cellphones in theatres / Miami Vice
DjArcadian
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Seriously, saw Miami Vice last night and fucking cellphones were going off everywhere. WTF? And it's not like people shut their shit off. They start talking to these people. I told some lady to shut the fuck up and was ready to get in a fight with her brother/boyfriend when he tried to get involved. I was almost hoping for a fight I was so pissed. Dude, some common fucking decency people. I was so pissed that I completely missed the middle of the film. I'm talking blood boiling mad.Oh, and for those that care the film was garbage. Farrel looked fucking retarded in his getup, Jamie Foxx didn't get the screen time he deserved and they shot the whole thing on video which made it look like shit. Shit was pretty gory at times too. 
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They need to get those cellphone jammers in theatres.
None of this happened, of course, because I'm a pacifist. Instead, I lost track of the middle part of the movie dreaming of different ways of stomping that inconsiderate piece of shit. In 2006, who doesn't realize that talking on cell phones in movie theaters is selfish and unnacceptable behavior?
Too many idoits populate the theatre on opening (Friday) night.
Go see it on a Sunday afternoon. Matinee action is a must.
best part about that theatre is that it doubled as the local art house theatre and theyd show the rocky horror movie once a month at midnite. man, there aint nothing funnier than white folks dressed in fishnet stockings and wrestler panties standing in line at midnight. in the cuts.
I saw this Aliens/The Fly double bill in the 80's
at a messed-up old theater downtown that's now long gone.
Halfway through Aliens you hear people in the front start
screaming, and see them jumping up on chairs...hundreds of rats
had busted through some pipe and were pouring up the theater
right towards us in the back...people went nuts, rushing the exits
and more than one dude pulled out a burner, all standing up on
seat-back screaming "I'mma kill me some motherfuckin rats boy!!"
Total chaos.
this sounds like my ideal movie experience. I saw the blair witch project at the magic johnson theatres in atlanta and it turned out to be one of the funnier movies ive ever been too.
Holy Shit!
I can see this - that would be the only thing that
could save the waste of 90 minutes that was that
moviehoax!"I'm a fiend for mojitos"
I likeded this schitt, though.
I find it really hard to believe that this is even a decent movie, but I'm sure incorporating your MJ uptown experience last night makes a difference.
Hands down the best times I had at the movies were on the Duece.
Saw a double bill of "Evil Dead 2" and "Near Dark". Shit was out of control.
When Bruce Campbell hooked up that chainsaw to his hand ("groovy") the audience just lost it.
They went crazy, throwing shit at the screen, screaming at the top of their lungs, yelling at Bruce and calling him "Rambo!" the whole time. Shit was great.
The only bad thing was all the dirty looks/comments I got from half the black people there on account of my date being a beautiful redbone.
Somewhere I still got a polaroid from that night, cause you know there was always some cat in the lobby taking flicks of couples for $5. He also sold single, long stemmed roses.
But of course the best kind of flick to see in that environment are no doubt the "karate flicks", as they called em.
The smell of weed (and jizz depending on whether or not the theater doubled as a blue movie house), the sound of bums snoring, since for 5 dollars these 24-hour theaters were a cheap way to catch Z's.
One time I was watching "My Life Is On The Line" (aka "60 Second Assassin") at the Lyric (now the "Lion King Theater") and the projector broke at an extremely pivotal point. There was a semi riot.
The fucked shit is that the theatre I was at had TWO seperate "please turn off your cell phone" skits before the film.
Your experience is EXACTLY why I hate going to movie theaters. I rather rent DVDs, drink brews, and chill on the couch with wifey (and the pooch), WITHOUT dealing with obnoxious, rude, assholes. Fuck a theater!!!
Peace,
Big Stacks from Kakalak
"is he her bnrother...who is that again?"
The celly going off doesn't bother me. What does, is the director commentary coming from the seat behind me.
The problem is that IN GENERAL people are becoming more and more rude and self-absorbed. Perhaps, it's a function of the internet age, which by its nature, breeds social isolation, physically anyway. Since there is less social contact going on as a result, perhaps people fail to develop courtesy and empathy. Or, are parents just not teaching their children manners anymore? Hard to learn manners from the latchkey!!!
Peace,
Big Stacks from Kakalak
I feel you man! (even though i'm 24). Courtesy and Empathy are
Manners are also
i fully agree with this statement
i saw this sentiment exemplifiedwhile acting as transfer agent for a group of young medstudnts from canda here in peru. They were living in an Doctors house and the differences were stunning between the actions of people with a certain upbringing (which i consider normal) and other of the more independent north american culture
jesus... discipline and manners can be argued against in these modernedtimes but they remain
what pisses me off is that more and more the social construction seems to say that you can get away with it..and "if you dont want to you dont have to"
i expected to be disappointed going in but this fell below expectations
if i have to ever watch collin farrell dance again i may burn out my eyes[/b]
his gruff speech in order to cover up his blimey accent was also aggravating
"hola chica"[/b] hahahaha
collin has been involved with (and partly the cause of) a lot of great director's bad films - alexander, new world, and now miami vice, and so i am now adding him to my list of actors who's films i can't see just because that actor is in it (right next to tom cruise)
ok, there were some a few interesting scenes and aspects to miami vice but i thought overall it was neither entertainting nor intellectually stimulating. the characters and the relationships amongst the characterrs were sorely under-developed, and the "gritty" cinematography was uninspired
my 2
But if you don't like talking during movies, i guess you guys don't like Mystery Science Theater 3000 then?
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I totally sympathise mate, mine has to ask "Who's that ?" , Whats going on ?" etc when I have seen just as much of the movie as her...sends me round the twist...
Hahahha EXACTLY! One more thing that even annoys me more about it is that she likes to do all this stuff, DON'T want me to pause the movie and then wants me to explain what happened....? WTF? That will just make me as unfocused
peas
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yeah plus its cheaper for matinee... i actually enjoyed miami vice although having some subtitles when gong li was speaking wouldve been nice.
You're a Bay Area dude, right? By any chance, did you see this at the Century Plaza 20 in Daly City? I ALWAYS experience this kinda shit there.
SG