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Simple solution: walk into movies late! I haven't watched a trailer in real time in years.

my local theater (the v pricey but v good violet crown) allots exactly ten minutes for trailers and has assigned seating so yeah I just do what Alfred does

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pretty much all sporting, music, theatrical events are better on tv than live

not wholly because of ppl ruining it, but unfettered access to pause, the kettle, a seat, a loo and a good angle are all important elements

watching a movie on a couch or in a cinema is equally terrible, no one should do either

huh i was just abt to say that abt sporting events

i always think of how elvis would rent movie theaters so he could just watch "dr strangelove" by himself over and over

I've only been to one professional sporting event, and more than half the crowd got up and left during the last hour because their team wasn't winning

(I've never watched a sport on a couch either though, maybe ppl turn the TV off in the same circs?)

don't really have an opinion about watching movies in a theater vs. watching at home, but I love the name Violet Crown

there's the ritualistic & extremely meaningful aspect of going to movie theaters - being alone in a dark room with strangers scattered around watching the same thing - that is regularly, for me, transcendent. that goes beyond issues of sound/picture quality. But I know movies don't mean as much to everyone, different strokes. Also, thinking about it, I've had to deal with very little bad behavior in movie theaters considering how often I go. maybe because I only go to multiplexes in the morning/during the day before people have been drinking (usually - Hell or High Water was ruined by 4 drunk assholes). and if I that was something I might encounter even semi-frequently of course I'd stay home. I'll never get to see that movie for the first time again, and probably won't be able to watch it again without recalling every other idiotic or racist interjection from the crew going hard at 1pm.

I only go to the theater on dates now, I like going to empty matinees if I'm alone and it's much harder to fit those into my schedule now. There are fewer movies I'm interested in that benefit from a giant screen anyway, the big action stuff is all boring these days. I could have been wondering how long until Doctor Strange was over on my couch.

just saw The Favourite at a single-screen theater and here are some things that benefited from a giant screen: the rooms, the locations, the dresses, the wigs, the makeup, the ducks, the lighting, the lenses, the intertitles and the faces.

Hell or High Water was ruined by 4 drunk assholes

David Mackenzie and who are the other three?

But I know movies don't mean as much to everyone

I actually can be very moved by a film and would you believe it has nothing to do with being in a mall with a bunch of people I don't know?

It's actually the same exact film when you watch on your TV, same script, same actors, dialogue, plot, music, everything!

I mean I will defer to Shakes, I admit sometimes it's hard to enjoy a film as much without taking the city bus and sneaking food and beverages into a large dark room first but I manage somehow

there's the ritualistic & extremely meaningful aspect of going to movie theaters - being alone in a dark room with strangers scattered around watching the same thing - that is regularly, for me, transcendent

I never felt this way about movies, but I used to feel this way about rock shows, so I kinda get it. But I can honestly say if I never went to another movie, or another rock show, for the rest of my life, I'd be just fine. (Live jazz and classical, on the other hand, are more and more important to me. I are old.)

As long as it doesn't involve the infliction of injury on unwilling parties, I wouldn't deign to assert the wrongness of anyone's preferred method of engaging with a particular artform. If you prefer to print out each individual frame of a film and watch it as a flipbook, knock yourself out with my blessing.

My take on this is that my favourite sustained listening period is when I was living in a grubby house in Sydney and literally had a pile of tapes and a shitty $1 tape player from a thrift store - ie the mode of delivery is kind of meaningless, it's the experience etc. But now I love listening on a good stereo. So there's room for both and it needn't be one or the other: as long as the cinema isn't full of cunts, watching films projected is fantastic. As is watching at home.

Which is a garbled way of saying it's not a zero-sum game.

yea don't get me wrong I love watching movies at home, too. & i should've said "the theater-going experience isn't as important to everyone"

projecting on to the far wall of the living room, surround sound system, few cunts in the room with you, jobs a goodun

I will only go to see talkies. No reason to spend extra money for the orchestra. When you factor in streetcar fare and a cherry phosphate, all in all it's a pleasant and inexpensive night out (though at times I prefer to stay indoors with the stereopticon).

Bed is a great place to eat crackers

Specifically up to one entire sleeve of Keebler Club crackers is great to eat in bed

you are dangerous and im no longer comfortable with the level of support this community is providing for your radical ideas tbh

redux https://newrepublic.com/article/152658/ethical-post-pictures-kids-instagram

In France, a child can sue her parents for posting pictures of her on Instagram. On any social media network, in fact, it is the responsibility of the French parent to protect a child’s image. The Gendarmerie have even posted on Facebook about it: “Préservez vos enfants!” The law rests on the principle that the images you post of a non-consenting child will endure in the future, and thus may distress or shame the child in the years to come.

Evangelical Christianity is a risibly silly religion

Not a controp

Not even amongst Christians...

How DARE you sillby

Yeah I feel like at this point it’s a sect that the general populations just has to... deal with. Pat them on the head and treat them like adults while our eyes quietly roll out our skulls.

i can’t imagine taking any religion fully seriously, they are all silly and make ridiculous claims

(not controp just responding to recent comments)

so im assuming you don't have a colander on your head rn

christmas is good

It’s bad

shhh silby let them have their special day we have tons they get like two

Maybe in America they only get the two.

It’s not like I don’t like going to the movies but it’d be nice to have options is all

who the fuck is "they", bucko?

the ppl celebrating christmas

poll the best feastdays imo

Aren’t there 100-odd, you’d need two tranches

can only speak for the culturally catholic paddies we only have about forty

America taught me that all Christians are Protestant.

we have a thread for that im sure

We would be ok without any of it:

1. The current bloated Walmarty "Christmas" that lasts from October into January and incorporates door-buster sales, bows on cars, etc.

2. The artificial inflation of (comparatively minor) Hannukah, Kwanzaa, Neopagan solstice celebrations, and occasionally Ramadan so they can be roped in to an ostensibly neutral "holiday season".

2(a). Said roping-in being entirely to assuage qualms/guilt about secular and cultural Christians indulging in (1).

(3). Arguments about whether Santa, Rudolph, Frosty, "Jingle Bells," etc., can be truly secular (and thus universal) or whether they inherently derive from Christian lore, and are thus not nearly as "neutral" as culturally Christian white suburban ppl want them to be acknowledged as.

nothing makes me steamed than holiday messages that incorporate chanukah literal weeks after the end of chanukah

wow, liking Christmas, the contrest of ops apparently