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[–] EfreetSK@lemmy.world 185 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Why waste time like this? Wouldn't it be better if cinemas would use vertical screens where a popular youtuber would describe the plot of the movie in like 30 seconds while talking at 2x speed?

[–] Quokka@quokk.au 68 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Or they could put subway surfers on the bottom half of the screen.

[–] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago

What is a subway surfer

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago

And you can pay extra for a chinese voice counting numbers as back noise.

[–] Luccus@feddit.org 39 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

*an AI describes part of a scene in a movie, badly.

And the title is something like “HE USES SUPERPOWERS TO SAVE HIS FRIEND #MOVIE #FILM #CINEMA #SHORTS”. Also, the name of the channel is any two word combination of: movie, cinema, star, summary, domain or reels. And each upload is either 15 to 25 minutes or a short and the channel uploads something every day.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

And the audience comments could scroll by on the side! Brilliant!

[–] istdaslol@feddit.org 143 points 6 days ago (1 children)

And also add a subway surfer with family guy funny Momentes for the ultimate goldfish experience

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 49 points 6 days ago (2 children)

And a live comment section. Or even synced commentary streams by YouTubers you can view on your phone via their Wi-Fi? You're paying to see the movie anyway, so they won't be limited by fair use.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

niconico-style comments that fly across the screen

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[–] RandomTester@lemmybefree.net 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I kinda want this (live comment section)

am I okay?

[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 99 points 6 days ago

Look, I am the type who watches lectures at 1.25x or 1.5x speed or something. But movies? It'd ruin the pacing. If you can't bring up the attention to watch a movie then maybe you just shouldn't

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 75 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Why waste time watching an entire movie when you can just read the spoilers and know what's it about in less than 5 minutes?

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago

Absolutely not me watching cinemasins as a substitute to watching the whole movie.

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 23 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I hate watching anything faster than normal. I want bad things to happen to this person.

[–] biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

do you want bad things to happen to OOP at 1.5x speed?

[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 10 points 5 days ago

No, more like 0.5x speed so we can savour it

[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 7 points 5 days ago
[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

this user, right here, what?

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[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

How much crap are you watching if you have to speed it up to get through it all?

[–] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

The dopamine must flow!

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 35 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Theaters and opera, too. I'm sure the actors will be willing to get their shifts cut by 20-50 % if we help them negotiate the same pay per performance.

[–] ExploitedAmerican@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago

Omfg most musical thester people can barely play anything with 16th notes past 120bpm this will not end well lol

[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago

this person needs to beblocked into the Clockwork Orange device

[–] Soapbox@lemmy.zip 8 points 5 days ago

I can kind of understand the people who speed up audiobooks and podcasts. But movies? That's nuts. |

I wonder if OP was alive during the VCR era. I bet they would have loved the FF button. AKA chipmunk mode.

[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The industrial revolution and it's consequences....

[–] Tiger666@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

What is this the 19th century?

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 20 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Does this person not pay for their ticket? It costs 15$ for a ticket at our theater. Why would I want to waste that money by having it sped up? It's hard enough finding movies that are worth watching in the first place.

[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago

The theater here does a half price deal on Tuesdays, two of us can go for like $12.95, it's a great deal.

Might be worth checking in your area, I've seen a lot more mediocre movies after we started going on Tuesday.

[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I... what? I'm suddenly very happy for David Lynch, that he didn't live long enough to see this catch on...

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago (2 children)

It hasn't...caught on? People have just stopped going to movies as much, and I don't think 4 concurrent showings of the new Jurassic Park movie at speeds 1x thru 2x are saving them.

[–] breecher@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

Plenty of replies in this thread suggests it has indeed caught on. The part where people are watching movies at higher speeds that is, not cinemas showing them at that speed.

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[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 19 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] Quokka@quokk.au 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

YouTube added customisable speeds recently!

I find 1.4 to be enjoyable, but 2x if I need to get through something dense.

[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 6 points 6 days ago

I usually watch anime on 2x, but I struggle with other media at that speed, probably cause I can read faster than listen to words in english lol. I do watch videos in my native language faster on the rare occasions I do watch any

[–] rollerbang@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

For obvious reasons this will never happen. That being said, I do the same with most content. When YouTube I use from 1.25 as an absolute minimum to 2.0 a lot of the time. Average being 1.5. For movies/series I tend to opt for 1.25-1.33.

But this all fails when any music is involved - then I dial it down to 1.0.

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