Critic screenings I’m attending keep ending in trash all over the floor and seats. I’m going to make it my presidential platform that if you’re invited to a free screening with free concessions as a critic and you do this, a teenage usher gets to beat the shit out of you. - ThreadSky

brndnstrssng.bsky.social • 214 days ago

Critic screenings I’m attending keep ending in trash all over the floor and seats.

I’m going to make it my presidential platform that if you’re invited to a free screening with free concessions as a critic and you do this, a teenage usher gets to beat the shit out of you.

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bleeker.bsky.social•214 days ago

what's sad is this is the culture of MOST movie goers these days and it's insane already in that regard. but, CRITICS?

plotloser.bsky.social•214 days ago

They probably believe they’re cultured people.

busterbutts.bsky.social•214 days ago

I too support letting service workers redefine the Punch Card

samasherwriter.bsky.social•121 days ago

Me and my daughter have been going to the movies every month she was two and a half, and she's literally never been this messy. Good lord.

johnbruno.bsky.social•214 days ago

You have my vote, sir.

bcwallin.com•214 days ago

A few years ago, Twitter had discourse about whether people should clean up after themselves in a movie theater — the vibes were rancid

jpstafford.bsky.social•214 days ago

The fact that even one person in the world thinks they shouldn't tidy up after themselves is depressing.

pauleyezonme.bsky.social•214 days ago

Name and shame em. If they do that in a cinema, imagine what their house is like.

lavendergirl27.bsky.social•213 days ago

i feel like dropping some popcorn on the floor is expected in a dark theatre, but leaving GARBAGE is unconscionable. and pick up the fuckin popcorn while you're down there for the garbage, anyway.

thebabalisk.bsky.social•214 days ago

We can fund it by selling tickets to the ass beating. 100% self funded on day one.

rogue728.bsky.social•214 days ago

This

ifledtwitter.bsky.social•214 days ago

Used to work in a theater and I always marveled (no pun intended) at how thoughtless people were when they left the theater. They wouldn’t make that kind of mess at home, and certainly wouldn’t appreciate it if guests strewed garbage everywhere then left it for the hosts to clean up…

hucktothefuture.bsky.social•214 days ago

I worked in a cinema for 2 years, people are gross. It's good to see someone who attends these screenings saying this. Some critics can be pretty entitled, so it is good to see the responsible ones speaking up about respecting the screens.

djeisyn.bsky.social•214 days ago

Art critics aren’t people tho

trashwire.bsky.social•214 days ago

So weird. I’ve noticed this same thing happening more at press screenings I attend. At a press/promo one, I saw a drunk guy intentionally kick over his large popcorn and send it scattering across half the row. What is happening?

lovehorrorqueen.bsky.social•214 days ago

It never fails. Especially the more larger films- like who raised y’all?!

gtsjazz.bsky.social•214 days ago

Omg that’s so triflin! They don’t have an ounce of home training

lovehorrorqueen.bsky.social•214 days ago

NONE

lucasjay8.bsky.social•213 days ago

I'll allow it, but I also think instead of compulsory military service everyone should have to work 6 months of a customer service Jon as training to not be an asshole.

lagzlot.bsky.social•214 days ago

That's maybe a 2/10 on the theater dirt meter. Most of the trash is still on the ground, and the seats haven't been painted in condiments. The real "impressive" stuff is candy stuffed between the cushions or remnants of produce thrown behind the back row like a cartoon primate.

derglitzkrieg.bsky.social•213 days ago

I used to work at a theater and people did so much disrespectful shit. Accidents happen sometimes (dropped drinks, spilled popcorn) but this ain't one. Just throw away your garbage like an adult.

anglianrose.bsky.social•213 days ago

I'll hold them while they hit them. I go to a very respectable niche cinema in an upmarket town nr me, and I'm appalled at how the cinema is left. It's mainly volunteers who run it, no one should have to clear up other people's crap

cory-langley.bsky.social•214 days ago

I've always read most critics reviews as if they act like this anyways. Thanks for a bit of confirmation lol

kingsigy.bsky.social•214 days ago

I've only been to one screening that had concessions, so I haven't experienced this too much. I don't know why you would leave the theater an absolute mess. Then again, people at the gym can't put their fucking weights back despite being adults, so I guess this tracks.

derglitzkrieg.bsky.social•213 days ago

Can't put their weights back and leave sweaty ass prints on the machines. Same fundamental lack of respect for other people in these situations.

msjennimiller.bsky.social•214 days ago

I bet it was Sandy Kenyon.

dorkland.itch.io•214 days ago

I worked at a movie theater for a couple of years. Critic screenings were always the worst. Loved the critics who tried to get their families into them.

seymourcup.bsky.social•214 days ago

Critics get free concessions at screenings?

samloomis13.bsky.social•214 days ago

That’s ridiculous.

sanslabyrinth.bsky.social•214 days ago

Working in a service or retail job should be a prerequisite for any "professional" job.

crusherjoehtx.bsky.social•213 days ago

This former teenage usher applauds you and supports your platform.

lisalueylutes.bsky.social•214 days ago

This looks like the floor of my first grade classroom at the end of the school day.

samdonnelley.bsky.social•214 days ago

As a former teenage usher in the LA area...

therealfreddied.bsky.social•214 days ago

I would extend this to critics that talk during the film too.

holankarel.bsky.social•214 days ago

Thank god for art cinemas.

digitalhit.com•214 days ago

💯, leaving a mess is terrible behaviour, but on a side note, I wish we had free concessions at press screenings in Toronto.

hitchdied.bsky.social•214 days ago

I am also a "regional critic" jagoff who thought "excuse me... FREE concessions????" (Anyway clean up after yourselves, people!)

kikibaird.bsky.social•213 days ago

It's nearly impossible to eat popcorn in a stadium seat without spilling a little bit on the floor. But for the paper and garbage there is no excuse.

black-materia.bsky.social•214 days ago

Alright Relax Brandon, first of all this was me who did this, second of all I was in a big hurry and it was a boring film and I don't think I did anything wrong. There. I said it.

justmelodie.bsky.social•213 days ago

Free concessions?? I always paid. Journalists aren’t supposed to take free stuff on the job — at least that’s what I assumed. And no one ever told me otherwise. 🤷🏽‍♀️

brndnstrssng.bsky.social•214 days ago

I think if you’re given free access to something, the absolute least you can do is show some respect to the people facilitating it.

How are you gonna Log On to talk about mise en scene when you eat like a damn toddler

brndnstrssng.bsky.social•214 days ago

I’m always gonna lean on my decade as a janitor. The people who clean up after you are so routinely shit on and I just find this behavior, from critics of all people, repulsive

tomquixote.bsky.social•214 days ago

Can't wait for this "John Wick" of theater policies, and the critics better watch out because those ushers are armed with brooms

flickmythrob.bsky.social•214 days ago

I'm not trying to defend the behavior, but are actual critics doing this or the promo winners? I've come to expect it from the latter, which is almost always a group of people that don't care about movies or behaving or cleaning up

brndnstrssng.bsky.social•214 days ago

The screenings are explicitly press and media screenings

flickmythrob.bsky.social•214 days ago

That's pretty embarrassing then. I encourage you to take pictures and start shaming them on here

jmrivera.bsky.social•214 days ago

A writer proudly posted years ago about throwing their garbage on the floor because it’s all getting swept anyway and I’m still holding that against them

kathiawoods.bsky.social•213 days ago

All do respect most critics screenings outside of LA/NY aren’t just critics. They are contest winners and influencers. I wish it was just us.

brndnstrssng.bsky.social•214 days ago

Choosing to believe the “this isn’t THAT bad” replies are just defensive because they eat like children. I’m sorry but my line in the sand is that your food and napkins shouldn’t be on the floor. I guess I’m a little different

helluvabttmcrtr.bsky.social•214 days ago

You're 100% spot on with all of this but my only tiny pushback would be that in a dark theater it's basically impossible not to spill any of your popcorn, and the only effective way to get that up is with some kind of sweeper. Wrappers, drinks, and candy and stuff though, yeah, straight to jail.

justinwier.bsky.social•214 days ago

A few pieces of popcorn falling on the floor is one thing. When you’re throwing napkins on the ground, you clearly have no regard for those who have to clean up to you.

anglianrose.bsky.social•213 days ago

When my husband upended a box of maltesers I made him grovel under the seats at the end and pick them all up!

jakevk.bsky.social•214 days ago

Man, I worked as a movie theater usher and a waiter. I have zero patience for treating working people this way.

However, as a filmmaker and a creative, this confirms my priors about critics.

elazic.bsky.social•214 days ago

Brandon doing this for real https://youtu.be/A7FidruNZ_I?si=y4wlA_mKAJ0L79-v

thefilmmaestro.bsky.social•214 days ago

I ushered at my local AMC for a year a little over a decade ago and it’s baffling how people left screenings 😣

spacesweeper.bsky.social•214 days ago

Strewn popcorn, candies, wrappers, napkins, on the seat, on the ground... like, how do you develop into adulthood being like this? For a critic or any film love, a movie theater should be like a place of worship for you, not a gas station washroom

smdillon1975.bsky.social•213 days ago

The sad thing is you pass a bin on the way out of the cinema, throwing away an empty popcorn packet or drinks cup for example, really isn't a hardship

hallospaceboy.bsky.social•214 days ago

Thats rude and boorish behavior. Just clean up after yourself, its not hard. We seem to be cultivating a nation of overgrown children who seem to think the world is there to clean up after them.

mrasberry.bsky.social•214 days ago

Being a former movie theater employee this is just so disrespectful to me.

ketracelblack.bsky.social•214 days ago

The thing that always drove me up the wall was having to sweep up food we didn't sell. I've never hated fried rice and cereal more than I did as a (mall) movie theater employee

cypherial.bsky.social•213 days ago

same, I actively hated every single person who did this so much that even after I left my job at the theatre, I went out of my way to help the ushers clean up after the movie at every theatre I went to since

dkimmel.bsky.social•214 days ago

Free concessions? Where are YOUR press screenings?

jmoriarty84.bsky.social•214 days ago

They get to beat you with a Singapore cane

alexandarthur.bsky.social•213 days ago

Or paid screenings. You’re paying to watch a movie, not for a space to throw trash all over the floor.

But basically you have my vote.

oxnardmantalvo.bsky.social•214 days ago

Or at the very least gets to pour a large cup of pure cola syrup over your head.

beefygoblin.bsky.social•214 days ago

The last time I went to one of these was I believe the True Lies screening. It was indeed a mess. Free hats though

solzyatthemovies.com•214 days ago

I used to work at an usher way back in the day (being forced to dress up as Harry Potter led to my two weeks notice) but I always make sure to throw my trash in the garbage.

glitterninja.bsky.social•213 days ago

Just yesterday I was remembering years ago when I was a film writer that there was ✨Important Discourse✨ about how to behave in a movie theater, once because a lady had her phone on during the opening ads.

Now I'm wondering how many critics condemned her while they tossed their napkins on the floor

jamnpp.bsky.social•214 days ago

I'm often in awe of how poorly some fellow critics behave in professional settings - this is not your living-room, we're all here doing a job!

daddydisco.bsky.social•214 days ago

Was it strictly critics or influencers too? I’ve notice this more with the mixed screenings

l0u13.bsky.social•214 days ago

The scant few times I’ve gone to press screenings I remember watching a local critic dump a single bitten hot dog on the floor as they left and it was extra saucy too. The full works. They should’ve gone right to prison.

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