Red Mosquito

It depends on the show for me. Most of the time I'd rather everyone be up and moving and dancing, but respectful. Most of my favorite shows have managed that.

But when I saw Jeff Mangum, I was thrilled that people were sitting. I just felt right.

Kevin Davis wrote:I would be delighted if everyone at every concert I attended just sat down and shut the hell up.

EVERY concert you attend?

I'm not going to go ballistic and scream my lungs out seeing an intimate performance by a quiet singer-songwriter or a string quartet, but there's something thrilling about the audience losing its shit at a rock concert or any high-energy show. I'd be pretty bummed to go to a rock show where the audience was flat and unresponsive. Thankfully that never really happens where I live.

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Birds in Hell wrote:

@SkitchP wrote:Pissing in a cup and leaving it under your seat.

People do this? Grown adults?

http://archive.theskyiscrape.com/viewto ... e0c6810d34

Man, that brings me back.

theplatypus wrote:

Kevin Davis wrote:I would be delighted if everyone at every concert I attended just sat down and shut the hell up.

EVERY concert you attend?

I'm not going to go ballistic and scream my lungs seeing an intimate performance by a quiet singer-songwriter or a string quartet, but there's something thrilling about the audience losing its shit at a rock concert or any high-energy show. I'd be pretty bummed to go to a rock show where the audience was flat and unresponsive. Thankfully that never really happens where I live.

Hey, remember that time you mentioned people sung, played guitar and were generally merry throughout a screening of a Ramones documentary?

That still sounds incredibly annoying.

You're old and boring spenno.

I wouldn't disagree.

(Though I felt the same way when I was young, too.)

I can barely stand it when people clap at the end of a movie.

surface the north wrote:I can barely stand it when people clap at the end of a movie.

That bothers me so much more than it should.

Uh.

Birds in Hell wrote:People do this? Grown adults?

cutuphalfdead wrote:

surface the north wrote:I can barely stand it when people clap at the end of a movie.

That bothers me so much more than it should.

You know that scene in Seinfeld when Kramer is running from the hood on the subway after winning a lot of money at the OTB kiosk and the undercover cop posing as a beggar stops the robbery just in time? And then instead of a laugh track there is an applause? I cringe every time that happens.

cutuphalfdead wrote:

surface the north wrote:I can barely stand it when people clap at the end of a movie.

That bothers me so much more than it should.

My girlfriend knows I hate this, so she makes sure to do it every time we go to the movies.

I've never once seen that happen in a movie.

How odd. Do those people clap at the end of TV shows they like too?

I doubt they do. The clapping tends to be a communal thing, and it often happens on the premiere night of "uplifting" movies like The Blind Side.

i think i was blissfully unaware of many of these problems until they were pointed out to me. now most of them drive me nuts.

I only do it in film festivals or premieres when the director or cast are in attendance, but I've seen it happen outside of that. It's silly, but I kinda get it. It's like a base herd mentality shared-experience blast of enthusiasm, not unlike cheering while watching a sports game at a bar. It's not just because they like what they see, but because they all liked it together. Or something.

Birds in Hell wrote:I've never once seen that happen in a movie.

Americuh, brah.

Nah. Happens all over.

theplatypus wrote:I only do it in film festivals or premieres when the director or cast are in attendance, but I've seen it happen outside of that. It's silly, but I kinda get it. It's like a base herd mentality shared-experience blast of enthusiasm, not unlike cheering while watching a sports game at a bar. It's not just because they like what they see, but because they all liked it together. Or something.

When you put it that way, I suppose it is preferable to an audience full of lonely solipsists silently but luminously tweeting throughout the feature.

surface the north wrote:

theplatypus wrote:I only do it in film festivals or premieres when the director or cast are in attendance, but I've seen it happen outside of that. It's silly, but I kinda get it. It's like a base herd mentality shared-experience blast of enthusiasm, not unlike cheering while watching a sports game at a bar. It's not just because they like what they see, but because they all liked it together. Or something.

When you put it that way, I suppose it is preferable to an audience full of lonely solipsists silently but luminously tweeting throughout the feature.

Oh, I'll take the latter. At least they'd be (more or less) silent.

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