Talking during movie trailers

[Shazam!]

There are of course exceptions to this such as cheering, laughing, or clapping (within reason) because of something on the screen.

Over here, it'd be assumed that anyone cheering and clapping during the movie was a special needs patient on day release.

You've never been in a theater where people have laughed loudly??

I have. It's bloody obnoxious. Control yourselves, please.

I came into this thread on the side of the woman 'shushing' Miss Chicken, but noises during a movie are infinitely worse.

 

[Captaindemotion]

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.

I assume, this being one of the Scary Movie series, that 'vaguely humorous' was as close as it got to funny?

 

[RoJoHen]

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

How boring for you.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Talking during movies is generally not a problem in Tasmanian cinemas. Sometimes you might hear a whisper but that is as loud as it gets. Even children tend to have good manners in cinemas here. Tasmanians do not cheer, boo or clap during a movie and even laughter is restrained.

If this was her first experience in a Tasmanian cinema, how would she know of your claim that Tasmanian cinema behaviour is supposedly so different to the mainland of Australia?

Some people do go to films just to see the trailers. I certainly have. My main reason for going to "Cloverfield" was to see the JJ "Star Trek" trailer. Ditto trailers for ST II, III, IV, V and VI. And "84 Charing Cross Road", "Fantastic Four", and the three "Lord of the Rings" films. I'd have been gutted if everyone had chatted throughout those trailers.

 

[RoJoHen]

I've always thought the time to stop talking is when the lights go down. In any theater I've been to (save maybe one or two), they turn the lights off when the trailers start.

 

[Miss Chicken]

Talking during movies is generally not a problem in Tasmanian cinemas. Sometimes you might hear a whisper but that is as loud as it gets. Even children tend to have good manners in cinemas here. Tasmanians do not cheer, boo or clap during a movie and even laughter is restrained.

If this was her first experience in a Tasmanian cinema, how would she know of your claim that Tasmanian cinema behaviour is supposedly so different to the mainland of Australia?

Some people do go to films just to see the trailers. I certainly have. My main reason for going to "Cloverfield" was to see the JJ "Star Trek" trailer. Ditto trailers for ST II, III, IV, V and VI. And "84 Charing Cross Road", "Fantastic Four", and the three "Lord of the Rings" films. I'd have been gutted if everyone had chatted throughout those trailers.

Are we meant to modify our behaviour simply because there is a chance that someone in the audience might be a non-Tasmanian? Besides I have been to the cinema with my sister from South Australia and I talked to her during the trailers and she didn't seem to have a problem with it. Also another Austtalian in this thread has agrred with me.

If you want to pay good money to see a trailer that is fine but I really don't understand why anyone would see trailers as entertainment. This might be because I grew up in a time when movie previews were nothing more than a few slides, followed by a time when movie trailers lasted maybe 30 seconds. I have always seen trailers as being no different from other commercials. I much preferred when the preshow was actually a preshow i.e cartoons and short films rather than just a series of commercials.

I've always thought the time to stop talking is when the lights go down. In any theater I've been to (save maybe one or two), they turn the lights off when the trailers start.

if we agree with light dimming as being the time to stop talking than I am in the right as the lights dim here after the trailers. Before trailers became common their dimmed after the slide commercials, including slide previews, finished and the preshow (cartoons and shorts) started.

Maybe I resent that commercials, including trailers, have replaced the preshow I grew up with.

 

[Kelthaz]

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

How boring for you.

At least we can actually watch the movie.

 

[RoJoHen]

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

How boring for you.

At least we can actually watch the movie.

I manage to watch movies just fine. If something funny happens and the whole audience is laughing, chances are I'm laughing right there with them.

 

[pork3]

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

I've often wondered what fornication would be like if everyone just whispered.

-Jamman

 

[pork3]

I manage to watch movies just fine. If something funny happens and the whole audience is laughing, chances are I'm laughing right there with them.

Are they laughing with you or are they laughing at you?

-Jamman

 

[Locutus of Bored]

There are of course exceptions to this such as cheering, laughing, or clapping (within reason) because of something on the screen.

Over here, it'd be assumed that anyone cheering and clapping during the movie was a special needs patient on day release.

Well, then the people that think that about others get a well-deserved silent golf clap for dickishness.

I've always thought the time to stop talking is when the lights go down. In any theater I've been to (save maybe one or two), they turn the lights off when the trailers start.

if we agree with light dimming as being the time to stop talking than I am in the right as the lights dim here after the trailers.

You're not right or wrong. It's not like there's some international pre-film behavior regulatory body that's going to make a ruling on this. Obviously it varies by regional custom and individual preference, and from your own story the lights dim at different times in Tasmania than they do in the US, so you would only be "right" for your individual experiences anyway.

 

[Orac Zen]

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

How boring for you.

And yet incredibly enough, we cope without any difficulty whatsoever.

 

[Miss Chicken]

Orac Zen, I may as well as well ask, do the cinemas up there dim just before the movie or earlier? And are trailers mixed in with commercials?

We only have Village Cinemas in Hobart (3 complexes with a combined total of 14 screens) and one arthouse cinema. I was wondering if it was different with other cinema chains.

 

[ManOnTheWave]

The theatre I go to has a no talking policy when the lights go down. The even run a No Talking Zone placard before the trailers. Occasionally they play something like this:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L3eeC2lJZs[/yt]

 

[sidious618]

I can't see how anyone could get angry when laughing during a comedy. That's the fucking point and what makes theater going worthy as it's a community experience.

 

[Aldo]

Is it my imagination or did theaters (a long long time ago) used to start the movie trailers before the movie's scheduled time? That way the movie would start when the theater said it would, rather than fifteen minutes after that time because of commercials and trailers.

I could have sworn this used to be the practice.

 

[Trekker4747]

For as long as I can remember the show time was when the trailers start. (Of course now it's when commercials start which then lead into trailers and then the movie.)

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Is it my imagination or did theaters (a long long time ago) used to start the movie trailers before the movie's scheduled time? That way the movie would start when the theater said it would, rather than fifteen minutes after that time because of commercials and trailers.

I could have sworn this used to be the practice.

I thought it still was.

 

[Amaris]

I've laughed out loud, gasped in surprise, and cheered during a movie. I guess I'm special needs because I enjoy the movie and get caught up in the moment. Damn my all too human emotions.

 

[Miss Chicken]

The only time I have ever gasped in surprise was when Haldir died in The Two Towers. The guy sitting next to me gave me a dirty look and I softly apologised.

The only time I ever laughed out loud was during Crocodile Dundee when the kangaroo had the gun. I started to laugh and couldn't stop. It didn't help me that the people in front turned around and gave me dirty looks. I covered my mouth to try and muffle the laugh and mumbled through my fingers that I was sorry.

Both times I ws embarrassed by my own behaviour. However this time I was annoyed by woman's behaviour (as were my friends). Tasmanians don't normally tell people to shut-up. Dirty looks is about as far as we go though behaviour during movies is usually so good that it is rare for even dirty looks to occur.