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Any coward who uses Twitter in the year 2024 is a traitor and a collaborator.
Oh no the date formatting! I can’t tell if this is the 24th of August 2024 or 2024 on August 24th! What am I to do!?
Minus any Twitch involvement, there have been events at Alamo Drafthouse like this for years
Yea, except they don’t tolerate one being on their phone.
That’s for regular movies, they have lots of special events with different rules. But if you use your phone during a regular movie, Ann Richards is going to pump your guts full of lead
That’s called Rumble. You can do it from the comfort of your own home.
Movie theaters suck. They’re expensive as fuck, loud parts shake the room, quiet parts are silent, no control over subtitles.
no control over subtitles.
Really most theaters I know you can rent a little plexiglass thing which gives you subtitles from a rear projector.
Very much not common everywhere. Where I live, if you want subtitles, you need to find a cinema that has a showing with subtitles. Usually that’s also paired with the non dubbed original audio.
A personal subtitle screen like those translucent mirrors you‘re describing sounds like a great solution though. I don’t really like subtitles unless I’m watching in a language I don’t understand very well but I know a lot of people who prefer having them on regardless.
One could do it like in an opera house, where the subtitles are shown on a separate screen above or below the stage
Or how they used to do it in the old days: pay a dozen or so soot-smudged orphan kids to dart back and forth throughout the performance with the script printed on signs, keeping time with the action on the stage. Might lose a few to milk-leg or dropsy but these were the mud times so at least they’re not dodging industrial machinery through a cloud of mercury and asbestos.
What the fuck?
Most theaters I know simply put the subtitles in the local language in EVERY movie.This doesn’t happen in native English speaking countries (when the movie language is English, which it is 99.999% of the time).
Yeah but the thing about being British is the local language is English. So I don’t need subtitles to watch John Wick.
Usually subtitles are only for the benefit of people who are deaf who obviously aren’t very large percentage of the population so they get a little plexiglass thing so everyone else doesn’t have to look at pointless subtitles.
I have no idea what that is? Can’t even imagine it. It’s a plexiglass window in front of the screen that a second projector projects the captions onto?
Are there special assigned seats to see captions or are they carried in by the person?
Yeah no. So much dialogue is unclear in movies. I started using subs when I had kids because they’re loud and discovered so many lines in movies I’ve seen many times but had never understood before. Now we watch everything with subs even if kids aren’t present.
I’m also a native English speaker and I tend to disagree. I often find it hard to understand what the actors are saying due to poor sound quality and/or mixing. The explosions are too loud, the speech is too soft and I find myself turning on subtitles and playing around with the volume when watching movies at home.
I have working ears and I always watch media with subtitles. Don’t pretend to speak for me.
Good for you?
I have nothing against people watching with subtitles if they want to watch with subtitles. When did you get that idea?
Must be a Europe thing. I’ve been to a plethora of movie theaters and never came across this. They just have designated Closed Caption screenings.
I’ve never seen anything like it in Europe, where I live they even show the subs in 2 languages at the same time. It’s horrible.
It certainly thing in the UK I have no idea what other countries do. I’ve never watched movies in other countries unsurprisingly.
This sounds like hell, the movie experience is already awful.
That’s the idea, then people who want to see the movie they paid for can go to the non-brainrot theatre.
Theater where I used to live in Rhode Island in 2012 was $2 a ticket. Thursday’s were half off.
They played stuff that was out of theaters but not yet on streaming, but it was basically a LCD projector in a room with a few speakers.
They didn’t give a FUCK what you did in that room when the movie was running.
There used to be one of those in Irvine, CA when I was younger. It was like $4 and in the same way, they played off chart movies, and it got rowdy.
All my knowledge about Rhode Island comes from Family Guy so I think I’m more than qualified to say what a classic Rhode Island thing
Every time I read Rhode Island the song starts playing in my head
GroupTrax
you could just stream a movie on a discord voice channel
There’s even a sub/channel/mag right here on Lemmy that does this. People vote on each week’s movie and then watch it together. Pretty fun.
Yea, why would I drive to a theater, pay for parking, pay for tickets, pay for concessions, and no one is fully paying attention to the film?
I might as well stay comfy at home, stream on discord for free, eat my already paid for food, and save a shit ton of money without becoming overstimulated by strangers.
Yea, why would I drive to a theater, pay for parking, pay for tickets, pay for concessions, and no one is fully paying attention to the film?
People for some reason already do this. The suggestion is to segregate them so those of us who enjoy the movie theater experience can do so.
Minus the theatre it looks like they’d live China and their streams where people send comments while watching soaps together.
thats what movies used to be. you would have people shouting stuff and having a good time
Here in western europe, such behaviour would be VERY frowned upon. You go to the theater to see the movie on a big screen with good sound. And you shut the hell up from the moment the lights go out. You don’t talk, you don’t shout, you don’t applaud. Laughing and crying are socially acceptable if not too loud. If you want to talk, go to a bar. If you want to talk during a movie, buy your own projector. Want to scroll on your phone? Go to the bathroom. But in the theater, you sit down and shut the hell up. At least here, in quiet and peace-loving (and slightly boring) western europe :)
Good movies still get good audiences. When I saw Deadpool & Wolverine, the audience was laughing and engaging the whole time, it was great.
When I watched Avengers Infinity War and Endgame in the cinema on launch day, the audience was very reactive. There was cheering, applause, laughter, etc.
Was a great experience you rarely get in this extent, elsewhere. Every one in those theatre rooms was a big enough fan though, to go see the non dubbed version in a non English speaking country on launch day.
Stuff like that is great and ads to the cinema experience. However, I very much believe the „brainrotification“ of cinema, as described by oop, would infinitely detract from the experience for everyone but the most late stage adhd brainrot gen z and gen alpha ppl. I would not go to a cinema like that.
I feel like these kinds of movies are meant to be experienced in theatre’s with others, it adds to the experience when everyone is openly reacting to the scenes. But I sure as shit don’t want any of this behavior for more serious movies, so there’s a time and a place for everything.
Yes absolutely. In a serious film that‘d be very much out of place. But also, actually serious films usually don’t have „epic“ twists and encourage cheering on the protagonist. And I can absolutely excuse an audibly sobbing seat neighbour, if the film was sufficiently impactful or laughter if I’m watching a comedy. Which all does happen. Unless either director or audience were utterly tone deaf, most movies make the audience react in a way that’s appropriate for the kind of film it is.
Just have a theater play a modern Netflix film. Basically the equivalent.
It sounds like a less fun version of a midnight showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
You can sort of emulate this behavior using a VR headset and using that Big screen app that puts you in a virtual theatre with others and people can talk and throw popcorn at the screen etc. You can find all sorts of movies playing on it that you can randomly join
And they actually change the film several times to see if anyone notices.
Let chat vote if the movie is boring and an algorithm picks the next one
Picks from a list of films with similar runtimes and jumps you in at the same point from the beginning. Now you’re 20 mins into sharknado 4, have no idea what’s supposed to have happened. Doesn’t matter. It’s sharks in a tornado it’s not too hard to follow.
There are basically things that allow this online where you’re all watching a movie together with both text and audio chat.
I actually kinda wanna watch Rocky Horror Picture Show in VR like that, but only if everyone watching does all the audience participation shit that makes that movie fun.
