Yet more strange things Andy does : Movies

[andrewducker]

Had a few people over last night to watch Last Night and talk about silly things.

Due to the fact that I actually _like_ watching movies I ended up shushing tisme several times during the course of it.  I don't mind people exclaiming "It's that person from that other movie!" or "Golly, so that's who Keyser Soze was." or even "Isn't Callum Keith Rennie kinda short?", but when it became a case of actual conversation occurring across the movie I may have snapped once or twice.

Which is why I like seeing movies at the cinema, where ultraviolence is an _accepted_ way of dealing with people talking while I'm trying to watch the movie.

But anyway, I felt kinda awkward for getting a little upset about it, and possibly making other people uncomfortable, but not nearly enough to not do it - the alternative having been to just leave people to talk through the movie while I went and did something else instead.

I also ended up ushering MoBex out of the flat at high speed as they were giving Erin a lift to her bus and it was getting dangerously close to its time.  If I'd realised that they were going to give her a lift all the way home I wouldn't have been so abrupt - so I _am_ sorry for having done that, as 15 more minutes of Erin, Suze, Mo and Bex would have been quite nice.

Momentarily I'm off to Ascenscion, to bop my socks off.  Then tomorrow surliminal and I are off to see Tom Cruise save the world, which I hear is like an extended episode of Alias with a larger budget.  Sounds good to me!

Comments

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

WE are? Sure :-)

[andrewducker]

I could have _sworn_ that was the plan...

[guyinahat.livejournal.com]

Telling people to shut the fuck up during a movie is entirely acceptable.

Being invited over for films and then talking through them...

[dalglir.livejournal.com]

I'm totally with you on the conversations vs movies thing. At home, if it gets annoying enough, I simply pause the movie, answer the question the other person has, rewind a couple minutes and then start the movie going again. I don't care how petty this might look: other people trying to talk through a movie *I'm* trying to watch drives me *nuts*.

Out in the real world, I go Gold Class whenever I can, just to try and increase the chances of watching the movie with an audience who is also there to *watch* and *listen* to the movie.

The Cambridge VUE cinema was worst because kids would incessantly open the firedoors (which opened onto the street) to let their mates in and inadvertantly let the drunk crazies in too. The kids would sit at the front ringing each other on their mobile phones while the drunk crazies would deliver a constant burble of abuse at the screen until they were all thrown out.

Mothman Prophecies nearly drove me up the wall as the use surround sound to project irritating sounds that were part of the movie (whispered conversation, rustling sweetie wrappers) around the cinema had me looking over my shoulder a couple of times just to look for the culprit so that I could tell them to shut the fuck up.

:-/

[laserboy.livejournal.com]

Have to chime in with a total agreement. I've almost entirely given up on going to the cinema because of those reasons. It's appalling these days. There's no reason on earth to have a mobile on at the cinema, and that's not even the worst of it. :-(

[eduard-green.livejournal.com]

5' 10"

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

heh heh heh.

you know what I am like - passive entertainment? just say no! Best film-watching experience I ever had was on a ferry to France when they showed 'Starship Troopers' at about 2am and the whole (small, tipsy) audience was totally in talking-through-it mode. Mainly utterly hilarious stuff too.

They should have 'talking' and 'non-talking' screens, maybe :-)