cinema rage (1 Viewer)

[Dan Shogren]

The worst movie watching experience i've ever had was during a showing of blade 2. I went with a couple friends and the theatre was packed, so we had to sit in the far back end of the theater, right in front of a drunken redneck. During the entire movie, he was making non sensical ramblings about, "Guhh, thus juss like n tha fried chikin. Gurrhh" or something along those lines. So finally, this drunk guy gets up to go some where, and a guy sitting next to us stands up and pulls the guy aside. His next comment had us laughing for five minutes, "(Starting of polietly) Excuse me sir, can i ask you something?" (The drunken guy mumbles something under his breath) " ...Would you SHUT THE HELL UP?!" (drunken guy burps and pushes the guy aside.) The drunken hick didnt come back after that.

 

[Max Leung]

Edwin, I understand your position, but you have to consider that, years ago, movie theaters were much quieter than they are now!

My best movie-going experience in a crowded theater was Das Boot, which I saw in Hong Kong. Dead silence throughout, no candy wrappers crinkling, nobody sucking an empty drink, etc. The theater I saw it in was a work of art...murals on the ceiling (probably 50-100 feet high...hard to tell when you're only 11 years old!), stone pillars, the works. Classy theater that had 4 screens!

All that rushing water in Das Boot had me running for the washrooms halfway through the movie. I remember it took me 2 minutes to (briskly) walk to the washroom, which was actually attached to the seating area! The theater is easily 3 times the size of today's googleplexes.

You could hear a pin drop during the quiet scenes before the depth charges go off...

I saw Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars in that theater too. Amazing. I would love to see a 70mm 2001 in that theater.

What was the population of Hong Kong back in 1981? 5 million? On an island, where the only habitable area is smaller than central Vancouver...

 

[Patrick Sun]

Today I saw "Spirited Away". Got a middle seat at the 2nd most back row. I thought I was going be nice and undisturbed as the theater had plenty of seats for the afternoon. No sooner than the 3rd trailer starts, a family of 5 shows up and takes up the rest of the row I'm sitting in on the right side, and the 3 small kids make various amounts of noise throughout the film. Almost immediately after the family sits down, the guy in the back row moves from behind the family of 5 and moves all the way to the left side on the back row, and then the couple in front of the family get up and move about 5 rows down to get away from the noise and kicking of the seats. I thought this was pretty amusing, but not worth the high cost in lowering of many people's enjoyment factor at the theater.

Sigh...