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 Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 2:11 am Post subject: Re: Goodbye To The Cinema - Home Video From Now On For Me |
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"Tweek" <tweek@theinternets.com> wrote in message
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"Alric Knebel" <alric@cableone.net> wrote in
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"Tweek" <tweek@theinternets.com> wrote:
No actually, it doesn't apply to me. I'm extremely polite and go out
of my way to be considerate and comport myself like a gentleman. I
pay attention to people around me and pro-actively seek not to annoy
them or defeat the purpose of whatever they're doing. I'm pretty much
neurotic about it, and this is probably half the reason it drives me
to histrionics.
No, actually it applies to you completely When someone pro-actively
sought to not bother you by slowly taking out their candy, you bitched
at them for being too considerate and making the matters worse. How
do YOU eat candy or popcorn without making noise? If you're engaging
in these activities, you'll most certainly be making noice. But let
me take at least one other point below.
I didn't bitch at anybody. I went home and typed my complaint into a movie
newsgroup, in order to purge my feelings so that I can continue being
pleasant when out in public. Yes, I get annoyed when someone makes a
problem worse, regardless of their intentions. Call me crazy but if you
burn my house down lighting my birthday candles, I'm going to be pissed
off.
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I have an idea that you'd have bitched if the candles didn't go out on the
first blow.
| Quote: | How often do you go to the movies? On Friday at Hellboy 2, I
experienced all of the following:
- Nobody ripped my ticket, but there were three employees just
milling about, clogging the choke point to the auditoriums where
normally you'd expect to have your ticket ripped. I had to dodge the
biggest fattest one because he decided to suddenly start walking
backwards as I was trying to scoot past him.
How fucking important is it to have your ticket torn. You've already
proven you paid to get in, and that's all the ticket is for. I don't
get my ticket torn lots of times. It's not big deal. And your
attitude about teh "fattest one" shows you have a shitty anti-social
personality. Let me go below some more to see what other milestones
in cinema terror you've experienced. . . .
You miss the point. I don't care whether my ticket is ripped or not. What
bothers me is when I know THEY want to rip it, but they're not there at
the ticket-ripping place to do it... they end up running behind you saying
"Can I see your ticket" which breaks my rhythmn. What's worse is when they
are there but they have their backs turned, or they're there, and see me
getting napkins and straws, but by the time I walk ten feet over to have
my ticket ripped they have started doing something else and I'm having to
wait for them. During such times I feel like an unpaid employee
conscripted into the movie exhibition business, as my time is being used
to increase their "efficiency."
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Here's the simple solution: walk on and let them deal with it. You paid,
you have a ticket to prove it, and that's all it's really about. Don't make
a mountain out of a molehill.
| Quote: | - Girl serving me at the concession was interrupted by one of several
people just milling about behind her. I don't think it was even work
related, they were just goofing around in the middle of serving me.
Oh, for crying outloud. Get over it. It's just kids being kids. If
you had a friendlier outlook, it wouldn't look so bad to you. You
resent their youth. I stopped buying all that stuff because it
interferes with the movie for me, and the munching and trying not to
spill anything in the dark and so on. I have just the coffee.
Other kids annoyed me when I was a kid. Kids are annoying and
irresponsible little shits. . . .
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You were probably annoying to other kids. I've seen people like you a lot
of times, and most of the time, they're prefectionists, but they're not as
perfect as they think they are. They just enjoy applying the standard to
everyone else, and, being merely human themselves, they fall short, and thus
are deserving of supercillious ire.
| Quote: | When I worked at The Second Cup in my youth, I
was extremely vigilant to waste none of the customer's time. It's a basic
part of customer service.
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Wow! Your perfection goes back THAT far! I'm impressed.
| Quote: | - A full cup of unpopped or partially poppped kernels in my $8.50
popcorn
Oh, bullshit. There are always remants of those things in the cups,
but a FULL cup? I don't think so. And if you bought the $8.50 bag,
surely you had enough popcorn by the time you reached them.
Dude, I shit you not: there is almost a full cup of this stuff sitting in
a *measuring cup* in my kitchen right now. Partially popped kernels take
up a lot of volume and don't settle to the bottom.
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So, are you recommending that the cinema employees use, like, tongs, and
pick the pieces out for you?
| Quote: | I got a refill on Friday and brought it home for watching DVDs. Last night
I started into eating it and as happens about every fourth time realized I
had gotten a bucket full of teeth breakers. I decided to sift through it
and drop every unppopped and partially popped kernel into a measuring cup.
I figure the problem is the way that the person filling the corn is
scooping. You have to scoop from the top..
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You picked up a refill of that popcorn to take home, for watching DVDs? You
have got to be kidding me. Do you realize how CHEAP popcorn is? Christ.
The world is surely an insufferable place for you, when you're that
goddamned tight, that you refill your refillable popcorn to take it home.
Didn't you already find their popcorn BAD? Why the hell would you go back
for seconds?
| Quote: | - The fifty year old man sitting in the seat to my left pulled out
his cellphone to text or check incoming calls about fifteen times
THAT you should have said something about.
I got the urge, but saying something usually leaves an air of tension, or
even worse, the person continues their activity after you've said
something and now you're forced to pussy out or escalate. Plus the movie
was pretty good and he was making some effort to conceal the light with
his jacket, it's just the fact I was sitting right next to him.
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So, he wasn't as anti-social and as inconsiderate as you made him seem.
| Quote: | - Two teenagers in my row had their feet up and down and shaking and
kicking all around the entire movie, wearing white sneakers. The
human eye detetcs motion on the periphery just as much as in the
center of focus.
You just enjoy being annoyed. It was HELLBOY. You should have been
having a good time, and enjoying the hell out of the eye-popping
visuals, and not paying attention to that sort of thing.
Do the peripheral vision motion test. I couldn't ignore it even though I
tried.
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I'm pretty much the type of guy who doesn't care too much about what people
are doing around me, and I'm not LOOKING for an excuse to gripe.
| Quote: | Try putting something high-contrast to the background at the side of
your peripheral vision, then shake it back and forth and try to
ignore it. You can't, it's instinct. Your drive is to turn focus
towards it. - I had to change seats at first because there was a
family in the row behind me who decided the auditorium was their
living room, so they were all gonna put their feet up on the back of
my row and let the kids romp around
This sounds like such crap.
Why?
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Because you're a chronic bitcher, and if you'd get that stick out of your
ass, you'd enjoy yourself more. It's got to be you. If this stuff happened
EVERY time you go to a theater, and it rarely happens to me, then the
problem has got to be YOU.
| Quote: | Of course none of these things happen EVERY time, but at least a few
of them happen every time I go, ESPECIALLY the ticket ripping thing.
I can't remember the last time someone was actually standing
attentively waiting to rip my ticket. I pretty much only go to
matinees, so maybe that's why. Still, it pisses me off. Either have
someone ripping them, or don't, but if you do, make sure they do the
goddamn job!
Ripping you ticket isn't high on anyone's priority list. That you PAY
is, and the fact that you have a ticket is what counts. Why does it
even matter if your ticket is torn or not? If it's that important,
tear it your damned self.
See my explanation above about how I couldn't give a shit about having my
ticket ripped.
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Evidently, you do, you fucking moron. It's HIGH on your list of priorities,
evidently. If they don't tear, move on. If they
| Quote: | I don't know how you're lucky enough to not experience these things.
I am in the suburbs. I have noticed that multiplexes that are really
busy, like in downtown Toronto, actually seem to run better. Probably
because people are forced to focus on their job at all times or fall
hopelessly behind the rush.
You have bad karma that comes from a bad attitude. I'm curious. How
old are you?
Yeah, I'm annoyed at the theatre because I have bad karma. Like karma
exists, you fucking nitwit.
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You're annoyed at the theater because you're a humorless dick. That's your
fucking problem right there: You're not smart enough to go out in public.
You don't have the equipment upstairs to understand people or how to deal
with situations. Oh, you think you're better, that you're more efficient,
but you're not. You're a perfectionist, but it's really only applied to
other people. Mostly you're a chronic bitcher. Take your comment about the
ticket tearing. Just WALK ON, you dumb fuck. If they're not there to tear
your ticket, it's THEIR problem. You have proof you paid, and that's that.
Christ Almighty. It's that fucking simple, you fucking simpleton.
What a shithead. And a COMMITTED shithead, too. |
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Alric Knebel
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 2:24 am Post subject: Re: Goodbye To The Cinema - Home Video From Now On For Me |
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"George Peatty" <peattyg47-1230@copper.net> wrote in message
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| Quote: | On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:13:06 GMT, Tweek <tweek@theinternets.com> wrote:
I could probably live with the first four problems, if not for how
incredibly irritating the audience has become. I've been going to the
movies quite a bit since the late eighties, and cinema goers have become
considerably more rude and inconsiderate. What's funny is I remember
movies
being a lot busier back in the nineties before there were so many screens,
so even with people crammed together in shitty seats they were still
behaved better than the people of today acting like total shitheads with
tons of legroom and personal space.
The secret for me is to go at non-peak hours. I do lots of matinee shows,
both for the discount tickets, and because I can often walk into my movie
of
choice and count the number of others there on one hand. It helps also to
go late in a movie's run, after almost everyone who is going to see it has
seen it.
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Yeah, but you risk the print itself being a mess, and I go to the theater
because I want to see a big, pristine print.
And I know this is thread drift, but I have to share something I just heard
about.
A young guy I work with was telling me something about how the films are
spooled at the local franchised cinema (The Grand), and I was stunned by how
clumsy the process is. They have to piece the film together themselves at
the theater, and when it's finished, it sits on this large tray-like thing.
However, if it has to be moved, the tray doesn't move with it, and it takes
TWO people. Imagine a tape measure rolled up. This is the same thing,
except it's HUGE. I always thought it was on a reel. So two people have to
lift this thing, slipping their hand underneath so that the center doesn't
drop out. Here it is, this expensive print, and you have these high school
kids handling it, and it's under these conditions, and the whole process is
clunky as hell. He said one time, it slipped out when they were moving the
print of THE BEE MOVIE to another projection room. Something happened to
the print, and it had a yellow strip down it for the first fifteen minutes.
People complained, but he could do nothing but tell them that it was going
to be like that for a long time. I was stunned by the stupidity of it all.
It seems to me that the tray it sits on during the screening could be made
to be detachable, and the whole thing lift up for changing to other screens.
This story made me more determined than ever to see the newest releases as
close to opening night as possible.
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Tweek
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 2:44 am Post subject: Re: Goodbye To The Cinema - Home Video From Now On For Me |
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| Quote: | "Alric 'no reading comprehension' Knebel" <alric@cableone.net
wrote in news:AaKdnV6T66ew0OfVnZ2dnUVZ_rPinZ2d@giganews.com:
"Tweek" <tweek@theinternets.com> wrote:
I didn't bitch at anybody. I went home and typed my complaint into a
movie newsgroup, in order to purge my feelings so that I can continue
being pleasant when out in public. Yes, I get annoyed when someone
makes a problem worse, regardless of their intentions. Call me crazy
but if you burn my house down lighting my birthday candles, I'm going
to be pissed off.
I have an idea that you'd have bitched if the candles didn't go out on
the first blow.
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Well, you have the wrong idea.
| Quote: | You miss the point. I don't care whether my ticket is ripped or not.
What bothers me is when I know THEY want to rip it, but they're not
there at the ticket-ripping place to do it... they end up running
behind you saying "Can I see your ticket" which breaks my rhythmn.
What's worse is when they are there but they have their backs turned,
or they're there, and see me getting napkins and straws, but by the
time I walk ten feet over to have my ticket ripped they have started
doing something else and I'm having to wait for them. During such
times I feel like an unpaid employee conscripted into the movie
exhibition business, as my time is being used to increase their
"efficiency."
Here's the simple solution: walk on and let them deal with it. You
paid, you have a ticket to prove it, and that's all it's really about.
Don't make a mountain out of a molehill.
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It's really rude to walk away from someone when they're demanding your
attention, don't you think?
| Quote: | Other kids annoyed me when I was a kid. Kids are annoying and
irresponsible little shits. . . .
You were probably annoying to other kids. I've seen people like you a
lot of times, and most of the time, they're prefectionists, but
they're not as perfect as they think they are. They just enjoy
applying the standard to everyone else, and, being merely human
themselves, they fall short, and thus are deserving of supercillious
ire.
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I was annoying to little kids in that I was a quiet type who chewed with
my mouth closed and tried not to annoy any adults in my vicinity.
| Quote: | When I worked at The Second Cup in my youth, I
was extremely vigilant to waste none of the customer's time. It's a
basic part of customer service.
Wow! Your perfection goes back THAT far! I'm impressed.
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I never said I was perfect. I said that when I was a young man working
in a customer service window, I actually gave a shit about the
customer's experience and would put off discussion of my break to before
or after a transaction. Nice inferiority complex.
| Quote: | Dude, I shit you not: there is almost a full cup of this stuff
sitting in a *measuring cup* in my kitchen right now. Partially
popped kernels take up a lot of volume and don't settle to the
bottom.
So, are you recommending that the cinema employees use, like, tongs,
and pick the pieces out for you?
You picked up a refill of that popcorn to take home, for watching
DVDs? You have got to be kidding me. Do you realize how CHEAP
popcorn is? Christ. The world is surely an insufferable place for
you, when you're that goddamned tight, that you refill your refillable
popcorn to take it home. Didn't you already find their popcorn BAD?
Why the hell would you go back for seconds?
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You're special. I LOVE the popcorn at the movies. Half the time that's
the only reason I can be arsed to make the trip. If the popcorn wasn't
so damn good I'd almost never go see things like Hancock.
I make popocorn at home all the time, but it's not half as good as real
buttered movie theatre popcorn. So when I get a refillable popcorn,
about half the time I refill it and take it home to enjoy with some
*movies*. It's really got nothing at all to do with the money, although
sometimes I take some satisfaction from the concept of doubling my
value.
My complaint about the popcorn is that about one in four times,
seemingly dependent on how they scoop the popcorn, there is an
inordinate amount of rock-hard material in the bucket; either fully
unpopped raw kernels, or partially popped corn with tooth-breakers
embedded. I figure for $8.50 a shot I should be able to expect them to
follow what I know is the protocol: shake the tray when you dump the
corn, to sift out as much of this detrius as possible; then scoop from
the top, so as to avoid as many tooth-breakers as possible.
| Quote: | - The fifty year old man sitting in the seat to my left pulled out
his cellphone to text or check incoming calls about fifteen times
THAT you should have said something about.
I got the urge, but saying something usually leaves an air of
tension, or even worse, the person continues their activity after
you've said something and now you're forced to pussy out or escalate.
Plus the movie was pretty good and he was making some effort to
conceal the light with his jacket, it's just the fact I was sitting
right next to him.
So, he wasn't as anti-social and as inconsiderate as you made him
seem.
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You are projecting or something. I said he took his cellphone out
fifteen times and it was annoying. Nowhere did I say anything about his
character.
You, on the other hand, I feel confident in labelling a moron with some
deep-seated inferiority issues.
| Quote: | Do the peripheral vision motion test. I couldn't ignore it even
though I tried.
I'm pretty much the type of guy who doesn't care too much about what
people are doing around me, and I'm not LOOKING for an excuse to
gripe.
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You miss the point some more. I CAN'T IGNORE IT, it's a bright white
object moving frenetically against a field of black. Same thing happened
in Indy 4, to the point I said something to the guy and he replied with
"dude what the fuck!?" but he stopped.
I'm not looking to be annoyed either, but I really can't stand people
who don't understand the difference between "Don't care what other
people think" and "Feel free to act like an asshole."
| Quote: | Try putting something high-contrast to the background at the side
of your peripheral vision, then shake it back and forth and try to
ignore it. You can't, it's instinct. Your drive is to turn focus
towards it. - I had to change seats at first because there was a
family in the row behind me who decided the auditorium was their
living room, so they were all gonna put their feet up on the back
of my row and let the kids romp around
This sounds like such crap.
Why?
Because you're a chronic bitcher, and if you'd get that stick out of
your ass, you'd enjoy yourself more. It's got to be you. If this
stuff happened EVERY time you go to a theater, and it rarely happens
to me, then the problem has got to be YOU.
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Well if you notice there are like a dozen different annoying things.
Basic finite maths will tell you you're likely to experience one or two
of them on every visit. It's not like it drives me to a frothing rage as
you seem to think. I'm just not going to rent more DVDs and save myself
the money, time, and annoyance of going to the theatre. I don't see why
you've got your panties in such a knot over this declaration.
| Quote: | See my explanation above about how I couldn't give a shit about
having my ticket ripped.
Evidently, you do, you fucking moron. It's HIGH on your list of
priorities, evidently. If they don't tear, move on. If they
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Nice reading comprehension. They won't let me "just walk on" you dolt.
| Quote: | You're annoyed at the theater because you're a humorless dick. That's
your fucking problem right there: You're not smart enough to go out in
public. You don't have the equipment upstairs to understand people or
how to deal with situations. Oh, you think you're better, that you're
more efficient, but you're not. You're a perfectionist, but it's
really only applied to other people. Mostly you're a chronic bitcher.
Take your comment about the ticket tearing. Just WALK ON, you dumb
fuck. If they're not there to tear your ticket, it's THEIR problem.
You have proof you paid, and that's that. Christ Almighty. It's that
fucking simple, you fucking simpleton.
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It's amazing that you can glean so much about me from my reasons for
going to less movies. Again, nice reading comprehension. Enjoy being a
fucking idiot. |
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On Jul 14, 12:22 pm, Thanatos <atro...@mac.com> wrote:
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I don't mind the FBI warning so much as the thing that follows it where
they have to explain to you that anything anyone says in the
commentaries and special features isn't the opinion of 20th Century Fox
or Warner Bros. or Sony Pictures or whatever. And they not only do it in
English, but French and Spanish as well. Several minutes go by before
you can get through all the warnings and disclaimers just to watch the
damn movie-- and of course you can't skip them. Pressing any button on
the remote results in a "This function currently disabled by disc"
message.
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It's kind of like they want to punish you for actually owning a
legitimate copy. I try and remember to put the disk in a couple of
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 4:23 am Post subject: Re: Goodbye To The Cinema - Home Video From Now On For Me |
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"moviePig" <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote in message
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For those people's genuine, spontaneous-yet-courteous reactions,
especially to movies like HULK... absolutely. But I fear that either
(the OP and) I have developed a radar-like hypersensitivity to the
boorishness he describes, or else public decorum really is generally
going to hell in a stadium-seated handbasket. (Btw, you're in the
South, which many Northerners regard as more prone to such anti-social
behavior... but, fwiw, I've found Southern audiences to be
*considerably* better behaved than their Northern counterparts. Not a
lot of data there... but consistent...)
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I had a friend from the South that said people were more polite
there...because if they weren't, someone would shoot them. My hope at the
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Thanatos
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 4:36 am Post subject: Re: Goodbye To The Cinema - Home Video From Now On For Me |
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In article <Xns9ADA7C47E7D74tweektheinternetscom@216.221.81.119>,
Tweek <tweek@theinternets.com> wrote:
| Quote: | I could probably live with the first four problems, if not for how
incredibly irritating the audience has become. I've been going to the
movies quite a bit since the late eighties, and cinema goers have become
considerably more rude and inconsiderate. What's funny is I remember movies
being a lot busier back in the nineties before there were so many screens,
so even with people crammed together in shitty seats they were still
behaved better than the people of today acting like total shitheads with
tons of legroom and personal space.
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I wholeheartedly agree with everything you wrote here. Going to the
theater has become a nightmarish experience-- at least in Washington, DC.
I bit the bullet last month and went and saw "Hulk" in a theater a few
weeks ago instead of waiting for the DVD like I do most movies and it
was ridiculous. Three different people in my immediate vicinity not only
had their phones ring during the movie, but all three *took the call*
and started yakking away right there in the seats-- and when the movie
got louder, so did they so they could be heard over the soundtrack. And
the ones who don't talk on their phones are constantly pulling out those
hellish devices and checking their e-mail or texting or
whatever-the-fuck and their little glowing screens wink on and off and
light up the theater like fireflies.
Why these morons can't put those things away for the 90 minutes it takes
to watch a movie is beyond comprehension. Whatever e-mail you get during
that time will still be there when the credits roll. Leave it the fuck
alone until then.
One teenage asshole in the "Hulk" movie even went so far as to start
playing his mp3s out loud on his iPhone during the parts of the movie he
found boring-- basically anything without explosions. He just turned on
the music and sat back chatting with his girlfriend while they bobbed
their heads to their tunes. I've never seen anything like it. Of course
it's situations like that that make being a cop rather convenient. Get
up and tell the kid to turn it off once and after you get the finger,
yank him up and start putting the cuffs on him for disturbing the peace.
His "fuck everyone" attitude suddenly disappears and the tears and
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Thanatos
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 4:36 am Post subject: Re: Goodbye To The Cinema - Home Video From Now On For Me |
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In article <y4adnRbaAsNe7-fVnZ2dnUVZ_vzinZ2d@giganews.com>,
"Alric Knebel" <alric@cableone.net> wrote:
| Quote: | A young guy I work with was telling me something about how the films are
spooled at the local franchised cinema (The Grand), and I was stunned by how
clumsy the process is. They have to piece the film together themselves at
the theater, and when it's finished, it sits on this large tray-like thing.
However, if it has to be moved, the tray doesn't move with it, and it takes
TWO people. Imagine a tape measure rolled up. This is the same thing,
except it's HUGE. I always thought it was on a reel. So two people have to
lift this thing, slipping their hand underneath so that the center doesn't
drop out. Here it is, this expensive print, and you have these high school
kids handling it, and it's under these conditions, and the whole process is
clunky as hell.
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Seems like a wheeled cart set at the same height as the trays would be
an ideal thing to have. Slide the spooled film off the tray onto the
cart, wheel it to the next theater, slide it back onto the tray. No
muss, no fuss. |
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Thanatos
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 4:36 am Post subject: Re: Goodbye To The Cinema - Home Video From Now On For Me |
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In article <Xns9ADA9B3DFD3C1tweektheinternetscom@216.221.81.119>,
Tweek <tweek@theinternets.com> wrote:
| Quote: | The human eye detetcs motion on the periphery just as much
as in the center of focus.
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Even more so. The visual receptors on the periphery of the retina are
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Thanatos
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 4:36 am Post subject: Re: Goodbye To The Cinema - Home Video From Now On For Me |
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In article
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calvin <crice5@windstream.net> wrote:
| Quote: | Ok, now listen to my gripes about watching movies in my
little simulated-home-theater movie room:
1) uh .... hmmm .... well .... hey, I thought of one, that
FBI warning thing
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I don't mind the FBI warning so much as the thing that follows it where
they have to explain to you that anything anyone says in the
commentaries and special features isn't the opinion of 20th Century Fox
or Warner Bros. or Sony Pictures or whatever. And they not only do it in
English, but French and Spanish as well. Several minutes go by before
you can get through all the warnings and disclaimers just to watch the
damn movie-- and of course you can't skip them. Pressing any button on
the remote results in a "This function currently disabled by disc"
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Flasherly
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 6:56 am Post subject: Re: Goodbye To The Cinema - Home Video From Now On For Me |
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On Jul 13, 5:44 pm, Tweek <tw...@theinternets.com> wrote:
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It's amazing that you can glean so much about me from my reasons for
going to less movies. Again, nice reading comprehension. Enjoy being a
fucking idiot.
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Bit of the whole banality. In severely advanced stages, they're prone
never, ever to curse. Steeled, never the less not immune to
compromises or various adaptations. Though dated, I'd think there are
books in which people pitch the same gripe as popcorn, because stones
were baked into the meal from bread served at inns where they stopped
to eat and sleep. Horse and carriage. Although there isn't any
novocaine, blunted steak knifes, of course, will still be brought to
table upon request. Expecting seconds?
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Narrator: The duellist demands satisfaction. Honour, for him, is an
appetite. This story is about an eccentric kind of hunger. It is a
true story and begins in the year that Napoleon Bonaparte became ruler
of France.
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moviePig
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 2:19 pm Post subject: Re: Goodbye To The Cinema - Home Video From Now On For Me |
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On Jul 13, 10:13 pm, Thanatos <atro...@mac.com> wrote:
| Quote: | In article <Xns9ADA7C47E7D74tweektheinternets...@216.221.81.119>,
Tweek <tw...@theinternets.com> wrote:
I could probably live with the first four problems, if not for how
incredibly irritating the audience has become. I've been going to the
movies quite a bit since the late eighties, and cinema goers have become
considerably more rude and inconsiderate. What's funny is I remember movies
being a lot busier back in the nineties before there were so many screens,
so even with people crammed together in shitty seats they were still
behaved better than the people of today acting like total shitheads with
tons of legroom and personal space.
I wholeheartedly agree with everything you wrote here. Going to the
theater has become a nightmarish experience-- at least in Washington, DC.
I bit the bullet last month and went and saw "Hulk" in a theater a few
weeks ago instead of waiting for the DVD like I do most movies and it
was ridiculous. Three different people in my immediate vicinity not only
had their phones ring during the movie, but all three *took the call*
and started yakking away right there in the seats-- and when the movie
got louder, so did they so they could be heard over the soundtrack. And
the ones who don't talk on their phones are constantly pulling out those
hellish devices and checking their e-mail or texting or
whatever-the-fuck and their little glowing screens wink on and off and
light up the theater like fireflies.
Why these morons can't put those things away for the 90 minutes it takes
to watch a movie is beyond comprehension. Whatever e-mail you get during
that time will still be there when the credits roll. Leave it the fuck
alone until then.
One teenage asshole in the "Hulk" movie even went so far as to start
playing his mp3s out loud on his iPhone during the parts of the movie he
found boring-- basically anything without explosions. He just turned on
the music and sat back chatting with his girlfriend while they bobbed
their heads to their tunes. I've never seen anything like it. Of course
it's situations like that that make being a cop rather convenient. Get
up and tell the kid to turn it off once and after you get the finger,
yank him up and start putting the cuffs on him for disturbing the peace.
His "fuck everyone" attitude suddenly disappears and the tears and
begging and apologies take its place real quick.
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(I wonder if any frequent moviegoer here is able to read the
preceding, presumably accurate, anecdote without a quick succession of
strong visceral responses that rivals anything movies themselves
usually induce...)
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YOUR taste at work...
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calvin
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 2:49 pm Post subject: Re: Goodbye To The Cinema - Home Video From Now On For Me |
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On Jul 14, 10:19 am, moviePig <pwall...@moviepig.com> wrote:
| Quote: | On Jul 13, 10:13 pm, Thanatos <atro...@mac.com> wrote:
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One teenage asshole in the "Hulk" movie even went so far as to start
playing his mp3s out loud on his iPhone during the parts of the movie he
found boring-- basically anything without explosions. He just turned on
the music and sat back chatting with his girlfriend while they bobbed
their heads to their tunes. I've never seen anything like it. Of course
it's situations like that that make being a cop rather convenient. Get
up and tell the kid to turn it off once and after you get the finger,
yank him up and start putting the cuffs on him for disturbing the peace..
His "fuck everyone" attitude suddenly disappears and the tears and
begging and apologies take its place real quick.
(I wonder if any frequent moviegoer here is able to read the
preceding, presumably accurate, anecdote without a quick succession of
strong visceral responses that rivals anything movies themselves
usually induce...)
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'presumably accurate'?
I don't know. In today's anti-authoritarian society, can someone
really be handcuffed for giving a policeman the finger? And even if
so, could an off-duty policeman at a movie get away with it? |
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artyw2@yahoo.com
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 2:59 pm Post subject: Re: Goodbye To The Cinema - Home Video From Now On For Me |
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On Jul 13, 12:13 pm, Tweek <tw...@theinternets.com> wrote:
| Quote: | A trip to the movies used to be reliable, affordable fun for people of
every class. Now, movie-going has become to movie-watching what riding the
city bus is to transportation. Increasingly, discerning people wait for the
home video release.
The Dark Knight comes out this week. It'll be the last non-3D movie I ever
plan ahead to see at the cinema. DVD and Blu-Ray for me from now on. "Going
to the movies" has become too stressful, for the following reasons:
Prices, marketing bombardment, lineups, incompetent staff and uncaring
management, and finally the biggest reason of all - the audience.
1. PRICES - I don't mind paying $13 or so for a movie ticket, but the price
of a large popcorn and Coke combo is now up to $15 including tax. What's
worse, the pop is usually either flat, too syrupy, or not syrupy enough,
and the popcorn has enough merry widows that you can never really relax and
just munch away for fear or splintering your fucking teeth.
For this much money I can purchase the DVD to watch at home, pay for better
snacks, and not have to put up with any of the annoyances below:
2. MARKETING BOMBARDMENT - There might only be one person in front of you
in the line for tickets, but you could be standing there for the next five
minutes while the clerk runs through the script explaining the various
cards and clubs that they want the person to join to "save money." Then you
step up and are subjected to the same pitch, unless you're like me and you
cut them off before they start. This is just the first of many captive
marketing pitches you'll enjoy on a typical trip to the movies. These days
I preface every request at Famous Players with "I don't have a SCENE card,
can I please have X?"
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Speaking of Marketing, I could do without all the ads. Especially at
really high decibel levels? (Do they just do previews and ads at high
volumes and then turn it down for the main feature and perhaps my
hearing adjusts?)
I like previews. I don't need to see 8 of them. |
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rick++
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 4:06 pm Post subject: Re: Goodbye To The Cinema - Home Video From Now On For Me |
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I bet you the next really hot movie,
say the the seventh Star Wars film,
you'll be back in line quicker than
I can send this message. |
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Alric Knebel
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 4:34 pm Post subject: Re: Goodbye To The Cinema - Home Video From Now On For Me |
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"Thanatos" <atropos@mac.com> wrote in message
news:atropos-0637A5.22162613072008@news.giganews.com...
| Quote: | In article <y4adnRbaAsNe7-fVnZ2dnUVZ_vzinZ2d@giganews.com>,
"Alric Knebel" <alric@cableone.net> wrote:
A young guy I work with was telling me something about how the films are
spooled at the local franchised cinema (The Grand), and I was stunned by
how
clumsy the process is. They have to piece the film together themselves
at
the theater, and when it's finished, it sits on this large tray-like
thing.
However, if it has to be moved, the tray doesn't move with it, and it
takes
TWO people. Imagine a tape measure rolled up. This is the same thing,
except it's HUGE. I always thought it was on a reel. So two people have
to
lift this thing, slipping their hand underneath so that the center
doesn't
drop out. Here it is, this expensive print, and you have these high
school
kids handling it, and it's under these conditions, and the whole process
is
clunky as hell.
Seems like a wheeled cart set at the same height as the trays would be
an ideal thing to have. Slide the spooled film off the tray onto the
cart, wheel it to the next theater, slide it back onto the tray. No
muss, no fuss.
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I agree. In fact, it seems that anyone involved in this process could
easily think of all sorts of ways to deal with it other than the one they're
currently using.
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