Movie Theater Etiquette... Or The Complete Lack Of

[trancer21]

To the jackass sitting in front of me during The Dark Knight who kept checking his messages on his Blackberry, even after I told him to knock it off? Be glad I'm a pacifist 'cuz I came about *this* friggin' close to kicking you in the neck!

Hopefully those of you who haven't seen it will get the opportunity to see it in an audience *not* filled with jackasses too inconsiderate to be raised in a barn because it really is a *great* movie. But, be warned, it's *long*. Or maybe it just felt longer because I kept getting knocked out of the movie going experience by some jackass who thought a darkened movie theater is an appropriate place to check his messages!

Comments

[ralst.livejournal.com]

I think it should be legal to decapitate people like that if they interrupt a good film.

Love the new header, btw. Is that Barbarella?

[trancer21.livejournal.com]

Decapitation would be a good start but why take off the *one* thing these people refuse to use?

The header's 'Danger: Diabolik', my new number candidate for 'Movie I'd Remake Into A Lesbian Porn'!

[sravenk.livejournal.com]

Yet another reason why I vote Ralst for Queen of the Universe.

[mantaraggio.livejournal.com]

Yay! MST3K!

Boo! Inconsiderate theater goers!

Seriously, this shit is why I don't go to the movies anymore. I'm gonna pay 13 bucks to sit in front of some dipshits who talk through the movie and kick my chair and behind some dumbass who spends the whole time checking his cell phone for text messages? And then there will be crying children and people with smelly tuna sandwiches and old people who complain about how bad movies are these days? And on top of all that I will have to watch forty minutes of pre-movie commercials because I had to get there early because I didn't want to pay an extra five dollars for reserved seats and the noise is so bad that I can't even talk to my friend. I DON'T THINK SO.

::HATES::

But the movie was good, huh?

[trancer21.livejournal.com]

::HATES::

Lol, I know the feeling. And I hate to sound like a 'get off my damn lawn, you young whippersnappers' but, imo, it really is a generational thing. An entire generation brought up during the Home Theater Revolution, who think a movie theater is nothing but their own personal, really giant living room.

Seriously, you don't think the people behind you will be bothered by the *really* bright glowing screen of your cell phone because, OMG, it's not like I'm talking on it? Never mind the fuckers who ignore the 'please turn off your cell phones' and answer the damn things anyway. If your life's that important that you'd take a phone call during a movie? Here's an idea - DON'T GO TO THE MOVIES!!

I use to go the movies every week, be there on opening day. Now, I wait until all the jackasses have already seen it, hoping to watch it in a near empty theater for the sole purpose of watching a movie.

Going to the movies is going to die eventually. But, it's going to happen about ten years too soon because of all the jackasses intent on ruining the experience. So, to repeat everything you just said.. again

::HATES::

[mantaraggio.livejournal.com]

I know, it does make me feel so curmudgeonly, but, like, Stark and I went to see I Am Legend in the theater and one person kicked Stark's chair repeatedly while another felt the need to explain in great detail everything on the screen to the person next to him and then there was some four year old who was scared by the monsters. I felt for that four year old. It's not his fault his parents were irresponsible enough to take him to a monster movie that he could not possibly understand and thus spent the whole time crying and traumatized. ARGH. Anyway... I swear that's the last of my rant.

The thing that stopped me going to the movies though was not the rude people, but the absurd ticket prices. For up to six bucks sans commercials, I will happily join the rest of the audience in gossiping loudly before the movie starts and then hooting and hollering and throwing popcorn at the screen. For THIRTEEN DOLLARS I will not tolerate forty minutes of car and beverage and candy commercials followed by a movie that everyone talks through, because it makes me feel like I've wasted my money. I also can no longer justify going to see stupid/fun movies, which were the best part of going to the movies for me. I was so happy going to the five dollar matinée and seeing "Halloween 17" or "Freddy Vs Jason II" or crappy Drew Barrymore romantic comedies or anything starring Eliza Dushku. But I just can't justify paying 13 bucks for that plus the cost of popcorn. Damn it all!

[trancer21.livejournal.com]

I think I actually swooned at the $13 ticket price. Jeebus.

*sigh* I miss the days of dollar theaters, and Drive-In's, where b-movies were born to be shown!