“Martin Scorsese no longer watches films in cinemas due to audience bad behaviour” - has your theatregoing been affected in the same way?- Page 2

[veronicamae]

Posted: 9/8/25 at 10:08pm

I have AMC A-List and see 3-4 movies a month on average. Since you can see how many tickets are reserved for any screening, I do lean toward the less-popular showtimes - usually matinees - to mitigate the chances by having fewer people present.

And in re: Broadway - no, "bad audience behavior" doesn't discourage me from attending.

[Cape Twirl of Doom]

Posted: 9/8/25 at 10:19pm

BorisTomashevsky said: "dadaguza said: "This thread has prompted me to ask - was Hamilton in theaters really supposed to be a sing-along?

Because a large corner of TikTok seems to think so, and some are actually creating an uproar if they're told not to sing during the movie, others griping that their theater was "too quiet" and they walked out."

I saw an audience-filmed clip from the United Palace screening which had lyrics on the screen along the lower edge, and the audience was really singing.

I suppose if a screening is labeled as a singalong and there are lyrics being shown, people can sing if they want to."

The United Palace showing was a singalong and was promoted as such. Regular movie showings are not.

[TweetyPie2]

Posted: 9/8/25 at 10:24pm

dadaguza said: "This thread has prompted me to ask - was Hamilton in theaters really supposed to be a sing-along?

Because a large corner of TikTok seems to think so, and some are actually creating an uproar if they're told not to sing during the movie, others griping that their theater was "too quiet" and they walked out."

Ugh. I was thinking about going to see this tomorrow, but now I guess I won’t.

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 9/8/25 at 10:31pm

This is 2025, we wait for it to go to streaming, watch it in the comfort of our own homes on our big @ss 4K monitors and don’t have to deal with the obnoxiousness 

I am unbothered.

Have at each other..

Updated On: 9/8/25 at 10:31 PM

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 9/8/25 at 10:38pm

The AMC Times Square has a problem with people "holding court" in the theatre all day. I don't know if they buy tickets or sneak in due to the elevators and Dave & Busters. But you get a lot of teens, and a lot of homeless people (many of whom enter mid-show and walk in front of the screen), and very few of them are actually there to watch the movie.

I don't want a private screening when I go to the theater! I enjoy the communal element of it (as long as folks are behaving) and a controlled environment as much as I like the big-screen element.

[RainbowMerman]

Posted: 9/9/25 at 12:05am

I had no idea that was happening in there. That’s so sad, for all these people lining up to buy the Ed Sullivan or the Martin beck, why don’t they just buy the empire theater and restore it back to a Broadway house?

[rosscoe(au)]

Posted: 9/9/25 at 9:32am

I have just suffered through MJ The Musical in Melbourne Australia, where people shrieked and hollered non stop at every dance move, sung along, and screamed at every note they thought they knew. Unbearable.