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Sounds like an interesting business idea. It could seriously pull a lot of younger audience without putting a lot of effort into anything.

Thirty seconds before some troll starts commentary about politics, women, and/or minorities on such a chat.

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.

Any coward who uses Twitter in the year 2024 is a traitor and a collaborator.

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

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.

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.

Movie theaters suck. They're expensive as fuck, loud parts shake the room, quiet parts are silent, no control over subtitles.

I did this with my friends during covid and it came to be the best part of my week.

For some time I was watching football streams in a discord server, and eventually the server got a firm message from the league (which was nice compared to just getting shut down).

It was really fun to live chat with everyone while everyone had the same stream with the same delay, in a weird way. It was goofier than a “serious” match night with the boys but on a weeknight alone it was great. It’s not the same to live chat with everyone on different streams, different delays, different folks have their streams drop at different times etc

Especially when the team you follow are legendarily inconsistent and the atmosphere around them is characterized by an implacable vibes roller coaster.

Baby Shark needs to be playing in the background. It's always playing on one of the many speakers, but which speaker it is - and what volume - changes every couple of seconds.

And they actually change the film several times to see if anyone notices.

KEKW

Minus the theatre it looks like they'd live China and their streams where people send comments while watching soaps together.

It's all fun and games until someone gets the rest of the theatre to think of The Game. That's why this isn't a thing in person, the chances of shitpost-related violence is too high.

I have never wanted to burn down a full theater more than I do now.

Personally, I would like a Japanese karoke-style room system for the theater. Sit back, relax, and watch the video in peace. Order snacks and drinks for delivery, and maybe snuggle up with your partner. No children, just you and a time away from life.

In the theater, you can just talk to everyone in the room

That's called Rumble. You can do it from the comfort of your own home.

you could just stream a movie on a discord voice channel

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.

This sounds like hell, the movie experience is already awful.

Yes!

MST3K IRL.

Minus any Twitch involvement, there have been events at Alamo Drafthouse like this for years

streaming a movie to the homies on discord frfr

It sounds like a less fun version of a midnight showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Right, and the chat should scroll on the side of the film, for maximum immersion.