It did. Nowadays the movie usually starts about 15-20 minutes after its scheduled time, though I don't mind. It gives the latecomers an extra 15 minutes to show up without distracting from the actual film.
Talking during movie trailers
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It did. Nowadays the movie usually starts about 15-20 minutes after its scheduled time, though I don't mind. It gives the latecomers an extra 15 minutes to show up without distracting from the actual film.
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Why should you have to apologize for a simple human reaction? If I laugh, I laugh. If I gasp in surprise, I gasp in surprise. If someone has a problem with that, then it is one situated on their shoulders, not mine. There's nothing wrong with simple human reactions when those reactions are caused by what's on the screen.
Because I am normally have enough control to stifle those reactions.
Remind me never to see a movie in countries where apparently normal human emotions and reactions are to be suppressed.
I don't it is any worse than seeing a movie in a country in which a large proportion of people see trailers as being entertainment rather than just commercials.
Pfft. People getting excited about seeing scenes and plot information about movies they look forward to seeing.
Pshaw!
Pshaw!
Movie night on planet Vulcan.
I can't understand why you don't mind cheering, laughing and clapping during a movie but think it is wrong for me to make a couple of comments in a normal voice during a trailer. Cheering, laughing and clapping probably lasted longer and were louder than the commnents I made.
For those of you who are interested this is the length of the conversation we were told off for. It start about 30 seconds from the end of the trailer.
Me - A must see for me
Dianne - You do know its not a prequel to Alien.
Me - Isn't it? I thought it was.
Dianne - Not from what I have heard about it.
Tania - what's that?
Woman turned around and told us off.
I have no idea what the young women behind us were saying. I had tuned them out somewhat but my friends said they were talking before us.
For those of you who are interested this is the length of the conversation we were told off for. It start about 30 seconds from the end of the trailer.
Me - A must see for me
Dianne - You do know its not a prequel to Alien.
Me - Isn't it? I thought it was.
Dianne - Not from what I have heard about it.
Tania - what's that?
Woman turned around and told us off.
I have no idea what the young women behind us were saying. I had tuned them out somewhat but my friends said they were talking before us.
Because movies are designed to provoke an audience reaction. You're supposed to gasp or jump in your seat during the scary parts of a horror film. You're supposed to laugh out loud during the funny parts of a comedy. You're supposed to cheer when the hero saves the day at the last moment in an action film. Those are all expected and appropriately timed reactions to stimuli shared by the whole crowd -- at least in places where the theaters aren't patrolled by Grammaton Clerics ready to shoot sense offenders at the first sign of showing emotion. When a crowd really gets into a movie and enjoys it as a shared experience it enhances your feelings and memories about the event.
Carrying on a conversation in a dinner party voice over the dialogue of a trailer is not something that's expected, however. Has anyone ever made a trailer and said "boy, I hope people have a mundane conversation that can be heard two rows away during this. That's the reaction I'm hoping for, not excitement or anticipation." If it were me, based on the briefness of your conversation you edited in above, I would not have turned around and told you to knock it off. That being said, I don't think it's unreasonable on either end that that lady could have lightened up a bit and you could have spoken in a lower tone of voice.
And audience here are meant to be as quiet as they can during a movie. If you are in Tasmania and want to react with cheering, clapping etc it is better to wait until it come out on DVD. I gather that this is true for many places outside of the USA
Trailers are designed to get people to go to them so I can see no harm in discussing that in a normal voice especially as many people just see them as commercials - especially so if they are mixed in with the commercials. So why can't someone excitely say that they want to see a movie, or make a statement about trailer in reply?
Trailers are designed to get people to go to them so I can see no harm in discussing that in a normal voice especially as many people just see them as commercials - especially so if they are mixed in with the commercials. So why can't someone excitely say that they want to see a movie, or make a statement about trailer in reply?
How many times do you want to go around in the same circular argument? I've already explained my position and answered your same questions multiple times. If you just wanted validation for your own position instead of the opinions you asked for, you should have specified that in the OP.
Because you are still criticising me speaking during the trailer even though I have tried to explain that how and when trailers are presented in Tasmania, and why this woman's reaction surprised myself and my friends.
I am not saying Americans shouldn't cheer in their cinemas only that it woud be unacceptable behaviour here.
I am not saying Americans shouldn't cheer in their cinemas only that it woud be unacceptable behaviour here.
I said the lady kind of overreacted and you could have spoken more softly. Hardly a harsh criticism, especially since you asked for people's opinions about it.
I am more annoyed that people are criticising Tasmanians, and others, for being so quiet during movies as if that is abnormal behaviour. It isn't. It is our version of good manners.
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I have huge amounts of control, and can be just as placid and silent as anyone, if not moreso. Why, however, would I choose to do so in a movie theater, where I'm in a collective audience that will laugh, cheer, gasp, and cry? It may be a cultural thing, but movies in a theater are a collective, human experience. That's the worst time to stifle your emotions like some kind of automaton.
Yeah, well, that's gone both ways in this thread.
The Avengers would've been a lot less enjoyable at the cinema without the big laughs at Whack-a-Loki, "He's adopted," the out of nowhere Hulk-punching-Thor-off-camera, among others.
A movie theater isn't a concert. I go to a movie theater to watch a movie -- not take part in a collective human experience. I just want to watch the film. I would love nothing more than to watch a film in a completely empty theater.
I love an empty or near empty theatre as well. The only movie I remember seeing totally alone was The Baader Meinhof Complex.
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