Comments on: How an audience ruined my film experience

By: Christopher Schnese

Christopher Schnese — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:33:35 +0000

haha, I can see how that could make things… less than enjoyable. But in theory, you could have moved to another seat and (provided there wasn't another couple in that area) changed the experience.

In my case, it was the theater as a whole, not small groups of people, that screwed up the experience. It also wasn't them being annoying, obscene, or disruptive. It was then just not getting the film and projecting that out like some strange "point-missed" hive mind.

There was no seat in that theater I could have moved to that would have made the experience any better.

By: Kerry

Kerry — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:17:27 +0000

i've had worse… we went to see valkyrie back around christmas time and there was two high schoolers behind us marking out the whole time… and then she started giving him a hand job under his gym shorts and he had his hand up her shirt. pg-13 in front of us, nc-17 behind us.

now i won't go to a movie that is not rated R unless it is like a 10 oclock showing.

By: jake zander

jake zander — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:31:52 +0000

there was a guy with a similarly aged child at the showing of Underworld: Rise of the Lycans that I went to… it was really retarded

By: Jo2u

Jo2u — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:11:14 +0000

As I mentioned to you the other day…THIS is exactly why I tend to wait and view films via Netflix. Don't get me wrong…I'll still go for the midnight show of the new Harry Potter, because the audience really becomes part of the movie experience. For the most part, though…I'll just stick with watching movies in the comfort (and quiet) of my own home.

By: Christopher Schnese

Christopher Schnese — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:20:46 +0000

Yeah, I could tell with some of the parents there that Obsessed was probably not the worst film they were taking their kids to…

By: Christopher Schnese

Christopher Schnese — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:19:00 +0000

It's so weird how sometimes the audience experience can make the film just that much better, but other times it just kills it.

When I saw Coraline (and even Monsters vs Aliens), the reaction of the kids amazement made it just that much more cool because I could feel their awe at what they were seeing.

This just sucked!

By: Amanda B

Amanda B — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 04:39:58 +0000

That's absolutely horrendous! I am appalled that so many parents would take their children to see that film anyhow…talk about a complete decay in decency in the general public. I really hope you (and the rest of us) never experience anything like that in the future!

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 04:34:08 +0000

A similar thing happened to me when I saw Vicky, Christina, Barcelona (the Woody Allen movie). Not that it's not supposed to be a comedy (like most of his movies, it's funny-sad), but the audience was terrible. It was obviously made up of older people who were familiar with Woody Allen when they were younger, and just ready to laugh and laugh and laugh. So every line, even the most serious, devastating, or completely unimportant line, was met with howls of laughter which would drown out the next three lines. I have no idea if I liked the movie or not.