What are you watching?

[Jassassino]

I saw the new Fantastic 4 movie last night, and enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would. I haven't read many of the comics and I wasn't really interested in those characters but it was a lot of fun, the 60's futuristic style was really neato as well, it was a lot better to see than the standard MCU setting of "mordern day but slightly more advanced" that all those movies seem to have

But fuck me, I hate seeing MCU movies on the first week. The cinema was full of people talking and going on their phones. These movies always pull people who go in huge groups and talk the whole time about accuracy to the comics. I swear cinema etiquette has gone out the window the last few years. I kept asking the couple in front to please be quiet but they kept talking

It happened when I saw Ballerina as well, there was a group of teenagers talking right in front of me for the whole movie. At one point I "shhhhhh" them but they turned and glared at me like I was the one being rude

Mate, cinema etiquette is out the toilet now. Me and my partner went to see the anniversary screening of Jaws at an Odeon (chain cinema in the UK, not sure if they're in Aus?) about two or so years ago, it was their first time seeing it and they loved it, but there were about three points where I had to go and get an usher to tell the row behind us to shut up where they were just having a completely casual, room volume conversation. Even then, the ushers are absolute chumps and just gently flashed their lights toward the back row until the third time when they finally said something.

Similar to Nate, I go to our Picturehouse cinema local to us a lot more now and Prince Charles in central London for any classics I want to see. Feel like these big chain cinemas don't do anything to uphold etiquette and who can blame the workers for not caring either when they're paid a pittance? Absolute mess.