Bad behavior at ‘Barbenheimer’ reflects a worrying trend

I don't know, I saw it in Paris over the weekend (separately) and everyone was remarkably well behaved. Maybe a North American thing...

Kids these days.

Meanwhile in the 70s:

> [The Rocky Horror Picture Show] soon became a hit as a midnight movie, when audiences began participating with the film at the Waverly Theater in New York City in 1976. Audience members returned to the cinemas frequently and talked back to the screen and began dressing as the characters, spawning similar performance groups across the United States. At almost the same time, fans in costume at the King's Court Theater in Pittsburgh began performing alongside the film. This "shadow cast" mimed the actions on screen above and behind them, while lip-synching their character's lines.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rocky_Horror_Picture_Sho...

There are a couple of worrying trends, but the one that comes to mind first, is how much of that I don't have to deal with when I watch the show at my friends house with their projector seating setup. We can do all of the rude loud things that wouldn't be okay in public, and pause the movie and rewind and change the subtitles. I go out to see the movie with the crowd. There's a theater near me that does sing-a-longs for old movies that's really fun.

"At a “Barbie” showing at an AMC theater in Washington on Sunday, a man wearing a pink tank top and body glitter loudly identified with the Kens onscreen. Throughout the film — and despite multiple shushes — he would cheer, sing or stand up and pump his fist from his front-section seat whenever the Kens rallied against the Barbies."

Watching this was probably more entertaining than the Barbie movie itself...

But, people probably paid $50 to be there...