People who talk during movies.

[Guest Incandenza]

Earlier today, I went and saw the new Paul Thomas Anderson film, Punch-drunk Love (really, really good film; includes the first ever Adam Sandler performance I liked). Sitting in the same row as myself, several seats down, were an middle-aged couple, whom, every now and then, would speak to each other rather loudly. I have very low tolerance for people who talk during movies, and when I encounter such inconsiderate people, rather than just look at them and go "shh!" (which never works), I will raise my voice--loud enough for a good portion of the theatre to hear, but not exactly yelling--and say something like "Will you please stop talking," with a slight edge of irritation/anger in my voice. Sometimes, if there aren't a lot of people in the auditorium, I will personally walk over to them and ask, polite but firm, for them to stop. It was a one o'clock show, the theatre was only a third full, so I got up, walked over to them, and did the latter.

 

As soon as I got back to my seat and sat down, they started talking again. This has happened before (only a couple of times; I find this method to be effective more often than not), and I usually ask them again, but much more firmly and with less politeness. This time, however, I almost snapped. I went over to them again, leaning in a little, staring at them in their eyes, and repeated what I said earlier, this time through gritted teeth. I was angry, genuinely angry. They shut up, and I went back to my seat. About a minute later, they both got up and left the theatre, halfway through the movie (given how much they were laughing beforehand, they appeared to be enjoying it, too).

 

It wasn't my intent to scare them out. Sure, it's kind of cool to think I intimidated someone, but whatever. As long as it was quiet again, it's all good. Anyway, I just wanted to get that off my chest. Feel free to vent about the obnoxious people who feel it necessary to infringe on your right to enjoy cinema. And if anyone here is the sort that talks during movies, ::shakes fist::

[Guest converge241]

fuck them if they left.. they should have stopped after your first polite attempt

 

talking is behind people bringing babies into the theater FOR ALMOST EVERY MOVIE I GO TO!!

 

get a babysitter!!!

[Guest NaturalBornThriller4:20]

Here's some advice to those who go to see a Sequel without seeing the first Movie,

 

Go see the first one before the sequel

or......

 

SHUT THE FUCK UP WHILE WATCHING THE MOVIE!

[Guest the pinjockey]

fuck them if they left.. they should have stopped after your first polite attempt

 

talking is behind people bringing babies into the theater FOR ALMOST EVERY MOVIE I GO TO!!

 

get a babysitter!!!

This resulted in one of the worst movie going experiences ever for me. I went to see Hannibal at ten o clock at night and sitting right in the row in front of us was a woman with a baby who started crying before previews even began. So we went to the manager and were just like "Can we switch to the 10:30 show" and they had no problem with that and the theater we walked into noone in the place knew that you aren't really supposed to talk during movies. As we were leaving we were just swearing a blue streak at everything within earshot as we went through the parking lot and while in the car. We were all pissed as hell.

[Guest Kotzenjunge]

I supply the people sitting near me with humorous and always insightful commentary. I've had people tell me that the movie was actually watchable because I was there to keep them awake.

 

Fo sheez,

Kotzenjunge

[Guest Zack Malibu]

As someone who used to attend a late show every Friday night (friend worked at the theater, so he got me in for free), my experience was all about the comfort. The thing I hate more than anything is when I'm sitting back in my chair, usually in the middle of the theater, not sitting behind or in front of anyone, and some jackass will come and

 

a)Sit behind me, and kick me in the head when they sit down.

 

b)If the seats in front of me aren't taken, I'll occasionally put my feet up on them. Of course, the whole row in front of me could be empty, but then that one jackass comes in that HAS to sit in that spot, acting like I'm not there. Not so much a complaint, since I shouldn't take up two seats just for personal comfort, but shit, they can't sit in one of the other 65 seats that are empty?

 

c)Throwing food. OK, if you do decide to buy the (IMO) overpriced snacks at a theater, 1) Why the fuck would you waste the food AND your money by tossing it. 2)Eat it, or wait till you get home to have a food fight. This is pretty much the fault of the younger kids that go, but it's pretty annoying when you're getting into a movie, and Johnny Numbnuts and his friend are having a popcorn war in front of you.

[Guest Kotzenjunge]

I never did understand the want of people to sit virtually on top of me in a fairly empty theater.

 

Fo sheez,

Kotzenjunge

[Guest Incandenza]

I supply the people sitting near me with humorous and always insightful commentary. I've had people tell me that the movie was actually watchable because I was there to keep them awake.

 

Fo sheez,

Kotzenjunge

If the film is sucking balls, I don't mind the talking, but I'm not likely to do it myself. There may be some people enjoying it, and I try to be considerate for their sake.

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

I will talk during previews, but I shut up once the movie starts.

[Guest chirs3]

I whisper, on occasion, just to the person next to me. If I get shushed, though, I shut up.

[Guest El Satanico]

At the theater i worked at(AMC) there's a rule where you can't bring children under 6 to an R rated movie after 6pm. That rule pissed alot of people off, but it's a great rule.

 

Of course you'd still get the occasional one that would somehow get in with a baby.

 

I always try to go to movies early in the day or late at night, so i get less idiots.

 

Another rule i try to stick to is not going to any theater near the bad areas of town. There isn't much worse than an loud ass black girl(not to be racist) talking in a theater. And if you shush them they holler back at you for daring to tell her what to do. Not to mention fuckers(black or white) bringing in whole pizzas or kfc...I've seen it with my own eyes. What the fuck you doing bringing a bucket of fried chicken to a god damn movie theater.

 

However in the nicer areas of town you have the yuppies couples who think they should be able to talk if they want to be. You also get more people that talk on cell phones during the movies in the theaters located in the nicer areas.

 

aaargh...you just can't escape the idiots...tis utterly hopeless.

[Guest ArkhamGlobe]

People who talk during movies are one the most annoying things I can think of. Quietly making a quick comment or something like that I have no problem with, but continually talking just pisses me off beyond words. There were basically an entrie row of thriteen-year old girls talking loudly when I went and saw Ghost World, and they nearly ruined the entire film for me. I mean, even if you don't like the film it doesn't mean you have to ruin it for everybody else. I've even encountered this once when I went to the theatre to see a play. Is it that difficult to just SHUT THE FUCK UP?! Jeesh.

[Guest El Satanico]

I can't believe a whole row of teenaged girls was watching Ghost World.

[Guest T®ITEC]

People who talk during movies are one the most annoying things I can think of. Quietly making a quick comment or something like that I have no problem with, but continually talking just pisses me off beyond words. There were basically an entrie row of thriteen-year old girls talking loudly when I went and saw Ghost World, and they nearly ruined the entire film for me. I mean, even if you don't like the film it doesn't mean you have to ruin it for everybody else. I've even encountered this once when I went to the theatre to see a play. Is it that difficult to just SHUT THE FUCK UP?! Jeesh.

Teenage girls are right up there with crying babies, man. They don't seem to shut up.. EVER.

 

It bothers me when, on the rare occasion I go out to the movies, I get some couple making out right in front of me. Doesn't seem to matter what movie, either. It's annoying, and distracting... Keep your DAMN hormones in control for, like, ninety minutes! Or go back to your dad’s car...

[Guest Steve J. Rogers]

This is a funny story, my local library (in a rich suburb of NYC) showed "A Few Good Men" anyway most of the people there were of an older set (mid-age and older) but they couldn't stop talking especially about what might happen next. Case in point, the moment Tom Cruise realizes what he will nail Jack Nicholoson with the fact that the closet was still full for a guy leaving that morning.

 

Anyway one of the old guys behind me remebers something about Jack snipping about someone disrepecting him by not wearing the proper uni and shouts out as the light bulb goes off when Cruise takes a look at his own closet "HE'S GONNA PUT ON THE WHITE SHIRT!"

 

Geez, if you are going to predict whats going to happen PLEASE DON'T SAY IT OUT LOUD

 

Cause unless you are being a real ahole and either A) Giving away what will happen because you've SEEN it before or B) Its so predictable what will happen that you just throw out misinformation to make people laugh at the banality of it all, its QUITE DISCONCERNING TO PEOPLE TRYING TO ENJOY THE MOVIE!

 

Steve

[Guest CoreyLazarus416]

Some dick talked the entire time through K-19 once. I ended up going out to the front desk, because I'm friends with about half the people that work at the theater (local theater Zeotrope, not the Hoyts a town over), and told my buddy Wes (who's about 6'5", 230 lbs. or so, so he's pretty intimidating) to go tell the guy to shut up. Wes did, and the guy left...

 

Talkers should be hit with a rolled-up newspaper over the head unless said talking is 100% called for.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

I just say "Stop talking." Completely matter of fact, and loudly. I've never had anyone continue that.

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

I don't understand why people leave. They've already paid. Can't they just shut up instead?

[Guest Lord of The Curry]

I can deal with talking to a certain limit, but if it's above a whisper I get pissed, this includes friends that I'm with too.

 

However, coming up, there will be one day when I cannot and will not tolerate any talking.

 

December 18th 2002. Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers.

 

Woe be to any motherfucker who decides to talk during that. I plan on sneaking my little brothers potato gun into the theatre. Any bitch opens their yap, they get capped. Simple as that.

[Guest Hogan Made Wrestling]

I've never had a problem with talking (although I would get super-pissed if it happened at a movie I was watching), I think mostly because I avoid teen-fanboy movies or catch them right at the end on their run. What really pisses me off is when people applaud during movies. If you want to laugh during a comedy, or freak out for a horror, fine because that's the intention. But please, why the fuck are you applauding after Attack of the Clones as if you just watched Citizen Kane or something?

[Guest Karnage]

You think teenaged girls are bad...Preteen girls are a LOT worse.

[Guest DARRYLXWF]

When I went to see Lord of the Rings, I was infront of a party of 10 years olds, who just WOULDN'T SHUT UP. They'd try and impress each other buy swearing, pointing out how something looks fake. I ended up slapping one little kid on the head and plainly told them to 'shut the fuck up'.

[Guest AlwaysPissedOff]

Argh... something like that happened to me as well when i went to see Planet of the Apes. The damn theater was full because I(like an idiot) went to the opening day showing. I sat near the back thinking that I could get out of there quickly enough and I could avoid all the talkers since I sat in corner, but this family with two pre-teen kids(boy and girl) came in literally right after they sent the monkey into space.

 

Since it was dark and there was no more seemingly empty seats aside form the ones in my aisle(I always sit outside unless I'm with someone) and the father and boy sit in my aisle and the women behind me. Everything's going fine until the girl gets scared and literally SCREAMS IN MY FUCKING EAR! I turn around with murder in my eyes because A) My ears are really fucked up and high-pitched noises give me an extremely bad migraine for weeks and B) Her mom looked at me like I did something to her baby girl...

 

Thankfully, the dad had sense enough to realize that a big, pissed off black man wasn't a good thing and apologized. He looked kinda frightened, too...

 

 

 

Oh yeah, when I went to see LOTR, some kids two rows down(this was like 3 months after it was released) were yapping about how many times they saw the movie and continued talking even after it started, so I beaned one of them with an ice cube and told 'em to shut the fuck up.

[Guest Flyboy]

It bothers me when, on the rare occasion I go out to the movies, I get some couple making out right in front of me. Doesn't seem to matter what movie, either. It's annoying, and distracting... Keep your DAMN hormones in control for, like, ninety minutes! Or go back to your dad’s car...

That's what I mainly use the movies for, so back off.

[Guest MaxPower27]

I always had a problem with people talking during movies, but now I just go to either the 2PM showing, or the 1130PM showing. There's hardly anyone in the theatre, it's great.

 

I have no qualms about telling people to shut the fuck up during movies. When I saw The Bourne Identity, there were these two 13 year old girls in front of us. Yeah, they talked a bit, but I didn't say anything. I got pretty peeved when their 3 boyfriends came in during the middle of the movie and started talking loudly, running in and out of the theatre, talking on their cell phones, etc. At one point, I asked nicely (I'm always considerate the first time I ask someone anything) if they could sit and watch the movie, or go outside, because they were ruining my moviegoing experience. His response? "Too bad."

 

"Ah," I thought to myself, "he's a cunning little bastard." So, as Matthew Bourne makes his way into the field to search for his attempted killer, and Kid #1 makes a beeline for the door, my size 13 shoe impedes his process and he flies about 4 feet, almost crashing into the wall. My response? "Too bad."

[Guest AlwaysPissedOff]

His response? "Too bad."

 

"Ah," I thought to myself, "he's a cunning little bastard." So, as Matthew Bourne makes his way into the field to search for his attempted killer, and Kid #1 makes a beeline for the door, my size 13 shoe impedes his process and he flies about 4 feet, almost crashing into the wall. My response? "Too bad."

Damn, that's funny. Wish I had thought of it...

[Guest El Satanico]

Since it was dark and there was no more seemingly empty seats aside form the ones in my aisle(I always sit outside unless I'm with someone) and the father and boy sit in my aisle and the women behind me. Everything's going fine until the girl gets scared and literally SCREAMS IN MY FUCKING EAR! I turn around with murder in my eyes because A) My ears are really fucked up and high-pitched noises give me an extremely bad migraine for weeks and B) Her mom looked at me like I did something to her baby girl...

 

Thankfully, the dad had sense enough to realize that a big, pissed off black man wasn't a good thing and apologized. He looked kinda frightened, too...

 

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You should be ashamed for scaring them poor helpless white folks...

 

:runs:

[Guest DJ Jeff]

When I went to see the new Austin Powers movie, there was a group of about 5 or 6 teenage girls sitting right in front of me, who wouldn't stop talking and giggling the entire movie. So, I told them to shut up, and they did.

[Guest MrRant]

You mean they didn't kick your ass?

[Guest DJ Jeff]

You mean they didn't kick your ass?

If you're talking to me, no, they didn't. I wouldn't let a bunch of teenage girls kick my ass.