Acceptable movie behaviour

[snugglesgold]

So i go to the movies a lot... Im very used to the rustle of food being eaten, the odd whispered comment and the other distractions that come with being stuck in a dark room with a bunch of strangers, im managing to control the flashbacks to my youthful traumas ("no mommy don't lock me in the coal cellar i'll be good i promise!!"). Where was I? Oh yeah the movies, so in the last couple of years i've noticed a few new kinds of behaviour im finding more difficult to ignore..
The texting moron, people on their Iphone, blackberry, whatever. A lot of newer phones are so bright it's like theres a torch being shone around. The person who's in the wrong movie, someone who has obviously no appreciation of their film their watching and spends the entire time chatting or laughing. I was watching paranormal activity with a bunch of idiots behind me who giggled all the way through!! Took me ages to bury them all... So my question is what movie behaviour bugs you and whats the accecptable level of abuse im allowed to use when confronting these fools..

 

[mikecoulter]

When there are 'dickish' teens not bothered about being obnoxiously loud and annoying. That and people who try to film the film, I purposely stand up directly in front of them then sit down.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Basically anyone who is making any noise. Whispering is fine (and laughing at funny bits, obviously) if it is short and only happens a few times throughout the movie, but gigglers and texters need to be shot, revived through the power of science then shot again.

 

[RufusMcLaser]

All I ask is that the other moviegoers sit down and shut the hell up. Is that so much?

 

[Bob_Bobbington]

When you go to the movie you sit down, shut up and watch the movie. The only sounds should come from the movie and the popcorn/drinks. Anything else deserves a boot to the face.

EDIT: Gah, there be ninjas around.

 

[AvsJoe]

I can't stand texters; *especially* when they're texting about how bad or "gaaay" the movie is long before the ending. A couple of my friends do this; I no longer go to the movies with them.

But I have been part of the problem before. If a movie is really terrible (10,000 BC is a good example), my friends and I mock the movie. Not too loud, but we have annoyed people.

Took me ages to bury them all...

Dude, don't bury them! Drain them of their blood in your tub, hack the bodies into manageable pieces, and put the pieces into trash bags. With some clever rearranging, you should be able to fit the pieces of a normal-sized human being into two Glad bags. From there, do what you wish. I recommend using separate dumpsters across the town/city in an inconspicuous vehicle (for instance, don't use a Beetle).

...too graphic?

 

[arcstone]

This stuff is basically why I prefer watching movies on DVD.

 

[Davrel]

The only acceptable cinema behavior is to sit down and shut-the-fuck-up...and maybe laugh (normally) at funny bits.

 

[hittite]

These, all of them.

 

[DeathChairOfHell]

once when me and my two friends were on a movie (don't remember which one) that i had already seen, and i told them while the dark enters the room "the beginning is awesome" and some old hag shush me. i think "ok, fair enough i was talking a little too loud". then, 5 minutes in the movie she apparantely has some 6 year old brat who says out loud "what are they saying?" so she starts translating for 10 min everything in the movie, and it seemed as nobody else was hearing hear so i went "SHUUUUSH!". lucky me she stops.

 

[aDuck]

parents brining young kids to m+ movies... like come on, dont bring a 6 yr old to see the 3rd lord of the rings...

 

[traceur_]

Get in, sit down and shut up.

I think it was because they didn't want to appear 'gay' to their mates, so to disguise the fact that they were being affected by what was on screen, they disguised it with this pathetic facade of toughness.

Or you know, they could have been genuinely bored and unaffected by a kids movie and decided to behave like real men. But you could just make up some psuedo-psychological crap to explain it, sure.

 

[Ultrajoe]

If you sit in front of me your head is now a rest for my Ultrafeet. Also, your food is my food.

 

[Xpwn3ntial]

I can't stand texters; *especially* when they're texting about how bad or "gaaay" the movie is long before the ending. A couple of my friends do this; I no longer go to the movies with them.

But I have been part of the problem before. If a movie is really terrible (10,000 BC is a good example), my friends and I mock the movie. Not too loud, but we have annoyed people.

Took me ages to bury them all...

Dude, don't bury them! Drain them of their blood in your tub, hack the bodies into manageable pieces, and put the pieces into trash bags. With some clever rearranging, you should be able to fit the pieces of a normal-sized human being into two Glad bags. From there, do what you wish. I recommend using separate dumpsters across the town/city in an inconspicuous vehicle (for instance, don't use a Beetle).

...too graphic?

To the point I think you've done this before.

 

[Steampunk Viking]

Phones peeve me off, but there's another thing that annoys me even more than that. Bizarrely it's people who work in the cinema watching the film and creating noise, and this actually happened when I went to see Spiderman 3.

The film froze and someone over the tanoy system asked some guy (I forget the name they called out) to come fix the camera so we could continue watching the movie and it happened to be the guy sat right in front of us with his feet up, crunching popcorn and slurping his drink. I think one of my friends who was with me at the time said it best: "It's one thing if it's an idiot making noise during a film, but it's another thing when it's an idiot who works for the cinema making noise during a film."

 

[MiracleOfSound]

So i go to the movies a lot... Im very used to the rustle of food being eaten, the odd whispered comment and the other distractions that come with being stuck in a dark room with a bunch of strangers, im managing to control the flashbacks to my youthful traumas ("no mommy don't lock me in the coal cellar i'll be good i promise!!"). Where was I? Oh yeah the movies, so in the last couple of years i've noticed a few new kinds of behaviour im finding more difficult to ignore..
The texting moron, people on their Iphone, blackberry, whatever. A lot of newer phones are so bright it's like theres a torch being shone around. The person who's in the wrong movie, someone who has obviously no appreciation of their film their watching and spends the entire time chatting or laughing. I was watching paranormal activity with a bunch of idiots behind me who giggled all the way through!! Took me ages to bury them all... So my question is what movie behaviour bugs you and whats the accecptable level of abuse im allowed to use when confronting these fools..

Totally off topic but I like your avatar.

Winter still makes me blub like a sap every time I hear it.

 

[AcacianLeaves]

This is one reason I stopped going to movies in the theater, except during matinee showings. It helps that I have a 42" HD TV in my living room, so it's a lot easier for me to say "eh, I'll just wait til its out on DVD".

My most hated movie behavior:

- Parents who bring children to movies above their rating, then don't shut the child up
- Cell Phone use, including texting
- Talking. Of ANY kind. You are not allowed to speak during a movie. SHUT YOUR PIE HOLE.
- Overzealous and WAY too loud laughing. This one is hard because, yeah it's funny but seriously dude stop guffawing in my ear.
- Smelly people. Please take a shower before going to the movies.
- That one guy who can't stop coughing.
- Arriving late/Leaving early. Yeah, make everyone in the entire row pick up their snacks and stand up, disturbing the entire theater. Great.

Basically, this:

(Ann Richards is the former Governor of Texas before Dubya. She was awesome.)

 

[Julianking93]

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Guys in track suits? No one wearing a track suit should be taken seriously.

And, yes, UP was such a great movie. Nothing has every made me cry during the first 2 minutes.

OT, just people talking really loud and teenagers in general. I'm serious.

I'm not sexist, racist or anything like that, but when I see a group of teenagers who look like the typical jock douchebags (my town is riddled with them) I feel the hate boil in my very soul. I know they're going to piss me off somehow and its even worse in a movie.

This weekend I saw Shutter Island (great movie in case you didn't know) and about 10 minutes in, some jock asshole came barging in screaming "WATS UP!!!" so instantly, he was met with all "ssshhhh's" but he kept on and on and on with yelling, kicking his seat like an infant, and shouting at anyone who past him, so eventually, I just yelled out "Shut the fuck up, you fucking fag!"

I say fag since he was with one other guy and he looked like someone who called everyone else "fag"

He got pissed, threatened me, and was escorted out by the police

 

[CJ1145]

Basically anyone who is making any noise. Whispering is fine (and laughing at funny bits, obviously) if it is short and only happens a few times throughout the movie, but gigglers and texters need to be shot, revived through the power of science then shot again.

Well, judging the time my friends and I went to see that Percy Jackson movie, you would hate us.

Question: Is dressing up like Tom, Mike, and Crow, going down to the front row, and shouting jokes the entire way through the movie considering a bad thing?

 

[x0ny]

People throwing popcorn at me, especially if it goes into the back of my shirt. Chavs make lots of noise, though with increasing cinema ticket prices, they've been going alot less.