Talking during movie trailers

[pork3]

Sometimes watching a preview for a highly anticipated film can be more enjoyable than the actual film that follows.

In the case of Dark Shadows, your assertion would aptly apply.

As for talking during trailers, it's a faux pas as far as I'm concerned, but I'm willing to tolerate it as long as the comments are terse and uttered sotto voce.

One of the many reasons why I avoid cinemas all together.

-Jamman

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Would you like it if i told you not to cheer, or clap, or boo during a movie because I wanted to look at the movie without such behaviour?

I fail to see why making noises such as cheering, or clapping or booing during a movie would be more acceptable than talking during a trailer.

Well, I don't boo or yell "run, you idiot" at characters onscreen so they don't get decapitated by the killer. That's rather silly because the fictional characters can't feel your disdain for them or hear your advice. But cheering and clapping along with the audience to show your shared delight when it's set up by events in the film is perfectly alright. Showing that you as a group are excited about the new Batman trailer by clapping is acceptable.

Have you never watched a movie at home and felt differently about it than how you did during the shared experience of watching it on the big screen with an audience? Having people laugh out loud along with a comedy makes the atmosphere more fun. Having people cheer when the hero saves the day at the last second makes it more exciting. Movies are designed to elicit those kinds of responses. If a director went to a theater and encountered silence during the parts that are supposed to get a reaction he or she would think they had done something wrong.

Having a normal conversation over a trailer is not reacting naturally to events onscreen that are specifically designed to get a response.

 

[Kelthaz]

Have you never watched a movie at home and felt differently about it than how you did during the shared experience of watching it on the big screen with an audience? Having people laugh out loud along with a comedy makes the atmosphere more fun. Having people cheer when the hero saves the day at the last second makes it more exciting. Movies are designed to elicit those kinds of responses. If a director went to a theater and encountered silence during the parts that are supposed to get a reaction he or she would think they had done something wrong.

I don't think I've ever been in a theatre where people laughed out loud or cheered. I do hear laughter, but it's restrained. If I was in an audience with people cheering or laughing loudly, I'd be tempted to walk out and see the movie another day.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I don't care what the director thinks, I want to look at a movie without people cheering or clapping otherwise I might miss an important line.

Talking about a trailer is a perfect good reaction to a commercial especially if you are discussing whether you will go and see it. I am sure that is exactly what the advertisers want.

 

[sidious618]

You've never been in a theater where people have laughed loudly? What about, y'know, comedies?

 

[Miss Chicken]

Restrained laughter for comedies.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Have you never watched a movie at home and felt differently about it than how you did during the shared experience of watching it on the big screen with an audience? Having people laugh out loud along with a comedy makes the atmosphere more fun. Having people cheer when the hero saves the day at the last second makes it more exciting. Movies are designed to elicit those kinds of responses. If a director went to a theater and encountered silence during the parts that are supposed to get a reaction he or she would think they had done something wrong.

I don't think I've ever been in a theatre where people laughed out loud or cheered. I do hear laughter, but it's restrained. If I was in an audience with people cheering or laughing loudly, I'd be tempted to walk out and see the movie another day.

We are talking about movie theaters and not surgical theaters here, right? You don't like people laughing out loud at comedies? That's bizarre.

 

[Miss Chicken]

Bizarre to me would be people paying out several dollars to go to a movie that they don't really want to see just so they can see a two minute or so trailer screening before the movie.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Bizarre to me would be people paying out several dollars to go to a movie that they don't really want to see just so they can see a two minute or so trailer screening before the movie.

I agree. I've never done that. I can just wait a few days for the trailer to show up on Apple Trailers or YouTube. I just pointed out that some people do do that to show that not everyone considers trailers to be easily ignored or talked over commercials. And even the people who do care about the movie itself might also care for the trailers.

I don't see why it's such a chore to just lean over and speak softly during trailers in order to respect other people who might feel differently from you. No one's saying you shouldn't talk at all. Just talk lower. Since having a completely dull, soundless environment devoid of all natural human emotional expression seems to be the norm for the movie itself, why would extending it a few more minutes be so difficult?

 

[Miss Chicken]

Because i was also talking to the friend two seats away from me and it would have been rude to lean over our friend between us to have a whispered conversation.

Also, because of a slight hearing problem, I need to use both my ears especially when there is background noise.

The girls behind us were talking louder than us, though not annoyingly so IMO. It could have been that they lady was directing her complaints to them alone but I am far from sure.

 

[Kelthaz]

We are talking about movie theaters and not surgical theaters here, right? You don't like people laughing out loud at comedies? That's bizarre.

Laughing is fine, but keep it down. During The Avengers I heard people laughing at quite a few scenes (and I was laughing with them), but it was no more than a quiet chuckle.

 

[Trekker4747]

See, I find that bizarre. In the Avengers, for example, when Hulk pounds on Loki it got such an uproarious laughter from the audience it covered the following Hulk line. I like that because it's fun to have such an experience in a movie theater with a few dozen other people who're all have reactions and such to the movie.

I will say though, in some cases, laughter can be annoying if, I guess, it's not a...."constrained" laughter? In Avengers there was a guy a few seats over me who didn't laugh with an entirely "natutal" or restrained laugh but a more literal "HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!" that was very loud. At one point he did it and someone else in the theater yelled "shut-up!" and after then his laugh was closer to the type of laugh everyone else was making.

 

[Aldo]

I ran into laughter like Trekker mentions when I went and saw Scary Movie years ago.

He was sitting right behind me, and every time something vaguely humorous happened onscreen I heard loud: HA HA HA HA HA HA.

It was extremely annoying.

 

[Kirkman1987]

See, I find that bizarre. In the Avengers, for example, when Hulk pounds on Loki it got such an uproarious laughter from the audience it covered the following Hulk line. I like that because it's fun to have such an experience in a movie theater with a few dozen other people who're all have reactions and such to the movie.

I will say though, in some cases, laughter can be annoying if, I guess, it's not a...."constrained" laughter? In Avengers there was a guy a few seats over me who didn't laugh with an entirely "natutal" or restrained laugh but a more literal "HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!" that was very loud. At one point he did it and someone else in the theater yelled "shut-up!" and after then his laugh was closer to the type of laugh everyone else was making.

That moment in Avengers was a big hit with the crowd. Both times I went the crowd laughed and cheered for at least 10 seconds. I love crowd reactions. It's one of the advantages of going to the theater imo.

 

[Mr Light]

Another thing is that quite often before the main feature cinemas will show trailers for movies which seem like an odd mix for the film people have paid to see.

Did everybody else get, in front of The Avengers, the Brandon Routh Native American Lacross Movie trailer?

 

[pork3]

Another thing is that quite often before the main feature cinemas will show trailers for movies which seem like an odd mix for the film people have paid to see.

Did everybody else get, in front of The Avengers, the Brandon Routh Native American Lacross Movie trailer?

Any relations to the former left tackle, Matt Light, of the New England Patriots?

-Jamman

 

[Kelthaz]

Well I saw The Avengers again tonight and the Whack-A-Loki scene got the same restrained laughter. You could tell the audience loved it, but they kept it to themselves.

We Canadians, along with our Tasmanian brothers and sisters, are just more reserved than you uncouth Americans.

 

[Nerys Myk]

My friends and I always make quick, often just one word, comments about the trailers. We try not to be loud or distracting. "Skip", "Rent", "Wait for TV"

 

[Mr Light]

Any relations to the former left tackle, Matt Light, of the New England Patriots?

Light isn't my real last name

 

[Ethros]

I'd agree with her. Learn to whisper. It's not hard.