People Who talk and ask questions during movies

[DavePS3]

Here's an spot I put in our company newsletter last year for your semi-amusement...

Watching Movies With Morons...

It remains no great mystery to me, as to why people prefer to
watch movies at home rather than suffer the slings and arrows of
theater survival. You look at the picture quality at most theaters and
you can’t help looking forward to seeing that film on YOUR display
once the title hits the shelves on DVD. The picture up on the
screen is out of focus, blacks aren’t black—they’re gray… colours
are muted and the audio is nowhere near what you have at home,
it’s just big. Just a really big crappy image (although there are exceptions)
but the picture and sound are just the tip of the iceberg.
The last three films I saw at the theater left me quite anxious to get
the Hell out of there even before the idiotic Toyota Matrix commercial.
Before the house lights began their descent into darkness, I
was given the absolute pleasurable experience of seeing the 70 year
old man in front of me, (still wearing his Tilley hat) revert to
Hunter-Gatherer type. Conceivably scooping for precious metals,
potatoes or his lost car keys, that index finger probed that beak of
his for a good ten minutes while his wife sat beside him, oblivious or
apathetic. I tried to look away but like a horrible car accident, one
just cannot believe the carnage and in those traumatic times, line of
sight seems to periodically pull back to the grisly scene like iron
filings to a gigantic magnet.
Then there was the couple beside me who, in some kind of twisted
joint effort, began hacking up Oyster-size globules of phlegm into
dirty tissues. There was the guy who tripped, spilling his pail of popcorn
all over his fellow passengers, the girl behind me popping her
gum and the fat guy arguing with his equally fat wife over why she
didn’t pee before they left the house. ...then the lights went down.
Now, during the mundane at best pre-film commercials, one does
not really care, who gets settled where or which person can’t seem
to remove their coat, find their wallet,, position their hemorrhoid
cushion properly, stop talking or, the panic-stricken bodies trying
to find their guide or partner after re-entering from a short sabbatical
in the lobby. That pre-feature sludge is simply part of the game.
One tends to take it all in stride. After all, people do come late, they
need to finish whatever conversation they were having just before
the dimming of celestial indirect lighting. It’s a given. Besides, one
hardly needs to concentrate on the double entendres, sub-plots and
over-all storyline of the overweight bed-ridden guy with the laptop
and gambling addiction. Never get tired of that commercial… right.
Once the main feature actually starts up however, one’s expectations
rise considerably. This is, after all, the reason why everyone
around you, is present… to see the film. Or so you think. This is
actually where the acute sense of reality truly hits home. The person
behind me just cannot seem to open that cellophane bag of candy,
that geriatric couple keep hacking but I hope against all hope, that
things will settle down. Yes and pigs shall indeed fly out of my proverbial
butt. In fact, there doesn’t seem to be a safe haven anywhere
within that tomb of the living dead. A cell phone keeps ringing somewhere
near the front… every two minutes some claustrophobic lost
soul feels he simply must pass through the metal against metal
shackled main doors or go mad and best of all, throughout the entire
film, the woman behind me asks her date every inane question
about the story she can think of. Not just questions about who the
guy in the coat is, but questions about the progression of the story.
Questions that cannot possibly be answered because those answers
are part of the thread. Part of the fabric, the elaborate tapestry that
the filmmaker wants to reveal in a certain way, in a certain time
frame, in his own way. Shut the Hell up and watch the movie.
The woman I was with these last three times was just as dumbfounded
as I and it left us puzzled as to why we even bothered. Why
indeed. You can relax at home, and really enjoy a film… quietly, with
perfect picture quality, perfectly set-up sound and all without the
aggravating sensory abuse one suffers and pays for, in the theater.

[(Fe)Man]

I have people that do that. As soon as the movie starts they start asking questions and I have to tell them just to shut up and pretend like I haven't seen the movie either.

The text messaging during movies is a pisser to me. That makes me "Hulk Out".

[donaldheil]

Originally Posted by zombieking

"Well I'm from Buenos Aires and I say, KILL 'EM ALL!"

WOW ! What happened? The "airs" not so "good"?

I understand you. There was a time (THE DESCEND) in which I wanted to kill some bastards that were doing everything, but watching the movie.

More and more, these kind of situations are making me not wanting to go to the theater, and enjoy the movies in the privacy of my home.

Or I love when a movie is low profile, and the theater is half empty.

[david2189]

this is why i buy bds and watch them on my own..in my own room!!

[Crim122]

You only really have to worry about this if you are going to big wide releases, at least that has been my experience. When i went to see QoS there was a group of had to be 15 year olds talking making comments to the movie screen through out the whole thing...if I would have not faced prison I would have smacked em around.

But I cant say I have not done it...when I saw AVPR (which I did not pay for), then only reason I went was for shits and giggles because I knew it was going to be terrible...I was laughing so hard that I was crying, I am sure that annoyed some people

[mikejet]

I was watching a movie at Universal City Walk in Studio City once when someone came in and busted a Cape Fear. I mean he had the nerve to sit up front with a stogie and lit it up right there with his friends and they were laughing and yelling. they got kicked out really quick.

[Crim122]

Originally Posted by mikejet

I was watching a movie at Universal City Walk in Studio City once when someone came in and busted a Cape Fear. I mean he had the nerve to sit up front with a stogie and lit it up right there with his friends and they were laughing and yelling. they got kicked out really quick.

What movie were you watching?

[mikejet]

Originally Posted by Crim122

What movie were you watching?

I forgot, it was along time ago when I was in high school. Some comedy. Might have been Half-Baked.

[SquidPuppet]

Originally Posted by FrenzyBanana

there are 2 types of people i hate when watching movies

1.people who always ask every minute
2.people who always says what she/he saw on screen

Nothing WORSE. I wanna kill people when they feel compelled to state the obvious. I have a family member who MUST share what she observes in EVERY scene. "Oh...a bear" YES, I can see the bear...my eyes work....why must you bring my attention to something I can see for myself? GRRRR

[Lucy Diamond]

I freakin HATE John and Jane Q with a passion.

I will go to a movie for the sake of a date (until I am comfortable bringing her around my high valued items in the home) but other then that, its a dead art.

Event movies will bring me out, but I have to prepare mentally for hours before hand.

I drive almost 40 minutes away from my house to see movies because the theater is located in a place that requires a car to reach it. You cannot walk to this theater and that alone eliminates all manner of riff-raff.

It has just gotten worse and worse over the years.

[danbrch]

Originally Posted by Blu Titan

The new annoying thing to do at theaters is to text message.. All the light from the iphones are a BIG distraction, and they just pi$$ me off.

I agree with you...and I think some just open up their phones because they think other people might want to see how cool their new phone is too. Idiots...go to a club, or go home.

[Crim122]

lol my little brother was texting ALL through Twilight, if it had been a good movie though I would have told him to put it away.

[Sith]

I only allow my wife to ask me questions during movies.....Unless i'm sleeping
with you you need to stfu....And she's doesn't do it every minute, only during
movies like Godfather where she may not be getting the layers of stuff
going on so i pause it and explain cause I want her to enjoy the movie to...
Anyone else though i could care less

[Deadset]

Originally Posted by jasonbird

I think 50% of the population must be these types of people. I'm constantly surrounded by them!

...and the other 50% are people like you me with common courtesy

[Teabaggins]

Originally Posted by Crim122

lol my little brother was texting ALL through Twilight, if it had been a good movie though I would have told him to put it away.

regardless of the movie being good or bad you should tell him to put it away, that is inconsiderate douchebag behavior.


I made a girl cry for talking on her cell during Knocked Up. I told her to shut up and then yelled at the people right in front of her as well for not saying anything. I was like 8 rows away and could hear her. Then she stood up and ran out while you heard her candy spill allover the floor.

I blame weak parenting as usual for the rampant douchebaggery in theaters

[Brandon]

Originally Posted by Sith

Unless i'm sleeping
with you you need to stfu....

Hahaha, nice

[olds403]

People who talk and ask questions during movies....... should be shot.

[pacificvibes]

It sure as hell bugs me, especially since I pay 11 dollars just for the ticket. I'm not paying to listen to you click away on your phone.

[pacificvibes]

Originally Posted by Teabaggins

regardless of the movie being good or bad you should tell him to put it away, that is inconsiderate douchebag behavior.


I made a girl cry for talking on her cell during Knocked Up. I told her to shut up and then yelled at the people right in front of her as well for not saying anything. I was like 8 rows away and could hear her. Then she stood up and ran out while you heard her candy spill allover the floor.

I blame weak parenting as usual for the rampant douchebaggery in theaters

HAHA oh my god...good for you, serves her right. hey what kind of candy was it

nice wordage...

[Crim122]

Originally Posted by Teabaggins

regardless of the movie being good or bad you should tell him to put it away, that is inconsiderate douchebag behavior.


I made a girl cry for talking on her cell during Knocked Up. I told her to shut up and then yelled at the people right in front of her as well for not saying anything. I was like 8 rows away and could hear her. Then she stood up and ran out while you heard her candy spill allover the floor.

I blame weak parenting as usual for the rampant douchebaggery in theaters

lol I did the same thing during SM3 (even though that ****ing sucked) but this lady brought her baby in the theater and it was crying and I was like "GET IT OUT OF HERE!!!" and she got up and ran out with the baby.