I saw The Fighter last night and the crowd was predominantly 50+ ...very few kids or teenagers ...the audience was quiet all the way through. What a joy !
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I am so sick and tired of going to movies and watching Blackberry's, iPhones and iPads light up ...I'm tired of listening to cellophane wrappers being taken off candy boxes ...I'm tired of folks shaking their boxes of M&Ms to check if there are any left ...I'm tired of listening to people shaking and playing with their bags of popcorn. Is it really that difficult to silenty extract a piece of popcorn from the bag?!?
What is with folks that chatter constantly while at the movies ...and not about the movie, about shit they can talk about anytime. Wake up folks, its not freakin' Starbucks ...you are at a MOVIE.
When we saw True Grit a fellow actually took his empty popcorn bag, blew it up and popped it. WTF ??
Its gotten to the point where audiences are generally so rude that we will wait until a movie has almost finished its run in hopes of seeing it in an near empty theater so we don't have to put up with folks that think they are on some sort of amusement park ride.
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I'd pay double the ticket price to be able to see a movie with complete silence (other than laughter or gasps that are provoked by the movie).
Dean.
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Topic - Frustration at the movies .... - reelsmith. 09:14:45 01/02/11 (34)
- I've read complaints like this so often - sjb 13:08:31 01/04/11 (6)
- Around here ... - reelsmith. 06:03:16 01/07/11 (0)
- Depends completely on the theater - Victor Khomenko 13:27:47 01/04/11 (4)
- RE: Depends completely on the theater - Peter Breuninger 12:30:35 01/06/11 (0)
- Yeah, I do tend towards the tamer theaters - sjb 15:37:48 01/04/11 (2)
- What would Porky's and Animal House be without audience participation? - Victor Khomenko 16:14:58 01/04/11 (1)
- Egg - sjb 16:51:51 01/04/11 (0)
- Read this at lunch and thought of you on my way home.. - Craiger56 19:19:32 01/03/11 (4)
- Pleasure multiplier - Victor Khomenko 10:56:50 01/04/11 (1)
- Sounds like a real good time - Craiger56 13:17:04 01/04/11 (0)
- The most perfect evening is ... - reelsmith. 09:45:27 01/04/11 (1)
- Ah yes.. - Craiger56 13:13:29 01/04/11 (0)
- I remember years ago ... - MaxwellP 09:02:37 01/03/11 (0)
- RE: Frustration at the movies .... - Dr Phibes 06:34:20 01/03/11 (0)
- What do you expect from the society where 26-yo are considered kids? - Victor Khomenko 18:36:42 01/02/11 (3)
- I'm still trying to figure out what society you are refering to. nt - Analog Scott 12:41:59 01/03/11 (1)
- LOL! Thank you for that charming Freudian moment! :) - Victor Khomenko 14:06:30 01/03/11 (0)
- haven't you heard? 60 is the new 30 nt - Jazz Inmate 22:47:07 01/02/11 (0)
- RE: Frustration at the movies .... - Dman 17:40:33 01/02/11 (0)
- True Grit theatre experience... - Jon E. Busey 15:21:41 01/02/11 (0)
- We don't see much of that sort of thing here (Maine) .nt - late 12:00:07 01/02/11 (2)
- I need to move. (nt) - reelsmith. 13:56:58 01/02/11 (1)
- RE: I need to move. (nt) - crstandersen 12:48:03 01/03/11 (0)
- You left out the kicking of your seat by the guy behind you - Jazz Inmate 11:25:53 01/02/11 (10)
- RE: But seat-kicking may be useful at times... - Steve O 18:48:56 01/02/11 (6)
- I just got back from Little Fockers and there was an "incident" - Jazz Inmate 22:43:14 01/02/11 (5)
- RE: I just got back from Little Fockers and there was an "incident" - crstandersen 13:02:35 01/03/11 (2)
- Loved it - Jazz Inmate 14:32:55 01/03/11 (1)
- RE: I think I'll go see it. Did your date love it too? - crstnandersen 15:19:23 01/03/11 (0)
- if somebody offered me $1000 to see Little Fockers, I'd refuse (NT) - tunenut 11:52:59 01/03/11 (1)
- The scene with De Niro and Keitel almost coming to blows was worth the price of admission - Jazz Inmate 14:15:27 01/03/11 (0)
- How could I forget that one ... - reelsmith. 14:00:21 01/02/11 (2)
- Times have certainly changed - phatty 05:51:47 01/03/11 (1)
- those were the days NT - Jazz Inmate 12:45:20 01/04/11 (0)