Right on, that's what I'm getting at. Maybe theater owners will decide they don't like hearing complaints and having to give away tickets, and start monitoring what's going on after the movie starts. The solution is simple.
I just don't get it...
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And if the manager seems not to care just tell him/her that you have no other choice than to check out other theaters instead of theirs. Then you can ask for the manager's supervisor's name and number.
I always go to movie in the middle of the day, middle of the week.
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I was serious about it - I absolutely HATE it when that happens - maybe I am a movie-o-phile (or whatever it is called) but just like a book, I want to "lose myself" in the movie which is also why I don't like it when people come in late and disrupt the experience for me. I know - I am a weird one!
Is it perhaps relative to a local culture?
Honestly, in this jewel of an area, and I don't say that ironically, all the SHUT YOUR STINKIN' CELLPHONES OFF messages come through before the movie starts. And while I've been annoyed with conversation, seat bumps, and so on around me, I can't think of the last time I was distracted by someone around me talking or texting on their phone. Maybe my town is just more polite. Maybe I've been lucky. I dunno.
But I'm pretty sure that it doesn't get addressed without social consciousness being raised. Whatever, we can do - letting management know, writing a letter to the editor, even posting here, so that it has its own little impact on the collective mentality - is a good thing, I believe, toward forging better behavior.
Honestly, in this jewel of an area, and I don't say that ironically, all the SHUT YOUR STINKIN' CELLPHONES OFF messages come through before the movie starts. And while I've been annoyed with conversation, seat bumps, and so on around me, I can't think of the last time I was distracted by someone around me talking or texting on their phone. Maybe my town is just more polite. Maybe I've been lucky. I dunno.
But I'm pretty sure that it doesn't get addressed without social consciousness being raised. Whatever, we can do - letting management know, writing a letter to the editor, even posting here, so that it has its own little impact on the collective mentality - is a good thing, I believe, toward forging better behavior.
Not weird at all. In order to engage our willing suspension of disbelief, we have to be able to focus on what's going on. It's not like a book that we can just put down and pick up again.
You are so smart, Vulture! I knew posting my rant here was a good idea! Thanks to you and blunthead too for the great advice.
You're not weird, just would like some courtesy, like I did today.
I do think that is the cornerstone of the issue. Remember when a movie was an 'event'? Even if it was a movie on TV, most movies showed up at most once a year. People didn't want to miss anything! When movies in the home became the norm, that 'specialness' evaporated. Movies are an everyday event, and you can stop them, rewind them, watch them over and over if you want. Not special anymore.
Couple that with the 'Cult of Me' (lol), and public experiences of just about anything aren't always pleasant.
I hope you get to see it again, Dani, and in peace this time
I am sorry you had this experience. IT was an amazing movie. I do not know why people do not have social graces anymore.
...aw geez D-girl!...I have absolutely nothing productive to add to the civilized suggestions already articulated...and firearms and knives are not unheard of "answers" to complaints in this enlightened age in which we live(or die)...STILL, given my pleasant public persona and bullet/knifeproof mindset, I would have loudly told each and every DNA strand deficient dumb-azz, that the best part of them ended up in the Kleenex under the bed...
I think they do, I think they think they're as entertaining as the robots on Mystery Science Theater 3000. I always want to tell them they are NOT Tom Servo and to shut the f up. I might be a bit meaner than you are lol.
And WHY do people speak so loudly on cell phones???
You are hilarious (G-man)! When we moved the first time, my husband said LOUDLY to our son, "C'mon, Son, we're gonna have to move because this guy behind us won't shut up." He made sure he heard it. I like to think that, unless the talker was some sort of psychopath, he at least thought about what happened, and will maybe shut up the next time.
I love love Mystery Science Theater! And I think you're right--they do think they're being witty and cute.
This is my favorite line from MST: "And if your hands were metal, that would mean something."
AND you probably paid an arm and a leg for those tickets, didn't you? I'm of the mind that waiting until the DVD comes out is the better way.
Danie. I am so sorry that you didn't have a good time at the movies. We have unfortunately become a self centered society, a rude one at that! Ghost, I am glad that I am not the only one who does not see the whole point of Facebook......my kids think I am so out of touch!
Yes, I did! Plus the popcorn, drink & Reese's Pieces my son wanted!
If I didn't love the big screen so much, I'd wait for the DVD too. There are just some movies that are better when it's on that huge screen with the Dolby sound and all. Of course, if everyone around you is being rude, then it doesn't matter much.
I think a combination of general lack of manners and DVD, Netflix, etc. have a lot to answer for. Sorry your cinema experience was ruined for you. I hate to be one of those 'when I was young' type of people, but you would be asked to leave if you didn't behave .
I just don't get why people want to "share" everything with the world. But I'm such a private person, so that's probably why I would never do Facebook. Even the people who know me well, don't really know me...