People being rude/annoying at the cinema

[The Hulk]

My biggest annoyance is paying the price of a ticket ONLY to not be able to focus completely on the movie because people think it's okay to have a chit-chat or use their phone during the movie with the flash on their phone.

There is plenty of cafes in our small town if they want to talk to each other. The cinema isn't the place to do it.

I could easily watch a movie on Netflix or other online sites BUT it's fun to be able to go to the cinema and watch a film on a big screen.

 

[Tommy Boy]

Agreed. I've been told to avoid the movie theater in my neighborhood because people talk in it, but so far that's never happened. With the price of an IMAX movie these days, people expect quiet. The only time I experienced people being noisy was dealt with almost immediately. Staff told them to stop talking or leave. They left lol.

 

[Benzine]

Which small town do I need to avoid, The Hulk?

All the cinemas, whenever I go to them, are fine.

 

[The Hulk]

Which small town do I need to avoid, The Hulk?

All the cinemas, whenever I go to them, are fine.

A small town in New Zealand.

 

[Benzine]

A small town in New Zealand.

Yeah, I live in Wellington.

 

[The Hulk]

Yeah, I live in Wellington.

Oooh. A neighbor I lived in Wellington for a year a couple years ago.

Ashburton (South Island)

 

[Benzine]

Jeez, I just said I'm from NZ, I know where places are!

But that also explains why you have bad cinema experiences.

 

[The Hulk]

Jeez, I just said I'm from NZ, I know where places are!

But that also explains why you have bad cinema experiences.

You would be surprised the number of people I've talked to in the North Island who don't know where Ashburton is

 

[TD]

I haven't been to the movies in at least 5 years and the last time I did go was the drive in.

Yeah, people have a tendency to be rude there from my experience.

 

[Crystal]

I had to stop going to the cinema (as rare as that was already) because my mother became THAT person. Not intentionally, just a part of her dementia. So yeah, I know about cinema annoyances.

 

[The Hulk]

I had to stop going to the cinema (as rare as that was already) because my mother became THAT person. Not intentionally, just a part of her dementia. So yeah, I know about cinema annoyances.

I do have some understanding for people with dementia maybe not coping well with movies or needing to talk etc but not teenagers.

 

[Crystal]

I do have some understanding for people with dementia maybe not coping well with movies or needing to talk etc but not teenagers.

Oh agreed, teens and young adults are only doing it to be annoying!

 

[shortkut]

If you go to movies near the end of their cinema run, the theaters are mostly empty

 

[Crystal]

If you go to movies near the end of their cinema run, the theaters are mostly empty

Also during matinee...granted, most people work during those times, but still...awesome time to go

 

[Mark]

I don’t like movie theaters. My first job was at a family company that specialized in custom residential and commercial upholstery, so from the age of 14-28 I lived and breathed working on movie theater seats from across the country… and lemme tell you… the shit you find stuffed in movie theater seats and embedded in them will make you WISH it was actual shit. We also had the privilege of being the lock-out/clean-out crew on the east coast for AMC for about a decade, where we did corporate takeovers of underperforming franchises under the guise of service calls. The conditions of the foodservice area and bathroom facilities were ALWAYS deplorable on lock-out day, when management were unaware of our arrival and didn’t have time to prepare.

 

[Crystal]

I don’t like movie theaters. My first job was at a family company that specialized in custom residential and commercial upholstery, so from the age of 14-28 I lived and breathed working on movie theater seats from across the country… and lemme tell you… the shit you find stuffed in movie theater seats and embedded in them will make you WISH it was actual shit. We also had the privilege of being the lock-out/clean-out crew on the east coast for AMC for about a decade, where we did corporate takeovers of underperforming franchises under the guise of service calls. The conditions of the foodservice area and bathroom facilities were ALWAYS deplorable on lock-out day, when management were unaware of our arrival and didn’t have time to prepare.

 

[The Hulk]

If you go to movies near the end of their cinema run, the theaters are mostly empty

The cinema in my local town has their last screenings at 8:00-8:10pm. There's no late ones. :/

 

[Crystal]

The cinema in my local town has their last screenings at 8:00-8:10pm. There's no late ones. :/

He means when it's been out in theatres for a while, it's not a "new" movies so much anymore, then you hardly see people going to watch it

 

[Smacktard]

Movie-goers in Saudi are awful. They walk in like 30 minutes late to a film, and scroll on their phones and play their Snapchat stories (on silent, at least). On one occasion, there was a guy beside us that took a phone call for 5 minutes.

 

[Crystal]

Movie-goers in Saudi are awful. They walk in like 30 minutes late to a film, and scroll on their phones and play their Snapchat stories (on silent, at least). On one occasion, there was a guy beside us that took a phone call for 5 minutes.

That's just disgusting behaviour! You're there for a movie, pay attention!

 

[The Hulk]

there was a guy beside us that took a phone call for 5 minutes.

LOL what?

 

[Mark]

Oh yeah, and it doesn’t matter where the theater is. As a matter of fact, in my experiences, the nicer the area, the more likely the patrons are to disrespect and trash the auditoriums.

 

[Crystal]

Oh yeah, and it doesn’t matter where the theater is. As a matter of fact, in my experiences, the nicer the area, the more likely the patrons are to disrespect and trash the auditoriums.

Yeah, that makes sense, entitled pricks are the worst.

 

[TD]

I was one of those little shits but we didn't really aim to disrupt.

When Four Brothers came out in theatres, me and some buddies snuck in some beers to see it.

After finishing a couple beers, I needed to take a piss but didn't want to miss part of the movie.

...so I used one of the empty beer bottles.

...and then the movie got really quiet and it could be heard.

 

[Crystal]

I was one of those little shits but we didn't really aim to disrupt.

When Four Brothers came out in theatres, me and some buddies snuck in some beers to see it.

After finishing a couple beers, I needed to take a piss but didn't want to miss part of the movie.

...so I used one of the empty beer bottles.

...and then the movie got really quiet and it could be heard.

 

[Cupidon'sNakeyHeinie]

I was one of those little shits but we didn't really aim to disrupt.

When Four Brothers came out in theatres, me and some buddies snuck in some beers to see it.

After finishing a couple beers, I needed to take a piss but didn't want to miss part of the movie.

...so I used one of the empty beer bottles.

...and then the movie got really quiet and it could be heard.

Cupidon is already thinking how to work this into your story...

 

[TD]

Cupidon is already thinking how to work this into your story...

TD will provide Cupidon all the fuel they need for a top notch story.

 

[Fool's Requiem]

something changed after the pandemic for some reason

 

[MrDawn]

Yeah, that makes sense, entitled pricks are the worst.

It's why we don't go to the theater often. People run their mouths and ruin it for everyone else.

 

[The Eye in the Sky!]

I've only gone to theaters recently to see kids movies and I do the earliest times so its mostly families and small children so they make noise but its expected and not malicious.

The last movie I saw for myself had a few teenagers kicked out. I'm thinking that's a normal thing, not just the one time I went.

I went a lot as a teen and was never disruptive but it was generally a teen hangout if the movie was above PG, so it was expected. I won't go anymore for myself.