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[Dandy Crocodile]

I won free tickets to see Spiderman 3 when it released at midnight.
Arrived a bit late, so the only seats open were in the very front row.
I said screw it and sat there, next to a kid about 12 and his dad.
The kid repeated every single line in the movie under his breath but loud enough to hear.
When the theater staff threw some t-shirts and hats into the audience and one landed in the front row the kid's dad grabbed one right from under my little brother's hands.
Rude people.

 

[TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared]

OK, then tell the dad to fuck off? What's the big deal?



LMAO how on Earth were you able to sit through that movie five times?

Cos its awesome as fuck?

 

[freenudemacusers]

In the movie theatre here you can text the staff if people are being to annoying.

what if while you're texting the staff someone texts the staff because your texting the staff is distracting whoaaaa

 

[0ptimusPayne]

Yea honestly I just wait till the movie is out for a few weeks, then go see it. I have the worse luck when going to see a movie, because there is always someone fucking talking during the film.

 

[Choomp]

Obligatory.

Ha.

It's annoying behavior, and it's becoming more prevalent nowadays. I remember there were annoying kids and crying babies when I saw Django Unchained, I don't know what people are doing nowadays. There's nothing wrong with asking people to be quiet, there are lots of obnoxious people out there, don't let them ruin that movie theater experience of yours.

There was actually a group of kids in my AoU screening last night that laughed at fucking everything before the previews, just the ads or whatever, and I was preparing for them to be a distraction the whole film, and they stopped during the trailers for some reason.

 

[KissVibes]

If you don't want the social experience of the theater, don't go to the theater.

 

[Fmal]

Problem is that lot of people don't like confrontation and would rather suffer than raise the possibility of getting into mortal kombat with a deranged parent.

In my experience telling someone to fuck off has literally never lead to them hitting me with a freeze ball and full comboing me.

 

[DizzyCaffeine]

what if while you're texting the staff someone texts the staff because your texting the staff is distracting whoaaaa

Yeah, I don't like that. Encouraging people to text during a movie is counterproductive.

 

[Johnny Cage In The Shower]

you went to a blockbuster superhero film on opening weekend, you kinda brought this on yourself

Pretty much this. At this point going to the cinema to see a summer, superhero/action blockbuster on the opening week and complaining about the audience ruining your film viewing experience is like driving on two miles of road covered with nails and other sharp objects, then complaining that you got a flat tire.

I can't believe a co- worker suggested if I wanted to go see the new Avengers this weekend. I was like bitch you must not know me well or be cray cray, to have the nerve to ask me that!

 

[Phased]

If it's just a kid enjoying himself I don't think it's that big of a deal. Just get up and move, no harm no foul. It's basically a kids movie with some jokes for older people thrown in so they can go and not feel embarrassed.

If it's some douchebag on their phone or talking during the entire movie, go get someone from the theater to deal with it. They usually will.

 

[Fmal]

Pretty much this. At this point going to the cinema to see a summer, superhero/action blockbuster on the opening week and complaining about the audience ruining your film viewing experience is like driving on two miles of road covered with nails and other sharp objects, then complaining that you got a flat tire.

I can't believe a co- worker suggested if I wanted to go see the new Avengers this weekend. I was like bitch you must not know me well or be cray cray, to have the nerve to ask me that!

This is victim blaming. Opening night isn't an excuse to act like an asshole.

If the OP was getting mad at the audience getting worked up to near climax every time something cool happened, then sure you'd have a point because that's just the unfortunate reality of cramming 200+ nerds and normalcools into a theater and showing them explosions featuring their favorite action figures. But I don't care how young you are, talking during a movie is never cool.

Cos its awesome as fuck?

2001: ASO is my absolute favorite movie of all time, and I've only seen it like MAYBE four times across fifteen years. You've already seen AoU five times? Just this weekend? That's absurd.

I mean, even beyond the time commitment, that's like eighty dollars in tickets where I'm from. Eighty dollars to watch literally the same two hours of shlocky action five times? I don't believe you.

 

[LyleLanley]

In the movie theatre here you can text the staff if people are being to annoying.

That seems like entrapment or something.

 

[Gnome Scat]

And that's why I wait until you can rent it.

 

[RustyNails]

Anyone know if theaters let kids under 18 into R rated movies? Hoping I dont find obnoxious kids while watching Mad Max.

 

[Fmal]

Anyone know if theaters let kids under 18 into R rated movies? Hoping I dont find obnoxious kids while watching Mad Max.

I'm pretty sure they're not supposed to, but I feel like it happens to me all the time.

 

[Haloid1177]

Are you in Louisiana lol had the exact same experience this morning.

 

[Johnny Cage In The Shower]

If you don't want the social experience of the theater, don't go to the theater.

"Social Experience?"

It's a place where the lights go out, where everyone is encourage to shut the fuck up, stay in their seat, don't do anything but enjoy the entertainment that is presented in the gigantic screen in front of them. The ideal social experience of a movie theater is playing invisible man/ women in the dark for 2 hours or so.

Spoiler

LOLing at a comedy and reacting to other things happening on the screen being an exception of course.

 

[Dysun]

Kids will be kids. I find grown ass adults pulling out their bright smart phone next to you and checking it constantly much more annoying

 

[Razgriz-Specter]

Always thought this kinda stuff didn't really happen,
Was shown to be wrong with the Nightmare on Elm Street reboot and most recently Avengers 2.

 

[Fudgepuppy]

I can understand kids talking being annoying but laughing is annoying now too?

Imagine if someone laughed at "Ass to ass" in Requiem for a dream? Because that's what this was.

 

[shem935]

Also I watched that movie...it being described as a movie for children blows my mind.

 

[Jackben]

Annoying but you're also just grumpy. It's kinda funny how these marvel movies have brought a lot of people out the woodwork that have forgotten what it's like to be in the vicinity of the general public. Like 8 threads in the last week have described "horrifying" situations which are actually just par for the course for movie theaters, we're just hearing about it because I'm assuming most OPs don't usually go to the movies.

 

[Sesuadra]

Why didn't you tell the dad to keep his kid quiet OP?

Oh god we did that once. Dad told us literally to go home, download the movie illegally and watch it at home if we want it silent.

 

[John Kowalski]

Imagine if someone laughed at "Ass to ass" in Requiem for a dream? Because that's what this was.

avengers is secretly about normal people affected by drug use?

 

[Cow Mengde]

That's why I watch movies in the morning. Less people and less idiots.

 

[Sesuadra]

avengers is secretly about normal people affected by drug use?

Eh yes! Of course. How do you explain the super powers?

 

[Sou Da]

Seeing Avengers 2 yesterday reminded me why I don't like seeing movies in the theatres during primetime on the weekend. Really wish my friend hadn't talked me out of the matinee.

Dude below me literally making calls and instagramming pictures of the movie every 15 minutes.

 

[Fmal]

Oh god we did that once. Dad told us literally to go home, download the movie illegally and watch it at home if we want it silent.

So what did you do?

 

[GK86]

I'm amazed at people that go see the same movie 2+ times.

 

[Afterlife]

Move near an Alamo Drafthouse, never look back.

Nope not even that can help you from annoying people. Sat next to a dude who would laugh at everything and really loudly too and breath loud af when I saw the avengers. Me and my gf wanted to just leave

 

[Fudgepuppy]

avengers is secretly about normal people affected by drug use?

The following is what this man laughed at:

Spoiler

EVERYTHING Wanda makes them see in Wakanda, like Natasha being put under surgery.
The scene when Natasha tells Bruce she was sterilized.
The scene when Bruce turns off the comms and leaves the Avengers
The scene when Wanda tears out the heart of Ultron.

 

[Son Of D]

2001: ASO is my absolute favorite movie of all time, and I've only seen it like MAYBE four times across fifteen years. You've already seen AoU five times? Just this weekend? That's absurd.

I mean, even beyond the time commitment, that's like eighty dollars in tickets where I'm from. Eighty dollars to watch literally the same two hours of shlocky action five times? I don't believe you.

The person you're quoting isn't from America. Other countries got the film a week earlier. Okay sure a film 5 times in a week is still excessive but not everyone's from America.

 

[Phat Michael]

1. Ban all kids from cinemas
2. Ban all kids from flights

 

[Johnny Cage In The Shower]

This is victim blaming. Opening night isn't an excuse to act like an asshole.

Nah, you are not seeing the bigger picture here, as a single (adult) even with a busy weekly schedule, I don't see myself as the "victim" rushing into an opening weekend of a highly anticipated comic book superhero movie, and being distracted during the movie by a mesmerized, ecstatic, albeit socially clueless child that is enjoying quality time with her or his dad... I see myself as the dumb ass that is at the wrong place at the wrong time.

The rest of your post pretty much agrees with point.

 

[Fmal]

The following is what this man laughed at:

Spoiler

EVERYTHING Wanda makes them see in Wakanda, like Natasha being put under surgery.
The scene when Natasha tells Bruce she was sterilized.
The scene when Bruce turns off the comms and leaves the Avengers
The scene when Wanda tears out the heart of Ultron.

To be fair, a lot of that stuff was hackneyed to the point of being kind of funny. Comparing it to any part of Requiem for a Dream is LOL.

 

[George Oscar Bluth II]

The following is what this man laughed at:

Spoiler

EVERYTHING Wanda makes them see in Wakanda, like Natasha being put under surgery.
The scene when Natasha tells Bruce she was sterilized.
The scene when Bruce turns off the comms and leaves the Avengers
The scene when Wanda tears out the heart of Ultron.

This guy has an odd sense of humour. By that, I mean slightly demented.

 

[katsubento]

Obligatory.

This is so awesome haha.

 

[Where's my goat?]

My best movie going experience was the first time seeing the first Avengers. The theater was almost completely empty so of course this guy comes in with a baby (that looked like it had just been born a couple of hours prior, just in time to catch a matinee) and sits right beside me. I was going to get up and find another seat but the movie had just begun and I promised myself that I would once the baby started crying.

The baby didn't make a sound. When the movie ended and the lights came back on I half expected three wise men to arrive and present this baby with gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

 

[pashmilla]

I am honestly baffled by some of the stories I hear here on NeoGAF regarding Cinema's and various distractions, other people do. Is that Normal in the US?

I go to Cinema every other week, and rarely do I find people talk during film, hear other kids being a distraction or even phones going off. This is UK btw.

In my experience, it's normal in the UK too... most films I've seen in the cinema, there's been at least one obnoxious person determined to ruin it for everyone else.

 

[Marvel]

That's just one of the many reasons I ay "Fuck Cinemas".

 

[Astral Dog]

We need a thread like this everytime someone is annoying in a Cinema.


But yeah, thats why i dont go to the movies much anymore, if i go then its the more expensive rooms, except for the ocasional movie.

 

[Fmal]

Nah, you are not seeing the bigger picture here, as a single (adult) even with a busy weekly schedule, I don't see myself as the "victim" rushing into an opening weekend of a highly anticipated comic book superhero movie, and being distracted during the movie by a mesmerized, ecstatic, albeit socially clueless child that is enjoying quality time with her or his dad... I see myself as the dumb ass that is at the wrong place at the wrong time.

The rest of your post pretty much agrees with point.

Well, you're seeing it completely wrong. It's possible to be mesmerized and made ecstatic by a movie and still keep your mouth shut. There's a big difference between the entire audience going crazy and one dumbshit kid going off about toys or whatever.

 

[Sesuadra]

So what did you do?

I was at the cinema with a girl that can be incredible evil and creepy. She creeped the kids out until they had shut up. Lol..

 

[Dennis]

....a man must learn to shush.

 

[Marty Chinn]

I am honestly baffled by some of the stories I hear here on NeoGAF regarding Cinema's and various distractions, other people do. Is that Normal in the US?

I go to Cinema every other week, and rarely do I find people talk during film, hear other kids being a distraction or even phones going off. This is UK btw.

I'm in the US and it's not normal where I live. That's not too say that I've never experienced a baby in the theater before but that's pretty rare so it shocks me to hear about constant texting, talking, using their cell phones and other obnoxious behavior. I guess I'm just lucky that most people behave.

I love going to the movies and if my girl ever was annoying, I'd pull her straight out instead of ruin it for everyone else. She's already been to one and was well behaved.

 

[TouchMyBox]

As an adult, only go to theatres on Tuesdays.

 

[zeemumu]

I don't think I've gone to the movies during the day in ages I usually go to 7pm or later showings, so there's either no one in the theater or the theater is packed because it's a premiere

 

[Gallbaro]

Sounds like a young child and he should not have been in the theater anyway.

 

[Sophia]

1. Ban all kids from cinemas
2. Ban all kids from flights

Some cinemas actually do have a "No one under the age of 13, and no one under the age of 18 unless accompanied by an adult rule"

Stuff like the Alamo Drafthouse, which have explicit rules. I wish there were more theaters like that where I lived.



I know as a kid that if I ended up talking during a movie, then that would mean getting shushed. And doing it again would mean not going to the movies again for awhile.

 

[Joe Shlabotnik]

My favorite loud-person-in-the-audience experience was at a screening of The Wrestler, a few seats away from a guy who was apparently a huge mark for Randy the Ram, despite him being a completely fictional character, even by pro wrestling standards. Like going apeshit during the matches and everything. And unironically, I can assure you.