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Alamo Drafthouse
DIR By: Mac
Date: March 24, 2013, 11:05 am
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[glow=red,2,300]Alamo Drafthouse[/glow]
We've posted some stuff about this place before under WTF. I
think we need to kick it up a notch.
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> I truly don't understand why people are compelled to look at
their cell phones while watching a film in a theater. Isn't the
point of going to the movies to remove yourself from the real
world for two hours while you get caught up in a dark drama,
hilarious comedy or kick-ass action movie? What's more, how can
people be so inconsiderate, knowing that the brightness of their
screen is distracting others from the entertainment that they
paid to see? And do you really want to be responsible for
Spider-Man killing James Franco's father?
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[glow=red,2,300]DON'T TALK - JAMES FRANCO[/glow]
HTML http://vimeo.com/61311581
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> The Alamo Drafthouse has a long history of great anti-cell
phone ads, and this one is just the latest. Remember this
amazing one starring Patton Oswalt that came out a couple years
ago?
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HTML http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z98vawSOlK4
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Re: Alamo Drafthouse
DIR By: Chiprocks1
Date: April 8, 2013, 5:34 pm
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Damn, I'm just now finding this thread! Wth! Anyway, down with
Cell Phones!!!!!
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Re: Alamo Drafthouse
DIR By: Mac
Date: June 4, 2013, 11:40 am
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> Common movie theater etiquette says that texting or talking
during a film is highly frowned upon. But ever since the Alamo
DraftHouse released the PSA of a disgruntled customer being
kicked out for that very action, actors and directors have come
out and participated in making these “Stop Texting” PSAs. Lots
of them have already gone viral, and now a new PSA from Before
Midnight stars Ethan Hawke and Julie Deply could go viral as
well.
>
> If you thought these two had chemistry for all three films,
you should check out the chemistry they have for this simple,
yet hilariously effective PSA from Alamo Drafthouse. And just
for good measure, Deply cusses texters and talkers out in
French. Don’t worry there are subtitles. Hit the jump to see the
video.
>
> Directed by Richard Linklater, Before Midnight is out in
theaters now.
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HTML http://vimeo.com/67166636
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Re: Alamo Drafthouse
DIR By: Mac
Date: June 28, 2013, 12:05 pm
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[glow=red,2,300]The Only Way to Solve Movie Theaters’ Talking
and Texting Problem Is to Give In to It [/glow]
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> Last weekend, David Edelstein had a bad time at the movies.
The venerable New York film critic took to Vulture yesterday
HTML http://www.vulture.com/2013/06/david-edelstein-on-texting-and-talking-at-movies.html<br
/>to share, in great detail and with palpable frustration, his
run-in with a chattering couple at the BAMcinemaFest premiere
screening of Mother of George. It didn’t go well! After the
shushing, reprimands, and evil eyes of himself and other
moviegoers went ignored, Edelstein “just lost it,” but found
theater management unable or unwilling to do much of anything
about the talkers. And he’s not just venting — he’s asking what
we, as moviegoers, are actually supposed to do about those who
view the experience as a location for casual conversations and
smartphone use. And it’s a question worth considering.
>
> The topic doesn’t get written about in the film press all that
often, for a very simple reason: most of us who write about film
professionally are lucky enough to see movies in advance, and in
optimal circumstances. Depending on the film, we’re invited to
view movies in either intimate, cozy screening rooms or at
larger venues, rented out for a one-time “all media screening.”
As Edelstein and others have mentioned, the industry/media
screening world isn’t entirely unblighted by the whispers of
others and the light of phone screens — but it’s at least an
environment where you’re presumed to be in the company of pros,
and public shaming is met with the proper degree of
embarrassment.
>
> It’s only when we see films outside of that hermetically
sealed bubble that we realize how utterly out of control the
chattering-and-tweeting brigade has gotten, and a horrified
missive like Edelstein’s follows. But regular moviegoers are
fighting this fight all the time; filmmakers are always waxing
rhapsodic about the magic of the “moviegoing experience,” but
they, too, are seeing films at premieres and private industry
screenings. On the occasions when this movie lover’s had to miss
a press screening, or wanted to revisit a particularly
big-screen-worthy picture with my better half, it’s an alarming
cacophony of talking, texting, tweeting, coming, and going. When
we saw The Avengers in Times Square (on the second weekend,
even), the third act’s on-screen chaos was nearly matched by
that in front of it.
>
> As Edelstein says, there’s not much you can do. You can shush
or glare, but you’ll get ignored or taunted. Ushers (do such a
thing even exist anymore?) and other theater employees might
wander in, but that’s about all you’ll get out of them. And the
less considerate moviegoers among us don’t comprehend that
they’re being rude, because they’re not there to see a movie and
they’re not there to have an experience — they’re just there to
have somewhere to go.
>
> It’s very easy to turn into Abe Simpson on this issue,
spitting bile at the youngsters and their iTelephones and their
hippity-hop music; lest we forget, talking at the movies is not
a new phenomenon. But texting and tweeting and emailing are just
as disruptive, and they are new(ish) — and the teeth-gritting
tolerance of those habits has loosened standards about other
disruptions as well.
>
> And at risk of sounding like the Abe Simpson this is turning
me (and all of us) into, it is a generational thing. Forgive the
broad generalizations (there are exceptions, obviously), but
moviegoers in their teens and 20s have grown up with a phone
constantly in their hand, and the multitasking of watching TV
and films at home while dividing attention between screens is a
basic difference in the way media is consumed now. Simply put,
whether or not you can tolerate that difference determines when
and how you see movies. Older audiences have long since thrown
in the towel; they wait out the increasingly collapsed
theatrical-to-DVD/Blu-ray/VOD window, and watch it on their
big-screen TV in the comfort of their living room, where any
distractions are their own. What’s more, once you understand
that the adult audience isn’t interested in going to see movies
in theaters anymore, you start to understand why so many of the
movies playing there are geared towards teenage boys.
>
> So, to Edelstein’s question: what do we do? As an adult
moviegoer looking for an immersive movie-going experience, you
find your own hacks: stay away from this theater, go to that
one, hit morning shows a few weeks into a run, etc. Some
theaters, like the Alamo Drafthouse, take movie talkers and
texters seriously, but they’re few and far between. And it’s all
but impossible to find a reliable and consistent solution.
>
> But maybe the first step is realizing that, in this
increasingly niche-driven and personalized world, there’s no
longer a “one size fits all” moviegoing experience. Some
theaters have wised up to this: there are, for example, venues
that will only admit viewers over 18 after a set time in the
evening. This scenario involves the theater owner’s worst
nightmare (turning away a moviegoer with cash in hand), but it
could draw in adults who’ve given up on going out to the movies
by promising an audience of like-minded individuals. On the
other side of the divide, there has been much gnashing of teeth
over industry types floating the notion of letting viewers tweet
and email and Facebook away during some screenings. But y’know
what? My beloved Sunshine Cinema in New York does a special
“Rattle & Reel” morning show once a week where parents can bring
their babies to the movies without worrying about offending
anyone with their wailing. Not to say that I’m comparing
moviegoers who can’t shut up or go two hours without picking up
their phone to out-of-control shrieking babies, but… oh wait yes
I am.
>
> Hold on, though. The anything-goes phone-friendly
talk-amongst-yourselves screening (say, in the seven and eight
‘o’ clock hours) would be complemented by the converse: shows
later in the evening with no-tolerance policies, for example. It
might be impractical, and maybe the aforementioned adults-only
screenings would have to do the job. But either way, it’s worth
a try. People who objected to the “tweet seats” notion insisted
that by allowing phone use (within certain parameters), we were
letting the heathens win. To which I say this: have they been to
the movies lately? Because that battle has been over for a long,
long time.
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Re: Alamo Drafthouse
DIR By: Chiprocks1
Date: June 29, 2013, 9:49 pm
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I think if anyone in a theater thinks its okay to text, chat or
talk during a movie, then I think it's absolutely 'okay' for
anyone that is annoyed by their behavior to position themselves
right next to said offender and start talking as loud and
obnoxious right the offender till they 'get the picture'. I'd
actually applaud anyone that would do that. I'd even offer to
buy them a drink afterwards as a 'thank you'.
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Re: Alamo Drafthouse
DIR By: Mac
Date: June 30, 2013, 6:40 am
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I'm worried about the cultural shift as bing the norm. We see
this crap all the time with drivers.
But I would think paying customers upset with this crap will
slowly diminish in quietly doing nothing.
And
Your going to see a lot of folks just staying home. Theater
owners better make a decision.
I for the life of me can't imagine 'paying' to get into a
theater, and not care what's on the screen... Instead text.
Like I've been saying, short attention span with these folks.
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Re: Alamo Drafthouse
DIR By: Chiprocks1
Date: June 30, 2013, 7:36 am
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[center] $50 tickets: Is this the end of Hollywood as we know
it?
HTML http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/steven-spielberg-and-george-lucas-warn-of-movie-industry-implosion-and-50-tickets-is-this-the-end-of-hollywood-as-we-know-it-8658179.html
[/center]
I just read a very interesting article yesterday about the idea
of not just $50 tickets, but $100, $150, ect..... If texting
doesn't keep people home, the new prices surely will. I can't
remember which magazine it was that I read it in though. It was
either the latest issue of Rolling Stone or Entertainment
Weekly.
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Re: Alamo Drafthouse
DIR By: Neumatic
Date: June 30, 2013, 12:37 pm
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My teacher's very smart rebuttal to the whole implosion talk
HTML http://gointothestory.blcklst.com/2013/06/holy-crap-the-sky-is-falling.html,<br
/>well worth a read, my friends.
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Re: Alamo Drafthouse
DIR By: Mac
Date: July 31, 2013, 12:12 pm
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[glow=red,2,300]David Duchovny - PSA[/glow]
HTML http://vimeo.com/68412734
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Re: Alamo Drafthouse
DIR By: Mac
Date: July 31, 2013, 12:12 pm
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Walkers eat Talkers
HTML http://vimeo.com/51347213
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