My coworker told me I watch bad movies wrong and now I can't stop thinking about it

I was on break last week and mentioned I was looking forward to Friday night because my friend picked out The Room for our group to watch. This younger guy I work with, maybe 25, looked at me and said "you're watching it wrong if you're just watching it at home. You need to do it in a theater with props and people yelling." At first I thought he was being snobby, but then he explained how he goes to these midnight showings where everyone throws spoons and yells lines. I've been doing bad movie night for maybe 10 years now, just me and a few friends on the couch with pizza. His thing sounds like a completely different experience. Has anyone else gone from a home setup to a theater event? Does the crowd energy really change how you see the movie?

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west.alice21d ago

Crowd energy is a whole different beast, man. It turns a bad movie into a live sport.

johns1820d ago

Does anyone else find themselves actually rooting for the cheese to get worse just to hear the crowd roar, @west.alice?