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Originally Posted by justafriend306
I find my senses are numb when I re-enter the real world - sound and sight in particular. I don't like the feeling at all.
I have another problem with movie theatres. I get very riled up because of my anxiety about other viewers' poor ettiquette. Everytime I see a cell phone light up I get very angry; and, once a person's has gone off once I spend the entire film convinced it will go off again. I am like that with people who talk through the movies, children not sitting down, etc. The worse for me is people who leave their seats interrupting me in my own (if you had no effing intention of staying in your seat why would you choose the middle?). Anyway, the movie theatre is a major source of irritability and anxiety for me.
How does this relate to being out-of-it following the film? I am just so wound up like a top that the sudden release and wave of the uptight emotion seems to only compound the sense that everything isn't quite real.
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As I wrote, I've not been to a film in a theater in just over 12 years now. I can imagine that the cell phone misuse has increased during those years... I wouldn't be able to stand even a cell phone light going off. I only got a 'real' smartphone last year. I'm not at a point in my life of needing to feel available at every moment.
I've enjoyed the video revolution with 'home theater' A/V setups, large screen televisions, etc. but I really feel nostalgic for viewing movies in theatres. I've had a few problems with people bringing children into the theater to watch movies that weren't meant for, and were totally inappropriate for, children. When I have complained to management I've usually received 2-for-1 tickets for another viewing because they don't want to say anything to the parents.
I don't remember the middle-of-the-aisle people being a big problem, but I agree with your sentiment; don't chose a middle seat if you've a weak bladder, for instance.
I don't know much about media marketing these days. When I was a kid a film was released, played a week or so at the local theater and then made way for another film. If it was a hit, it was sure to be licensed by one of the three networks. Even if it wasn't a hit. I think that I got my first RCA VHS recorder in 1977? I know that I was in college. I bought it to record the network showing of
Nashville.
The time has flown by.