LostTimeLord wrote: ↑Sun Sep 19, 2021 2:40 pmI see people complain about cinema experiences a lot online, and I have to wonder whether I'm super lucky or there's some cultural differences going on when it comes to cinema etiquette. The worst I've had in the Midlands has been small groups murmuring amongst themselves, and they usually stop if you turn around and make eye contact.
I think its definitely gotta be a regional thing: because where I live, there is RARELY anything at all like that in movie theater settings. Movie theaters tend to usually be pretty chill, quiet places where I am: and I've lived in some areas that are... pretty fucking rowdy and rough as hell in most other respects otherwise.
Like, horrible shit has happened
near and around movie theaters where I am for sure: I definitely more than relate to the person earlier in this thread who mentioned murders taking place at movie theaters, as that was very much a common thing where I grew up as a kid (and it still happens today sometimes too). But most times when you're actually sitting in the theater watching a movie that's being played... people don't usually act up much, if at all, for whatever reason.
I've even gotten into a few pretty serious fistfights myself personally in places like the lobby area of a movie theater (like I said, where I grew up tended to be... pretty rough): but for whatever reason, not much like that seems to happen within the actual theater area playing the actual movie. Sometimes there's shit that breaks out inside the theater area during a movie from time to time, certainly (I can think of some pretty notable instances just off the top of my head): but that isn't usually the norm in most cases on average, day to day. Its typically outside the theater (be it in the lobby or outside in front) where things can get most hectic and potentially dangerous.
Its so odd: where I grew up, people can get shot or stabbed or get into all kinds of insane brawls within direct proximity of a movie theater on a near constant basis... and yet somehow, all these stories people have about trying to watch a movie at the theater and being constantly pestered every single time by loud, yelling people, constant chattering, wailing kids, loud phones, etc.
That stuff... just doesn't happen usually where I am. For some reason or other. Once the movie starts people usually just... sit there and watch it quietly. Occasionally there might be one or two instances like people describe where someone gets loud or there's a crying baby somewhere. But those are fairly rare occurrences in the grand scheme of things.
Again though, that's just my experience from within my neck of the woods.
WittyUsername wrote: ↑Sun Sep 19, 2021 3:29 pm
Finally saw it. For the people who still want another live action Dragon Ball film, that’s probably the closest they’re going to get.
There's literally over 100 years' worth of movies out there that are fairly close to being live action DB movies in all but name: people just refuse to bother with any of them because they aren't Hollywood summer tentpole movies (that and most of them aren't in English and require subtitles: the horror, I know).
I've become fairly convinced over the years that for a lot of people who want another live action DB movie (done by Marvel or whomever of that sort), its never been about just wanting to see a cool DB movie done well in and of itself, but rather its mostly been about some warped sort of "validation" they get from their personal pet nerd property being embraced by the U.S. mainstream (which is absurdly held above the mainstream of countless other parts of the world: its not like those 100 years worth of martial arts fantasy movies are somehow obscurities in their native territories) and being showered in box office dollars and critical praise from said U.S. mainstream.
Because the very thing that they say they want (Dragon Ball done well in live action)... its BEEN DONE (over and over and over and over and over again for literally since long before any of us here were even born) literally a bazillion times in all but Dragon Ball's specific name. It already exists myriad of times over... it just isn't specifically encased in DB's skin, and it isn't Hollywood. And thus, its not "mainstream", since the U.S. mainstream is apparently a stand-in for some folks as the only mainstream that actually matters.
Like ok, sure, if its primarily about DB's specific characters to you (nevermind that many/most of them are basically just Toriyama-ified versions of very standard Wuxia archetypes) then I can sort of get it, maybe. But if all you care about is wanting to see cool superpowered martial arts action spectacle setpieces with characters who fly around at supersonic speeds throwing Ki beams at one another and blowing up mountains and shit, but done in live action... then guys, y'all are
more than covered by countless gazillions-fold. Fucking actual 1920s SILENT MOVIES literally had that shit on lockdown, nevermind the countless movies made since then up to this very present day even.