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- ironeus, on 08/01/2008, -0/+119"Is it maybe because those people are jealous that they aren't getting any messages?" -- she actually think that?? I guess the young ones are more narcissistic than ever.
- inactive, on 07/03/2008, -3/+91Do not bring your crying 2 year old to see the dark knight or I will punch your baby.
- ieatpizza, on 07/03/2008, -1/+67HEY JENNIFER WATS UP CHICA!!!!!!!!!! WHATS THAT? OH, NOT MUCH, JUST WATCHING A MOVIE LOL!!!!!!!!! YEAH ITS BORING. DID U TALK TO NICK YET???? I THINK HE LIKES U. LOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!! I KNOW HES SO CUTE. LOL NO YOURE NOT BOTHERING ME I ALREADY SAW THIS MOVIE THE END IS SO GOOD CAUSE YOU FIND OUT HE'S REALLY THE BADGUY LOZL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- elfuego, on 07/03/2008, -2/+62When I read that line in the article I threw up a little in my mouth, but to respond to her inquiry: No, you *****, we're pissed because we did the sensible thing and turned our phones off. The cinema is supposed to be an escape from the everyday where we needn't worry about real-life concerns because we're absorbed in the story unfolding on the screen. In refusing to immerse yourself in the film by repeatedly letting the rest of the world intervene through texting/calling/talking, you not only diminish the experience you're paying for but the experience of others as well. Seriously, stop going to movie theatres, because you're ***** it up for the rest of us.
With Love,
ElFuego - Asado, on 07/03/2008, -1/+59I was at a movie recently where the man in front of me was still wearing his bluetooth headset. The flashing light ruined the movie for me.... no, wait... Will Smith ruined it... and the blue light was bad too.
- patricktu, on 07/03/2008, -3/+58٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶ MIND YOUR MOVIE MANNERS!!!
- shauntacular, on 07/03/2008, -0/+51"Arrive early enough to buy your snack and find a seat before the movie starts"
I stopped doing this because of the 45 commercials they show. I already paid my $8 for the movie and $10 for snacks. Shouldn't I get my movie without having to sit through a commercial? - alex7575, on 07/03/2008, -0/+50Here's my take, when you're in a theater, shut the ***** up.
- spriggig, on 07/03/2008, -0/+36When I even go anymore (rarely) I usually wait and catch the movie at the $1.50 theater. I save $8 and the theater is never more than half full. Netflix rules.
- seanmx, on 07/03/2008, -2/+37I hope every human being reads this before the release of The Dark Knight.
- liquidfirex, on 07/03/2008, -0/+34I'm at the point where I have very little issue telling the person to just shut the ***** up. No it's not polite, or proper, but it makes me feel better and it's for the greater good.
A friend of mine just walks over to anyone talking and crouches beside them. When they ask what the hell he's doing he just says "I only assumed this conversation would be worth listening in on considering you feel it's more important than the movie" - mattyx, on 07/03/2008, -2/+34One of the main reasons I can wait for movies to hit DVD or the TiVo.
Have people really devolved to such a rude and inconsiderate level? Idiocracy is looking less like a comedy every day... - alex7575, on 07/03/2008, -0/+32Pretty soon "go ***** yourself" won't be considered offensive anymore...
- ubuwalker31, on 07/03/2008, -1/+31Another personal anecdote: I was at the Clifton Commons NJ movieplex for a late afternoon screening of Iron Man. There was a couple with a baby and two other kids behind me. The baby was fairly well behaved for most of the movie (an occasional cry, but nothing distracting), but towards the end, as the action got faster and the sound got louder, the baby became uncomfortable and started howling. Even the two kids sitting next to me were turning around and looking at the couple. After about 5 minutes of this, I turned around and said "Its common courtesy to remove a crying baby from a theater" and the mother did. The father was an ass though and said "you must feel like a big man now", so I replied, "I'm sure that the rest of the crowd thanks me." At the end of the movie, as I got up to go, the father said "let the rude man go by." I was stunned! This asshats own kids were disturbed by the crying baby...ugh. So, I decided to stick up for myself and say "look, I understand what its like to have kids and that its tough, but you have to be considerate to other people." Of course, he wouldn't hear any of it, and said something nasty, so I told him to "keep on breeding" (that was my way of being racist, since he was hispanic...and I caught myself and didn't say anything more racist further) and left the theater.
- burninlover, on 07/03/2008, -0/+29You would think all of these would be common sense. But I guess there's a lot of people out there that don't have it. I've had more then enough movies ruined for me because some idiot is talking loudly or laughing at a serious part of the movie.
- inactive, on 07/03/2008, -0/+28Ok I will punch the baby and parents.
- hollywoodphony, on 07/03/2008, -1/+28Do you think she realized that by saying something so obnoxious, she was going to make millions of people hate her? Or will she chalk that up to jealousy too?
- akatherder, on 07/03/2008, -0/+27I see no mention of my attempts to warn the protagonist of impending danger. Therefore I will continue.
- Corinne716, on 07/03/2008, -0/+27Whoa. First, I hate that the girls who made the idiotic comments about people being jealous had their ages mentioned because I'm in the same age bracket and would NEVER behave that way. Second, I am the person that if you're not quiet 10 minutes into the movie, will get you kicked out. Movies are expensive and something something I love, but rarely get to enjoy. It's sad that I have to wait a few weeks to see a movie I've been looking forward to because there will be so many people talking and being rude if I go right after it's release. Nothing that you need to say is so important that it can't wait, and if it is that important why are you sitting in a theatre. Please don't let rude, stuck up, brainless teens and 20 somethings make you think we're all like that!
- YancyFryJr, on 07/13/2008, -2/+28"The worst offenders, adds Odeon manager Pierre Gauthier, are girls aged 11 to 14.... The girls will come in and then want to go out and maybe have a smoke or meet their friends."
Huh? 11-to-14-year-olds are notorious smokers? Did I misread that? - MoralThreat, on 07/03/2008, -5/+30"latest Nickelback ringtone"
Nickleback is still around?
And when I saw Hulk a few weeks back, some asshat brought their 3 year old thinking it was Shrek or something. The first scene where you see the Hulk the kid starts screaming and wouldn't stop. So finally I yelled out "If you don't get that kid out of here I'm going to turn into the Hulk. You won't like me when I'm....hungry." I was so pissed I couldn't help it. That list should have mentioned getting a ***** babysitter. - EricAnderton, on 07/03/2008, -0/+24Wow. Way to rock out with unicode there.
- inactive, on 07/03/2008, -2/+26The entire population of NYC and NJ needs to read this.
It's like trying to watch a movie in the middle of a pirate banquet.
What you'll hear in any theather in NYC:
"oh no you didn't!"
"Oh SNAP!"
"Don't go there!"
"Repeats sentence everybody just heard"
"Baby crying - at a horror movie"
"4 people talking on cell phones"
"Some ***** dumbass that keeps asking what's going on". - zeabu, on 07/03/2008, -0/+20Commercials are not a film, noone feels irritated/annoyed if you enter while publicity is running. The point was not entering when the films already started. Some of them let the "action" roll from the very first second, I don't like to miss anything, certainly not important clues. I'm glad most films I like are "too boring" for youngsters or shallow people. It has been a while already I saw someone messaging in the theatre. Other films, other public.
- inactive, on 07/03/2008, -0/+20This is why I don't go to movies any more. I'll be damn if I'm going to pay $10 to hear some idiot talk all the way through the movie or some damn baby cry.
- alex7575, on 07/03/2008, -0/+19Do you sign all your comments?
alex7575 - OatmealBatman2, on 07/03/2008, -4/+22*cell
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*countermeasure
This is English. Please use it properly. - Kronos6948, on 07/03/2008, -0/+17Go on a Tuesday night to see movies. Even for first run films, I've been one out of maybe 10 people in the theater.
That being said, I agree with 99% of what this article says. One thing that has me puzzled though is the attitude towards popcorn. I don't eat the stuff personally, but it's a movie house staple, and I don't let people eating popcorn get to me. It's expected. - hollywoodphony, on 07/03/2008, -0/+15It's going to be a nightmare. Every toughguy high school kid in the world is going to be there.
- DownIsTheNewUp, on 07/03/2008, -1/+16Dugg for the dig(g?) at Nickelback. Only low-class people misbehave at the movies and only low-class people listen to Nickelback.
- deadfrank, on 07/03/2008, -7/+21dugg for the nickelback slam, ***** them
- MisterRik, on 07/03/2008, -2/+16No one gave the baby a choice as to whether or not to attend, so don't punch them.
Their parents on the other hand should be the willing recipients of an uppercut - Iztikeit, on 07/03/2008, -0/+14٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶?????
- centran, on 07/03/2008, -0/+14I watched 21 weeks later in a theater that had at least 5 children that where 5 years or younger... WTF is wrong with people?
- blogosphear, on 07/03/2008, -0/+14Best way to avoid the wrong crowd is to hit up a movie during the week or early in the morning. Forget about all showings between 5pm-close on opening weekends.
- 180andback, on 07/03/2008, -2/+15@MillionsLivio: I respond to other peoples' comments just to be an obnoxious *****, which I find to be funny (and mistakenly think others do, too).
I agree with ElFuego,
180andback - iDiggYa, on 07/03/2008, -0/+13No, you didn't. Depending on where you live, you can see kids that age smoking all the time.
- Thrunq, on 07/03/2008, -1/+13Funny how this is Victoria-centric as I can attest to this (I'm from Victoria as well). I seldom go to see movies in theatres out of knowing that at some point, the experience is going to be ruined by some ***** doing any of the following:
Texting
Leaving their Cell Phone On
Talking Obnoxiously
Laughing Obnoxiously (come on, the trailer for Balls of Fury was NOT funny)
Complaining
"What'd I Miss?"
Babies (Rambo isn't meant for babies. Get a babysitter, moron.) - ReidFleming, on 07/03/2008, -0/+12I thought that would work but it turns out there are still horribly-inconsiderate asshats at all times. We saw Iron Man and we were the only people in the theater when the lights went down. During the commercials (sigh), a family of five came in and sat in the five seats right next to us -- not even leaving the "I'm not gay" seat. Then the three children (ages maybe 3 to 8) talked during the whole movie and the parents said --- NOTHING! C'mon, folks. An empty theater and you chose the seats right next to the only two people in the whole place?
- alpha19, on 07/03/2008, -5/+17Is that Independence Day on the movie screen? Appropriate with tomorrow being July 4th.
- shango5, on 07/03/2008, -0/+11I went to go see Underworld 2 and right in the middle of the movie a man and his girlfriend walks in. They stand up in the middle of the damn movie and start to ask a lady who it was obvious they didn't know what they had missed in the movie. They then sit down and start talking. So I'm a big dude and because of that I try to keep my temper but these people had me from 0 to 60. I walk over to them and ask them to be quiet and so they apologize and I walk back to my seat. 5 minutes later I smell smoke. They started to light cigarettes in the middle of the damn movie theater. I walk over to them and ask them are they ***** insane. Hiding the cigarettes in their jacket they start to tell me they don't know what I'm talking about and that they are not smoking. At that point I'm beyond reason and tell them that if they want to smoke or talk then leave the movie or I will help them to leave the movie. That was the last I heard from them for the rest of the show. All of that and the movie ***** sucked but they made it 10X worse.
- hexydes, on 07/03/2008, -0/+11Well, you should just go talk to the theater staff, who almost always attend to the situation.
That said, people suck SO BAD at the movies nowadays, theaters should have, and make it well-known that they have, a zero-tolerance policy on people who are annoying others at the movies. Also, they should move towards a system similar to what many malls are doing, which is limiting who can attend their business at certain hours. The majority of the problems are caused by teenagers who get dropped off by their parents so that they don't have to deal with them for a few hours. Make it a rule at your theater that anyone under the age of 16 (and thus requiring a license for proof) cannot attend movies without a parent or guardian. Yes, it may cut down on one section of your business (annoying teenagers who make everyone hate your theater), but it will also help cultivate another section (everyone else).
That alone would take care of about 70% of the problems I've had with theaters in the last ten years. - carpeclunes, on 07/03/2008, -0/+11I worked at a dollar theater. Pierre Gauthier speaks truth.
- juniorb, on 07/03/2008, -0/+11I'm doing that. Tonight. Thank your friend for the great idea!
- Asheis, on 07/03/2008, -1/+12"Cocooned in their rec room with a bunch of pals, viewing anarchy ruled: You could wolf down food, make phone calls, and express every dumb thought that crossed your sugar-laden frontal lobes," the pop-culture expert says.
ugh... that phrase made me cringle... sugar-laden frontal lobes? the inner psychologist in me is screaming in pain. - thebrinkman, on 07/03/2008, -0/+11Anyone for whom this is new information should never be allowed in a theater to begin with.
- alapoet, on 07/03/2008, -1/+11Every movie goer needs to read this and abide by it!
Especially all those insensitive jerks that seem to show up whenever I go to a movie. - jaynemother, on 07/03/2008, -0/+10I was once at a theater where some guy bought his two year old son. He made some noises throughout but generally was okay, and then towards the end of the movie the baby started crying really loudly that it had to go to the bathroom, it was almost drowning out the characters. Some people were saying things aloud about how they wanted their money back and then one guy shouted "Just take the kid to the bathroom already" Of course the ***** father, not wanting to miss the movie, shouted "You take him bitch!" Mind you I was at Harry Potter 5, and their were tons of kids there. I understand that these people probably couldn't find or afford a baby sitter, but when you decide to have a child you should learn to make sacrifices.
- MoralThreat, on 07/03/2008, -0/+10Early in the movie Ed Norton is trying to learn Portuguese. Right before he turns into the Hulk, he tries to say in Portuguese to his attackers "You won't like me when I'm angry." but mistranslated and said "You won't like me when I'm hungry."
I tend to be a smart ass so I said that instead of the angry part. Probably thought I wanted to eat their kid or something. - hexydes, on 07/03/2008, -0/+10I have *NO* explanation for why people do this. When I walk into a theater and see only one other group of people in there, I do my best to sit polar opposite from them...for everyone's benefit.
It's weird, it's like some people feel more comfortable if they can form a group with you...which is weird, but whatever. But then, you can almost always expect those people to be total douchebags and ruin your movie. So perhaps that is their goal... -
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