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[emmuzka]

Whew! 24 hours without internet! It's pretty sad how agitated I came because of it. I was one sad bastard the whole night. (Addicted, much?) But now I'm back, yay. (It turned out that since my university email address expired, I had failed to provide a new one. Thus, my connection was suspended. Oops?)









Got Serenity on DVD. I was saving the movie for the whole theater experience, but surprise surprise, it skipped the theater release here and would have come out in only DVD, anyway, so what the hell. So, a movie night for me. And no matter what everyone else say, DVD's are best when watched alone. If I'm trying to truly enjoy a movie, then the less distractions, the better. I even had to school my usual movie partner to shut up in theaters (with sharp elbows) because she had a bad habit of commenting the movie in the middle of the movie.

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[twindouble.livejournal.com]

I have the same problem with my movie partner. And usually the elbows won't work...

I watched Serenity yesterday. Or sort of watched it... I didn't see much of the film, since I had to keep T silent so that others may enjoy the movie experience. And T was not in a mood to sleep... So while others were watching a bloody fighting scene, there would be lots of happy babbling on the background. :-) It seemed like a nice film though, a little bit chaotic for a person, who's not familiar fith the thing.

[emmuzka.livejournal.com]

One should not do anything but succumb and swallow the story whole while in movies! The ripping apart should come only afterward! And the worst thing is if one starts guessing what will happen next! AAARGH! No! No!

Well, if the movie really, truly sucks, then it's kinda okay, but otherwise I'm all for the true hollywoodian psychological "the theater is the womb"-kind of approach.

[twindouble.livejournal.com]

My movie partner does exactly that: Tries to guess what happens next. ARGH!!!

[ciryatan.livejournal.com]

I even had to school my usual movie partner to shut up in theaters (with sharp elbows) because she had a bad habit of commenting the movie in the middle of the movie.

I have that very same problem. As does my "movie partner" (note: gay does equal talkative).
You probably would have killed us had you been anywhere near us when we went and watched the latest Potter movie a few weeks ago :D We both hated the movie so much we had to make up for it by entertaining ourselves somehow, and so we talked and, probably worse, laughed. A lot. In places where it really wasn't appropriate.
I felt bad for it afterwards, but bad habits are hard to break. I've always had friends who liked to comment on movies. The only ones who didn't like talking were two of my ex boyfriends. Go figure.

[emmuzka.livejournal.com]

I believe that movie should be an experince: The darkened room which allowes stimulants only from the screen, the story tellling premise that gives the impression that you are the invisible watcher, and the goal of giving the wiever the greatest possible intellectual or emotional feed. Commenting and even acnowledging the other company, shatters that feeling.

But I still can feel with you. When I would have totally killed you should we have been in the same theater watching Harry Potter, I've had my days. Years ago I watched "Man in the Iron Mask" with Leonardo DiCaprio and it totally sucked big time. I made fun of it by making my own lines: When one of the knights went all emotional and was "He's my.." I teathrically announced "..My Son!!" Guess what the next lines were? "my son!" O_O Only the whole audience had gone death quiet just before I decided to entertain my friend and my over emotinal statement could be hard clearly in the whole audience...

[ciryatan.livejournal.com]

I believe that movie should be an experince: The darkened room which allowes stimulants only from the screen, the story tellling premise that gives the impression that you are the invisible watcher, and the goal of giving the wiever the greatest possible intellectual or emotional feed. Commenting and even acnowledging the other company, shatters that feeling.

To me that very much depends on the movie itself. The next film I'll definitely enjoy in a "decent" manner is :drumroll: "Brokeback Mountain" (omg, who would've guessed!?). That's also why I hope to get a hold of a bootleg soon. I want to savour the movie's every frame for what it's worth and I can only accomplish that when I'm alone and can laugh and cry all I want. Yep.

Only the whole audience had gone death quiet just before I decided to entertain my friend and my over emotinal statement could be hard clearly in the whole audience...

I've had that happening, and most times the people around me liked what I'd made up better than the actual line *proud*
Except when that one guy nearly peed himself from laughing so hard when we were watching "Alexander" and I announced that I had a sneaking suspicion we were actually watching "Troy" in one scene that was indeed very similar in both movies. Not really funny, but the guy was... weird, to say the least. Oh well, it was Lukas sitting next to him, not me. Phew.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh how I hate people who feel compelled to comment everything that goes on the screen. And once when I was in the movies the guy couple of seats from me was translating the whole thing to his girlfriend! I nearly waged a war.

If you don't know how to keep your mouth shut, rent the dvd. And preferably watch it alone.

And if you for some reason don't like the movie and don't want to leave the theater, at least have respect for those of us who do like it. We paid for the movie, not your childish snickering.

[mitzi007.livejournal.com]

That was me. Damn thing logged me out.

[emmuzka.livejournal.com]

Hear hear! I pay for the movie experince and it's unfair if some assholes ruin it from me.

The worst are:
1. Guys who intentionally want to ruin other people's experince.

2. Parents who translate the text to their kids or otherwise explain what is happening (hello! If the kid cant't read yet, maube she/he is in the wrong movie! Same thing if he can't understand what is happening)

3. the audience which collectively misunderstands the movie and reacts wrong. (like when I was watching the first spiderman. Kids laughed when there was fighting and blood flew around. It wasnt supposed to funny, assholes!)

4. Couples with running commentary who doen't realize that everything that they say can be heard :(

[arye-sarin.livejournal.com]

I so totally agree with you and Mitzi. Nowadays I simply can't go to the movies as often as I'd like, because there seems to be growing number of idiots, who think they are alone in the movie theatre and don't give a damn about other people.

Films should be seen from the big screen (in my opinion), but I think the home+dvd is billion times better than being in a theatre full of stupid people who use some lame excuse (like not liking the movie - get the hell out of there if you can't watch a bad movie quietly) for bothering everyone else.

I have often thought that I'd pay extra if there were screenings where you have to be quiet and there is a guard to make sure everyone is. If I could be sure that no idiot disturbs my movie experience, I'd go there more often and I'd even pay well for that.

End of rant.

[lumiyu.livejournal.com]

I confess, if I am watching movie home and it is not a very good one, I get the urge to comment on it. Or if we are watching Angel season five, and there is one of the more slash oriented scenes, I dont even need to say my comments aloud to get my darling smack me with a pillow.

People talking in movie theaters though, big no no. Maybe a few whispered comments that won't be heard by anyone else but that's it. I dont know if I would be watching a really sucky movie in theater and it would just scream "comment me! your brain will explode from the sheer stupidity of this if you don't say it aloud! Go ahead! I dare you!"

I saw Harry Potter 4, and I thought it was alright and only said the things about it afterwards. Y'know, like subtle scenes of Snape pressing his wand against another guy's cheek and him licking his lips... O_O

....and Serenity? Can we loan it? *big kitten eyes*

[arye-sarin.livejournal.com]

confess, if I am watching movie home and it is not a very good one, I get the urge to comment on it.

Oh yes, I do that too. And also if the movie/tv-series is a very good one. Or it has something else I want to comment. But like you, I only do it at home so that everyone present agrees that we talk and have some audience participation. In movie theatres I shut up and so should everyone else.

[emmuzka.livejournal.com]

One should keep in mind in what company she is when noting the slash aloud! ;)

Yes, you can loan Serenity. It's even a rather good version. I would never thought that I would say this, but I kinda longed for subtitles! Even when the sound quality is good, they were all mumbling their lines!

[turloughishere.livejournal.com]

Justin playing with Chris' hair is so cute! Chris doesn't look like he's enjoying it very much though :-)

[emmuzka.livejournal.com]

Yes! He is all "I know that they are cool, but wtf?!" ;)

[anglepoiselamp.livejournal.com]

Meep! I tend to keep a running commentary during movies. When I watch them on video or DVD, that is. It's a bad habit I've learned from my mom.

I keep quiet in the theatre, though. I hate people who talk during something I've actually paid for and haven't ever seen before. People who come to the cinema to talk on their cellphone are the true spawn of satan.

[emmuzka.livejournal.com]

Phones should be banned in the movies! They are evil!

I admit that I sometimes like to comment tv series, but only if everyone agrees that it's not a "serious" watching situation. For example, every episode of Law&Order Special victims Unit require a silent first view, Supernatural almost needs the commentary ;)

[franklymydear.livejournal.com]

Heh. I've been without internet access - well, let me amend that, without LJ access - for two weeks, and I can't even explain why I'm surviving, considering I'm seriously thinking about paying a lot of money each month just to be able to do fandom. too nervous to do it at work, bah! But the library's sort of working out so far... :-P