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Originally posted by evenodds
I rarely see anything in the theater because I cannot stand having people talk during a movie....
We attend the theater in our neighborhood because it has the most generous stadium seating (true aisles, great legroom, no kids kicking the back of your seat). If it's not playing there, I have to really really really want to see it.
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We have 3 nearby theaters. Two are little independent, sort of arthouse theaters (one of which stays afloat by showing every kid movie that comes out to which every middle-class parent is apparently obligated by law to drag their offspring 3 times), one is the big megaplex, which gets a much more mixed audience (downtown brooklynites of color rather than the white Yuppies inhabiting the other two). One theater is more, um, participatory than the others. It also has much nicer seating, and is much less run down.
We usually end up going to the megaplex, though I try to see things in the nearer of the indy theaters if we can (just 'cause I like supporting local businesses, really). For most of the stuff we see a loud "interactive" crowd is just fine, sometimes even more entertaining than the movie - most mainstream horror, action and comedy falls into this category. Someone talking during 28 days later would have bugged the fuck out of me, though. (Actually, it was the people who brought their little kids, who squirmed and cried, that bugged me in that one.) Unfortunately, it wasn't showing at one of the little theaters.
I guess what I'm saying is - we know the crowds at our various theaters, and pick where we'll see a given movie accordingly. Should it not be so? On the one hand, yes, one should be able to expect quiet in theaters everywhere on the general public behavior theory that those with non-intrusive preferences prevail over those with intrusive preferences. On the other hand, different communities have different public behavior standards, and when in Rome...
