Sounds like an interesting business idea. It could seriously pull a lot of younger audience without putting a lot of effort into anything.
Biggest problem I could see with this as a business idea is that IP owners might be hesitant to have their movies shown in places where everyone is expected to have a recording device out.
Otherwise it seems like an actually great idea.
Seems like the kind of thing where enthusiasm/attendance might fall off sharply with the novelty of the thing. Of course you could just transition it back into a regular cinema if that happened.
Make it a place where teenagers can get away from their parents for little to no money
Thirty seconds before some troll starts commentary about politics, women, and/or minorities on such a chat.
Fifty seconds before fistfights.
Harder to be an asshole when there's a pretty short list of suspects that could be doing it, depending on the showtime
I've been to Conferences have done this. Presenter, with a live chat behind them.
When you buy a ticket, you get an account and access into the conf site and chat portal. And Dickheads are quickly identified and reprimanded.
And the trolling is a whole lot harder to ignore when the loud guys in white bed sheets are literally in the theater with you.
Theater where I used to live in Rhode Island in 2012 was $2 a ticket. Thursday’s were half off.
They played stuff that was out of theaters but not yet on streaming, but it was basically a LCD projector in a room with a few speakers.
They didn’t give a FUCK what you did in that room when the movie was running.
All my knowledge about Rhode Island comes from Family Guy so I think I'm more than qualified to say what a classic Rhode Island thing
You can sort of emulate this behavior using a VR headset and using that Big screen app that puts you in a virtual theatre with others and people can talk and throw popcorn at the screen etc. You can find all sorts of movies playing on it that you can randomly join
There are basically things that allow this online where you're all watching a movie together with both text and audio chat.
I actually kinda wanna watch Rocky Horror Picture Show in VR like that, but only if everyone watching does all the audience participation shit that makes that movie fun.
Movie theaters suck. They're expensive as fuck, loud parts shake the room, quiet parts are silent, no control over subtitles.
no control over subtitles.
Really most theaters I know you can rent a little plexiglass thing which gives you subtitles from a rear projector.
Must be a Europe thing. I’ve been to a plethora of movie theaters and never came across this. They just have designated Closed Caption screenings.
I've never seen anything like it in Europe, where I live they even show the subs in 2 languages at the same time. It's horrible.
What the fuck?
Most theaters I know simply put the subtitles in the local language in EVERY movie.
This doesn't happen in native English speaking countries (when the movie language is English, which it is 99.999% of the time).
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I am so happy my local cinema is deep down in a basement without any mobile reception. People try to access Tiktok and just give up.
It sounds like a less fun version of a midnight showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Minus the theatre it looks like they'd live China and their streams where people send comments while watching soaps together.
And they actually change the film several times to see if anyone notices.
Let chat vote if the movie is boring and an algorithm picks the next one
Picks from a list of films with similar runtimes and jumps you in at the same point from the beginning. Now you're 20 mins into sharknado 4, have no idea what's supposed to have happened. Doesn't matter. It's sharks in a tornado it's not too hard to follow.
Honestly if it keeps the brainrot addicts who can’t sit through a movie without scrolling through Minecraft parkour videos in one place so I can go and watch them without bright screens in thr dark microwaving my eyeballs, I’m all for it.
My wife and I used to go to movie theaters quite often and screens have hardly been an issue. Talking and smells have been way further up the list of common annoyances.
I did this with my friends during covid and it came to be the best part of my week.
It's the only way to see horror movies IMHO.
Yes!
MST3K IRL.
Except nobody is funny
So exactly like MST3K then, got it
thats what movies used to be. you would have people shouting stuff and having a good time
When I watched Avengers Infinity War and Endgame in the cinema on launch day, the audience was very reactive. There was cheering, applause, laughter, etc.
Was a great experience you rarely get in this extent, elsewhere. Every one in those theatre rooms was a big enough fan though, to go see the non dubbed version in a non English speaking country on launch day.
Stuff like that is great and ads to the cinema experience. However, I very much believe the „brainrotification“ of cinema, as described by oop, would infinitely detract from the experience for everyone but the most late stage adhd brainrot gen z and gen alpha ppl. I would not go to a cinema like that.
I feel like these kinds of movies are meant to be experienced in theatre's with others, it adds to the experience when everyone is openly reacting to the scenes. But I sure as shit don't want any of this behavior for more serious movies, so there's a time and a place for everything.
This sounds like hell, the movie experience is already awful.
That's the idea, then people who want to see the movie they paid for can go to the non-brainrot theatre.
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