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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2012 15:59:14 GMT -4
I try to be polite and open my contraband snacks during the previews.
The worst experience I have at movies is the person in the corner who has to look at their phone multiple times during the movie. They always seem to sit on the aisle, too, like they're waiting for a call and might have to dash out.
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Post by Shalamar on Jul 12, 2012 16:53:28 GMT -4
Heh, I'm embarrassed to say that that was me a couple of weeks ago during Brave. I was on call for work, so I kept my phone on my lap - but I made sure that it was (a) on vibrate and (b) face-down so that its lit-up screen wouldn't disturb people too much. Would you believe that damned thing rang (er, vibrated) SIX TIMES during the movie, not once for work? The first time was a friend. The other five times were Sears trying to confirm an appointment to fix our treadmill. Yeesh.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2012 17:16:57 GMT -4
Heh, I'm embarrassed to say that that was me a couple of weeks ago during Brave. I was on call for work, so I kept my phone on my lap - but I made sure that it was (a) on vibrate and (b) face-down so that its lit-up screen wouldn't disturb people too much. Would you believe that damned thing rang (er, vibrated) SIX TIMES during the movie, not once for work? The first time was a friend. The other five times were Sears trying to confirm an appointment to fix our treadmill. Yeesh. This happens quite regularly in movies that I'm seeing, like it's my movie curse. Hunger Games, Magic Mike, and The Avengers are the most recent movies I remember seeing, and there was always that one person on the aisle with a phone. I really only notice because I sit in the middle up near the top. |
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Post by forever1267 on Jul 22, 2012 22:35:56 GMT -4
Well, here's a new one. Front row center for The Dark Knight Rises, a father kept his little one entertained by showing (thankfully, at least) silent videos on his phone during the movie. I was in front row corner, looking up and sideways, but it was in my peripheral vision. It must have been visible for everyone else.
The plus side was the crying kid at the beginning of the movie, and the father who took him out right away.
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Post by ElleCee on May 28, 2013 16:10:41 GMT -4
Odd things happen to me at movies. I'm a magnet for weird, I think. This particular incident is bad even for me though. Two of my friends and I went to go see that Ethan Hawke horror flick, Sinister. The theatre is not crazy busy but decently full. We're sitting on the end of the aisle and further down are three younger girls maybe 19 or 20yo, no one else is in our aisle. The movie starts and has some legit scary moments in the beginning with the super 8 murder footage. All three girls to my right stand up and start down the aisle, I'm thinking they're in the wrong movie or something and move back a bit so they can get by as do my friends. Two leave and the last girl leans down to me and says: my friends are leaving because they're scared, can I sit with you?
I'm all...sure. It's odd but the movie is playing and I'm not wanting to get into a conversation. So she sits beside me and as the movie is playing and getting scarier she's clutching me and hiding her face in my arm. Uhm...okay strange person invading my personal space. This goes on until the end of the movie. She's obviously scared to death and I was in a totally weird position. My friends had no idea that this was going on and and I'm thinking to myself...what the fuck?
It's the strangest most surreal movie going moment that I've ever experienced.
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Post by SweetOblivion on May 31, 2013 21:12:58 GMT -4
Last night, the Alamo Drafthouse had a screening of RETURN OF THE JEDI. The guy next to me decided to turn it into an impromptu quote-a-long. He also acted out certain parts.
I think I may be officially done with seeing movies in the theater.
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Post by lea1977 on May 31, 2013 21:25:38 GMT -4
The quote-ers, they are the worst.
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Post by eclair on May 31, 2013 21:50:48 GMT -4
I don't know, ElleCee's clutching stranger is pretty weird. Maybe quoters are more annoying, a stranger clutching you (and please don't let this become some sort of trend) is less annoying and more disturbing.
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Post by Gigiree on May 31, 2013 22:25:58 GMT -4
I have a very loud and distinctive laugh, so much so that the last time I was in Chicago and went to live theater, a former student, who worked as an usher, heard my laugh and sent me an e-mail asking if I was in town and went to such-n-such show. This quirk is something that I fully acknowledge, and as such, I choose to watch comedies only at home so that I do not disturb others in the movie theater. Why, oh why, can't others have the same consideration? (Of course, of all the comedies I've watched recently, at most I've let out a few halfhearted chuckles, not full-on, out-loud laughter.  ) |
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Post by Brookie on May 31, 2013 22:29:06 GMT -4
I have a very loud and distinctive laugh, so much so that the last time I was in Chicago and went to live theater, a former student, who worked as an usher, heard my laugh and sent me an e-mail asking if I was in town and went to such-n-such show. This quirk is something that I fully acknowledge, and as such, I choose to watch comedies only at home so that I do not disturb others in the movie theater. Why, oh why, can't others have the same consideration? (Of course, of all the comedies I've watched recently, at most I've let out a few halfhearted chuckles, not full-on, out-loud laughter. ) So, you don't want others to be able to laugh out loud at a comedy?  |
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