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<Is audience behavior a problem?> The only time out of the past six or so theater trips that I did not encounter rudeness (excessive/loud talking, cellphone us
by DrScump 11y ago
<Is audience behavior a problem?>
The only time out of the past six or so theater trips that I did not encounter rudeness (excessive/loud talking, cellphone use, etc.) was when I saw the new Star Wars at a late night showing a month or so ago. And that was mainly because I was (literally) the only attendee.
Theater behavior was essentially churchlike before the advent of home video.
- themartorana 11y agoI don't know if it was home video. Mobile phones (texting, taking pics, yes, even taking calls) are all things I've experienced in a theater. It might be the fact that we all carry decides capable of distracting us and everyone around us - and many feel perfectly entitled to do what they want when they want.
- pandaman 11y agoI blame iPod - it appears that a lot of people have their hearing damaged (supposedly with prolonged listening to headphones) and talk very loudly because of this. I don't remember people yelling to each other during early 2000s movies (when home video had been already quite old but the iPod was not so popular and $200+ headphones were only for crazy audiophiles). For the past 5 or so years it's pretty bad. Especially children, who probably trained their voices to communicate with their half-deaf parents. It could be me getting older and experiencing the "get off my lawn" syndrome, however I'd imagine I should become less sensible to loud speech due to natural hearing loss with age.