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Same thing happened with the emoji movie and the minion movie. As a former teenager I can attest that screaming at a mediocre movie with friends is a good time
It happened with Snakes on a Plane too. Everyone was waiting to cheer when SLJ said that one line. Cool vibes.
As long as it's a thing just for shit/mediocre movies, seems fun. Might even be a fun new subgenre.
But I be fucked if I wanna see it at "real" movies where I'm invested in the actual film.
I think there’s much worse things going on in the world than audiences having fun at a silly movie. If it bothers you too much, just wait to watch the movie at home in like 3 weeks.
Yeah, nobody is gonna go into your own house just to say the line loudly.
I saw it yesterday with the kids and I though it was gonna be boring but then it wasn't. I shouted at the screen in unison with the kids. Its a kids movie, they will shout.
Isn't audience participation part of the theater experience?
For stage shows that have some audience participation as an element, sure. For most other cases, it just seems like people who don't know how to behave themselves in public. Like, sure, go for it if you're at a Rocky Horror Picture Show screening, or the theater advertised it as a sing along screening, but otherwise, it's inappropriate and inconsiderate.
How did TRHPS experience become what we know it as today?
Imagine hearing about TRHPS in 1976 or 1977 and going to see it and experiencing it especially without knowing fully what you were walking into?
What is different about the emergence of participatory memes for Minecraft vs. the established memes for TRHPS? The quickness of the behavior? The documentation of it? The fact that it’s new for us now and not something we inherited?
Quite Frankenfurtively, I’d rather be in the theater with a bunch of people enjoying it as opposed to people sitting there rigidly watching what amounts to be a very silly movie.
And besides, if people are so upset, ask for a refund or comp ticket and leave the theater. The same raucous behavior happened every Friday night when a horror film was screening back in my day.
Eh, if I knew it was permitted going in, that's on me. If it's a new movie and there's no notice that they'll allow that behavior, and they allow some guests to be loud and obnoxious for the whole showing, I wouldn't go back to that theater unless I heard things changed. That was more than enough to avoid teenagers being insufferable at Friday night horror films when I was growing up. Some of them allowed it, and they had ongoing problems with teenagers being little monsters (breaking stuff, causing fights, bothering other patrons outside the theaters, etc), and gained reputations for being dumps not worth going to. Others required teenagers to be accompanied by parents, to control them a bit and shame them into behaving. Others just didn't indulge in it at all, and would just straight up kick out disruptive people.
I'd prefer more places had a system like Alamo Drafthouse's, where they post on the site when it's going to be a screening with audience participation, or a children's screening, or whatever. Everyone is free to choose the sort of screening they want to attend, and those who opt for a quiet theater experience without some muppet feeling the need to scream "Oh no! He's gonna get you bitch, run!" or similarly obvious outbursts, don't have to put up with it.
Honestly, 9/10, I find the people shouting and carrying on really only add something to the experience for the friends that went with them and find them funny. Save that for when you're watching at home with them, or when there's a screening that explicitly allows it.
People go to kids movies, and complain about the kids. Huh.
Isnt the Minecraft generation in their 30s now?
Not at all. New young kids are joining every day. 7 year olds playing it are common (sadly).
The people complaining about that movie would have heart attacks and die at a screening of Rocky Horror.
The crowd and reactions are one of the biggest parts of the theater experience that's actually positive.
I imagine it varies between countries. In the UK I would say I'm happy for laughter, and the odd gasp. Anything more such as cheering, singing or clapping is not on to me personally.
I think at this point they could make the "Hawk Tuah Skibidi Movie" and people would clap and throw popcorn in the air every time they say a brain rot catchphrase from tiktok.
And honestly I'm ok with that, the only people there know what they are signing up for.
I'm fine with people getting rowdy (I went to a late screening of Spider-Man: No Way Home that was pretty raucous and it added to the fun) but I draw the line at throwing water and popcorn around as the cinema staff have to clean up that mess.
Michael Bay is in talks for a movie based on the skibidi toilet cinematic universe.
https://variety.com/2024/film/news/skibidi-toilet-michael-bay-movie-adam-goodman-1236077245/
I don't even know what's real anymore
My favorite part was when the Minecraft guy said, "it's craftin' time" then he crafted all those mines.
Mine was when Master Chief showed up in the post-credits and suggested he and Steve should team up and then both shouted "It's time to play Xbox™ One™"
This is dumb to me, but I'm not the target audience for this movie. It sounds like the people who are the target audience are having a blast and that's awesome.
Same. Never been into Minecraft, and hate when people are noisy and whatnot in a theater when I'm watching a movie. That being said, if they're having fun, more power to them. Not gonna yuck their yum.
The term is "read the room", I think. Rarely, some movies are just like that. Classic showings of Rocky Horror aren't exactly done for serious movie gowers as a prime example. While I am not attempting to put RHPS and a Minecraft movie in the same class, I would go to a Minecraft movie with the same mindset.
They aren't in the same class, but I does seem like they'd both be in the same category. They're weird goofy movies that shouldn't be taken too seriously. I could imagine having fun at the MC movie if you're allowed to goof off. I couldn't see myself having fun with it if I need to sit quietly and watch it for it's "art."
It's a shitty movie about Minecraft... let people have their fun. The jokes and memes around it are the best part.
It sounds like the start of some Rocky Horror stuff. Which, I think we need something like that to happen again.
Saw it last night, can confirm audience went wild with chicken jockey and flint and steel. Honestly didn't think it was too bad, but I think part of the trend is also to fling fucking popcorn all over the place because when we went in the theater was spotless, and when the lights came back on, it was like a fucking popcorn bomb went off in there, the worst I've ever seen in my life; honestly felt bad for the employees.
Yeah I've been to my cinema a ton and every movie I've ever been to they leave the lights dimmed until the credits finish (basically lights off during movie, dimmed during credits, fully on after). They'll also wait until everyone has left until they start cleaning.
This one they immediately turned the lights on fully (even before the first after credits scene that is almost instantly) and came in to start cleaning up, because it was so much worse than normal they needed that extra time.
I say if they're going to release dogshit movies, at least let people party in the theater
And that's one more reason why I'll never go back to a cinema.
Several videos captured by cinemagoers show audiences chanting the line along with Black, before whooping and clapping loudly. On social media, many people attested that they had witnessed, or participated in, similar outbursts.
“My theater clapped every time Jack Black name dropped a Minecraft item that was in the trailers, and when he said Chicken Jockey I s* you not the entire row in front of me gave a standing ovation,”** one person shared.
“Just got back from watching the movie myself, can confirm everyone in the theater collectively yelled ‘CHICKEN JOCKEY’ during that moment and it was glorious ngl,” wrote another.
“This is what made me love my experience more, bc even though the movie wasn’t as bad as i thought it was going to be, the packed cinema with everyone shouting, clapping and cheering whenever jack black name dropped something genuinely gave me so much joy,” commented someone else.
This sounds like a Red Letter Media skit lol
I'm sorry but I just can't believe that this is actually happening. This sounds so fake. What seems more reasonable, that crowds are going crazy in the theater and chanting to something from the (widely panned) trailer, or that the producers paid a couple people to write fake testimonials?
My son got invited to a birthday party for it. Theater was 90% 5-12 year olds. This really did happen. In Australia where I don't usually see this kind of thing, even when I've heard about it for other movies.
A guy that looked mid teens literally yelled "shut the fuck up!" at one point which just made them all laugh and go more crazy.
Honestly, I watched the pirated version at home and thought it was dogshit... but...
I get it, this kind of stuff makes it actually enjoyable. This is like when people brought snakes in a can to Snakes on a Plane and got wild. You have to make your own entertainment sometimes. I probably would have ended up enjoying this movie had I seen it with an audience like this.
Good on these people and boo-hoo for the crybabies who can't handle other people having fun. They're not hurting anybody doing this.