Btw idk why I have anxiety the entire time… (no, not anxiety about the plot… like just random anxiety) but besides that…
Great experience (ish… I rather own a movie theater and have it all by myself so I don’t have so much anxiety)
BIG SCREEN
My favorite sequence was when:
SPOILERS
Rocky risks his life to save Grace
I like the sequence of like the darkness and then a flash of light to show whats going on… that was so cool
I love the moments of silence…
So much different from just watching it on a 15.6 inch screen + headphones at home… (and also I’d have to wait for home release…)
(Put any spoilers in tags pls)
Edit: Also I was gonna take a photo of the theater and like the outside areas after you check in… and also like the mall area and stuff… but I kinda forgot due to anxiety… lol
Edit2: ALSO: I missed so much dialogue because my ears suck lol. I thought my English was good having arrived at 8 years old but apparantly not lmfao
Need a rewatch later at home (when home release comes out) WITH SUBTITLES
Ehm, how old are you to never have been to a movie theater? Surely people go with friends or family some time, especially as a child? And what kind of anxiety would trigger just sitting in the dark in a comfortable chair watching a film?
I’m 23
It’s cuz I have Immigrant Asian parents… 👀 (need more explaining? lol)
Also I never really made friends so there’s that…
As a kid I was often at home… stranger danger and all that you know… didnt really play outside by myself often always with parents… like from birth to 12 I was mostly just either at home or school… never played outside ALONE… so I never even though of going alone (I mean how terrifying would it be if I was a teen going alone…)
I think I just have anxiety in general… like I fear like, oh what if look awkward especially being a first timer… or like its dark and I trip and fall and I look silly and then feel sad… Or drop something and cant find it… like oh shit I’m supposed to be happy watching a movie… what can go wrong now?
You’re crushing it dude. Congrats on your first theatre movie, they can be incredibly fun. Happy for you.
I used to feel this way, then I realized most people won’t ever notice me or care, which was liberating.
Maybe the dude doesn’t like being surrounded by endless strangers for hours at a time who are up to god knows what with no breaks.
Meanwhile being unable to relax, hear the dialogue or being able to pause the thing. Can’t turn on subtitles or even take a puff without hiding it.
Cant tell a joke to your friend without wondering if you whispered too loud or not, and whether the drones will descend upon ye, or wondering when the drones will descend on the professional brainrot consumers in the back of the theatre laughing the whole way.
They probably spent the whole time wondering about timing toilet visits and whether they can really afford the snacks or not.
Thats why watching movies at home is so superior. None of those are issues, throw the movie on the monitor and veg out on the couch in private, dont need to be self conscious, wonder if your make up is okay or if you’ve gotten too sweaty and instead be consumed by the movie, actually immersed, puffing away freely, pausing whenever, and subtitles on the entire way with maybe an audio compressor plugin and the audio level cranked down to be comfortable while keeping dialogue audible.
it’s why movie theatres are going the way of the dodo. Shit is just too uncomfortable compared to watching it at home.
Most people don’t like being surrounded by endless strangers 24/7, they dont want to live in ze alley with le european al dente bug eating pod style, they want to be as far away from others as they can manage without losing the conveniences of civilization and for all social needs we have the internet which is much less echochamber-y than whatever yokels end up locals.