Good Movie Manners Cost Nothing

[spinsterliz]

When I went to see "Batman and Robin" (yeah, I know I shouldn't have seen it) they played an ad for "Men in Black." A guy sitting behind me announced loudly, "That looks completely CORNBALL!" as soon as the ad ended.

While seeing the updated version of "Pyscho", there is a scene where Vince Vaugn's character is spying on Anne Heche in the shower and looking excited. My sister said aloud, "Don't bother. She's gay." I had to snicker. (This, of course, was before Anne Heche got married to a man; at the time she was presumed to be a lesbian.)

[Shalamar]

My friend was at a movie last year, and on came a trailer for Son of the Mask. Everyone else in the theatre contented him/herself with just gazing in horror at the screen, or mumbling something like "What were they thinking?" Friend couldn't stand it, though, and he roared "That's gonna SUCK!". Cue applause and whistles from the audience.

[Deleted]

I can't understand why any parent would think these movies are ok to let their young kids watch.

Because they are selfish and they don't want to pay for a babysitter and they want to see the movie, dammit, and too bad for any other adults in the theater who don't want to listen to their kid go "Mommy Mommy Mommy" all the way through Frida (which was rated R, and that means it is NOT a movie for 2 year olds). Whew, sorry, I guess y'all know why I don't go to the movies anymore.

[hobocamp]

Hobocamp, I can't stop laughing. Chaaaa!
What does that mean??

Yeah, I've taken to doing that anytime anything remotely confuses me or pisses me off, and my boyfriend is starting to pick it up too. The other day we were driving and someone cut us off, and we both went, "What... Chaaaa!" at the exact same time. Great times.

To update, I did pull her aside and tell her that although she probably didn't even realize it, she was disturbing the class screenings with her comments. She turned red and looked really sad, but I told her it was ok, just to watch herself from now on. So all is good now.

[january]

When we went to see Episode III this past Friday, there were two high school boys in the front row wearing Batman masks, and when the Batman Begins trailer was over, they stood up, faced the audience, raised their arms and went "Woooo!" It was pretty clear they'd rehearsed this a few times. When they sat back down, some guy behind us with a thick Texas accent yelled out, "What movie are y'all here to see?" I can't explain why, but it was really funny.

[tinyshoes]

I went to see Hitchhiker's Guide and wound up sitting behind a family of coughing bastards who got louder as the movie progressed, and we finally had to move. I can understand the occasional cough (hey, throats tickle-- it's allergy season), but if you're really that sick, stay the hell home and take your pathogens with you. Grrrr. . .

[monsterzero]

One thing I cannot stand in film classes (only, slightly off-topic) is the losers who walk out on movies. Sorry, but it's a pet peeve of mine that someone who has an honest love of films would take a class that showcases the art and yet doesn't not seem to get that they might have to watch something that's very unlike current blockbusters.

My case in point is a Film Appreciation Class I had long ago where we were watching a segment from Kwaidan called 'Ichi the Earless.' It's about forty minutes long, subtitled, with a linear narrative structure that really has some slow moments that add suspense (without music). I would have enjoyed it more if 3/4ths of the fucking class didn't walk out rudely. At the very end there were only five people left.

Come on, people! Not every freaking movie is Recently American! How about expanding your mind, huh?? God! *grumble*

[hobocamp]

Ugh, welcome to my life, Monster Zero.

[spinsterliz]

What I think is disgusting is that people with kiddies are let in to R-rated movies at all. I mean yeah, it is dumb and selfish of parents to bring their children to them, but it's just as dumb for the employees to let them in. Somebody should stop the parents at the theatre door and say, "Sorry, sir/ma'am, this movie is rated R and you can't take a toddler inside." What's the point of rating movies if nobody is going to enforce the ratings?

Where I live, though, it usually swings the other way, thankfully. I was actually asked to show ID when I went to a horror movie a while back. I was 22 at the time! What's especially funny is that I look older than my age (I've never even gotten carded at bars). So they were obviously being extra, extra careful!

Edited (again) to add: Interesting. I always thought children were barred from R-rated movies.

[colette]

Children are allowed into R-rated movies as long as they're with their parents. The employees can't bar them. That's the difference between R and NC17. Nobody under 17 can go into an NC17 movie, period.