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.
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
Every time I read Rhode Island the song starts playing in my head
There used to be one of those in Irvine, CA when I was younger. It was like $4 and in the same way, they played off chart movies, and it got rowdy.
Movie theaters suck. They're expensive as fuck, loud parts shake the room, quiet parts are silent, no control over subtitles.
no control over subtitles.
Really most theaters I know you can rent a little plexiglass thing which gives you subtitles from a rear projector.
Very much not common everywhere. Where I live, if you want subtitles, you need to find a cinema that has a showing with subtitles. Usually that’s also paired with the non dubbed original audio.
A personal subtitle screen like those translucent mirrors you‘re describing sounds like a great solution though. I don’t really like subtitles unless I’m watching in a language I don’t understand very well but I know a lot of people who prefer having them on regardless.
Thirty seconds before some troll starts commentary about politics, women, and/or minorities on such a chat.
Fifty seconds before fistfights.
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.
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.
Those tickets cost a lot more than a movie ticket
Harder to be an asshole when there's a pretty short list of suspects that could be doing it, depending on the showtime
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.
And they actually change the film several times to see if anyone notices.
Let chat vote if the movie is boring and an algorithm picks the next one
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.
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.
My wife and I used to go to movie theaters quite often and screens have hardly been an issue. Talking and smells have been way further up the list of common annoyances.
Sounds like an interesting business idea. It could seriously pull a lot of younger audience without putting a lot of effort into anything.
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.
Seems like the kind of thing where enthusiasm/attendance might fall off sharply with the novelty of the thing. Of course you could just transition it back into a regular cinema if that happened.
Make it a place where teenagers can get away from their parents for little to no money
That's called Rumble. You can do it from the comfort of your own home.
you could just stream a movie on a discord voice channel
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.
There's even a sub/channel/mag right here on Lemmy that does this. People vote on each week's movie and then watch it together. Pretty fun.
I have never wanted to burn down a full theater more than I do now.
You can see the disappointment in his eyes.
Minus any Twitch involvement, there have been events at Alamo Drafthouse like this for years
I did this with my friends during covid and it came to be the best part of my week.
It's the only way to see horror movies IMHO.
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.
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
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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.
sigh ... I just lost the game.
Motherfucker
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.
Why must you do this to me
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There's a separate twitch stream watching these people and they vote on that every time the song plays. Max volume on all speakers if the stream is dead.
Right, and the chat should scroll on the side of the film, for maximum immersion.
This sounds like hell, the movie experience is already awful.
That's the idea, then people who want to see the movie they paid for can go to the non-brainrot theatre.
Just have a theater play a modern Netflix film. Basically the equivalent.
GroupTrax
streaming a movie to the homies on discord frfr
thats what movies used to be. you would have people shouting stuff and having a good time
When I watched Avengers Infinity War and Endgame in the cinema on launch day, the audience was very reactive. There was cheering, applause, laughter, etc.
Was a great experience you rarely get in this extent, elsewhere. Every one in those theatre rooms was a big enough fan though, to go see the non dubbed version in a non English speaking country on launch day.
Stuff like that is great and ads to the cinema experience. However, I very much believe the „brainrotification“ of cinema, as described by oop, would infinitely detract from the experience for everyone but the most late stage adhd brainrot gen z and gen alpha ppl. I would not go to a cinema like that.
Good movies still get good audiences. When I saw Deadpool & Wolverine, the audience was laughing and engaging the whole time, it was great.
This behavior is acceptable for mass entertainers like the MCU movies or Mission Impossible etc but I want none of this for serious cinema
It sounds like a less fun version of a midnight showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Minus the theatre it looks like they'd live China and their streams where people send comments while watching soaps together.
Yeah I think this is a nice idea, this way all the assholes and immature idiots get contained to a few screens leaving the other screens for adults who actually want to see the movie. A lot of people have the attention span of a toddler and think movies are some kind of social experience where you can have a chat with others or constantly get up or pull your phone out and be disruptive in many ways, putting such people together will not annoy them, the movie can play in the background while they socialize or whatever and the theatre still makes their money.
