Good Movie Manners Cost Nothing

[ElleCee]

SweetOblivion, exactly like that. Actually, one of my brothers did that to me...he went to Empire and came back and was all...so Luke and Leia are brother and sister. What an ass.

Shalamar, you're good people.

Xerox, that was super freaky. I'm upset reading it. I'm glad that guy left.

[bklynred]

Jul 27, 2010 2:52:06 GMT -4 Xerox said:

Last week, I went to a matinee so there weren't a ton of people. I walked in just ahead of a guy and went and sat on the left aisle in the last row. He sat on the right aisle about eight rows down. (The were two aisles on either side of the theater, rather than one aisle in the middle.) After the movie started, he moved to sit at the other end of the aisle where I was sitting. Ten minutes later, he moved several seats toward me. About ten more minutes later, he moved again, closer to me. I looked over, wondering why he kept moving. I got really creeped out when every time I looked his way, he was looking back at me. Then he moved again, so close that there were only about five seats between us. So, then I moved down a few rows, near a group of three or four women. A little while after that, I saw the guy go back to the other side of the theater, then walk down the stairs and out the door. He never came back.

xerox, I empathize... I was in a small theater with two of my friends--this was years ago--and had a guy do the same thing...slowly get closer and closer to us. When he was in the same row? He started jacking off in earnest. We flipped out and he suddenly ran. Jerk.

[Shalamar]

Jerk.

... -off. (Sorry, couldn't resist.)

Xerox, gum-cracking may not be as dire as, say, performing intimate sexual acts in a theatre or threatening physical violence, but I HATE that sound, so I sympathize. I'd be going nuts if someone was cracking her gum next to me. I used to work with a guy who cracked his gum constantly, and his boss would always sharply say "Frank, you're doing it again" because she hated the sound as well. Then she went on vacation for two weeks, and he said happily "Great, now I can crack my gum all day long if I want!" - and he did just that. For two solid weeks. It apparently didn't occur to him that other people might hate the sound as much as the boss did.

[incognito]

Jul 26, 2010 16:13:14 GMT -4 Dharma said:

Jul 25, 2010 23:36:40 GMT -4 Babycakes said:

When I saw Inception last week, I a woman pull out her BB/iphone thing when she walked in, and and it was so bright I immediately looked her way. It was brighter than a flashlight beam. I assumed she was shutting it off. How wrong I was. She pulled it out at least 5 times during the movie. Even if you're not talking on the damned thing, and just checking the time or looking at your messages, it distracts other theater goers. So fucking rude. If you're that important and can't afford to miss one freaking phone call, don't bring your ass to a room where other people are trying to get lost in the fantasy. Stupid twat.

This happened to me as well but I was at Salt and the dumbass was sitting on my right. I finally couldn't take it anymore, turned to her and said:"Really? You're checking your e-mails during the movies? The damn light is bothering me so turn your phone off". She looked at me as if I was the one being rude for making such a request. She did not turn off the phone. She merely held it against her leg to block out the light.

Checking emails and texts seems to be endemic in theaters nowadays. I can't recall the last time I went to the movies and someone wasn't checking his or her phone throughout the film. Do these fuckwits - yes, eloquent insult, I know - not realize that the bright light emanating from their phones, the light that allows them to see their phone in a darkened movie theater, is also the same light that lets everybody sitting around them see their phone as well? Dumbasses. No, trying to hide your phone does NOT work. If you can see your phone, then so can we.

Most theaters now run those ads that ask people to be silent and not talk on their phones during a movie. But I wish they'd come up with a new ad asking people to not check their phones either. The current ads do ask people to refrain from texting, but it's under the guise of texting supposedly being noisy. And a good number of moviegoers are apparently too stupid to realize that the light from their phones is distracting, and clearly they won't come to this realization on their own. So...new commercial, please?

I once went to the theater where my friend started pulling out her phone to check it. I stopped her with a Look and said, "Dude, are you serious? Don't do that, the light from your phone is really distracting." She looked bewildered, as if the thought had never occurred to her before, but to her credit she did put away her phone.

[Lisa Miller]

I had a guy sitting behind me in the theater and he kept putting his feet on the back of my chair. Not in the middle, but right on the top next to my head. I turned around and looked at him and he put them down. But a few minutes later he did it again. So I turned around and he put them down. A few minutes later...he did it again. This time I stood up, turned around and said to him, "Look if you want to prop your feet up and watch a movie go home and sit in your recliner." He looked at me like I was crazy. But he just got up and moved down to another row where there was no one sitting in front of him so he could prop up his lazy ass legs. So much hate.

[Deleted]

People who can't go two hours without checking their messages have very high opinions of themselves and need to get lives. If it's a life and death situation where they absolutely need to be reachable, they shouldn't be at a damn movie.

[magazinewhore]

That would completely infuriate me. I wish I had the balls to say something; I just resort to the shaming withering glare. Sometimes it works, often not.

[chitowngirl]

Aug 2, 2010 16:58:01 GMT -4 @roisin54 said:

People who can't go two hours without checking their messages have very high opinions of themselves and need to get lives. If it's a life and death situation where they absolutely need to be reachable, they shouldn't be at a damn movie.

[happymeal]

So much agreement to the cell phone etiquette in movies. I was at Charlie St Cloud with my 13 year old niece this Sunday, and this woman answered her phone during the previews who was sitting directly behind us. Now I can possibly understand a quick "I'm at a movie and the previews just started, I'll call you when I'm done." But this lady proceeded to start having a very loud and long conversation. My niece was getting really upset because this movie was her birthday present to me so she had paid for everything. After listening to this woman talk for three entire previews about who did what with whom the night before and what other important topics she just HAD to talk about, I calmly turned around and told her to shut up and shut off the phone or to finish her conversation out of the theater so we could enjoy the movie.

She glared at me and left the theater, only to return with a manager a few minutes later. She went to complain about me! ;D I went out and talked to the manager, explained what had happened, and was pretty pissed that I was being complained about. Needless to say, our movie and popcorn was free that day. People are completely ridiculous.

[Deleted]

What? She was causing a disturbance and had the gall to complain about you? Geez. She sounds like the type of person who would sue someone for hitting her after she broke into their house.