At the movies: A rude idiot rant...

[aztecarcher]

I hate rude people who wont shut up, thats partly why i don't go to the cinema.

I went to see Scream with my friend and her brother, and what happened was that there were a group of girls behind us and one bigmouth who had watched it was saying " He's going to come now, no, a bit later" Nice to know a scary moment is going to come up, way to go in spoiling the fun. and even when they knew about it, they still screamed. And at the ending bit, this one girl said "Don't kill Courtney, or she won't be in Friends anymore..." I really wanted to slap her senseless for being so dumb.

The most irritating was when i went to watch a movie with my parents and family friends, there were 2 couples sitting behind us and the ladies were sitting next to each other. the movie was 2 hours and 45 mins long, the ladies were yakking 2 hours and 15 mins out of that time. They were talking about the movie about the lead actresses dress etc. I was so tinkled with them that i gave them a dirty look when we left the place. Its horrible when you have absolute morons, even educated people do behave like morons, watching a show and not respecting the fact that they arnt the only ones who paid for the tickets.

[aachewwthree]

This really isn't the movies, but on the subject of jerks, last year when I went to the Pepsi 400(Daytona). We got there about 1 PM, since the hospitality tents open then and everbody eats and talks to the drivers and takes pit tours etc. Anyway about 7:30(Race starts at 8) they do driver introductions. when Dale Earnhardt Jr. was introduced, the guy behind me gets up and yells, spilling his beer down my shirt. Then after introducing the drivers they do the national anthem, as everybody cheers for the B-52 Bombers that fly over the track, Mr. Drunk spilles he beer and the entire contents rolls down my back! All he cared about was his freebie can cooler!(he sounded like he drank an entire case of Budweiser in the hospitality tent.)
Aside from the fact that I had to throw away my new $30 Mark Martin shirt(yes I wore the Viagra shirt ) because I couldn't get the alcohol smell out of it, I had a good time.

[Leb]

My brother and I perfected the art of avoiding people like that in movie theaters. We always go to the first showing of the day on a Sunday. Not only do we get a discount ($6 instead of $10), but any would-be annoyers are still sleeping in.

And never, ever be rude to someone--especially a kid--who shouts out during a movie or disrupts something like that. I have a little brother who's autistic, and basically he does what he wants to and doesn't understand "no". When I go places with him, it's all I can do to keep him from running away or breaking something. I've had librarians and teachers glare at me or even try to reprimand me for not being able to control him. So sometimes when you think you're the smart one, you're actually the incompetant jerk.

[LDF]

Heh, nothing like that's ever happened to me.

We did throw popcorn at Shreyas when we went to the movie theater to see 'Tuck Everlasting' on Columbus Day. It was some of my language arts class. My friend David threw this wet napkin at Shreyas, and he tried to eat it!

I think David said it was snot... but I'm not too sure about that.

[sara]

I usually avoid movie morons by seeing movies either at home (then I am the moron saying comments and kicking chairs) or at an art house or with an intellectual group (which are usually prompt about kicking the morons out). It was in one such art house that I saw LotR : FotR and a bunch of movies most of you haven't heard of, but are notheless great

I think the only time I've seen anything in a mainstream theatre in the last two years was LotR : TT, which didn't have any morons as it was a) too early in the morning b) half the people were from an intellectual group which got the tickets for me in the first place, so if the rest of the audience had any morons, they would find themselves against a rather large army.

From what I've seen of DVD, while it is way better than VHS, it doesn't replace a genuine theatre experience, even one at a small art house.

[bludragn3]

Sara said:

half the people were from an intellectual group which got the tickets for me in the first place

Ah, intellectualism. I thought that faction was gone. Thankfully, it is not.

Just today (or yesterday, seeing as how it's like 1:58 AM), I went to a basketball game and have a funny story about jerks. Now you'd think - seeing as how it's a sporting event, people would concentrate on the game, right? Nope. My father and I sat in the next-to-highest row and still had idiots behind us. Now I can't expect much from an audience of a game which motto is "Make some noise," but sometimes people take silly things like this too seriously. At least, they do in my opinion. I mean, there's team spirit and then there's TEAM SPIRIT. Halfway through the game (I think) this squad of people take the bunch of seats behind us. I swear, they must have took the entire freaking row! But anyway, not only do they scream "Defense" every time the monitor-thingy at the top of the stadium (or ampitheater, I don't know what it was called) flashes the animation, they feel compelled to flail their feet around. Now this annoys my father slightly, so the two of us move down a couple of seats. You'd think problem solved, right? They're still screaming and flailing their feet around, although it's only the screaming which is annoying me now. It's the last quarter of the game now and about the last few seconds of the game (the two teams are taking their last time-outs to prolong the game a bit), the troop leaves.

Our team lost, but I didn't really care about that. I mean, it would've been great if they did win, but I can't control everything...yet.

Oh well, I guess I'm overreacting. I did win a free KFC Twister wrap with the purchase of a medium drink.

[sticky]

Wow....some story there. I wouldve told them to shut up the first 20 times...also, you can get the security guy and he can kick them out. My friend's have gotten kicked out before...when I wasnt there to control them.

[wingoffire]

Ugh! I hate it when that happens! A jerk behind me was doing that during Lord of the Rings: The 2 Towers!!!! It is sooo annoying! I wish people could be more considerate!

[Pikatribble]

I recently went to go see Star Trek: Nemesis with my brother and one of his friends, and wouldn't you know I managed to get two groups of jerks. Just to the left in the row behind me were a couple of guys that were the seat-kickers (I suppose it could have been worse...they could have been kicking my seat directly, but even though they were kicking the seat over I could still feel it)...and to the right in the row behind me was the gaggle of teenage boys who, for reasons unknown to me, decided that the movie theater was the best place to pay $8 to have a two hour conversation and goof off (I don't know why you would pay to see a movie and not watch it in the slightest). Better yet, we get out of the theater, and the kids who talked through the entire movie turn out to be friends of my brother's friend! (Not that my brother and this guy are very good friends, they usually only get together once a year). My brother told his friend that the next time he saw those guys he should tell them to shut up during the movie (actually, the language he used was much less polite), to which my brother's friend replied "They were talking?"...I don't have a clue how he couldn't hear them when everyone else in the theater could...