Good Movie Manners Cost Nothing

[dangwhathaveu8]

I'll add my little story.. And before I tell you guys. Dont ask me why I didn't do anything. I still have no clue.

I went to go see Broken Lizard's Club Dread with my friends (shut up it was free, one of the girls I went with worked at the theater) and there was around 10 whole people in the audience. On opening weekend. Anyway we just happen to be sitting in front of this guy who I already had a bad feeling about. He was by himself and was smelling really really bad. So the movie starts and during that first couple of scenes where the guy in the cave gets it on with the two girls, my friends and I began to hear the guy behind us making noises. Kind of a cross between a soft laugh and a heavy breathing. We just looked at each other and remained frozen in our seats. He continued what ever he was doing for a good ten minutes and then after that he would make these stupid comments when boobs were shown. He got up early (no pun intended) and left before the movie ended. Even today I'm going to enjoy my denial bubble and say it was nothing and that he was having a mild breathing problem. MILD. BREATHING. PROBLEM. I hope.

The friend who works at my local theater says the only time she hates her job is when she has to do her audience checks because sometimes at the almost empty theaters there is always a couple having sex or going down on one another. And shes usually the one that has to go up to them and tell them to stop. I feel bad for her.

[aims]

I went to see Meet the Fockers with my friend. The theater where we went is more strict now about when they let you in. So my friend and I showed the attendant our tickets and he said that they weren't ready to let anyone in yet. So we just went to the back of the small line and waited. Well SECONDS later he calls out our movie and lets everyone know they can go in. We just died laughing because 3 seconds ago it wasn't ok to go in, but NOW it is. It just cracked us up because he was totally taking his responsibility very seriously. I guess we were just in a funny mood that day.

Went to "Hitch" with my boyfriend on Sunday and after the kids behind us finished singing the opening song of the movie, everyone calmed down, laughed in the right places and were generally very pleasant.


Oh man, LOVE the Tiny Moist Hand story

[pinkdog]

I have two Titanic stories.

Story 1: Christmas holidays. Packed theatre. During the scene where Rose is learning to spit, a few rows behind me begins a commotion. We turn around and see one dude leap across a row of people and begin beating another dude's ass. Not just a swing or two: Beating. His. Ass. It was really odd because you'd think we would have heard the fight brewing, but no. Even funnier is that after the dude was beaten into submission--which only took maybe a minute--dude #1 went back to his seat and dude #2 got back in his. Nobody reported it to management, in part I think, because the whole thing happened so quietly. If I hadn't been right there, I wouldn't have noticed. I bet the other reason it didn't get reported is that nobody wanted to further anger these dudes, and they seemed to have settled it.

Story 2: In the restroom after the movie, two old ladies were in line behind me. One said to the other, "It was a really good movie, wasn't it?" She replied, "Yes it was, but why did the ship have to sink at the end? So sad! So sad!" The first said, "I know, I thought about that too." The second replied, "I know that's how it happened, but they could have changed it for the movie."

Cute old ladies!

[baseballgirl]

PinkDog said:

"I know that's how it happened, but they could have changed it for the movie."

Hee! You know, the way Hollywood thumbs its nose at history, it wouldn't surprise me if they had done this. Altough I suppose a movie about an uneventful sailing of a ship would be pretty boring.

And you know that during the pitch meeting for the recent Alamo movie (especially given that Ron Howard was directing), someone asked, "Can't we have the Texans win this time?"

[schmoosie]

I have two stories to tell. I've always wanted to post in this thread in the other place, but well...never got around to it.

When I was a kid, my best friend's (at the time) family took us to the movies to see Space Camp. Obviously this was a long time ago. I even remember seeing the trailer for Ferris Bueller's Day Off.. Anyway. There was t his obnoxious kid running up and down the isle screaming. It was disrupting even us from several rows back and away. You'd have to understand the town I lived in to understand why managment did nothing about this. Finally, someone sitting on the outside seat, near the isle stuck out their foot and tripped the little kid as it ran past. Half the theater laughed and applauded. Apparently the parents realized (duh) that the kid was annoying and kept it quite for the rest of the movie. A few years later, I entered high school. A new friend and I were talking she said "Once I went to see the move Space Camp, and this jerk little kid was running up and down the isle, so I stuck out my foot and tripped him". I told her I was at that movie and we were freaked out (I don't know why, we came from a smallish town). Her and I are still friends, and it is so like her to stick out her foot and trip an obnoxious kid.

My second experience isn't really that bad. I've not had many bad movie experiences. My husband wanted to see American Wedding, so we went. I was in the bad morning sickness part of my pregnancy, so when the dog poop scean came...I simply closed my eyes. The guy in front of me however, wasn't so smart, the scean made him throw up (and luckily he ran from the theater to do so) Hubby said softly, "Maybe he's pregnant"...I thought it was funny.

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Went to see Hide and Seek last night, and this has got to be the first time I have encountered adult movie talkers since...well ever.

They talked over the trailers: Apparently, they love Star Wars, but aren't planning on seeing Christian Bale or Orlando Bloom's latest flicks.

They talked over the opening sequence of the movie, loudly expressed their opinions over the mom and Dakota Fanning's haircolour. Halfway through, one of them gets a phone call (and it just so happens to be one of the most annoying ringtones ever), and decided to be loud somewhere else. So after 10 mins of coat searching, the oldest woman gets up, and getting her coat, also yanks half my hair along.

I swear, they would have ran out, if they had seen the 250+ dirty stairs in their direction.

[rubysoho]

This is from a few years back, but it never fails to make me laugh.

About four years ago, a friend and I saw The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me at a Gay and Lesbian film festival. We stood out like a sore thumb right from the beginning. We thought it would be a mixed crowd. We soon realized that we were the only women and probably the only straight people in the entire theater, which was packed. We found two seats and settled in. Just before the movie started, a man walked in and took a seat in the first row. He took his coat off and put it back on backwards, as if he were using it as a blanket. We joked about it and made bets on how long it would be before he fell asleep. The movie started, and within a few minutes, we could hear a faint snoring sound coming from the first row. Backwards coat man was sound asleep. He was quiet, so I was able to ignore it. Towards the end of the movie, during a very serious part, backwards coat guy started snoring very loudly. We were six to seven rows behind him, but it was very distracting. I tried my best to ignore it, but my friend made the mistake of looking at me and I lost it. I started laughing my ass off at the most inappropriate time. I was quiet and I'm sure everybody knew why I was laughing, but I felt really awful. Once I start laughing, I can't stop. I had tears streaming down my face. This made my friend laugh harder, which made me laugh harder. After a few minutes of this, I was finally able to compose myself and I went back to watching the movie. When the movie ended and the lights came on, backwards coat man got up and left like nothing had happened. We all had a good laugh about it once he was gone. I would like to apologize to anybody that I disturbed, even though it really wasn't my fault. Come on. Who pays to get into a film festival and then takes a nap?!!

[bbug]

Ruby Soho that sleeping guy story reminds me of this one movie-watching experience I had. I used to go see a movie after every exam to calm myself down, and once this homeless man came into the theater about 20 minutes into the movie, plopped down and took a nap. He didn't sleep through the whole thing; he got up after maybe 30-40 minutes and left. I'm not sure how he got in; it was after an early exam and I was one of maybe four people in the theater, and there wasn't a lot of staff on at the theater, so maybe he snuck in from the mall or something. He smelled really awful even though I was sitting pretty far away, so it was hard to keep from looking at him instead of at the screen. I'm originally from a smallish town so it was the first time I'd seen anything like that. I guess this isn't really a manners story, but it is pretty random. Poor guy.

[lyrasilver]

I finally have something to add to this thread. I went to a Saturday matinee showing of Robots with my father over the weekend. I figured there would be a few families there, but not many, since it was an 11 AM show. We walked in and were immediately deafened by the din caused by about forty six year olds all clamoring for popcorn and soda from the same three adults. I don't know who would ever agree to have forty kids at the movies for someone's birthday, but apparently these adults didn't think it was going to be a problem. They were incessantly loud all through the previews, and then... the noise stopped as the movie started. Maybe the combined effects of sugary soda and movie theater popcorn butter drugged them all into a stupor. So, my apologies, birthday party kids, because I was ready to blame all of you for a bad movie experience.

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I went to see Hitch the other day and some guy behind me answered his cell phone. The event when something like this:

Dumb ass: Hey... I'm seeing Hitch... HITCH... So what's up...

Me: ::glare of death::

Dumb ass: ::cups hand over phone and mumbles on with the conversation::

Me: ::glare of death::

Dumb ass: ::leaves the theatre to talk outside::

Honestly, what's the point of paying $8.50 for a movie you're not planning on watching? I was waiting for him to talk audibly one more time before I asked him if I could borrow his cell. Alas, he left before I got the chance.