Great anecdotes. Who you're with definitely affects what you feel during a movie - I will feel grief watching movies with my girlfriend I would never get emotional over if I watched on my own - especially at the cinema when there are other females also vibing it out! I'll never forget watching Mulholland Drive at one of those small arty specialised cinemas in Brighton called the Duke of York. The fact that the crowd was made up of "art connoisseurs" I guess you could say made the movie much more incredibly magical and spell binding than it would have been at a normal cinema watching it with "normies". My most "extreme" cinema experience could have been District 9 - I hated the first 45 minutes or so - I was so nauseated and disgusted by the aliens I spent 15- minutes or more right on the verge of walking out and asking for my money back. Somehow in the second half of the movie I suddenly realised I was in complete rapport and had so much affinity for the aliens which I was very impressed by the way I had been manipulated from one extreme to another!
You have to be careful who you watch movies with. My cousin tried to introduce his Chinese businesswoman wife to the original Star Wars movies and actually felt just as bored as she did when watching!
Another crazy experience I had at the cinema was in South Africa watching the oscar winning Totsi movie. The movie was about a poor black South African youth getting sucked into al life of crime. Anyway about half the audience was black and the other half white - there was some humor in the film but the crazy thing was the whites would all laugh at stuff the blacks didn't respond to at all and vice versa! I remember seeing the blacks laughing at stuff none of the whites laughed at and I could not understand why that was funny!
Fascinating these culture differences. Like in China, when people take their little kids along to grown up movies and of course the kids get bored and start running around. But at least there's never any knobheads in the cinema. China doesn't seem to produce them at all. If you encounter a gang of drunk Chinese lads the worst thing that can happen is they wil offer you a cigarette!
Great anecdotes. Who you're with definitely affects what you feel during a movie - I will feel grief watching movies with my girlfriend I would never get emotional over if I watched on my own - especially at the cinema when there are other females also vibing it out! I'll never forget watching Mulholland Drive at one of those small arty specialised cinemas in Brighton called the Duke of York. The fact that the crowd was made up of "art connoisseurs" I guess you could say made the movie much more incredibly magical and spell binding than it would have been at a normal cinema watching it with "normies".
My most "extreme" cinema experience could have been District 9 - I hated the first 45 minutes or so - I was so nauseated and disgusted by the aliens I spent 15- minutes or more right on the verge of walking out and asking for my money back. Somehow in the second half of the movie I suddenly realised I was in complete rapport and had so much affinity for the aliens which I was very impressed by the way I had been manipulated from one extreme to another!
You have to be careful who you watch movies with. My cousin tried to introduce his Chinese businesswoman wife to the original Star Wars movies and actually felt just as bored as she did when watching!
Some funny stories there.
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Another crazy experience I had at the cinema was in South Africa watching the oscar winning Totsi movie. The movie was about a poor black South African youth getting sucked into al life of crime. Anyway about half the audience was black and the other half white - there was some humor in the film but the crazy thing was the whites would all laugh at stuff the blacks didn't respond to at all and vice versa! I remember seeing the blacks laughing at stuff none of the whites laughed at and I could not understand why that was funny!
Fascinating these culture differences. Like in China, when people take their little kids along to grown up movies and of course the kids get bored and start running around. But at least there's never any knobheads in the cinema. China doesn't seem to produce them at all. If you encounter a gang of drunk Chinese lads the worst thing that can happen is they wil offer you a cigarette!