I would go to the movies more often ....

[billikens]

That's outstanding.

 

[Madhavok]

The local theater (and only one in an hour or so drive) has the worst sound system. Charge your $11 and $7 popcorns, but don't try to fix the sound.

 

[Killick]

Meh - I've got no problem with folks occasionally texting during a movie. It's quiet, and if a cell phone light is enough to distract you, someone getting up and walking outside (and then returning) is probably going to annoy you, too.

But if the theater has a "no texting" rule, as Alamo does, no means no. Should have physically tossed her out, so she landed on the sidewalk on her ass.

 

[Starman]

Texting, I don't really care, unless they hold the screens up so they are visible from other seats and the glare distracts from the movie. (Or if they have an audible text 'jingle' noise.) If they hold them down in their laps, I don't give a ****.

But talking on the cellie during movies, it's ****ing go time. I was in a theater once where some stupid teenage kid got four calls during a movie. Each time she just started yacking. The theater manager had an usher haul her out by the hand, otherwise there was going to be a ****ing brawl.

The first call, there were a lot of exasperated sighs and "hang up the ******* phone." The second and third calls, people were yelling, "get off that phone ***** or it's gonna get turned into scrap metal and shoved up your ass." Fourth call, people were walking toward her aisle. The ushers arrived with seconds to spare.

Although it's been 8 or 10 months since I saw a movie in a theater so I suppose I don't give a **** either way.

 

[GoochMan]

Texting, I don't really care, unless they hold the screens up so they are visible from other seats and the glare distracts from the movie. (Or if they have an audible text 'jingle' noise.) If they hold them down in their laps, I don't give a ****.

But talking on the cellie during movies, it's ****ing go time. I was in a theater once where some stupid teenage kid got four calls during a movie. Each time she just started yacking. The theater manager had an usher haul her out by the hand, otherwise there was going to be a ****ing brawl.

The first call, there were a lot of exasperated sighs and "hang up the ******* phone." The second and third calls, people were yelling, "get off that phone ***** or it's gonna get turned into scrap metal and shoved up your ass." Fourth call, people were walking toward her aisle. The ushers arrived with seconds to spare.

Although it's been 8 or 10 months since I saw a movie in a theater so I suppose I don't give a **** either way.

Not that I'd want serious harm to come to anyone in a movie theatre...but that is a funny story. Was she scared or defiant when the crowd came at her?

 

[Starman]

Texting, I don't really care, unless they hold the screens up so they are visible from other seats and the glare distracts from the movie. (Or if they have an audible text 'jingle' noise.) If they hold them down in their laps, I don't give a ****.

But talking on the cellie during movies, it's ****ing go time. I was in a theater once where some stupid teenage kid got four calls during a movie. Each time she just started yacking. The theater manager had an usher haul her out by the hand, otherwise there was going to be a ****ing brawl.

The first call, there were a lot of exasperated sighs and "hang up the ******* phone." The second and third calls, people were yelling, "get off that phone ***** or it's gonna get turned into scrap metal and shoved up your ass." Fourth call, people were walking toward her aisle. The ushers arrived with seconds to spare.

Although it's been 8 or 10 months since I saw a movie in a theater so I suppose I don't give a **** either way.

Not that I'd want serious harm to come to anyone in a movie theatre...but that is a funny story. Was she scared or defiant when the crowd came at her?

Kind of aggressively oblivious the first couple times, like "I'm gonna do whatever I want," but the last couple of times it was clear people were getting pissed.

However she didn't seem worried enough to put her phone on silent, or NOT TO ANSWER it the last time it rang.

 

[RedHotChiliPrepper]

I usually go to the movies once a week and went to see the hangover the other week. Went to a 10:15 show on a Tuesday figuring with school still in we'd avoid the high school kids. Walked into the theater and was one of 6 people there. Within 10 minutes it was full of high school kids. Kid in front of me was clearly drunk or high and kept reclining his seat back into my knees. Girls behind me were chatting away. About 5 minutes into the movie a high school guy walks into the theater and the girl behind ms stands up and yell, "Brian sweetie we're over here. Where have you been?" Im a pretty mild mannered person and not very confrontational, but at 6-1, 350 I can be kind of intimidating. So I turned around and said "are you ****ing kidding me? This is a movie theater, shut the hell up." She went ghost white and was quiet for about 5 minutes.

Couldn't believe how many kids were just casually chatting away during the flick. When did the movies become a social experience?

 

[JackReacher]

There's an Alamo Drafthouse not far from my hometown. Tried going there when I was back home a month or two ago. The movie I wanted to see was sold out. So we went over to the old, nubby mall theatre instead. Missed out on the good theatre, but I saved a ton of cash.

There was a place like that in Huntsville when I lived down there. Very, very nice theatre.

 

[Huggy]

Last movie I was at - much to Mrs. Huggy's dismay - was There's Something About Mary and in those days there were no CrackBerries and I don't know anyone who texted. And if you had a cell it was probably as big as a brick.

And get off my lawn!

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Last movie I was at - much to Mrs. Huggy's dismay - was There's Something About Mary and in those days there were no CrackBerries and I don't know anyone who texted. And if you had a cell it was probably as big as a brick.

And get off my lawn!

Wow. I used to go twice a week. I now go about 5-6 times a year.

 

[Dyno]

I love going to the movies. I usually see about 30 movies a year in the theater. Given that my fellow moviegoers don't have the best manners, though, I am picky about when/where I'll go. I tend to go to matinees, I rarely go see a movie within the first two weeks of its opening and I only go to certain theaters. Despite the loud senior citizens and the texters, I still enjoy seeing a movie on the big screen. When I watch movies at home, I am too easily distracted.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

When I was still in journalism, I loved nothing more than going to the noon showings, especially when I was on the road.

I love a nearly empty theater.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I went to see Higher Learning in theatres years ago, and the audience was predominantly black. After a particularly incendiary scene, there was audible grumbling among the audience that got pretty loud. One white jackass in the back of the theatre then thought it'd be a good idea to stand up and shout, "Would you @#$%@s shut the **** up!?!?!" He was escorted out, but I not-so-secretly hoped someone would follow him out and give him a beatdown.

When I was in high school I went to see Do The Right Thing... in Oakland... We were killing time before an A's game and thought where better to see the movie than Oakland.

There were four of us and we were the only white people in the theater. It was either opening weekend or the second weekend and I don't think we knew how powerful the movie would be. I seem to recall the previews making it seem more like a comedy, but we were pretty young and didn't know any better...

We should have left when one of my friends laughed waaaay too hard at one of John Turturro's lines, I think when they were going back and forth with the races all ripping each other.

At the end of the movie, one patron chased said friend out of the theater and needless to say it scared the **** out of the rest of us...

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

 

[king cranium maximus IV]

Not a frequent moviegoer, but an occasional one.

I have not once had a problem with a cell phone user in a movie theater in my years on this mortal coil. Never accosted anyone in a theater. Never been accosted.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

After a guy answered his phone three times and had three different conversations while I was at Gladiator on opening night, I threw his phone across the theater. I immediately had one of those feelings like, "Oh, ****, I'm going to get arrested or I hope this guy isn't bigger than I am."

The people in the theater started applauding and as luck would have it, the guy was about half my size and he just ran to get his phone and if he sat back down in the theater it wasn't in front of me.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

... If teenagers were forced to attend other theaters, preferably in a different plane of existence.

I don't blame teenagers. I've seen plenty of so-called adults who were just as bad.

So very true indeed,

The theater I frequent has a much older clientele. I'm in my early 40s and I'm often the youngest person in the theater. Sometimes I wish there were teenagers there. Some of the senior citizens WHO SHOULD KNOW BETTER talk and talk and talk.

Outside of midtown-NYC theatres showing blockbuster fare (always a brutal environment), the seniors are completely out to lunch in most suburbs, especially during matinees. They act like they're talking in front of their home TVs. I'm no kid, but I've verbally laid more than a few of them out. They don't quite know how to react.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

I'm 25. Sometimes I text in theatres. I was watching the hangover 2 last week and I had to pull my phone out a few times to shoot an e-mail to an editor, or a contact, or my real estate agent. Just one of those things. And no, I didn't have time to wait.

Sorry .... then step out. Your phone screen lighting up is distracting and annoying.

Totally agree.

Not looking to cause Mustang grief . . . but unless you're in the last row, in the corner, I must concur with the dissenters.

 

[TrooperBari]

I love a nearly empty theater.

A truly underrated experience — unless you're going to a movie that demands audience participation (i.e. Plan 9 From Outer Space, etc.).

 

[Ben_Hecht]

I love a nearly empty theater.

A truly underrated experience — unless you're going to a movie that demands audience participation (i.e. Plan 9 From Outer Space, etc.).

Love it. Late one night, half-dozen of us comprised the entire crowd for the first half-hour of the latest Stones concert film. Priceless.