I know what you mean. When our theaters upgraded, they put in those armrests that fold up and down. The armrests were covered with a nice comfortable padding, an improvement over the plastic ones. The problem was there were so many people using the armrests in front of them as footrests that the padding wore off the armrests. Since the armrests were all tore up, the theater just took off the padded part altogether, leaving a ridged plastic piece that is much less comfortable than even the regular plastic armrests because it is ridged and bumpy, as it is designed for holding an armrest piece and NOT designed to be an actual armrest.

On the same topic, I've noticed in theaters in recent years a LOT of girls take off their shoes and rest their bare feet on the back of seats, like they're home in their recliners or something. I suppose it's a dream come true for foot fetish types, but it grosses me out.

That's what happens when it becomes acceptable to wear your pajamas in public

Didn't go through all the posts here. But the most recent annoyance for me in the theaters are people who flip their phones open during the movie to check their text messages. And/or to send one. With that glare. Drives me crazy. I see this every time I go to the movies now. One guy did it the whole time he was in the theater.

Damn you! I was JUST going to watch The Sixth Sense tonight!

j/k but might be wise to spoilerize such things

Facial hair too. Thankfully I can now use the bathroom of my choosing as well.

I don't know if I have room to complain here, but I'll atleast share my story..

I saw Harold & Kumar 2 the first weekend in May. Now, at that point it had been out for a few weeks and the theater was dead. It was in one of the smaller auditoriums, but there were still plenty of seats. There was just myself, and a young couple on the other side up towards the top. I was in the third row of stadium seats.

About 10 minutes after the movie begins, an ENORMOUS woman.. easily, and I am NOT kidding.. close to 500lbs (if not more) came in.. which is whatever, but of all the spots in the cinema she sits RIGHT NEXT TO ME. HER ARM FLAB TOUCHED ME. But, it didn't just stop with the bizarre seat she chose. She had one of those Family Sized buckets of popcorn, a large soda, nachos, a hot dog, AND BAGS FROM DEL TACO THAT SHE SNUCK IN A DIAPER BAG. So, I moved down a few seats, she was already being distractive enough with her loud munching and chomping and rifling through the gobs of food.

But, to make matter worse, she brought along her daughter who in turn brough along an infant no more than a year old. What happens? About half-way through the film the kid started crying from a loud noise, wouldn't STFU and the mom was just laughing at the movie. Did nothing to calm the kid.

Then, finally, when the credits rolled, she saw me trying to get out towards the exit, and had the nerve to tell me "Go the other way. I'm busy."

I nearly shit a brick. That really irked me.

I haven't gone to the movies since then, and I still need to see Indy. I was just turned sour on the whole experience. I hope Hulk on Friday is much better.

There you have it. The "movie experience" is only for trailer park residents - or whatever you call them in your neck of the woods. The rest stay at home and wait for the DVD. Unfortunately, producers still calibrate their films for the people who do show up in theatres after chasing everybody else away.

So... did you tap that ass

Why didn't you just move to another seat. I mean you said yourself there were few people there. And this way the woman can have the whole armrest herself if she was touching you. No biggie. She probably rather have the whole armrest herself anyway and both of you would of been happy.

Reading is fundamental. You must have missed this part:

Oops, my bad. My apologies.

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And, of course, we all remember Brenda's big night at the movies from Scary Movie - a prophetic film if ever there was one:

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And the winner is...

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Close runner-up:

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that Scary Movie scene wasn't prophetic, it was true for the time period, as the lady eating mcdonalds a few seats over put it *stunned silence and minor humility*

Theaters didn't all of a sudden get bad, did everybody forget about the glory of laser pointers already?

I haven't really had a bad theater going experience since Constantine, and since then, I've sworn off that particular theater (which seems to draw only jackass high schoolers as is). Terrible movie, too.

So nice to see that other people are in my world. I guess misery really does love company.

I used to think I was just a magnet for moronic people in theaters. Every time I went, there was somebody who was talking, texting, yelling at the screen, making noise with microwave popcorn they snuck in the theater, etc.

My wife and I have gotten so disgusted with it, that the ONLY movies we'll see in theaters are R-rated movies in their finals days of theater distribution when everybody has already seen it and/or really, really loud action movies that can drown out the idiots.

I'm going to see the Incredible Hulk on Friday afternoon because I grew up with the Hulk and am a big fan. But I have feeling I'll be bumping this thread when I get back.

I wonder how the Hulk would treat those offenders at the theatre.

it's funny that the majority of teenagers are perceived as rude and obnoxious, of the few recent times I've been to Landmark in Bethesda Maryland where a large porpotion of the audience is over fifty - they are almost just as worse - talking, clucking like hens... I have no problem telling kids to shut the F up, but older folk, I'm a tad hesistent. (I shouldn't be but I am).

More extreme bad manners:

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Fight back:

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Of course, cellphone users are pretty much doing it to themselves. This is your brain on a cellphone (the seeds are popcorn kernels):

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I know that a lot of posters have said that the best way to stay clear of idiotic people is to wait out the movies until they near the end of their run, but by that time they are usually on screens barely bigger than my living room that seat 40 or 50 people. It only takes one person in those theaters to ruin the movie, whereas in a big theater on opening week you can be 10 rows away from the next person if you go during a weekday.

Yeah, I've found middle-aged women that travel in packs tend to be the worst. Talking, laughing, chatting, etc. If I see a group of 4-5 middle-aged women coming in together, I get much more afraid than if I see 4-5 teenagers.

Smash them through the floor.

On the same topic, I've noticed in theaters in recent years a LOT of girls take off their shoes and rest their bare feet on the back of seats, like they're home in their recliners or something. I suppose it's a dream come true for foot fetish types, but it grosses me out.[/QUOTE]


Wait, you are saying that there is someone in the seat in front of them, and they still leave their feet up...holy cow, super-rude, and yeah, disgusting. If someone had their feet up and I could feel them I would absolutely say something. I could see if no one was in the seat, but otherwise....

Nice to see folks notice that while the occasional dipwad in a theater may be a teenager (and whaddya expect they are teens ), it is the folks who really ought to know better, those who have been around the block, oh say, 30, 40, heck 50 times even (heh!), that usually turn out to be very rude, talking throughout, etc.

[QUOTE=baracine]And, of course, we all remember Brenda's big night at the movies from Scary Movie - a prophetic film if ever there was one:

Holy cow, I forgot about the movie spoof in that scene...Amistad II, that is freakin hillarious.