Annoying People in the Movie Theater

[X Knight]

When I saw ASM2, there was a family next to me and their two kids were laughing and running up the steps for about an hour and a half into the movie. Finally, the dad took the girl out but not the boy, and he decided to be louder to compensate.

I posted this in one of the ASM2 threads with the comment that I would have liked to slap these parents and one member replied to me saying I was advocating for violence against women. In no way shape or form was I implying anything of the sort. I also want to slap this member. He said that since Spiderman is also for children they should be allowed in the theatre.

I have no problem with children as long as they watch the movie. If they are not watching, they should not be in the theatre. Simple as that.

yep. and if you as the parent can't control your kid, then you shouldn't bring them to the movies and ruin the experience for the rest of us.

 

[CFE]

It's just ridiculous whenever it happens.

They wanna have conversations? They wanna talk or text?

Go do it...but do it outside. Y'know...for FREE. That way everybody wins.

I mean seriously, they're paying money to come into an experience. When you think about it, even though people should know better, there are still so many rings to jump through to get to that point in the theater which, again, one of them includes forking over money...

You have to pay to get in. There are posted show times which allow you to do anything and everything from eating beforehand to going to the bathroom. They tell you to keep the phone off.

You're completely responsible and capable of checking yourself so that when the film starts, you're in it for its entirety. And yet you've got people that want to pay money to keep talking...or people who can't make 30 minutes before standing up and making their way for the bathroom...or people who couldn't schedule a babysitter.

Ugh.

 

[Mysteryman]

I Remember when I went to see Starship Troopers
Somebody brought an infant to this, an R rated movie about giant bugs .
Of course, he cried the entire time .

 

[terry78]

You can't even go see an R rated flick late at night over here in the hood. They'll take those brats whenever and wherever.

 

[That Guy]

During DOFP there was some guy who would would start laughing very loudly every time Peter Dinklage's character would appear on screen. I guess he thought that Trask being played by a dwarf was supposed to be funny? It was pretty disrespectful.

 

[CapedCrusader14]

Man I've had some doozy of bad experiences at movies in the past but Sunday I had the biggest surprise for me. Went and saw X-Men and a whole proceeding of children at a birthday party come in and fill up a quarter of the cinema. Cue everyone feeling nervous because of the possibility of loud children ruining the film.

They barely made a peep the whole film, probably cause of their parents. But still, I couldn't believe it.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

How timely. During my DoFP screening, a bunch of drunken 20-somethings acting like teens were sitting behind me. They made exaggerated yawning sounds during the quiet (or just 'non-action') parts, talked loudly like they were at a bar, ate their snacks like cows chewing cud, and even took a couple calls on their phone.

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Of course, like a good coward, I didn't say anything.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

meh..the crowd reponse...its part of movie going experience...imo,

I'll never understand people who hold this view. It's just baffling to me. I pay 14 dollars for the experience of seeing a film, not for the camaraderie of watching it with a bunch of strange idiots who think they're at the zoo. Seeing it with them is an unfortunate and inescapable byproduct of going to the cinema, not part of a positive experience.

I think people who say seeing the movie with loud, idiotic strangers is a fun part of the experience are just fooling themselves.

 

[Duke]

My sentiments on this topic are that if I pay to go see a movie, I want to enjoy the film as much as possible & not have annoying people taking during the movie or bringing noisy children to the theater. Heck, if want to be talking during the entire movie or messing around with your phone, just stay home because you're only going to be wasting your time & money.

 

[ShadowBoxer]

At my first screening of X Men Days Of Future Past Friday night these guys kept snickering and making comments about how stupid the premise of the X-Men movies are. I was literally getting more and more pissed and wanted to yell " then why the hell did you buy a ticket to see this if you think it's stupid???!!" But Eventually, they stopped with the comments as if they had Professor X's mind reading abilities because I was about five seconds away from going wolverine beserker rage on them.

 

[Kirmit]

When I went to see ASM2 this woman walked in with three kids, around the age of 7-10, sat two of them next to us then went and sat somewhere else despite there being plenty of room. The kids then start getting bored, talking, kicking seats and one of them had those flashing shoes on which he kept setting off purposely. Needless to say it wasn't the greatest experience and I was pretty fuming, if you're taking your kids to the cinema SIT WITH THEM AND CONTROL THEM!

 

[Nemeres]

The morons that whip out their extra-bright iPhones in the rows ahead. I wish the ushers would use laser pointers to let people know that they're being annoying. Or I wish I still had mine, for that matter... and that I was the kind of guy that doesn't mind making a scene. That would show them.

 

[AnneFan]

I've had good cinema going experiences of late, audience behaviour wise. Which is a blessing.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

I went to see SKYFALL in the theater when it came out in Union Square in NYC in the late afternoon. Sat down and was hoping to enjoy myself. Trailers come up and across the aisle, like directly across the aisle a man, a woman and a young (under 6 years old I think) child sits. Through out the trailers the child keeps making comment, after comment that are loud enough that the whole of the audience can hear him. How do I know that everyone there could hear him? Because a good portion of them laughed at the child's comments, which were cute and naive as a child's would be. I wasn't laughing though because I JUST KNEW that this kid was not going to shut up once the film started though I hoped for the best.

No luck. From the moment the film started this kid kept up with the questions, comments and general bratty-ness. "Who's that?" "Oooh... England." "I'm bored." "I'm hungry." "What's that man saying?" "Where's my toy?" "I'm thirsty." And on, and on... all at the same volume as when he was speaking before. Mind you this wasn't him doing this every twenty or thirty minutes, this was more like every five minutes. About forty minutes into the movie I just lost it and yelled at the kids mother, "You know, we all didn't come and pay for tickets to listen to your child?! Control him or take him out of the theater!" Of course the mother takes great umbrage and gives me some jibber jabber about how I'M the one disrupting things and that I was being "disrespectful" to her. (The man that was with her just sank down REAL low in his seat, giving me the impression that he wasn't happy with the situation either. He gave off the vibe of a dude that wanted to go out with this woman but she brings her child with her.) First of all, who brings a child to see any of the Craig Bond films. There is nothing in them to appeal to a kid that young. Nothing. Not to mention the subject matter. Secondly, you know the parent had to be hearing what the child was doing. I wasn't just talking to this woman apropos of nothing. Anyway the kid continues, so I get up walk out the theatre and go to the box office. I inform them of right where the child and the mother are sitting and ask for a refund. The girl at the box office apologizes and gives me a two passes and promises to send someone up to the theatre to check on my complaint.

Look, I don't blame the child. He's a child. He has no self control as kids are want to at that age, and I am sure the last thing he wanted to do was go out with his mom and her boyfriend to see a techno-spy thriller. But it's the mother's duty to TEACH him self control, and it's the mother who should have known better than to bring a child that young to a movie that was in no way shape or form going to hold his attention for two hours.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

Damn. What is it about DoFP bringing out all the jerks and punks? It seems like every one of us has a DoFP theater horror-story.

 

[AnneFan]

Damn. What is it about DoFP bringing out all the jerks and punks? It seems like every one of us has a DoFP theater horror-story.

I'm seeing DoFP this weekend. Hopefully for their sake mobile phone users, chair kickers and general nuisances don't make it inside my screening. I wouldn't want to show off my lethal ninja skills.

 

[Immortalfire]

Y'all do know this topic already exists, in Misc Films? Theater experiences.

 

[Schlosser85]

I can't believe people have the gall to write articles defending their "right" to talk in the theater. How arrogant can you get. It's not your living room and other people don't pay to listen to your stupid conversations.

 

[Octoberist]

If God, Buddha and Gandi announced to the world "Don't bring your crying babies to movie theaters', you'll still get tons of people doing it regardless. These are probably the same people who leave a Marvel movie once the credits roll. Think about that: there's a segment of the population who have NO IDEA of the stinger endings to these movies for the past 6 years.

It's a fascinating character study because it really shows off their character, and their kids will be A-holes too because of the lack of respect and intuitiveness. Survival of the fittest,

 

[Duran Man]

I usually see a morning or afternoon showing of a movie 2 or more weeks after it has come out to avoid the crowd. I've never seen a movie opening weekend, and couldn't imagine doing so (especially after reading some of these stories).

 

[Ant-manic]

someone brought a fussy infant into X-Men Days of the Future Past; 7 pm show. they must have drugged the child because he/she stopped screaming in terror half-way through.

 

[E-Man]

There were a few people whispering briefly at the beginning of during Days of Future Past, but it wasn't really distracting. It was more like, "Eh. That happened for a few seconds." Winter Soldier though still pisses me off to this day. There was a whole row of idiots behind me doing dumb ass things because they are dumb asses. They were giggling at little stupid things, whispering back and forth, blowing bubbles in their drinks, and chomping on their popcorn pretty loud. At one point I turned my head at something dumb they said, and one of the idiots was like, "I think that dude heard us. *giggles*" No **** you stupid bastard! I even hailed our clerk at Studio Movie Grill, but no one showed up until it was time to bring everyone their bill for the food. Yeah, I'm not going back to that one again.

The funny part is that I saw Winter Soldier in the upscale part of town with a bunch of preppie kids, and I saw Days of Future Past at the ghetto theater. I figured that DOFP would be the one where people showed their ass in the theater, but that was Winter Soldier. It's too bad that the Dome from that Oatmeal comic about people talking in the theater doesn't exist. Either that or high kicks to the face would do some good....or ya know. Just give us headphone jacks in theaters if you don't want to be deliciously violent and evil to handle stupid people.

 

[Shawn Wayne]

So I used to dip and spit into the straw while in a theater. I was at Three Kings and a family came in and sat next to us. They brought their new baby who cried though out the whole movie and their other kid, who thought he was stealing my pop but actually drank discarded tobacco juice and threw up VIOLENTLY half way through the movie. I like to think I taught them a valuable lesson in theater etiquette

 

[Mandon Knight]

What is so sad about any distracting behavouir in seeing a film that someone feels they must disrupt is that the realisation that they clearly don't go to the cinema for the reasons I and most of us do, to respect an artform at the highest level. What is the point of paying on average £12.00 say, to sit and text someone, call someone, behave like a dick, go and do that elsewhere, learn some respect and get the f**k out of the cinema.

 

[Fallen Angel]

So went to watch DOFP for the second time today still awesome.

Sat above this obnoxious woman who kept giving a play by play of the film even though she know the square root of absolute F all about it. Kept munching on the popcorn and to round it off called the great leader of the post credit scene the leader of the smurfs.

I'd have her hanged just for that.