Pet Peeves About Going To The Movies

[Hey Man]

I still love the theatrical experience and the response of an audience while watching a movie. If I want to see something - I will go and see it as opposed to waiting for DVD. But a couple things piss me off.

My wife and I will usually go opening weekend to a movie we really want to see and we just don't understand these people who think coming to an opening weekend movie 5 minutes before the movie starts, is a good idea. I mean the lights are going down and a slew of morons walk in and look puzzled as they wonder why the theatre is packed. This happens every single time. People don't get that you should get to an opening movie 30 minutes to an hour if you actually want to get a good seat and be able to get your popcorn without disturbing those who are trying to watch a movie that has already started.

Talking and texting goes without saying - although there is also the people who talk to the screen as if they are warning the characters not to go into that room!!! I love these warnings from the Alamo Drafthouse:

[Hey Man]

Sept 11, 2011 13:52:39 GMT -5 @landsenddrums said:

Oh fuck, I hate people that come in when the trailers are playing, and then ask a group of people if they'll move so they can have seats together, fucking idiots always move for the fuckers. I always refuse tell 'em "Should have got here earlier" fuckers. Texting goes without saying, talking, fuckers taking babies to R rated movies, I could go on.

You and me are on the same page. My wife and I get the movie in good time, get the seats we want and then some morons will walk in late as the trailers are going and ask us to move down, so they can sit together. My wife and I will say no at that point.

Do you ever get the empty theatre for a movie that has been playing for a while - you get your seat and think you are gonna be all alone, but then some fucker comes and sits right in front of you despite the fact that the whole theatre is empty besides you and him. He could sit anywhere.

[R&ROVER]

People texting during movies piss me off.

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The typical...cell phones, people who talk loudly with each other, or at the screen. People who come in late or keep getting up after the movie has started (if you know you are going to do this then do everyone a favor and sit on the end.