Darkness; my old friend.

[RobertScorpio]

As I had said in an earlier thread, I have now seen TREK XI for the tenth time. Twice on IMAX, eight times traditional.

One thing I have noticed, each time, is that, for the most part, the crowds were pretty well behaved. I have been to movies in recent years (a showing of DARK KNIGHT, and one of IRONMAN) where the crowds were just rude. People drinking up and letting their bottles cascade down the theatre...or, HOLY CHRIST, some lady changing her kids diaper..IN THE THEATRE..at fricking 1130pm...come on lady!!!

People talking on their cellphone, or talking at the screen (as if Batman can hear them) gets to be annoying too.

But I am not sure if its because TREK fans are well mannered (ahem!..right) but I was impressed with humanity while watching TREK XI.

Now....Transformers 2? I don't know. But I have do admit, when they show the scene of MEGAN FOX on the bike? If you hear somone going "oh....YEAH!!"...its me.

So how did some of you find the TREK XI audiences? Were they well behaved or not?

Rob
Scorpio

 

[indranee]

I find most audiences well-behaved. maybe it's where you're watching your movies?

 

[Jeri]

Well, I can only tell you what happened in our IMAX on opening weekend. They made an announcement during each showing that anybody using cell phones during the movie would be ejected from the theater. Kinda sets the tone, eh?

 

[RobertScorpio]

I find most audiences well-behaved. maybe it's where you're watching your movies?

San Diego. Its hard to say when I want to go. If I go too early, i have to allow for the families (like mine) and all the kids that come with that. If I go too late, then I get the rowdy teenagers who are giggling at the pictures on their Cellphones and watching the movie at the same time..

If I could go back in time? I would prevent the invention of cellphones. There is absolutely no need for them.

Rob

 

[indranee]

^it's the beach crowd

oh, the free screening I went to at the Maaza Gallery in DC the week before opening day? they took someone's cell phone away. I've no idea whether it was given back.

 

[RobertScorpio]

^it's the beach crowd

oh, the free screening I went to at the Maaza Gallery in DC the week before opening day? they took someone's cell phone away. I've no idea whether it was given back.

They need to have dampening fields around the theatre to prevent cellphones. Scotty..get on that!

Rob

 

[SilentP]

^it's the beach crowd

oh, the free screening I went to at the Maaza Gallery in DC the week before opening day? they took someone's cell phone away. I've no idea whether it was given back.

They need to have dampening fields around the theatre to prevent cellphones. Scotty..get on that!

Rob

I think the cinema I went to is working on it, you barely get any signal, except for emergency networks in the screens unless you're lucky

 

[Dukhat]

So was there a reason why you had to start a whole new thread about this, instead of just continuing on your previous thread?

 

[Peter the Younger]

I never go to summer movies opening night anymore because there are too many jackasses - often getting an early start on their intoxication for the evening - whooping, yelling at the screen or each other, and laughing inappropriately. I used to just call the usher, but after it resulted in the staff getting hit by a patron, I figured it was a lost cause.

 

[RobertScorpio]

I never go to summer movies opening night anymore because there are too many jackasses - often getting an early start on their intoxication for the evening - whooping, yelling at the screen or each other, and laughing inappropriately. I used to just call the usher, but after it resulted in the staff getting hit by a patron, I figured it was a lost cause.

its not hat bad here..yet. But yeah, I can see it getting to a point I no longer go. Then (Duhkat) I can start a whole thread about that as well...

Rob

 

[Photoman15]

^it's the beach crowd

oh, the free screening I went to at the Maaza Gallery in DC the week before opening day? they took someone's cell phone away. I've no idea whether it was given back.

They need to have dampening fields around the theatre to prevent cellphones. Scotty..get on that!

Rob

They have them, but I believe they were outlawed. I think because if there was an emergency and people were trapped and they couldn't turn off the device, victims couldn't reach help and vice versa.

 

[SheliakBob]

When I finally went it was a small, friendly and very mellow crowd. I was probably the only potentially unruly one there, and I had four friends with me to make sure I behaved myself, or had a shoulder to cry on, as needed.

Actually, the atmosphere was much more like the video room at a Con then an average cinema outing. I think most of the people there knew each other at least peripherally and we were all fans.

 

[RobertScorpio]

^it's the beach crowd

oh, the free screening I went to at the Maaza Gallery in DC the week before opening day? they took someone's cell phone away. I've no idea whether it was given back.

They need to have dampening fields around the theatre to prevent cellphones. Scotty..get on that!

Rob

They have them, but I believe they were outlawed. I think because if there was an emergency and people were trapped and they couldn't turn off the device, victims couldn't reach help and vice versa.

They were trapped? In a theatre and couldn't call for help? Gasp..what did they do in the old days when an entire theatre didn't know that a few folks were trapped in one of their screens?

Then again; that scene when the BLOB attacked that theatre comes to mind. So yeah, in case aliens attack theater goers, best to not allow the dampening fields.

Rob

 

[M'Sharak]

^it's the beach crowd

oh, the free screening I went to at the Maaza Gallery in DC the week before opening day? they took someone's cell phone away. I've no idea whether it was given back.

They need to have dampening fields around the theatre to prevent cellphones. Scotty..get on that!

Rob

They have them, but I believe they were outlawed. I think because if there was an emergency and people were trapped and they couldn't turn off the device, victims couldn't reach help and vice versa.

Cell phone-jamming devices do exist and are indeed prohibited in the US for exactly that reason: they have the potential to interfere with emergency communications.

Cell phones were also checked for many advance screenings of the movie for obvious reasons. If someone deliberately circumvented that procedure and was seen inside the theater with a camera phone, it's not surprising that it would be confiscated, most likely to be returned later only after it was verified that no pictures or video of the movie had been taken.


Edit:

Anyway, haven't you pretty much done the "cell phones in the theater" thread already, Rob? Do you even keep track of all the threads you start?

 

[RobertScorpio]

They need to have dampening fields around the theatre to prevent cellphones. Scotty..get on that!

Rob

They have them, but I believe they were outlawed. I think because if there was an emergency and people were trapped and they couldn't turn off the device, victims couldn't reach help and vice versa.

Cell phone-jamming devices do exist and are indeed prohibited in the US for exactly that reason: they have the potential to interfere with emergency communications.

Cell phones were also checked for many advance screenings of the movie for obvious reasons. If someone deliberately circumvented that procedure and was seen inside the theater with a camera phone, it's not surprising that it would be confiscated, most likely to be returned later only after it was verified that no pictures or video of the movie had been taken.

Yeah..that would be a problem, I agree. But surely, in the 21st century, there has to be a way to block out a signal in a given area. In fact, here where I work (a government facility) they do just that. How they do it? I don't know. But we are in a dead area. Perhaps zeroing on a small area, like a theatre screen, is hard to do at this time. I pray for progress in this area..

Rob

 

[xman]

Well I saw it twice with pretty great crowds, but I'm in Canada. One thing I do remember upon my second viewing is that the audience laughed when ...

Spoiler

Spock kissed Uhura.

 

[indranee]

Well I saw it twice with pretty great crowds, but I'm in Canada. One thing I do remember upon my second viewing is that the audience laughed when ...

Spoiler

Spock kissed Uhura.

the elevator scene or the transporter room scene?

 

[Islander]

Well I saw it twice with pretty great crowds, but I'm in Canada. One thing I do remember upon my second viewing is that the audience laughed when ...

Spoiler

Spock kissed Uhura.

the elevator scene or the transporter room scene?

Probably both. In my case I distinctly remember "WHOHOO" when she got in her undies. I do live in an Italian neighborhood...

 

[RoJoHen]

They have them, but I believe they were outlawed. I think because if there was an emergency and people were trapped and they couldn't turn off the device, victims couldn't reach help and vice versa.

Cell phone-jamming devices do exist and are indeed prohibited in the US for exactly that reason: they have the potential to interfere with emergency communications.

Cell phones were also checked for many advance screenings of the movie for obvious reasons. If someone deliberately circumvented that procedure and was seen inside the theater with a camera phone, it's not surprising that it would be confiscated, most likely to be returned later only after it was verified that no pictures or video of the movie had been taken.

Yeah..that would be a problem, I agree. But surely, in the 21st century, there has to be a way to block out a signal in a given area. In fact, here where I work (a government facility) they do just that. How they do it? I don't know. But we are in a dead area. Perhaps zeroing on a small area, like a theatre screen, is hard to do at this time. I pray for progress in this area..

Rob

I have never been able to get a cellphone signal whenever I go to Kohls. And it doesn't matter which Kohls I go to. Every Kohls completely kills my reception.

Theaters should figure out what Kohls is doing and implement it themselves.

 

[RobertScorpio]

Well I saw it twice with pretty great crowds, but I'm in Canada. One thing I do remember upon my second viewing is that the audience laughed when ...

Spoiler

Spock kissed Uhura.

the elevator scene or the transporter room scene?

Well; I have been kissing her in my dreams for the past two weeks. (Gasp, even admitting I have desires for her might get me in trouble with the Thought Police)

But in all seriousness? Most people I saw it with like the kissing scene. The first time I saw it, the first day, it got outright gasps!!!..And the scene, when Kirk asks Spock if Nyota is her first name, and he responds, I don't want to talk about it? That gets the big laugh.

Rob