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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™"
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.
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.
People go to kids movies, and complain about the kids. Huh.
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/
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.
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.
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 don't even know what's real anymore
Reminds me of the Rocky Horror Picture Show stuff
One of the things I want to do before I die. Watch a Midnight screening of RHPS with everyone singing along.
Crossed that one off my bucket list a year ago, t'was a blast! Highly recommend
Damnit Janet
A toast!
Meatloaf again?
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.
And that's one more reason why I'll never go back to a cinema.
Oh thank god. I saw it the first night in theaters and it was just a damn riot. Like I get why people complain about the behavior. But the movie really goes well along with it.
I was in tears from laughter by the end of the movie. I don't know what was intended and what wasn't, but I definitely had more fun than my kid.
I too loved it. Its almost as good as watching keys being dangled infront of my face.
I find it funny that the article uses a quote from Moist Critical's video on it (as well as I think Schaffrillis Productions and PhoenixSC, I know I've heard the quotes before on youtube) and they leave it anonymous as to who said it
Swear half of the articles we see lately are just collections of Tweets, Reddit posts and other social media quotes
Sounds fun, not sure what's there to be theatrical about