Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>Oh yeah, I also can't stand the people who chit-chat right up until the first piece of dialogue is spoken. In other words, they seem to think that if the credits are starting, and there's just music, that they can still talk. AAARRRRRRGH!<< <--- I second that AAARRRRGH!
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>???<< I meant that if your theater was in your house, then the home phone would be ringing all the time, even worse than cellphones. <--- sends Quip-O-Matic in for annual service this week.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA Sorry Kar2oonMan, my ??? was regarding the popcorn machine comment my melekemieleiemaiskemaka. ^^^Did I spell that correctly?
Originally Posted By melekalikimaka Pretty close. You said you didn't like to hear people munching on their popcorn. LOL, forget it.
Originally Posted By Lisann22 I went to the movies a lot while on Holiday vacation. Man, people are rude. By my third movie, I had stopped saying please and would you mind. It was "hey, turn it off."
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA sorry, mele. I totally get it now. I'm a bit slow this morning...
Originally Posted By cstephens At that same screening, some people somewhere behind me (don't know if it was the same family or someone else) was messing with a bag for a few minutes. It was irritating, but not near enough to me that I felt the need to say something. I did hear someone else shush them though. I can at least understand that kind of noise during a sequence when something is blowing up and loud anyway. But during a talking sequence? That bugs me. Oh, and on another board, I was told that I had the reaction that I did because I don't have any children. Apparently, if I had children, I'd understand that you need to have normal conversations in a movie theatre while the movie is going on because you're a parent, when there was no indication that she was on the phone with a child (there were two kids with her, who I presumed to be her kids, but I didn't particularly think it a relevant point). I understand that as a non-parent, there are things I don't understand and I've learned a lot from parents, but I disagree that being on a celphone during a movie is one of those times that I'd understand better if I had kids. /cs
Originally Posted By TomSawyer >>Oh, and on another board, I was told that I had the reaction that I did because I don't have any children. Apparently, if I had children, I'd understand that you need to have normal conversations in a movie theatre while the movie is going on because you're a parent<< Hogwash. I'm a parent, and I know I won't be taking my daughter to see movies in the theater until she's old enough to behave. I've had my cellphone on vibrate when I'm at a movie and the kid is with a babysitter, and I've even had to answer it - but knowing there was that chance we sat on the aisle not too far from the door. I was in the lobby before I picked up. Our daughter was It's really not that hard to be considerate.
Originally Posted By Ursula I am queen of the evil eye in the theatre and I think I'm a large enough person that people take me seriously. This one skanky low-life person had the nerve to talk on her cell phone two rows behind me at King Kong. She turned it off after I stared her down the second I heard her speak. See, I WOULD make a deal out of it and I WILL seek our management and speak with the offending person to his or her face outside of the theatre. They are not only disrupting me and the entire audience, but they are ruining the film. You only get one chance to watch a film for the first time. I also hate people who go the other way demanding that I be OVERLY considerate to their needs. At our apartment, there is this woman, ugh, who expects everyone to hold elevators for her (without being asked) and generally is a pill. I had my hands FULL in the elevator recently, and it was me and the elderly kind lady who we all love. Anyway, rude neigbor tried to run to the elevator and it closed. I couldn't get it and neither could elderly lady without hurting herself. The rude woman only had to hit the button to make the door open so she did. WELL, she then turned to me and said, "When that happens again all you have to do it hit this little button here, see, and it will open the door for me." I was stunned. Clearly she couldn't see the pounds of groceries I had nor the poor frail lady??? I ignored her and the nice lady and I laughed at her arrogance. The nice old lady likes me now.
