After reading your experiences I am happy I changed times. The manager informed me due to a defect with Fandango (yeah right) they sold too many tickets to the Thursday 11:59 showing and might have people standing. Didn’t want to do that so I switched it up and caught the 1:05 Friday. Still pretty packed but definitely a different crowd that for the most part remained quiet.
I was very surprised how empty the theater was. Less ban half full… and it’s a halfway decent size city
Went to see yesterday. Packed theatre but the 11 pm show was silent. I gotta say i dont like the cheese aspect of Laurie strode being the one looking at the daughter in the school. Or Laurie falling from the roof on the grass like the original. Then when they look she Is gone. I don’t like that seemed to much of a non serious joke movie.
What the actual fuck lol
Who takes their kids to Halloween? Seriously? People these days. I’m glad everyone’s theater seemed to figure things out for everyone. After I watched the movie (second movie I’ve seen on opening night, first show. Deadpool 2016 was first) I figured out that I enjoy cuddling up by a fire with my girlfriend and watching movies rather than surrounded by obnoxious strangers. So much more peaceful and romantic. Easier to pay attention too. Can’t wait for it to be released on DVD.
I mentioned I’d heard these stories from others who saw the original’s rescreenings to the guy sitting next to me, but ours was just filled with noisy old folks who laughed too much. Overall, I was able to ignore them and enjoyed watching my favorite film on the big screen for the first time.
Ditto
I haven’t seen the fucking movie yet. Can I read my own thread (which is about how I wasn’t able to watch the movie) without having things spoiled for me?
Thank you to everyone who commented. Way too much to respond to. Hate that this is such a widespread problem, but glad most of you had a good experience. Just 24 more hours!
This is why I never go to showings during the first few days unless it’s a matinee for a horror film (no one really watches horror movies in the early afternoon). Last time I did this was for The Strangers, and that crowd almost ruined the movie for me, and the kicker is that they were all around my age, but I was brought up with the decency to be respectful during a film. It wasn’t this bad during The Ring (a packed theater for a huge movie on opening weekend) nor H:20 back in '98 (the ending decapitation was really the only outburst moment), but crowds have gotten worse.
Thankfully anniversary showings of Halloween and The Exorcist among others have been good crowds.
I went to Alamo Draft House. They kick people out who are loud or play on their phones.
You just gotta find a fancy theater my brother.
As did I.
This is why the Alamo Drafthouse is the best thing that has ever happened to movie theatres
Pretty much. You got comfie seats, really good food for the price, nice single bathrooms, all the synergy merch with Mondo.
It’s a wet dream for movie nerds haha
There was not a soul under 18 in my showing and I’m pretty grateful for that.
I had a baby crying in my second viewing of the film… a fucking baby. I thought that shit was illegal, with the age rating and all, but no, they let the mother in with it, no issues at all. It must have cried like 4 times throughout the film, un-fucking-believable.
I love the Alamo Drafthouse! I did have a kinda odd experience there a couple weeks ago though. I went to a screening of the original Halloween and the final 10 minutes were a laugh riot. A ton of people were laughing at moments like Michael sitting up outside the closet. A little irritating, but not nearly as bad as what happened Thursday night at the new film.
Saw it this morning, everything went well! Very happy.
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After reading about the horrible experiences many people have had, I am grateful as well. Thankfully the audience at the first showing I went to was all older, with the youngest probably being around 25. There were 2 girls who sat directly behind me who talked a little bit in the opening scene but realized they were being obnoxious and stopped for the remainder of the film. I did enjoy seeing everybody laugh at certain parts of the film, just never understood why you would talk during a film. And I can understand the hype behind the film and wanting to see it as soon as possible, but I will never be able to justify bringing an infant or a toddler to a movie. Especially an R rated slasher movie!
Yeah, similar experience. My audience reacted appropriately at the appropriate times, and sometimes were downright quiet as the dead. A few times during the movie there were moments where a pin drop would have sounded like a gunshot.
What do you expect? I never go on opening weekends cuz people ruin movies. I wait until a random weekday.
At least this story has a happy ending.
Saw the movie on sunday at a early bird showing. I loved the movie. Still don’t know why people bring in new borns to movies like this.
ToddB