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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Minus the theatre it looks like they'd live China and their streams where people send comments while watching soaps together.

[–] [email protected] 111 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Theater where I used to live in Rhode Island in 2012 was $2 a ticket. Thursday’s were half off.

They played stuff that was out of theaters but not yet on streaming, but it was basically a LCD projector in a room with a few speakers.

They didn’t give a FUCK what you did in that room when the movie was running.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago (1 children)

All my knowledge about Rhode Island comes from Family Guy so I think I'm more than qualified to say what a classic Rhode Island thing

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Movie theaters suck. They're expensive as fuck, loud parts shake the room, quiet parts are silent, no control over subtitles.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (5 children)

no control over subtitles.

Really most theaters I know you can rent a little plexiglass thing which gives you subtitles from a rear projector.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

What the fuck?
Most theaters I know simply put the subtitles in the local language in EVERY movie.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

This doesn't happen in native English speaking countries (when the movie language is English, which it is 99.999% of the time).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Yeah but the thing about being British is the local language is English. So I don't need subtitles to watch John Wick.

Usually subtitles are only for the benefit of people who are deaf who obviously aren't very large percentage of the population so they get a little plexiglass thing so everyone else doesn't have to look at pointless subtitles.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Yeah no. So much dialogue is unclear in movies. I started using subs when I had kids because they’re loud and discovered so many lines in movies I’ve seen many times but had never understood before. Now we watch everything with subs even if kids aren’t present.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

I'm also a native English speaker and I tend to disagree. I often find it hard to understand what the actors are saying due to poor sound quality and/or mixing. The explosions are too loud, the speech is too soft and I find myself turning on subtitles and playing around with the volume when watching movies at home.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Must be a Europe thing. I’ve been to a plethora of movie theaters and never came across this. They just have designated Closed Caption screenings.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Thirty seconds before some troll starts commentary about politics, women, and/or minorities on such a chat.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I've been to Conferences have done this. Presenter, with a live chat behind them.

When you buy a ticket, you get an account and access into the conf site and chat portal. And Dickheads are quickly identified and reprimanded.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Those tickets cost a lot more than a movie ticket

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Fifty seconds before fistfights.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

And the trolling is a whole lot harder to ignore when the loud guys in white bed sheets are literally in the theater with you.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Any coward who uses Twitter in the year 2024 is a traitor and a collaborator.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh no the date formatting! I can't tell if this is the 24th of August 2024 or 2024 on August 24th! What am I to do!?

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And they actually change the film several times to see if anyone notices.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Let chat vote if the movie is boring and an algorithm picks the next one

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Picks from a list of films with similar runtimes and jumps you in at the same point from the beginning. Now you're 20 mins into sharknado 4, have no idea what's supposed to have happened. Doesn't matter. It's sharks in a tornado it's not too hard to follow.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

For some time I was watching football streams in a discord server, and eventually the server got a firm message from the league (which was nice compared to just getting shut down).

It was really fun to live chat with everyone while everyone had the same stream with the same delay, in a weird way. It was goofier than a “serious” match night with the boys but on a weeknight alone it was great. It’s not the same to live chat with everyone on different streams, different delays, different folks have their streams drop at different times etc

Especially when the team you follow are legendarily inconsistent and the atmosphere around them is characterized by an implacable vibes roller coaster.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Honestly if it keeps the brainrot addicts who can’t sit through a movie without scrolling through Minecraft parkour videos in one place so I can go and watch them without bright screens in thr dark microwaving my eyeballs, I’m all for it.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

That's called Rumble. You can do it from the comfort of your own home.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Sounds like an interesting business idea. It could seriously pull a lot of younger audience without putting a lot of effort into anything.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Biggest problem I could see with this as a business idea is that IP owners might be hesitant to have their movies shown in places where everyone is expected to have a recording device out.

Otherwise it seems like an actually great idea.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

you could just stream a movie on a discord voice channel

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yea, why would I drive to a theater, pay for parking, pay for tickets, pay for concessions, and no one is fully paying attention to the film?

I might as well stay comfy at home, stream on discord for free, eat my already paid for food, and save a shit ton of money without becoming overstimulated by strangers.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have never wanted to burn down a full theater more than I do now.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Minus any Twitch involvement, there have been events at Alamo Drafthouse like this for years

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I did this with my friends during covid and it came to be the best part of my week.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

You can sort of emulate this behavior using a VR headset and using that Big screen app that puts you in a virtual theatre with others and people can talk and throw popcorn at the screen etc. You can find all sorts of movies playing on it that you can randomly join

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

I am so happy my local cinema is deep down in a basement without any mobile reception. People try to access Tiktok and just give up.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Baby Shark needs to be playing in the background. It's always playing on one of the many speakers, but which speaker it is - and what volume - changes every couple of seconds.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (4 children)

In the theater, you can just talk to everyone in the room

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's all fun and games until someone gets the rest of the theatre to think of The Game. That's why this isn't a thing in person, the chances of shitpost-related violence is too high.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

sigh ... I just lost the game.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Motherfucker

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This sounds like hell, the movie experience is already awful.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

That's the idea, then people who want to see the movie they paid for can go to the non-brainrot theatre.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Personally, I would like a Japanese karoke-style room system for the theater. Sit back, relax, and watch the video in peace. Order snacks and drinks for delivery, and maybe snuggle up with your partner. No children, just you and a time away from life.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Right, and the chat should scroll on the side of the film, for maximum immersion.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Just have a theater play a modern Netflix film. Basically the equivalent.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

streaming a movie to the homies on discord frfr

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