Why do movie theaters have braille?

If the movie has a great soundtrack:)

A blind person is not deaf ( usually) so why wouldn’t they be.

Are they just supposed to sit at home twiddling their thumbs.

They have just as much right and desire to go out with someone for a night at the movies as anyone else.

A lot of going to movies rather than watching DVDs at home is for a social shared experience with others. Why should blind people be deprived of that?

Because they’re not deaf. It’s not that much different from a radio play, you’d be amazed how much a blind person can ‘see’ by using their ears. Now what I want to know is: Do they get a discount?

They don’t need their eyes to watch the movie , they listen (=

In fact they are better listeners than most of us !

Their seeing dog can explain what’s going on for them

Why wouldn’t they go to a movie? They can still hear what’s going on.

Never mind.

But movies are movies because of the VISUALS. Otherwise they’d still be radio plays.

I’ve never even heard of braille being available at movie theaters.

@sliceswiththings and that’s a problem…why? We all have the right to our opinion, whether they are the same or not.

I only let my sightless companion go if there are subtitles, so I don’t have to do all that pain-in-the ass narrating. The rest of the time I make her stay home and make brooms to sell so I can afford to bet on the ponies.

@pdworkin Don’t you mean aren’t subtitles, or does the theater provide you with a braille book for the subtitles? that would be very cool, but costly

@pdworkin I’m sure your sightless companion really appreciates subtitles:)

@sliceswiththings I suggest you read other answers before writing your own :p

You’re simply faster to hit enter, is all:) You weren’t even typing when I started!

The Braille says “if you can read this, get the hell out of here.”

@pdworkin How do subtitles help someone who can’t see?

@Sarcasm, I think it was a joke. The one thing that has braille on it that really gets me is the drive up only ATM. WTF?

Well @Sarcasm, I’ll give you one guess…

The following is the “Drive Up ATM” canned answer by Acme Blind-o-matic, Inc™: Why would they make 2 kinds of ATMS? It is more cost effective to make the ADA-required type, and just install them everywhere, even where they are clearly not needed.

@pdworkin nice. But it looks so damned funny and gives a great mental image. I’m sorry, does that sound bad?

It’s fine, it’s just when you are blind, or you are the relative (or in my case, the fiance) of a blind person, you get asked these questions 64 times a week.

I gotcha, that is great to know.

Hey, I understand. There are only about 300,000 blind people in the whole country, and they tend to make us feel a little uncomfortable (hint: it isn’t contagious) so one is curious. I prefer straightforward people who just straight-out ask, and so does my girlfriend.

Yea, straightforward people are better to deal with, I agree.

Asking why a blind person would go to the movies is as silly as asking why a blind person would do anything else in life. Like get up in the morning, go to work, hang out with their friends, etc. So they don’t get the visual component of it. So what? They don’t get the visual component of anything else in life either.

I worked in a theater and plenty of blind people came to the movies usually with a dog or a companion, so that’s how I knew I never thought anything weird of it…doesn’t everyone enjoy going out to a movie?

Because blind people are not deaf. Period. End of subject.

Thanks @MrItty. My girlfriend and I both think you nailed it. GA.

@MrItty Refer to my first post.
Movies are about the visual.
To me, a blind person going to the movies is like a paraplegic playing football. There are plenty of other things to do in life that fit your capabilities.

@Sarcasm To me that sounds reductive and bigoted. It reminds me of the sort of thing one used to hear about Black people, such as that they couldn’t swim. You need an education on this subject, because you are very, very far off base. Re-read what you just said from the point of view of someone who likes popular culture, but must interpret through hearing rather than vision. Should they never near the voices of the Harry Potter characters?

@Sarcasm I read your first post. It was wrong when you posted it, and it remains wrong. Movies are not about the visual. Like every other story telling medium in the world, they are about the story. The visual is one component of the story, just as the visual is one component of everything else in life. Blind people do not get that component in any other aspect of life, and so they have no reason to “miss” it in a movie.

The fact that blind people do, in fact, go to the movies, proves this point. The fact that you think they shouldn’t shows that you clearly have no idea what you’re talking about.

@MrItty Actually, it is helpful for a blind person to have a narrator to explain when there is a flashback, or a scene suddenly changes, or there is a sound connected with a special effect that is strictly visual, but there is indeed much for my girlfriend to enjoy at the movie theater. (She finds it useful if I help narrate some of the visuals on TV, too, but she watches plenty of TV without me being there to provide context.)

Double fail, @Sarcasm! You don’t get movies or blindness.

Wow, Sarcasm
Today is definitely not your day

For the record, my wife is deaf, and loves going to the movies.
And think about the great dialog in some movies, like Inglourious Bastards.
It’s not all visual.

@filmfann Do theatres you go to have any kind of reflective captioning, or does your wife read lips, or something else?

We have gone to such theaters, but there are none like that in the area I live.
Sometimes we go to foreign (hence, captioned) films. Usually, she reads lips, and figures it out from visual clues. Often, I need to fill her in on details.
I wish the theaters had some kind of synopsis. I usually get one on the computer and show it to my wife before we go.
She loves Bruce Willis movies, and hates Woody Allen. Action vs. Verbal Comedy.

I did not find anything “great” about the dialogue in Inglourious Basterds. It’s just the same as in every Tarantino movie. Still a step up from “Death Proof” though

”...is like a paraplegic playing football”

But if the paraplegic really enjoys playing football, why shouldn’t he/she play football? I must admit I have watched some wonderful games of wheelchair basketball (I’m not much of a fan of football). If a blind or deaf person enjoys going to movies, what is the problem? They buy a ticket just like everyone else.

I have to agree with @filmfann on Inglorious Basterds. The dialogue was fantastic. I also enjoyed the dialogue in any Kevin Smith film I’ve seen. Of course, I haven’t seen Jersey Girl…

My girlfriend is dead, yet we still enjoy going to movies together. The icing on the cake is that she doesn’t eat popcorn so I don’t have to share.

@ratboy – Does she have a particular affinity for movies made by George Romero?

She doesn’t care about the popcorn. She wants to eat yer brains.