A friend of mine saw it in a micro-cinema, about 25 seats, and lamented that the one part of his experience that was a little sour was his desire to laugh, stifled by the fact no one else was laughing.

During the 2nd act, when Pattinson turns to drink and the drama cedes to comedy for a moment, I was relieved that I could laugh at his Poseidon's curse or the splatter of shit on his face once I heard the majority of people behind me (I was 4th row in a larger cinema) laughing out loud. I felt like I was in a room of people that immediately got this movie, and it was cathartic/communal. And gnashing of popcorn? That's always been movie-going, it's a bummer home theater systems have led people to not be able to block that out.


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