throughout the entire movie, no less. about half way through, i got really pissed, and turned around to shout at the guy to 'SHUT THE FUCK UP', when i saw that he who was making all the rucus was in a wheelchair. he was metally handicapped. i turned around in my chair, and continued to watch the movie. since i felt bad for the guy (seeing as how i was going to curse him out), at the very end with the Death Star exploded, the guy started making weird noises and clapping histarically. i joined in, as did the entire audience. that was a fun day.

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