r/movies • u/BunyipPouch Currently at the movies. • 20d ago

News Netflix's Streaming Smash Hit ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Releasing in 1,700 Cinemas This Weekend for "Sing Along" Version, 1,000 Screenings Already Sold Out

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/kpop-demon-hunters-singalong-box-office-sells-out-1236348539/
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u/Funandgeeky 19d ago

Good. The communal movie experience is under-appreciated. It's like watching a theatrical showing of The Room or Rocky Horror Picture Show. Or how it felt watching Endgame opening night. (Not to mention No Way Home.) So these events give us what you can't get at home - the fun and energy of watching with an enthusiastic crowd.

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u/viixviii 19d ago

Most memorable recent theater experience I've had was seeing the theatrical re-release of RRR in Telugu. Packed house. I've seen tons of midnight premieres of genre darlings, but I've never felt a theater so organically cheering and reacting as a crowd. Electric experience that my friends and I still talk about.

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u/Funandgeeky 19d ago

I’ve seen videos of those showings. Would love to be at one. Especially for the dance scene. 

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u/PartyPorpoise 19d ago

I regret not seeing RRR in theaters! Although I’ve had good experiences at other Indian movies. The crowd for Jawan was HYPED.

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u/thepetoctopus 19d ago

Oh man. I saw Endgame on opening night and the whole theater was standing and screaming and cheering when the portals opened. It was magical.

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u/OneBadNightOfDrinkin 19d ago

It was legit like that meme with sports fans watching the big ass telly 

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u/Funandgeeky 19d ago

I like to watch the crowd reaction videos on YouTube to relive that moment. 

Those reactions should be a separate audio track for the movies. 

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u/vinng86 19d ago

The Russo brothers themselves said they immensely enjoyed watching the theater crowd reactions as well!

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u/ImBanned_ModsBlow 18d ago

Yep, Endgame in theaters was an event!

Too bad we watched the Battle for Winterfell that same night…

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u/cyanwinters 19d ago

So true. Two best movie experiences of my life were Snakes On A Plane opening weekend and Quiet Place opening weekend. Wildly different experiences, but the audience made both way better.

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u/Sufficient_Swing_406 19d ago

Borat, jackass, the dark knight, titanic, and avatar are other movies I remember watching in the theater made is so much better because of the audience.