WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU!

Tell them to shut up. Or your beat the crap out of them or if your a woman tell them youll talk to a manager.

Dont take this abuse. Throw their cell phones, stare at them evily. Didnt you see fallin down?

Am I the only one who finds this kind of behavior vastly surpassing answering a cell phone in a theater. Have we become that detached from civilization? I mean, it's one thing to violate theater ettiquette by answering your cell phone or even just taking it into the theater with you in the first place. But it borders in psychotic and criminal to do something as crude and insane as this.

I have the answer to all your movie going problems!!!
Go to the 1st showing at 11:00am mostly on the week days.
I have never ever encounted the problems, but have heard them from friends who go to the Friday nite, Saturday nite show times.
And I go to the theaters that are mostly a "gehetto" crowd, and don't expierance these problems. On the 1st showings you get the geeks, senior citizens, people who woke up early because they want to sit and watch a movie.
So try this out!
I have been doing it for 12 years, and only once did I get a bad crowd where I couldn't enjoy a movie. And that was for CASPER, and that showing was packed with mothers with their kids who laughed at everything.
So in that case it really doesn't count.

sorry but I have to disagree.... senior citizens can be just as inconsiderate. they talk really loud just because they think a theater with 20 people in it means noone else will hear them. apart from cell phones ringing and stupid kids running around, i get the same problems on weekday mornings.

Ah the life of a student . . . I go to weekday matinees and never have to sit near anybody (and if they have the nerve to sit within 10 seats of me, I get up and move.)

About the guy who got up to answer his cell phone, so what? At least he had the courtesy to go out and answer it. Maybe he was a doctor or had a pregnant wife, or maybe he was just a dad and got a call from his babysitter. I leave my phone on vibrate when I go to movies, and if my call is from my kids school or daycare, you better believe I'd go into the lobby and answer.

tasha

I am 19 years old and I get sick and tired of my generation. God they make me so sick. (not withholding the exploits of other generations either -- old people, children, black women)

I refuse to go to a weekend showing of a film. My girlfriend gets mad, but I could careless.

I tell her to go with her girlfriends or get another guy. I don't care. I won't waste my money on me or her to sit there and have to listen to idiotic people. Forget it.

Thank God I am out of high school and can go in the early afternoon on a day I don't have class. I don't mind going by myself either. Although in the summer time I have to go to the absoulte earliest showing time of a film. If it is after 12:00, I can just forget about it. Teens and the like will be there.

I crave to walk into a theatre and see 10 people sitting as far apart from each other as possible. . I take my seat and enjoy my money's worth.

It was like this for Below and Equilibrium. Although one guy did sit about two seats from me and was a heavy breather and loudly eating his food. I got up and switched to a higher seat.

Man, it just sucks that people aren't considerate of others. This is the ME generation all right. Not giving a $#!@ about anybody but themselves.

WTF YOU WHINNY BIOTCHS!! TELL THEM TO LEAVE OR SHUT UP!! YOU TAKE THAT ABUSE AT HOME TOO! WTF!

I had teenage punks with a laser pointer in my theater. Little f$%*ers!

Well, maybe the day will come when on opening day they also release the dvd. Even if it's $30 it's worth it.

It is not just movies. My wife and I saw a play in New York in 1998 called Wait Until Dark. People behind us were making fun of the acting and being loud. Some people should just stay home.

True. When I saw About Schmitt the elderly couple behind talked loudly through the entire movie. I would have moved, but it was afternoon (in Florida, in the winter) so there were a lot of the same thing going on in the theater. I might have complained if it had been a regular theater but since it was just a dollar theater I didn't bother.

calm down there buddy

I, too, rarely go to the movies anymore because of inconsiderate people. My hearing is not the best, and if people around me are talking, it is very difficult for me to hear the dialogue of the movie.

Plus, I hate having to tell people to shut up. I get all pissed off, then I can't enjoy the movie.

I refuse to go on Friday and Saturday nights, and I waited until today to see the Matrix: Reloaded. It went surprisingly well, although one young man took 2 cell phone calls right at the first of the movie.

LOL. I've only had the "Black Woman" issue once. During What Lies Beneath. All through the film:

"Don't go in there, GIRL!"
"OMG, I Can't believe he is the killer"
"What is She Doing!"

loud as hell. Just wanted to reach behind my seat and smack the woman. This is quite frankly the only time in my life I have had the desire to hit anyone. Much less a woman, well 15 y.o. girl.

Another film, a pair of parents were sitting behind us and I assume they sent their kids to a different film. Well, you guessed it, the kids film let out first. So what do the kids do? Run up and down the theater steps during our movie. I got the security guard after about 10 mins. and didn't see the kids again.

A guy with his 10 year old kid in Matrix Reloaded(rated R), anyway was text messaging next to my friend through the entire movie. Big neon blue phone LCD.

oh. there are so many stories.

When I saw Re-Loaded this weekend (1pm showing, in the hopes of there being less people there), there were about 10 kids in the theater from 5-10 years old! I don't know how they could've understood what was going on! The kids were the MOST well behaved people in the audience though!

Some pig couldn't wait 2 hours to eat and brought a sandwich wrapped really tightly in some plastic wrap. She took about 5 minutes to unwrap it during a big fight scene near the end of the movie and it was VERY grating on the nerves. I can still hear the sound of it in my head! It was like someone scraping their nails across a blackboard!

I more or less missed what was going on at the end of the film due to all the talking people were doing in the theater. oh well...

Maybe it's just me, but I always prefer to sit in the very front row of a large theater when I'm going by myself.

1. These seats are usually the last ones most others sit in.
2. Closer to the EXITS and more leg room.
3. Easier to leave if I need to (on rare occasions) go to the bathroom.
4. It's easier to focus on the movie because I rarely hear any background noise behind me.
5. I feel "closer" to the movie (for obvious reasons) because I
am never looking at others.

Anyone else sit in the very front?

Indeed. He also apparently had the courtesy to put the phone on vibrate.

I know tons of people who are on call throughout the weekend and aren't doctors or expecting children. My father did it for most of my life. These people don't let being on call ruin their lives, they go about things in much the same way as everyone else, because usually, being on call means that you never get called at all.

So, that's probably what this guy thought. I'm on call, but chances are extremely high that I will not be called during the three hours I'm watching a movie I've been dying to see. Unfortunately, during the climax of the movie, his phone rings. If you are on call, you can't just say "I'll call them back in ten minutes" or "I'll call them back in two hours." There's a reason you're on call. You don't get to pick and choose when you'll choose to answer the phone.

He did the right thing. I've seen my father have to walk out on many things he enjoyed because he was on call. Most weekends weren't like that, but every once in a while, he would get called during the most inconvient times for him. If you've never been on call, don't judge. It's not about what you'd rather be doing, it's about your responsibility to your job.

Laser pointers

Went to see Reloaded for the 2nd time this weekend, and before the movie came on some idiot started shining their little laser pointer at the screen. Half of the audience waiting for the show started groaning, and I just got madder and madder. Finally, when the little red dot started dancing up on the screen again, I couldn't take it anymore. I snapped.

"IF I SEE THAT D*MN LASER POINTER COME ON ONE MORE TIME, I SWEAR TO GOD THAT I AM GOING TO TRACK YOU DOWN AND KICK YOUR A** OUT OF THIS MOVIE THEATER MYSELF!"

Got half the audience to burst out in applause. Then got in a nasty shouting match with the woman (who, yes, had brought her three kids to the movie, ages 8-12) who was playing with the laser pointer and was telling me to MMOB. Finally the drama ended when the theater manager came in... but man oh man. Some people...

Interesting laser pointers haven't been that much of a problem for me lately in the theaters. I think the fad has worn itself down. I had some fat arse guy bringing in his food (OK with me) but it was obnoxiosuly loud. Oh well.

I see no problems with phones on vibrate or silent. Yea when they light up, its kinda annoying, but not a big deal.

I went to a noon Matrix Reloaded on Friday (skipped out on work for a few hours) and didn't have any problems.

I'd rather shoot myself than watch a movie sitting in front of the theater. The next strain from having to look up is the most painful experience.

The first time this happened to me, I was very young and saw Godfather III in the front row on opening day on Christmas (my family made me go cuz my sister had a small extra role in it). It was the worst Christmas I ever had and not cuz the Godfather was that bad, but because of the neck strain. This Saturday, when I went to see The Matrix 2, we were about 10 rows back, but not in the upper tier. My neck still hurt like crazy...I could only imagine the pain if I was in the first row. All this cuz we had 10 ppl in our group and we needed to sit in the same row. If only we split up into 2 rows, this pain could've been prevented.

I HATE sitting in the front! I had free passes to see 8 Mile before it came out and my girlfriend and I got to the screening about 45 minutes early, but we were still towards the back of the line and we got stuck with two front row seats on the end no less. I swear I got sick having my head looking up for almost 2 hours. I had a bad headache for two days after that.

I loved sitting in the front when I was little, but I am little no more and I have a considerably bigger head and big heads don't like having to look up for two hours.

My head aches just thinking about it .

sitting on the end of the row (aisles) when in the front is actually better than in the middle of the row. The reason for this is that our peripheral vision can only go so far. When in the middle, you have to look both left and right, but when you're on the end you only have to look right if you're on the left end or left if you're on the right end. But yeah, it still sucks sitting in the front no matter what.

I go to movies all the time when I am on call, i am not a doctor just a System Admin who works night shift. I keep my pager on vibrate and will go outside to answer it. I may miss the end of a movie like matrix but then due to the fact that I happen to work right next to a theatre and I am the only IT geek on duty at night I can sneek over to the movie and watch it while on duty, so basically I got paid $30 an hour to watch Reloaded.

I can't stand when people talk in a movie or answer a phone in the theatre, but if I got to the really late show on opening night I usually dont have to deal with it much. Location is another factor, my local regal cinema is good but the AMC 30 is basically a hangout for wanna be thugs so I dont go there. Last movie I had a problem in was Resident Evil, and I was starting to get upset till I realized the movie sucked and I did not care if the experience was ruined.

As far as someone throwing someones cell phone across the theatre, I would be one of the people cheering for him since idiots need to have a situation like this to make them take notice. Most of the people who would talk on a phone in the theatre know they are annoying you, they just don't care.

OMG, I'd rather get a refund and see the movie some other time than sit in the front row. Only did it once, when my and a few others were late for the opening of True Lies. Man we had to sit in the front-left rows. The friggin screen was huge to make it even worse, by the end of the movie my neck felt as if it were permanently cocked on an angle, and I vowed never to endure that again. I don't know why theaters stick these rows five feet away from the screen. Must be desperate for those dollars!