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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.
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.
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.
Harder to be an asshole when there’s a pretty short list of suspects that could be doing it, depending on the showtime
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
Any coward who uses Twitter in the year 2024 is a traitor and a collaborator.
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!?
At least we know it’s august
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
People for some reason already do this. The suggestion is to segregate them so those of us who enjoy the movie theater experience can do so.
You’re right which is why I gravitated toward Alamo Drafthouse which makes some attempt to crack down on phone use or excessive disruption during a movie. But, ticket and concession prices on top of parking are becoming more of a luxury each day.
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.
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
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
Yea, except they don’t tolerate one being on their phone.
That’s for regular movies, they have lots of special events with different rules. But if you use your phone during a regular movie, Ann Richards is going to pump your guts full of lead
Yea lmao. Obviously they don’t care during sing-a-long and quote-a-long events.
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.
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
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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