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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.
All my knowledge about Rhode Island comes from Family Guy so I think I’m more than qualified to say what a classic Rhode Island thing
Every time I read Rhode Island the song starts playing in my head
Movie theaters suck. They’re expensive as fuck, loud parts shake the room, quiet parts are silent, no control over subtitles.
no control over subtitles.
Really most theaters I know you can rent a little plexiglass thing which gives you subtitles from a rear projector.
What the fuck?
Most theaters I know simply put the subtitles in the local language in EVERY movie.This doesn’t happen in native English speaking countries (when the movie language is English, which it is 99.999% of the time).
Very much not common everywhere. Where I live, if you want subtitles, you need to find a cinema that has a showing with subtitles. Usually that’s also paired with the non dubbed original audio.
A personal subtitle screen like those translucent mirrors you‘re describing sounds like a great solution though. I don’t really like subtitles unless I’m watching in a language I don’t understand very well but I know a lot of people who prefer having them on regardless.
One could do it like in an opera house, where the subtitles are shown on a separate screen above or below the stage
Must be a Europe thing. I’ve been to a plethora of movie theaters and never came across this. They just have designated Closed Caption screenings.
I’ve never seen anything like it in Europe, where I live they even show the subs in 2 languages at the same time. It’s horrible.
That’s called Rumble. You can do it from the comfort of your own home.
Minus any Twitch involvement, there have been events at Alamo Drafthouse like this for years
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
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.
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.
Harder to be an asshole when there’s a pretty short list of suspects that could be doing it, depending on the showtime
you could just stream a movie on a discord voice channel
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
Just have a theater play a modern Netflix film. Basically the equivalent.
GroupTrax
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.
There are basically things that allow this online where you’re all watching a movie together with both text and audio chat.
I actually kinda wanna watch Rocky Horror Picture Show in VR like that, but only if everyone watching does all the audience participation shit that makes that movie fun.
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.
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
It sounds like a less fun version of a midnight showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
