In Reply to: I've read complaints like this so often posted by sjb on January 4, 2011 at 13:08:31:
In Phily there is the artsy-fartsy theater called Ritz. You can always go there not expecting someone's smelly snickers stuck over your shoulders - the crowd mostly consists of the so-called intelligentsia, old ladies, clean students, etc. It is clean, orderly, and usually half-deserted.OTOH, going to a Regal 16 guarantees the opposite - dumb teenagers everywhere, popcorn and chewing gum on the carpet.
Since I never pay to see American movies, we only go to the Ritz, where you mostly get foreign films. Life is way too short to spend portions of it watching iPhone screens. We simply never go to Regal - hence we have no problem with modern day audience.
People here can avoid their frustration the same way.
Edits: 01/04/11
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Follow Ups
- Depends completely on the theater - Victor Khomenko 13:27:47 01/04/11 (4)
- RE: Depends completely on the theater - Peter Breuninger 12:30:35 01/06/11 (0)
- Yeah, I do tend towards the tamer theaters - sjb 15:37:48 01/04/11 (2)
- What would Porky's and Animal House be without audience participation? - Victor Khomenko 16:14:58 01/04/11 (1)
- Egg - sjb 16:51:51 01/04/11 (0)