The theater owners also do not have to clean up after.
Comment on The Director of ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is OK with Chaos During Screenings: ‘People Are Making Memories’
neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days agoThis Minecraft business is fine. It’s no different than any afternoon kids movie matinee (ie: Paw Patrol; something that only kids are interested in). The mess that ends up on the floor is sold at a 99% profit margin and anyone who understands the finances of running a theater gives zero fucks about that product getting wasted. I can’t imagine any upset patron getting stiffed on a free screening to compensate for it, either.
At this stage, theater owners are hungry for literally anything that sells tickets and puts butts in seats. Fuck it; let the kids have fun at the movies.
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 5 days ago
Emmie@lemm.ee 5 days ago
Who cares about it in this context? Is film maker supposed to think about some random Joe cleaning the popcorn after screening and optimise his movie for least popcorn spillage??
stray@pawb.social 5 days ago
I’m sure the understaffed folks making minimum wage really appreciate all the extra income this film is bringing their overlords.
wokehobbit@lemm.ee 2 hours ago
Oh boo hoo! You have to work like everyone else. Fucking shut up and go to work.
neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
I wrote that as a former movie theater usher. I literally did that job. You regularly clean up giant messes. Kids matinees were always the messiest. That is the job. When you aren’t cleaning auditoriums, you’re cleaning toilets, the lobby, polishing the brass on the stanchions, etc. There’s literally no idle time being stolen by this work.
It’s fine.
wokehobbit@lemm.ee 2 hours ago
RIGHT?!? I worked the theater back in high school. I still have flashbacks from the first Pokemon movie. Literal sea of kids in the lobby. This Minecraft nonsense is nothing.
Emmie@lemm.ee 5 days ago
Who cares about it in this context? Is film maker supposed to think about some random Joe cleaning the popcorn after screening and optimise his movie for least popcorn spillage??
stray@pawb.social 5 days ago
No one asked him to change the movie or to anticipate audience reaction beforehand. I just think he’s a moron for endorsing rude (and occasionally dangerous) behavior. (Possibly also for making a terrible film; haven’t seen it.)
Emmie@lemm.ee 5 days ago
It’s not his job to care about this. He is there for making the certain experience. Whether people cleaning get paid adequately is not his job to take into account
endeavor@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
If nobody wants to work at a theatre and its hard to hire, that is the prime time to ask for a raise tho
stray@pawb.social 5 days ago
I don’t know that it’s hard to hire. You can’t just not have income under capitalism, and you don’t have a lot of choice as a worker when pretty much everywhere is offering the worst conditions they can get away with. They’re more likely to replace you than give you a raise.