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It might just be my experience but it seems like people have forgotten how to behave in movie theatres over the past half decade or so. Theres definitely been more people talking, phone noises, and generally rude behavior coming from audiences. Theres a couple people I refuse to go see movies with because they do shit like this. Its like the effect of everyone staying inside for a couple months and then getting covid anyways kinda fucked up some peoples ability to conform to social norms.

Also, from the article...

Travers then countered that Scorsese, 82, likely behaved in a similar way when he was younger. “‘Come on, Marty,’ I said, ‘we couldn’t keep our mouths shut when we were kids.’” Travers added: “His [Scorsese’s] eyes darkened. ‘Yeah, maybe,’ he conceded, ‘but when we talked it was always about the movie and the fun we had chewing over the details.’”

Scorsese is totally lying out of his ass in that last bit lmao.

I just watched Final Destination: Bloodlines at home and I can say with totally certainty this movie would have been a lot of fun to watch in a crowded theater with people yelling their thoughts at the screen.

some movies are more of a social experience, and filmmakers who can't grasp that need to lighten up.

also, scorcese thinks pretty highly of himself for basically making slur-laden stories about opulent sociopaths being crass and violent. I mean I laugh at some of the scenes, but I laugh at all kinds of dumb shit.

some of them I really like, but his stuff is not exactly all that complicated. The Departed had a clever symmetry to its conflicts and character development, but that was a remake anyway. I just rewatched Casino, and it's not exactly a revelation. there are some early scenes that are downright cheesy. but for some reason he made it 3 hours long so it took me 2 days to get through it.

Chicken Jockey is peak kino Martin, you can't deny this.

You don't go to the theater because you don't want to deal with the audience. I don't go to the theater because there's nothing I want to see.

The snack thing is real. You get to tense part of a movie all you hear is hogs chewing with their mouth open

I go to theaters to watch movies all the time and practically never encounter this bad behavior people complain about all the time.

what kind of cinema did he go to? there's gotta be like exclusive fancy theaters for rich people like come on

I've been to the theater four times in the last year and each time it's been empty or nearly empty and the theater is in a high density-high traffic area

Checking two hours before the showing and finding something empty is not difficult, there were like five people with me when I saw Nosferatu on IMAX

Kinda on him for going to Minecraft specifically tbh

The movie theatre experience makes me appreciate the hextube all the more. It's like the world's best indie theatre for free from the comfort and safety of home.

Must be nice to not go to movie theatres out of choice, and not because it's too fracking expensive for the CGI crap on display. How many Super Galactic Wonder Assassin Mega Blaster Space Heroes Destroy the City Planet to Save It movies can one person watch?

When you have the money to have a great cinematic experience at home any time you want, any movie you want, then its easy to take potshots at the theater and be oversensitive to every little transgression. I don't go to a lot of movies but when I do it's mostly been pretty chill, and as others have mentioned, watching in the theater can also be a positive social experience, but if you're overly rigid about absolute silence, that can't develop and you might as well just see it at home.

The only theaters I would go to are like Alamo Drafthouse where they kick people out for being disruptive.

I don’t know about movie theatres since I haven’t been since like 2016, but I do think there’s been a general worsening of behavior in all aspects of life since 2020. Just my personal experience

theaters depend on those treat sales though

He has a theater at home, he doesn't need to go out. Therefore his threshold for reasons to not go out are very low. This compared to someone who can only experience a theater by going out. But the latter reads the opinion of the former and think they're making the same point. Of course a rich guy finds sharing spaces with randos to be disappointing. The randos will be like "yeah people are annoying, I'm going to seclude myself as well."

I do agree in the sense that the few times I've gone to the theaters over the last 5 or so years there is always someone doing something inconsiderate. I do prefer to watch films at home to avoid the cost and annoyance.

That being said, some films that are played which are new can be fun in a social, casual experience. Throwback cult-classics on the big screen can be fun to watch in a group too with people throwing out their favorite lines, like for The Big Lebowski.

The bigger problem is that I haven't seen any serious films released in theaters recently that demand serious conditions for watching since Roma (2018), which I watched in a small, artsy theater anyway.

Too bad he doesn't live near an Alamo theater chairn

Just go watch niche shit so you barely have anyone in the room with you

rich guy disgusted by the masses can get lost. Going to the movies is a choice to experience art publicly, in a social environment. If you can't handle the fact that means you don't get to control how everyone acts then go watch movies by yourself in your palace that was always allowed you don't have to have a press conference about it