Who do you hate going to the theaters with?

[TheFactor]

(ITS OK TO POST MOVIE SPOILERS, BUT PLEASE MARK IT AS SPOILERS!)

Hey everybody I recently went to see Pirates of the Caribean 2 with my mother. She and I had nothing to do that weekend so we decided to catch a flick. So we went to our local theater and got our stuff and just as the movie started she started to talk, real loud. She has a hearing problem in one ear and forgets that no body else has one. She'll talk real loud, but that's not the only reason why I hate going to the movies with her. She always asks me two questions constantly during the movie, regardless if I answer her once or twenty times. One: "Have you seen this?" and Two: "What's going on?" I hate that!

The other person I hate going to the movies with (though not as much as my mother) is my brother. He gets into movies, which is good, but he gets into them real loud. He laughs real loud, and screams "HELL YEAH" real loud. I'm waiting for the day someone tells them to shut the hell up!

So who do you hate going to the theaters with?

 

[TklDuo-Ann]

People who ignore the rule against cell phones. Put the thing on silent mode. Answer it only if really necessary. Do so quietly and ask them to wait while you step out of the theater. DON'T sit there carrying on a conversation and giving them play by play of the movie!

Anyone who can't keep quiet once the movie starts. I don't mind gabbing during the commercials and previews. In fact, on the rare occassions that we go to the theater to see a movie, Drew and I will quietly talk during the previews, rating the movies as ones to see in the theater, wait for video, wait for tv or make a point of missing.

Runners. It also bugs me when people come in, pick a seat in the middle of a crowded row and then get up every 15 minutes to go to the bathroom or get snacks.

 

[TicklishLurker]

My parents. We have totally different taste in movies. I like Kevin Smith flicks. They like heavy, boring snooze fests and get upset if there's a single cuss word stronger then "darn" in it. They don't talk during the movie unless one goes to the bathroom, but mom gets upset with me for speaking up to shush others. She says I embarass her.

 

[Mr.Tickler]

Sounds crazy, but generally speaking, anybody.Unless I am with a date, the best movie theatre is an empty theatre.They're certainly the quietest,and I get into good movies more when I'm totally alone.

 

[Knox The Hatter]

I don't even like going to theaters anymore. I'd rather sit in the comfort of my own living room, where I can pause the DVD, go to the bathroom, make a sandwich, whatever, and then go back to it. I can make catcalls at bad acting or stupid, senseless plot twists. I can frame backward and have a second look if, say, there's a really great fight scene, like James Caan as Sonny in The Godfather beating the daylights out of his brother-in-law with the top of a garbage can...or having yet another look at John Belushi up on the ladder playing voyeur in Animal House. I can sit on the couch, curled up, with my wife, or if she's working, my cat. When I get up from the couch, my feet aren't gonna stick to the floor from the past twenty seven ayholes who spilled Pepsi.

My living room. The perfect theater.

 

[Mr.Tickler]

I went to see Star Wars Episode III and Wedding Crashers and it was the last films before closing time at the cinema,.....so I end up having a beautiful, state-of-the-art movie theatre all to myself.I was in heaven, no talking, nobody getting up and down, going back and forth to concession stands, to restrooms, no cell phones, no large hats, no chomping on food or obnoxious talking or noise-making.I actually got my moneys-worth and to enjoy both flicks.Well, sort of.Treats cost more than the movie these days, so I guess going to a movie and truly gtting your dollars worth are oxy-morons.

 

[ChosenofMystra]

People that talk on the ****ing cell phone all through the damn movie!!!! This pisses me off to no end! Especially the clowns that have to SHOUT! when they're on the thing. Makes me want to lure them into a secluded area and beat their head in with it!

*wipes foam from mouth*

 

[Mr.Tickler]

People that talk on the ****ing cell phone all through the damn movie!!!! This pisses me off to no end! Especially the clowns that have to SHOUT! when they're on the thing. Makes me want to lure them into a secluded area and beat their head in with it!

*wipes foam from mouth*

LOL.Actually, I always kinda wanted to make them literally EAT their phone, I mean swallow it,-radiation, electricity,et al.People driving and not paying attention 'cause they're on their cell also revolts me.See it all the friggin' time.

 

[elfriend]

People that talk on the ****ing cell phone all through the damn movie!!!! This pisses me off to no end! Especially the clowns that have to SHOUT! when they're on the thing. Makes me want to lure them into a secluded area and beat their head in with it!

*wipes foam from mouth*

Yeah I can't stand that but what's even worse is when people have really bright cell phones and sit through the movie and text people. Their bright f'ing cell phones shine and distract you from the movie!!!!!!!!!!!!! I mean seriously if it's that important get up and leave!! If your checking the time I can deal with that but people who sit there with their bright phones and text every 5 minutes bug me!

 

[Mr.Tickler]

That's why an empty theatre is the best theatre for Mr. Tickler.(with the exception of a date, obviously).Whenever that many people are in one place at the same time, you'll never avoid the cell phones, the chattering, the noise.Totally empty moviehouses are a rarity, but I sure enjoyed em' the two times I was in em'.

 

[TheFactor]

I hate it when theaters screens aren't maintained. When I went to see Silent Hill I noticed in the middle of the screen a little black dot. I figured someone must have thrown a spit-wad up there as a joke. It was a distraction since it was in the middle of the screen. Also I'm with you guys on cell phones. During the same film just as the movie started some little punk got a phone call on his cell phone, and unlike me, he started a freaking conversation on it! Who the hell pays 7/10 dollars for a movie, three dollars for coke and popcorn, just to miss the movie and have a conversation on their phones! Also have you noticed that when theaters are next to empty, like there are at least ten people in the theaters and when more arrive they always pick the seat in front of you? I hate that. Makes me want to slap them in the back of the heads and say "FIND ANOTHER SEAT ASSHOLE!"

Lastly what I hate more than anything is the fact that parents don't make their kids mind during films. I went to see "Harry Potter: and the Goblet of Fire." Now believe me I know this film is aimed towards kids, but I enjoy them. Anyways I was sitting there and this couple walks in with there kids. They must have been seven or eight years old. I remember they started crying right away, sliding out of there seats, and just screaming really loudly. And they started as soon as they entered the theaters twenty minutes before the movie even started. I couldn't believe it, and was contemplating going to the front desk and complaining, but decided to give them a chance and settle down. Well the movie starts and they are crying, and bitching, and sliding out of there seats. Well you want to see parenting these guys try to bribe their children with candy. They say, "if you be good I'll give you some candy." And they aren't good, but they get candy anyways! It was the worst movie experience ever.

I don't know about the rest of you, but going to the movies is a personal thing. I just love seeing new films and when kids and grownups act like this than it really bugs me. I'm surprised sometimes I didn't get into films myself. Oh well. I love going to a movie half-an-hour early just to watch the previews. Why else go to a movie if not to catch the previews? That's a joke, but still.

 

[TicklishLurker]

Lastly what I hate more than anything is the fact that parents don't make their kids mind during films.

Or parents who bring really little kids to movies they shouldn't see. The last Lord Of The Rings, some idiots brought their THREE YEAR OLD!

Of course the kid screamed during scenes like with the spider. So I yelled at them to take the kid out of the theatre. A man in front of me agreed with me. The father turns around and says, "He's a little baby, Esse!(sp?)" So I shouted back "You shouldn't have brought him here in the first place." They got up and walked out.

I also yelled at someone who's cellphone kept going off at one movie "Turn it on vibrate and stick it in your pants!" People clapped for me. Mom was mortified.

The 2nd LOTR I had the misforturn of sitting next to a couple and the guy was more interested in flirting with his date then watching the movie. I kept shushing them.

When I saw Pirates recently the last 15 minutes a family coming for the next showing came in and their little daughter piped up, "This is the middle of the movie!" and wouldn't stop talking. In her case her parents were trying to shut her up and get her out. But she refused to move. The entire theatre was shushing her. She finally said "You be quiet!" So I replied, "Someone ought to spank you, you little brat." Her parents finally picked her up and dragged her out.

 

[isabeau]

i don't go to the movies either..and it's not me that hates to go with someone..it's my husband who hates to go with me..especially if i have read the book the movie is based on, and comment negatively throughout the whole movie..hehe...

 

[The Sean Man]

Someone in front of you answering or chatting on a phone?

1) Take the straw from your soda.

2) Take a bit of paper from your popcorn napkin.

3) Insert bit of paper into your mouth.

4) Moisten with spit, and roll into tiny ball.

5) Insert spitwad into straw with tongue.

6) Aim carefully, and shoot spitwad at back of offenders head



.....not that I've ever done anything like that

 

[Headsnap]

I don't like going to the theatre with Dr Harvey Crippen. He is insane and also smells quite bad.

 

[kered]

Someone in front of you answering or chatting on a phone?

1) Take the straw from your soda.

2) Take a bit of paper from your popcorn napkin.

3) Insert bit of paper into your mouth.

4) Moisten with spit, and roll into tiny ball.

5) Insert spitwad into straw with tongue.

6) Aim carefully, and shoot spitwad at back of offenders head



.....not that I've ever done anything like that

Hell.......I've once hit some mouthy asshole with my half empty coke cup in the back of his fat head. He left while everyone was laughing and clapping and nobody turned me in. Is this a great country or what!!

 

[TheFactor]

I almost dread sitting through a movie when I see kids already in there. Sometimes I hate being in a movie when I see teenagers in there with their dates! I took my girlfriend into a movie once and she was great in there, all she did was hold my hand and lean on my shoulder. Though my arm started to hurt about an hour into the film, but I suffered through it .

 

[Knox The Hatter]

Or parents who bring really little kids to movies they shouldn't see. The last Lord Of The Rings, some idiots brought their THREE YEAR OLD!

Of course the kid screamed during scenes like with the spider. So I yelled at them to take the kid out of the theatre. A man in front of me agreed with me. The father turns around and says, "He's a little baby, Esse!(sp?)" So I shouted back "You shouldn't have brought him here in the first place." They got up and walked out.

I also yelled at someone who's cellphone kept going off at one movie "Turn it on vibrate and stick it in your pants!" People clapped for me. Mom was mortified.

The 2nd LOTR I had the misforturn of sitting next to a couple and the guy was more interested in flirting with his date then watching the movie. I kept shushing them.

When I saw Pirates recently the last 15 minutes a family coming for the next showing came in and their little daughter piped up, "This is the middle of the movie!" and wouldn't stop talking. In her case her parents were trying to shut her up and get her out. But she refused to move. The entire theatre was shushing her. She finally said "You be quiet!" So I replied, "Someone ought to spank you, you little brat." Her parents finally picked her up and dragged her out.

Well, now, here's one instance where I'd actually go to the theater! I would actually find Jami's shushing and and mouthing and display of disgust at the rudeness of retards and imbeciles more entertaining than the movie. Hey, when people like this are ruining your experience, you have a right to voice your displeasure.

Now, even better would be Jami going down to the ticket office and reaming someone out over taking a seat and finding herself sitting in a smashed pile of Cracker Jacks. Or worse. Who needs this shit? Each subsequent post after my last one reinforces my original point...

 

[TicklishLurker]

Knox, I honestly can't tell if you're belittling me or not. I prefer to believe the latter.

I'm just at a point anymore where I figure "If someone's being a d**kwad, I'm going to say something."

But since I normally go to the movies alone, I don't leave my seat. Anyway, 99% of the people in the theatre are on my side when I shush someone.

 

[Knox The Hatter]

From that post Knox I bet your just one of those people. I bet you either have kids, or you see nothing wrong with talking on the cell phone while others who worked their asses off to make the little money they have to see a movie. Any post posted after yours doesn't prove your point, or reinforce it, it reinforces every other post posted before yours. Do you know what I also think Knox? I think your a troll just wanting to cause problems. Why don't you go bother someone else, eh?

Jami, the latter. I'd be there, complaining with you...

Factor, I don't know what post you were reading, but it certainly wasn't mine. Maybe there's some wiring upstairs that needs to be jumpstarted on your end.

Factor, you, being so painfully insignificant, seem to be the one trying to pick a fight with me, over what, I don't know. I don't have the vaguest idea who you are, you never seem to have made any kind of impression whatsoever. Oh, well. I have but two words for you. One's a verb, the other's a pronoun.

Have a nice day!

 

[ticklingfeet4fu]

Well when you go to the movies and pay any amount of money to see one you have to remember. Paying at least $10 to see a movie means this, that is (for those who work) an hour or two of work there. What makes it worse is that some people would rather talk on their cell phones, talk to each other, not control their kids rather than watch a movie that they in turn paid for. It's absolutely ridiculous that some people act like this, and you know what? From that post Knox I bet your just one of those people. I bet you either have kids, or you see nothing wrong with talking on the cell phone while others who worked their asses off to make the little money they have to see a movie. Any post posted after yours doesn't prove your point, or reinforce it, it reinforces every other post posted before yours. Do you know what I also think Knox? I think your a troll just wanting to cause problems. Why don't you go bother someone else, eh?

Factor, I must say that Knox is not a troll or a troublemaker. I must say that Knox is one of nicest people on the boards. If you don't believe me, ask my better half Sadira. She thinks the world of Knox.

 

[TheFactor]

Knox sorry for what I said! I didn't fully understand what you had posted until I re-read it. I'm so sorry for the mistake.

 

[Knox The Hatter]

Handshake 🙂

 

[crydun]

I don't even like going to theaters anymore. I'd rather sit in the comfort of my own living room, where I can pause the DVD, go to the bathroom, make a sandwich, whatever, and then go back to it. I can make catcalls at bad acting or stupid, senseless plot twists. I can frame backward and have a second look if, say, there's a really great fight scene, like James Caan as Sonny in The Godfather beating the daylights out of his brother-in-law with the top of a garbage can...or having yet another look at John Belushi up on the ladder playing voyeur in Animal House. I can sit on the couch, curled up, with my wife, or if she's working, my cat. When I get up from the couch, my feet aren't gonna stick to the floor from the past twenty seven ayholes who spilled Pepsi.

My living room. The perfect theater.

I couldn't agree more, Knox.

 

[crydun]

Factor, I must say that Knox is not a troll or a troublemaker. I must say that Knox is one of nicest people on the boards. If you don't believe me, ask my better half Sadira. She thinks the world of Knox.

or ask me. Knox is my best friend. bar none.