People who don't shut the fuck up during movies

[Art Sandusky 0]

The closest to any of these inconveniences I've had was a guy near me who took a two minute phone call he got during The Rundown, but it was during one of the action sequences, so there wasn't much dialogue I had to hear. I wasn't very bugged by it.

 

I'll probably end up being arrested if someone talks during the midnight Episode III showing.

 

I decided a long time ago that if I ever encountered obnoxious people in a theater, I'd just yell "I DRIVE A DODGE STRATUS!" at them. Their confusion would shut them up for a few minutes at least.

[JHawk 0]

The saddest one I ever saw:

 

I went to see The Ring II with my fiancee, and not 15 seconds after the commercial aired about turning off your cell phones in a theater, somebody's cell phone went off. Funny right?

 

The same cell phone went off about 10 times before the movie was over.

 

I've never heard so many people yelling "Shut the fuck up" at the same time.

[Guest Vitamin X]

The closest to any of these inconveniences I've had was a guy near me who took a two minute phone call he got during The Rundown, but it was during one of the action sequences, so there wasn't much dialogue I had to hear. I wasn't very bugged by it.

 

I'll probably end up being arrested if someone talks during the midnight Episode III showing.

 

I decided a long time ago that if I ever encountered obnoxious people in a theater, I'd just yell "I DRIVE A DODGE STRATUS!" at them. Their confusion would shut them up for a few minutes at least.

"I'M A DIVISION MANAGER! I MAKE VERY IMPORTANT DECISIONS!"

[Art Sandusky 0]

"I CAN DO A HUNDRED PUSHUPS IN TWENTY MINUTES!"

[Guest PlatinumBoy]

"I CAN DO A HUNDRED PUSHUPS IN TWENTY MINUTES!"

I just... wish you weren't a liar.

[Guest CronoT]

The saddest one I ever saw:

 

I went to see The Ring II with my fiancee, and not 15 seconds after the commercial aired about turning off your cell phones in a theater, somebody's cell phone went off. Funny right?

 

The same cell phone went off about 10 times before the movie was over.

 

I've never heard so many people yelling "Shut the fuck up" at the same time.

I wish the military would hurry up and finish that RF Scrambling device. You just know the movie theaters would pay big money to make people's cell phones not work in the theater.

[haws bah gawd 0]

I've had two unique experiences at the theatre. The first of which was when I was watching The Haunting. There was a black girl sitting about 5 feet away from me, screaming at the top of her lungs to the on screen characters at any chance she got. It actually made the movie more enjoyable and we were getting a good laugh off her by the end.

 

The other time was watching the Dawn of the Dead remake. This guy who looked like Matt Stone and his GF started fucking about 2 rows up from me. She was riding him cowgirl-style in the chair. They looked to be no older than 17 or 18, but I wasn't going to say anything because the girl had some great tits.

[bob_barron 0]

I wish the military would hurry up and finish that RF Scrambling device. You just know the movie theaters would pay big money to make people's cell phones not work in the theater.

No they probably wouldnt

[The Czech Republic 0]

In general, don't go to a movie aimed at a black audience if this is your issue...

It was some horror movie. It's not like I settled down for a screening of Barbershop.

[Guest Shadow]

Movie Theatres dont give a fuck about your conveience once you slap down that 8 bucks for your admission to whatever shitty movie you likely paid to see. It'd be a waste of money considering that theatres already try to promote "hassle free and quiet conveience". No one's gonna to go to a different theatre because they promised "The military has scrambled your phone during the movie".

 

Here's my beef, if you have to talk so badly to the person on the phone, step out of the theatre and into the halls or rather, at least TEXT MESSAGE your friend or parent or whatever. Its not that hard.

 

I've seen the theatre sex adventures a couple times but I was lucky (?) to witness it during "Monster's Inc". I had taken my ten year old cousin with me to a early thursday showing of it and the theatre was bare, except for us two and a couple that was taking liberties, i instantly noticed it and they were in front of us, I realized that he would blab to his mother about and I wouldn't hear the end of it, its nothing he hasnt seen but still, I sent him to get some drinks and walked down and tapped the guy on the shoulder and asked he minded sitting behind us so my little cousin wouldn't have to see it. He was nice enough to move and my cousin never suspected a thing.

[Jingus 0]

Theater sex? I worked in movie theaters. Sex did not happen.

[chirs3 0]

Worst I've experienced was Shrek 2. 11:00 AM on a Sunday morning, and there's a drunk guy railing on during the first third of the movie about "fucking women". Adjective, not verb.

 

I'd have been pissed if it wasn't so funny.

[Black Lushus 0]

In general, don't go to a movie aimed at a black audience if this is your issue...

It was some horror movie. It's not like I settled down for a screening of Barbershop.

every town has one or two theaters that the black folks always seem to flock to, no matter what side of town it's on...don't go that one...

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

Please, an audience full of black ghetto people is usually more entertaining the the actual movie. Just make sure you have at least one hand on your wallet at all times...

[Lord of The Curry 0]

Me and Rudo saw Romeo Must Die and the theatre was roughly 49% black, 49% asian and then the two of us. Pretty fun stuff.

 

I recall a good amount of the theatre barking like dogs when DMX first appeared on screen.

 

Kotz- I doubt you'll have any problems with talkers at the midnight Episode 3 showing. Everybody is there to watch it and take it in. Now, the opening weekend where the casual fans and kids are there will be a mess.

[Hoff 0]

Please, an audience full of black ghetto people is usually more entertaining the the actual movie.

Oh, man. Two years back, I was vacationing in DC, and on an afternoon when I was taking a break from museum-ing, I caught T3 in a theater in the train station. I counter three other white people. The majority was black, and the majority of them were dressed like your stereotypical ghetto kids. I noticed, but didn't really pay it any mind, thinking that the audience would quiet down during the movie. Yeah, right. But, here's the weird thing: every tme someone gets physically assaulted, these people laugh. Hard. And then at some of the jokes, they start BOOING, which led to more general chaos, shouting, and then more laughing. I swear, this crowd enjoyed the film as much as any audience could have, and probably don't remmeber a scene. It was awesome. I couldn't even be mad.

[The Czech Republic 0]

I recall a good amount of the theatre barking like dogs when DMX first appeared on screen.

This is too good.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

Please, an audience full of black ghetto people is usually more entertaining the the actual movie.

Oh, man...

I remember Steven King telling a tale of him in a ghetto theater during an airing of "Carrie," and the audience was rather harsh on it until the very end when everyone just freaked out at the graveyard scene...

[Black Lushus 0]

hey, the guy was cryin about people talkin in movies, I was telling him where not to go...

[The Niggardly King 0]

The worst incident I had was when I went to go see Blade 2 about a week after it opened. Just some lady had to bring her fucking snot nosed kid and sit right behind me. Thirty minutes into the movie the damn kid shits himself, but the mom did nothing. She just told him to deal with it. It was a bad combination of smelling shit and having some dumb bitch talk on her cellphone while her son needed to get cleaned up. I would have moved if the theater wasn't sold out.

 

Then there's the time I decided to see Never Die Alone with my brother, and his buddy Ed. Well this nice white couple decides to come in bringing their two kids along. They made a quick exit right when DMX began to bang a white girl. I'd say about twenty minutes later Ed says he has to take a piss, but since we were the only ones in the theater, he decides to go off to the far right side of the theater to do his business.

[Guest The Iron Yuppie]

Usually I don't have too many problems because of my taste in films and the times that I prefer to go. However, two incidents stand out for me.

 

A year or so back, I went and saw a screening of the three (theatrical editions) of The Lord of the Rings. While most movie-marathons that cinemas have here go over-night, this started mid-morning, finishing about 10pm. Given that, I'm thinking that it's less likely to be populated by the usual groups that go to such events, and largely I was correct - very few teenagers or large groups. Unfortunately for me, I happened to be sitting rtight in front of one of these few groups of teenage girls, who all throughout Fellowship of the Ring (despite numerous people telling them to shut-up) were giving advice to characters or going on about how sexy Orlando Bloom was. This also continued half-way through The Two Towers before most of that group left (with the remaining group content to actually watch the films in silence, thankfully).

 

More recently, I went to see The Downfall (which for those that don't know, is a German film about the last days in Hittler's bunker, naturally it is going to be subtitled). Sitting in front of me were a couple of middle-aged women who likely don't frequent arthouse cinemas given some of what they were talking about (loudly) in criticising the decor and food availability at the theatre. When the film started they were appalled that they actually had to read sub-titles, complaining about this for about the first twenty minutes (in a quieter voice admittedly, but given that I was sitting right behind them, it was enough to piss me off).

[Scroby 0]

I recall a good amount of the theatre barking like dogs when DMX first appeared on screen.

 

This is when you just wanna get up and start slapping the piss outta people and telling them "he can't hear you!".

 

I have a few stories.

 

Me and about 5 other friends went to go see Blade 2 opening weekend. The place was pretty much sold out, so we had to sit in the front row, which pretty much pissed us all off. So right before the movie starts, the second row was pretty much empty, but right before the movie starts up, about 8 kids take up the seats and they WON'T SHUT THE FUCK UP! The entire time of the movie, they were just talking. At one part of the movie, a line was said and the kids didn't hear it because they wouldn't shut the fuck up. So a couple of them asked "What did he say?" and myself and two other guys said it back to them in a pist off voice...they didn't say much more for the rest of the movie afterwards.

 

Another time, me and the guys went to Austin Powers 3 and I think thats the one where Zeus appers, you know the big black blad guy who was a wrestler for a minute. So me and one of my friends had to sit away from my other friends a few rows back cause the place was pretty packed and me and my other friend, whose a wrestling fan, yelled out "Zeus!" at the same time. A few of us found that funny.

 

The last time anything happened, was when I saw Kung Fu Hustle and both these times happen from people sitting in the same row as me. This one dude, kept getting phone calls during previews, now I didn't mind the fact it was during the previews cause to me, thats when its time to start getting settled in. My main problem was the fact he was telling the person on the phone if he kept calling him, he was going to go and beat his ass and other crap. Which I found funny as this was happening because this guy was like 5 foot nothing and just acting hard. You could easily tell he was one of those guys who just try to act hard but when it comes down to it, he'll back off or get someone else. I was half hoping he wasn't going to get more of those calls during the movie itself but I kinda was hoping he would, just so I could laugh at his ass. Then during the movie, at the other end of the row, these two mother fuckers decided to give play by play commentary for the movie. Everytime a fight scene happen "Oh he just dropped kicked the shit outta him dawg", "Holy Shit he punched a whole right in his grill!". They just wouldn't shut up, I didn't want to say anything through cause I'm sure my friends wouldn't have backed me up and it turns out all 3 of them were actually friends. Just the guy who was trying to act hard over the phone was sitting a couple of seats away from him.

[Black Lushus 0]

how does one survive sitting through all 3 LOTRs without killing himself? I tried it with Star Wars back in 97 and couldn't hack it and I'm a Star Wars nerd!

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

How far did you get?...

[Black Lushus 0]

through Empire...I just couldn't sit anymore, i was falling asleep, it was pushing 2am...couldn't do it...

[Lord of The Curry 0]

The force is stronger in LOTR nerds, I guess.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

through Empire...I just couldn't sit anymore, i was falling asleep, it was pushing 2am...couldn't do it...

Well that's why -- you would have had to stay up until 4-5 a.m. to see the whole thing...

[Art Sandusky 0]

The force is stronger in LOTR nerds, I guess.

Blasphemy.

[Black Lushus 0]

no, I had slept pretty much all day...it's just that if im sitting in one spot for hours, cold air on me, full belly from all the popcorn and nachos, it's a recipe for slumber...

[Jingus 0]

I managed to watch all three Star Wars flicks in a row in the theater. It helped that I spent half the time making out with my then-girlfriend who somehow hadn't seen any of them before, plus we took a dinner break between Empire and Jedi.