.....if this has been done before which ....i actaully did a serch..lately......i been doing that more......but when i did the search i typed in "worst theater experience"....and then i clicked the second option......but the only thing that came close was about annoying people sans theater......so if this has been done before and i didn't search properly and there is a thread about this.....i wish to be redirected......and do it tasty...........
okay......mines would have to be ...................return of the king ..... i went to see it w/ some people .... i have seen it before so the people who went w/ me were first time viewers....so we get in and sit about 1/4 the way back from the front....in the middle......so we star watching the film ....and i hear talking....followed by slurping...followed by laughing then kicking my seat then ....someone brought in a "'value size" of plain potato chips and started to slobber on them and they made that sound ....that sound of the bag crinkling....it made me mad....it made the other people mad who i was with ......i'm sure it even made the other poeple that are not my friends mad......so that sucked......i really hate watcvhing pg-13 films....in a theatre......do you have any experiences that you would like to share w/ the rest of the group.....or should i just phuck off.......?
Quote from: NEON MERCURY.....if this has been done before
i have a story in this thread: http://www.xixax.com/viewtopic.php?t=3798
cheese sandwich page 4 halfway down.
when i saw return of the king, everyone in the theater started to talk towards the end out of restlestness...angering, but so many were doing it i had to just try and block it out.
Quote from: themodernage02
i have a story in this thread: http://www.xixax.com/viewtopic.php?t=3798
......damn that really is the worst......i read tyhat putting myself in your shoes......that sucks.......
rather tasty....
Quote from: NEON MERCURYQuote from: themodernage02
i have a story in this thread: http://www.xixax.com/viewtopic.php?t=3798
......damn that really is the worst......i read tyhat putting myself in your shoes......that sucks.......rather tasty....
yeah i didnt want to re-read/re-visit that story, but to follow-up since that day i have not been ONCE to any theatre inside of the philadelphia area to see any mainstream movie. i can only go to the arthouse. this is my curse.
Everytime I go to a theater it is the worst experience of my life. If someone wants to pay me $10 they can come over and ill put on a movie and they can talk through it, let their baby cry, talk on their cell phone. I dont' care.
Quote from: themodernage02i can only go to the arthouse. this is my curse.
it could be a gift though....
a possible wild at heart /the thin red line double feature....... :wink:
Quote from: themodernage02i can only go to the arthouse. this is my curse.
Sounds like a blessing to me. My worst theatre experience is rather marginal compared to yours. Just some annoying teenagers gabbing on their phones and to each other during Chicago. In the past year and a half, though, I've only been to mainstream type cineplexes for a few select movies. Umm... A Beautiful Mind, Vanilla Sky, Orange County, The Royal Tenenbaums, Minority Report, Red Dragon, The Rules of Attraction, Austin Powers in Goldmember, The Master of Disguise, Chicago, About Schmidt, Matrix Reloaded, Finding Nemo, and Scary Movie 3 are the ones I remember - going to a multiplex seems to be so indelible that yeah, I remember what I've seen there for the most part, and not because of the quality most of the time.
Kill Bill played at one of the three arthouses in my town, and that was fine by me (though it's hardly an indie film -- hehe). That selection of films seen in theatres pales in quality and quantity to the many I've seen in arthouses. And the atmosphere is so nice. Especially the matinees, which reminds me: if you MUST go to the multiplexes to see movies, go for the matinees, preferably during the week. If you can't get off work, I'd imagine Sundays are your best bet. They're cheaper, and not as many people will be there.
when i saw gladiator a woman had an epileptic seizure -- house lights went up -- gurney rolls in -- money refunded -- experience soured.
i once drove a couple of hours to see The Royal Tenenbaums (my town wouldn't get it until a few weeks later). The trip started out bad because I thought just my friend and I were going, but he ended up bringing his girlfriend who is a beast. After the flick ended, I started driving home, but made a wrong turn, and pulled into an alley to turn around. I slid on some ice, hit a curb, and bent my front axle, laving my car undrivable. After desperately trying to think of something, i came to terms with the fact that i would have to call my step father who has a towing device thing to drive the two plus hours at midnight (we saw the late show) with lots of ice on the road to come pick me up. It was a terrible experience, but at least the movie was good. The ironic part of the story is that i was so pissed off that my friend brought his girlfriend, but it turned out that we needed her because she was the only one with a cell phone. The total price of that movie ended up being about $507.50 with the price of gas, the movie ticket and the car repairs.
worst experience? an idiot sitting behind me chewing candy with his mouth open about two hours or more during "return of the king". the quiet moments of the movie were the hardest. i mean, you can't turn around and say "please, shut the fuck up!" or something. you never know if he'll turn aggro on you.
I went to see what I thought was a remastered print of The Godfather at Cornell University in 97. It was the same month that that 25th anniversary print was released, right before the THX VHS box set came out, and Cornell is usually good about getting decent prints of films.
Not this time. This print must have been one of the first ones struck in 1972. It had 25 years of cut frames and all sorts of problems with it; it was like Tyler Durden got his hands on it.
The projector stopped twice, each time for at least 5 minutes, and what made matters worse was that during almost the entire sequence when Pacino is in Sicily, the framing was off and the subtitles were below the bottom of the screen. Several people complained and it wasn't until almost the end of that sequence that the picture was re-framed and we could read the subtitles.
I was there with a friend who had never seen it before and was very disappointed. I kept having to reassure him that it was a much better movie when intact.
The damn lady who would applaud wildly anytime something remotely religious was mentioned in X2.
Towards the end half the audience was yelling "Shut up!" or "Stop it!" after every outburst.
it was the second time i went to watch Mulholland Drive, a fucking idiot man sat down next to me and my best friend, and you know, he started to make stupid questions to his wife but almost shouting, "and where is she now?", "but she is dead or alive?", "why is she crying?", "that guy is falling in love with the blonde one or with the other one?", "look at! the old woman was his mother!"....
you have no idea how i had to control my self to not kill him, i just told him something like PLEASE, let us watch the movie in piece sir! (and i was sooo polite, believe me) his wife felt bad, but i didn't care at that moment...
Quote from: Vile5i just told him something like PLEASE, let us watch the movie in piece sir! ...
I'd rather see the movie in full.
I can completely relate, Vile5. I am horrible at choosing seats at a theater and I always end up sitting in front of someone who either kicks my seat or can't figure out the movie and asks questions every 2 seconds.
I actually had to deal with some rude kids throwing popcorn at me and a couple friends of mine at a theater. I turned and said "Could you boys please stop throwing things, please?" They kept throwing popcorn, and I couldn't take it anymore and complained to the manager. So, the manager came in and said he would kick them out if they didn't behave. Those kids must have thought I was the biggest witch in the whole world, but thank goodness they stopped.
Quote from: SHAFTRQuote from: Vile5i just told him something like PLEASE, let us watch the movie in piece sir! ...
I'd rather see the movie in full.
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This one really isn't a BAD movie experience; in fact, it's pretty funny.
The first time I saw Boogie Nights, I sat in front of this elderly couple. This was my own fault, as I should have realized that an elderly couple in the middle of suburbia is going to have a lot to say about a 2 1/2 hour movie about PORN!
But nevertheless, I sat down in front of them and the movie began.
Everything that was spoken in lower than a scream in the movie, the old lady behind me would whisper to her husband: "What did he/she say?" That's not the problem, though. The old lady can't hear very well, even with the headset she had. The problem was her husband would reply, because his wife was deaf, in a loud speaking voice:
"HE SAID HE MAKES ADULT PICTURES."
And during any sex scene or sexually suggestive dialogue in the movie (this is Boogie Nights we're talking about), the old man would say, in the same loud speaking voice:
"OH, BOY!"
or
"DO YOU BELIEVE THIS?"
My favorite, though, was the scene when Rollergirl is in school and the guy is making blowjob faces at her and starts mouthing dirty things to her. The old lady, too deaf to hear that the guy wasn't talking out loud, asks again:
"What did he say?"
"HE SAID 'I LOVE TO SUCK IT.'"
"Oh."
"DO YOU BELIEVE THIS?"
I almost shit my pants trying not to laugh out loud at that.
Sitting through 8MM.
Quote from: hacksparrowThis one really isn't a BAD movie experience; in fact, it's pretty funny.
The first time I saw Boogie Nights, I sat in front of this elderly couple. This was my own fault, as I should have realized that an elderly couple in the middle of suburbia is going to have a lot to say about a 2 1/2 hour movie about PORN!
But nevertheless, I sat down in front of them and the movie began.
Everything that was spoken in lower than a scream in the movie, the old lady behind me would whisper to her husband: "What did he/she say?" That's not the problem, though. The old lady can't hear very well, even with the headset she had. The problem was her husband would reply, because his wife was deaf, in a loud speaking voice:
"HE SAID HE MAKES ADULT PICTURES."
And during any sex scene or sexually suggestive dialogue in the movie (this is Boogie Nights we're talking about), the old man would say, in the same loud speaking voice:
"OH, BOY!"
or
"DO YOU BELIEVE THIS?"
My favorite, though, was the scene when Rollergirl is in school and the guy is making blowjob faces at her and starts mouthing dirty things to her. The old lady, too deaf to hear that the guy wasn't talking out loud, asks again:
"What did he say?"
"HE SAID 'I LOVE TO SUCK IT.'"
"Oh."
"DO YOU BELIEVE THIS?"
I almost shit my pants trying not to laugh out loud at that.
You need to write this into a movie scene!!
yeah, but make sure you work it in where the character is sick with the flu, and is holding in his bowels because the movie is so good adn when he hears this from the old couple they release. American Pie 4...(right here in my head. thats right).
This beats my Godfather story (http://xixax.com/index.php?topic=5551.msg121925#msg121925) by a mile.
I just went to go see Eyes Wide Shut at the Museum of the Moving Image... and they SKIPPED AN ENTIRE FUCKING REEL OF THE FUCKING FILM!!! :yabbse-angry:
A pretty important one too, Cruise and Pollack's final conversation in the movie. It went right from Dr. Bill at the hospital after he finds out that the model OD'd to when he goes home and finds the mask on his bed next to Alice. Fucking UNBELIEVABLE! I thought I was losing my mind at first, it's been a while since I've seen it and I don't know the film back to front, but once he starts crying and says "I'll tell you everything," I knew someone had fucked up. For our troubles, they gave us each an admit two guest pass but goddammit, I feel cheated! Who lets that happen in a place like that? Every showing of X3 in this country goes off without a hitch but I can't get one properly projected showing a Kubrick film? What the fuck?!
Regal Guest Response System(SM) Launched in 13 Theatres; New Customer Service Initiative from Regal Entertainment Group
KNOXVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 2, 2006--Regal Entertainment Group (NYSE:RGC), a leading motion picture exhibitor owning and operating the largest theatre circuit in the United States, today announced details of the Regal Guest Response System(SM) (RGRS). With RGRS, patrons can utilize an in-theatre paging device to alert management of any disturbances in an auditorium. In addition to Regal's existing program of auditorium checks by staff members, the RGRS provides another way for management to be better informed and to react more quickly.
"As a leader in the movie exhibition industry, Regal is proud to announce another innovation in guest service. Regal Entertainment Group wants to ensure that our patrons have the best possible moviegoing experience in our theatres. If something needs attention, we want to know about it and respond as quickly as possible," stated Dick Westerling, Regal Entertainment Group Senior Vice President of Marketing and Advertising. "With the Regal Guest Response System, our patrons provide us extra eyes and ears, and can immediately report concerns without leaving their seat. The Guest Response System is a great addition to our guest service initiatives."
Regal Entertainment Group theatres participating in the Guest Response System invite selected patrons to carry a paging device with them into the auditorium. The Guest Response device is a hand-held pager with four buttons. Each button alerts local management of a different problem such as: sound, picture, disturbance or piracy. When the patron pushes a button, a message goes to a device worn by a manager which tells them the nature of the concern, and in which auditorium.
The Guest Response System is currently being tested in 13 Regal Entertainment Group theatres across the country. After evaluating input from both managers and guests, Regal intends to roll out the program nationwide.
The Regal Guest Response System(SM) is available at theatres in these markets:
Atlanta, GA
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Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 16
371 17th Street, Atlanta, GA
Baton Rouge, LA
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UA Citiplace Stadium 11
2610 Citiplace Drive, Baton Rouge, LA
Knoxville, TN
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Regal Pinnacle Stadium 18
11240 Parkside Drive, Knoxville, TN
Los Angeles, CA
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Edwards Ontario Palace 22 & IMAX
4900 E. 4th Street, Ontario, CA
Edwards South Gate Stadium 20
8630 Garfield Avenue, South Gate, CA
Miami, FL
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Regal Kendall Village Stadium 16
8595 S.W. 124 Avenue, Miami, FL
New York, NY
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Regal Battery Park Stadium 11
102 North End Avenue, New York, NY
Orlando, FL
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Regal The Loop Stadium 16
3232 N. John Young Parkway, Kissimmee, FL
Philadelphia, PA
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Regal Brandywine Town Center 16
3300 Brandywine Parkway, Wilmington, DE
Regal Downingtown Stadium 16
100 Quarry Road, Downingtown, PA
San Antonio, TX
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Regal Northwoods Stadium 14
17640 Henderson Pass, San Antonio, TX
San Francisco, CA
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Regal Deer Valley Stadium 16
4204 Lone Tree Way, Antioch, CA
Washington, DC
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Regal Gallery Place Stadium 14
701 Seventh Street NW, Washington, DC
Mine's a tie, but both happened at the same (suburan multiplex, natch) theater:
--In 1995, To Die For comes out. Four or five frat guy types (apologies to any frat guys on here) sit directly behind me and my two friends. They spend the whole movie disrupstively talking out loud about how frustrated they're getting that the movie's so boring and Kidman's not taking her top off (that's exactly how they put it). It ruined the showing for me, and I had to see it again later.
--In 1999, I end up back there (even though I'd moved to a different neighborhood) to see American Beauty with a friend. This teenybopper girl and her teenybopper friends sit behind us, and at least once every five minutes, she says (in the thickest, most gum-snappingly dumb-sounding Valley girl accent imaginable), "I don't get it!" I glared at her, which only seemed to goad her on to further announcements of her stupidity.
I HATE it when people talk during movies. HATE it!!!! I wish every theater could install a "Guest Response System." I love having movies available on DVD and so much choice in TV programming, but I have this feeling that being free to talk out loud in their living rooms as movies play has ruined the manners of a huge portion of the moviegoing audience.
Unruly youths shut down movie theater
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) - A movie theater in suburban Boardman Township shut down because of rowdy behavior by more than 100 juveniles and a 13-year-old girl was charged with assaulting two police officers.
After the unruly crowd was removed from Cinemark Movies 8, police found several girls screaming at one another outside the theater late Saturday.
The 13-year-old girl kicked a can of pepper spray out of a police sergeant's hand, then kicked and screamed as the officer tried to take her into custody, according to a police report.
A second officer assisted in handcuffing the girl and she kicked one officer in the groin before she was placed in the back of a cruiser, police said.
She also faces charges of resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.
Police said the girl's 15-year-old sister didn't follow orders to stop yelling and was charged with disorderly conduct. Both girls were released to a family member.
Wrong Movie Horrifies Theater Goers
Holtsville, Long Island -- Moviegoers expecting to see the PG rated "Last Mimzy" instead watched in shock as a chained naked woman gave birth to a dead baby on screen.
It seems the folks at the Island 16 multi-plex in Holtsville mixed up the films last evening - and the R-Rated "The Hills Have Eyes 2" was played in the wrong theater.
Some 50 people - including parents with young children - began screaming and ran out. The manager at the theater got an earful from angry parents.
The staff stopped the movie, gave free ticket vouchers to upset patrons and started the "Last Mimzy" about a half-hour late.
that woulda been great for april foos.
Quote from: MacGuffin on April 06, 2007, 11:50:11 PMMoviegoers expecting to see the PG rated "Last Mimzy" instead watched in shock as a chained naked woman gave birth to a dead baby on screen.
before i read past this sentence i was wondering how the hotsville multiplex got a hold of my home movies. :shock:
Select moviegoers get tattletale tool
Source: USA TODAY
NEW YORK — Movie theaters don't have vice principals or hall monitors to enforce the rules, but they seem headed that way as they step up their battle with a big and growing problem: rude customers.
Major chains are telling managers to monitor audiences more frequently and clamp down on disruptions, including cellphone use, talking and gross littering.
The largest theater owner even is enlisting moviegoers themselves. This week, Regal Entertainment Group will significantly expand a program to give selected patrons wireless devices to anonymously alert the manager of disruptions.
"We have noticed over the years that customer etiquette has become more and more of a problem," says Dick Westerling, Regal's senior vice president of marketing and advertising. "We're doing what we can to provide a friendly environment for all moviegoers."
Summer is the peak time for complaints as kids pack theaters for the season's high-energy adventure and animation flicks.
"I don't believe that this generation of younger folk is as respectful of fellow audience members as previous generations" were, says National Association of Theater Owners President John Fithian. "Maybe that's because I'm getting older. But the sense among our members is that this is a growing issue."
Rudeness isn't limited to kids, though. "Parents who bring really small children into R-rated movies are an annoyance," Fithian says.
Theater owners must act. As HDTV and home theater sales grow, "They have to make it worth people's time to leave home and go to the movie theater," says Research Associates analyst Marla Backer.
The financial toll isn't obvious this year. Box office sales already are up 6%, with an unusually high number of potential blockbusters on tap. Shrek the Third, Spider-Man 3 and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End have set a heady pace ahead of Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Live Free or Die Hard, Ratatouille, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and The Simpsons Movie.
Owners still recall, though, the 2005 box office slump that led many to fear disturbances had done permanent damage.
"There's a subtle structural change going on," Backer says. "Certain people don't go to the movies anymore."
Regal will try to change that this week by introducing its Regal Guest Response System in 114 theaters, up from a test at 13 that began last year. Customers in Regal's loyalty points program will be invited to take a cellphone-size device into the theater. If something pushes their buttons — a disturbance, picture or sound glitch, someone recording the film — they can push one of four buttons to alert the manager.
"We've seen an improvement in the customer etiquette with the implementation of this program," Westerling says. "It addresses these problems on a more routine basis and in a faster manner."
today at work they did a staff appreciation thing and took us out to pool and movies. There were only five movies playing in the afternoon and Superbad was not one of them. I didn't wanna see any other movie so I went with Bourne Ultimatum even though I'd seen it already. I went with my boss's boss and two other co-wokers. The big boss and I talk about movies all the time, which was the reason I wanted to see a movie with him, just to bond a little more.
All was well until about 5 minutes into the movie when four high school girls came in and sat down in front of us. Then they proceeded to talk throughout the movie. Sometimes I'd shush them, sometimes they'd shush each other, and a few scenes drowned out their voices, but still, they were chatting for pretty much the whole movie. I didn't wanna lose it in front of the big boss so I could only shush them.
Then afterwards I was at the subway with my big boss. He jumped on his train, when I saw those four girls on the platform, with some fresh new clothes. I thought, God must'd put them in front of me for a reason. I then went up to them, and I said "hey, weren't you girls at the Bourne Ultimatum earlier?" with this really chipper voice. They were a bit creeped out, but they said yeah. I said "What was your favorite part of the movie?" Still with the smiley voice, I said "My favorite part was when four girls in front of me wouldn't shut the fuck up." They were all turning towards each other, trying to ignore me. But the fat funny one said "My favorite part was the guy kept shushing me." Before they could giggle amongst themselves, I said "Well, I guess my favorite part was 40 times longer than your favorite part."
I really wanted to say "well, my favorite part had tits." But that'd be inappropriate.
no no no you shoulda said "well my favourite part was 40 times FATTER than your part."
well done, pete.
when i saw The Fountain there were a bunch of 14 year old idiot girls sitting in front of me and they wouldn't shut up. they were laughing for no apparent reason, and about ten mintues into the film, one of them said, "uh.. i don't get it!" the others agreed. finally some big guy nearby was like "HEY.. SHUT UP.." but the dumb girls turned and announced, "you can't tell us what to do!" eventually they left, and i praised allah.
the WORST, however, was during Zodiac. there was a girl present who was unaware that i knew her and hated her. she didn't know me, though, so i didn't have to speak to her. she was sitting two seats away from me, and she and her friends would not stop talking throughout the entire movie. during a murder scene, they were laughing loudly and saying "oh my god that is not how somebody would sound if they got stabbed, hahahah wtf" so finally i turned to them and hissed "SHUT THE FUCK UP." and they did.
It appears that some party is most interested in turning girls into dimwitted chatterboxes for some diabolical reason. It's clearly working. Whose evil plan is this, and what is it for?
I'm sure that I'm not the only one who's noticed that all the mentions of audience disruptions in this thread, except for Godardian's experience with the frat boys (which is balanced out by his experience with yet another group of girls), comes from a group of girls.
I suggest a preemptive strike.
well, there are other ones out there, but usually there is nothing you can do. for example, the gangbangers beefing during zodiac, or old guy behind reminiscing during sea biscuit...but, like patton oswalt once said, a lot of times they actually make the theater experience better, not worse. like when the girls sitting next to me were singing along during Block Party or something.
that's mostly true for bad movies, then it can be fun to hear people yell shit out.
SUPERBAD, however, was brimming with douches. [superbad kinda-spoiler] during the 'i love you' scene, some idiots were yelling out, "aw shit is he kissin' his neck? nawwww he's gonna kiss his neck!!!"
dvds are cool.
yeah. the moral of the story is that what pete did was so bizarre it can be considered successful retaliation. he got back at them by imprinting that indelible horrific image in their brain when he approached them. he shoulda said "COME TO DADDY" with the same face just to finish it off.
Too vulgar for this site.
just remembered: i may have avoided a worst theater experience at the simpsons movie when a group of loud stupid silly boys who all talked exactly the same way nearly sat in front of the group i was in. a few of them settled in and then one was like "Nawww dogz! let's sit over theres!".. there was some discussion but i think i was able to turn the tides by loudly going "yeah! let's do that!" in one of their voices. moments later they were on the other side of the theater.
Quote from: matt35mm on August 25, 2007, 10:54:27 AM
It appears that some party is most interested in turning girls into dimwitted chatterboxes for some diabolical reason. It's clearly working. Whose evil plan is this, and what is it for?
the problem here folks is feminism, trying to make men feel bad, and then men going "ok well if i feel bad can i get pussy?" THIS IS HAPPENING ALL OVER AMERICA. men are being lazy and putting up with female shit and now because they dont know their place they are running wild. please, when situations like this occur, USE THE PROPER TERMINOLOGY! use the word BITCH before the words shut the fuck up. its very important
that joke sucked.
Quote from: Depraved, Inc. on September 11, 2007, 02:09:03 AM
Quote from: matt35mm on August 25, 2007, 10:54:27 AM
It appears that some party is most interested in turning girls into dimwitted chatterboxes for some diabolical reason. It's clearly working. Whose evil plan is this, and what is it for?
the problem here folks is feminism, trying to make men feel bad, and then men going "ok well if i feel bad can i get pussy?" THIS IS HAPPENING ALL OVER AMERICA. men are being lazy and putting up with female shit and now because they dont know their place they are running wild. please, when situations like this occur, USE THE PROPER TERMINOLOGY! use the word BITCH before the words shut the fuck up. its very important
I had a friend who used to always pull that shit! Try and make the girls feel sorry for him so he'll get laid. One time he told girls at a party that he was donating blood marrow for a kid at the childrens hospital. He even came up with the kids name and what he wanted to be when he grew up. He smashed like 2 chicks at that party, and one of these he ended up dating for a long time and having a baby that they put up for adoption. Another time he told this high school chick that he regrets not losing his virginity in high school and it really "messed me up man with later relationships" and got her to give him a blowjob. He was 22 and the teenager was my friends sister. Last time he did this he had cancer and banged probably the hottest girl anyone who goes to parties could bang. I'm making him sound like a monster, but he was a cool guy. He actually passed away from full blown aids last December, so I shouldn't really talk bad about him.
wow, that is a bad theater experience...
Quote from: pete on September 11, 2007, 12:54:41 PM
that joke sucked.
its not a joke you fuckin idiot! its supposed to be funny because its true
Quote from: Depraved, Inc. on September 12, 2007, 02:13:57 AM
its supposed to be funny
too bad you ruined it. you shockjock piece of shit.
if you dont find it funny thats your prerogative, but it COULD be funny based on its truism. is that clear enough now?
Quote from: pete on August 23, 2007, 02:38:10 AM
I said "Well, I guess my favorite part was 40 times longer than your favorite part."
I really wanted to say "well, my favorite part had tits." But that'd be inappropriate.
faggot
still a shockjock piece of shit.
hey, thats how i choose to spend my time
Quote from: Depraved, Inc. on September 12, 2007, 03:43:13 AM
hey, thats how i choose to spend my time
you need to be like a fly and get out of petes mix, ...please :elitist:
haha theres something really funny about responding to criticism with just the word "faggot"
I bet depraved inc. was telling a story about himself.
you see, if pete really did think the tit comment was innapropriate and thats why he didnt say it, he wouldnt have mentioned that he really wanted to say it. he didnt say it because hes a wuss (or faggot) disguising his reason as a moral one. see how one word or term can take the place of several words as explanation? funny how that works right? i think that by taking me for an idiot, some of you are really saying something about yourselves. and dont give me PC bullshit in rataliation because, well... if you think it will help your case go right ahead...
yeah, sometimes you wish you didn't have to explain things, then you realized you were much smarter than the person you were talking to (while your interlocutor was wishing the vice versa), so now it's come to this, 24 hours later, after the initial fun has run its course.
allow me to explain what "shockjock piece of shit" might mean.
"shockjock" because you're not actually outrageous, but rather Andrew Dice Clay-esque with your dated stab at trying to make strangers laugh. not really respectable. Trouble was, you weren't funny enough to begin with. So when someone (me) told you you weren't funny enough, you with your dated frame of mind thought you must be smarter than the person who didn't "get it", who bit your awesome bait, and then begin your second wordy assault, like your were some kinda PC martyr. Too bad the problem wasn't in your tastelessness, as you probably still wished it was. The problem was you were corny and nobody gave a flying fuck about your politics. You wish people did give a fuck. You did. That was why you've been called a shockjock, 'cause, even though you're young dumb and sexually frustrated, your anger couldn't even properly guide you to some kinda originality nor relevance. Instead you could only utter cheap lines that even Carlos Mencia considered trite.
Piece of shit because of your general uselessness. I'm pretty sure you offer nothing to this America that you care about, and probably waste more of taxpayer's money than all those groups of people whom you'd never met and hated just because your dad told you. What your dad never told you was, his hatred of them came from not what they did, but what you'd failed, and are continue failing, to become.
I've only a hunch about all of my above claims. I'm sure you'll probably dispute them 'cause you don't got no vantage point. It's okay. One day, when the bus station police force you to cough up all those balls of cocaine condoms, you'll think of that stranger who'd said something about that once upon a time, when the world was a brighter shithole to you. Even though you'd wrongly called him a faggot then, you will now realize that he's a prophet.
All this because you got really angry at a random dude who didn't say "tits" when you wanted him to.
this is the stupidest response you can ever give. this IS A MESSAGE BOARD, where people are ATTEMPTING TO MAKE STRANGERS LAUGH FOR THE MOST PART! so now youre gonna say that its not respectable of me? gimme a break brother, youre so self-righteous. youre just offended cause i proved youre a wimp on your own turf here, where you thought youd look cooler than me by saying my sense of humor and politics are so shitty that no one gives a fuck. how noble of you.
Depraved, Inc.:
Your first capitalized observation is correct--yes, this is a message board.
Your second observation is incorrect--it is neither the purpose of this board, nor the people who populate it, to attempt to make strangers laugh for the most part. Once in a while, someone says something that they think that others would find funny, yes, but insofar as respectability (since you bring it up) is concerned: the posters lose respectability in these tedious, petty back and forths that are inherantly unable to prove anything to anyone. And that applies to Pete as well, who doesn't show his best side when he engages in this sort of thing. Pete does have a great side to him, and I'm sure that you do, too, but neither one of you two are showing it right now.
I think that XIXAX is really quite rare in that the majority of the posting members are people that are quite intelligent, and have a sincere love for cinema. I like the word that you included in your post--"respectable." I think that XIXAX has the kind of members that could constitute a respectable, intelligent forum, as well as provide a space for us to geek out over things that we know other members of this board care about. To a large extent, XIXAX already is this way, and I'm very happy for that. It's also a community of people that we feel comfortable sharing jokes, stories, opinions, and art of our own with, which is very wonderful.
This is not "Pete's turf," just as it isn't mostly a place to make strangers laugh. We don't even have to be strangers! This is not the IMDB message boards, this is not the Rotten Tomatoes message boards, and thank goodness for that. We should never have to be defensive or offensive while on this site.
If you (and everyone else) would just put consideration into your posts, as if you were conversing with people who deserve your respect and whose respect you'd like to have, then the purpose of this board would be better served, and the community would be stronger.
Let's please allow those to be the last off-topic words, and return to the subject of this thread: crappy theater experiences, of which I'm glad to say I haven't had in a surprisingly long time! Although when I saw The Proposition, a guy two seats away from me fell asleep within the first 5 minutes of the movie, and snored loudly for the rest of the movie. I think that was the last irratating theater experience of mine, and that was last year! I don't go to the multiplex much, though, so I think that makes a difference. I also usually do matinees, and the audience seems to be much more peaceful then, probably because the whole social side of theater-going happens at night. People who go to matinees are usually nerds like me who actually went just to see the movie.
Quote from: matt35mm on September 13, 2007, 03:38:56 AM
Your second observation is incorrect--it is neither the purpose of this board, nor the people who populate it, to attempt to make strangers laugh for the most part. Once in a while, someone says something that they think that others would find funny, yes, but insofar as respectability (since you bring it up) is concerned: the posters lose respectability in these tedious, petty back and forths that are inherantly unable to prove anything to anyone.
i meant in terms of socialization, we are meant to be socializing in positive ways, and making others laugh is positive... the purpose isnt to make others cry. thats what i meant. my point is that pete is hiding behind a moral excuse while condemning me. the degree to which he felt insulted by me is the degree to which he knew that my original statement was true. or else why would he be so irrationally judgemental of me?
i think you went out to get him and this is the best you could have expected. pete likes long paragraphs and retaliating usually with good points. i personally don't even get what the fight was about, i thought you two couldn't have been serious because nothing you guys have said made me sympathise with either of you in the least. i kinda get it, you're both just making assumptions about each other (you made the first).
when i go off at retards, like the disco idiot, i try to point out some infallible truth that proves they are idiots and also hopefully justifies my anger. i think you played the disco part here in initiating it. but it's nothing huge or even that entertaining, by my standards anyway. so if you guys can be done now that would be great, otherwise i guess carry on but make it fun to read!
if hed had said "i agree" or "i disagree" it would had been another issue. but by saying my politics are out of date, and then acting like a hipocrite who cant be a man in front a group of chicks hes proving my point, and the ergency of the situation i wrote in that original post is justified. we have to act NOW. ITS THAT DESPERATE! PETE IS TELLING ME IM UNORIGINAL BUT HE OBVIOUSLY NEEDS TO BE TOLD THESE UNORIGINAL THINGS BECAUSE HE DOESNT GET IT! thats not an assumption, its psych 101, if he really thought that the tit comment was innapropriate, why would he come here to say he actually wanted to say it? i made no assumptions, but he did about me
I honestly cannot follow the logic in your posts.
1. If you meant to say that we ought to be socializing in a positive manner as opposed to a negative manner, then why engage, even in retaliation, in what is still only bickering? If you truly believe in what you stated, then issues like who started it and proving that you're right become irrelevant, because you are participating in the opposite of positive socializing, and not for the sake of anything worth discussing. And as far as the "I agree" or "I disagree" thing, even you are not saying anything that clear and succinct.
2. I can't be sure if you're serious when you say that you urgently needed to tell Pete that he's being hypocritical. I certainly don't know what you mean when you say that it's Psych 101. That smaller-font side note in Pete's post was nothing more than just a quick little afterthought, and not meant to be studied or responded to. Maybe it was even a joke and the tit comment didn't even occur to him when he was actually speaking to the girls. In any case, he posted it here because it would be funnier here as a tiny side note than it would have been there, to those girls. By the way, the joke part of that comment is not the tits part, but the "but that'd be inappropriate" part. I shouldn't have even had to explain that. Instead, the image that you seem to have of Pete REALLY wishing that he could just say what he really wanted to say to those girls, and it being proof that he's a "faggot" (seriously, what is with pulling out THAT word?), is completely off-the-mark.
And you have made assumptions. That's not an assumption.
My last post would have been exactly the best place to stop this. Unlike Pubrick, I don't believe this has any potential to be fun to read, nor is it an issue that will ever be settled. Any posts that you or Pete make that drags this bickering on any further will only serve to embarass the poster.
Matt, thank you for thinking that I have a great side. I don't see harm in needless bickering. I contribute enough to this world and arguably this board. I also think that it's probably better that we're bickering over stupid irrelevant issues because anything worth discussing shouldn't be cheapened by what I'm about to do right now. Feel free to ignore what I'm about to say to the other kid:
so again, it boils down to my not saying "tits" to four teenaged girls at the train station about a month ago?
frankly, I went off on you not because of any personal thing, but just because it was there. Aside a few good ol' pals that I could poke fun at, Xixax really hadn't had any good idiots lately. Back in Boston my buddies and I would throw bananas and water balloons at meatheads on weekends after dancing. Over here in this new city, meatheads usually go hiding in other cities and I just haven't seen them in a while. I guess I do miss them. You showed up, and even though you're probably not an orange county date rapist, you said some stupid things reminiscent of a Bostonian meathead, and, when pressed, you went off and said some more. I got giddy and typey. It was a perfect thing to do before bedtime on Tuesday.
Tonight I had a fun late date with a lady going to see Exiled. I came back and saw that you'd written back. I wasn't yet sleepy and, upon reading your post, you still sounded like an idiot. It was all serious and stuff. So I got serious too, ending it with my drug mule prophecy. I guess I was always serious, 'cause I always wanted you to know that your speech sucked and I (I think other people too) get more annoyed by corny jokes than many other things. But you kept on going, almost singularly, with the politics. it was all politics, politics, politics. If I didn't say something, it must'd been because of my pussy politics, and if I said something to you, it must'd because of your politics. I was faced with a dilemma: if I didn't reply to it, then why even bother fucking with you in the first place? but if I did reply to it, how was I going to make it clear to you that I wasn't interested in politics, I just wanted to call you a piece of shit because I know you'd say something back? The answer was to explain it in detail (tagged with a curse/ prophecy), which I did, which you only half-read, which prompted fellow concerned board members who wish we were both more entertaining or engaging.
Either way, you can remain angry because I was never really interested in any point you wished to make (thus the lack of "I agree"/ "I disagree"), I just want you to know that it really ain't about that. Thanks again Matt for thinking that I have a great side and sorry for making it a drag for you.
thats exactly my point.
when i read all the talking in theatres and that mostly girls were involved, it did not surprise me so i expressed why i think this is. pure and simple. it wasnt a corny joke. if its funny, its because you agree with it. get it? you laugh because its a truism that is ignored by most, not because its a "joke" and youre "supposed" to laugh. so i called pete a faggot, because the way he rationalized the 4 girl situation, hes obviously a victim of fucked up feminism, hes pretending that he would have found such a comment innapropriate but its bullshit, he just didnt have the balls. its false respect. so i was calling it to illustrate my point of how male psychology is today. thats what ive been saying from the beginning.
Matt: if i told you that an arab cut me off, and that i called him a jerk but i really wanted to say towl head but i didnt cause its not nice, would you think that i didnt call him a towl head out of respect?
Quote from: Depraved, Inc. on September 13, 2007, 05:21:49 AM
Matt: if i told you that an arab cut me off, and that i called him a jerk but i really wanted to say towl head but i didnt cause its not nice, would you think that i didnt call him a towl head out of respect?
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LEAVE MATT ALONE!
Hahahaha. Watching that YouTube video would certainly be among the worst theater experiences I've ever had.
And my last response is that I fully understood the points that you've repeated. I just can't follow the logic (as in literally "If A then B, A, therefore B") beyond what it has to to with "balls," and if you haven't gleaned by now that the real joke is that Pete would obvious not censor himself if he really wanted to say something (as you should be able to tell from these posts, and from what he did say to those girls). Maybe you just haven't been around long enough to realize that Pete isn't someone who just posts disses from the safety of his own home and is afraid of talking to people in real life.
As for your final philosophical question there... I will not respond to that.
it doesnt matter if his story is true or not.
he called me a piece of shit when i was trying to make a valid point about cancerous liberal propoganda (i.e. feminism).
he attacked me but i had a point.
he was fucking with me, i was fucking back, but he could never defend himself. i did. if im just a shockjock piece of shit, based on what i wrote, then hes a fag based on what he wrote. end of story.
So that's explains your gay bashing? You're a conservative republican?
dude, Pete, I just remembered how you talked that one chick into an abortion. And then you talked her sister into one a few weeks later. Do you think this is what this dudes mad at?
Maybe you blocked his nerd cock at Dragon Con a few weeks ago. Are Aryan Christians allowed at Cons?
im a free market anarchist actually
i'm jack's smirking revenge.
so wheres all the tough guys with their insults now?
boner
I think Pete sissied out.
oh well, stefan, at least you tried to teach me that faggot is a bad word but making fun of abortion is perfectly fine. im obviously in over my head with this issue of morality...
Quote from: Stefen on September 14, 2007, 02:30:18 PM
I think Pete sissied out.
repressed masculinity everywhere i look in 2007
worst thread experience.
14 bullshit posts in 3 days in the same thread...that's gotta be a record right?
Quote from: squints on September 14, 2007, 04:50:23 PM
14 bullshit posts in 3 days in the same thread...that's gotta be a record right?
yes
Quote from: ©brad on September 14, 2007, 03:20:12 PM
worst thread experience.
yes
boner
this movie sucks.
Disney film-goers get R-rated sex flick
A South Jordan, Utah, movie theater said patrons attending the opening of Disney's High School Musical 3 were instead briefly shown a sexually explicit film.
Managers at the Megaplex Theatre said they switched a showing of the G-rated Disney musical film Friday night to a larger auditorium but they forgot to switch out the reel of the previous film, the R-rated Sex Drive, the Deseret Morning News reported Tuesday.
Patrons said the opening moments of the film included nudity.
I could not carry my little children out before they were exposed to extremely vulgar and sexually explicit material, one parent said after the screening, the report said.
Managers at the theater said they apologized to the audience and distributed free movie vouchers and concession coupons.
Megaplex spokesman Jeff Whipple said greater supervision will be given to employees charged with switching reels in the future to prevent further occurrences.
lol@Utah moviegoers.
Some poor dad trying to shield his family from nudity. Doesn't have enough hands to cover the eyes of his daughter and two wives.
Phila. man shot because family talked during movie
A South Philadelphia man enraged because a father and son were talking during a Christmas showing of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button took care of the situation when he pulled a .380-caliber gun and shot the father, police said.
James Joseph Cialella Jr., 29, of the 1900 block of Hollywood Street is charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault, and weapons violations.
"It's truly frightening when you see something like this evolve into such violence," said police spokesman Lt. Frank Vanore.
Police were called to the Riverview Theatre in the 1400 block of Columbus Boulevard about 9:30 p.m. where the gunshot victim, a Philadelphia man who was not identified, told police a man sitting near him told his family to be quiet and threw popcorn at his son.
After exchanging words, Vanore said Cialella allegedly got out of his seat to confront the family when the father got up to protect them. That's when the victim was shot once in the left arm, sending others in the theatre running to safety.
Cialella then sat down to watch the movie. Police arrived a short time later and arrested Cialella and confiscated his weapon, Vanore said.
:bravo:
An Open Letter to the Three Jerks Who Sat Behind Me at the Movies Yesterday
by Scott Weinberg; Cinematical
Dear jerks,
I totally get that you, a middle-aged couple and their rotten little 13-year-old, spike-faced offspring, just HAD to go see The Uninvited at 4:50 on opening day at the AMC Franklin Mills 24 theater ... but why did they have to be so stunningly obnoxious about the whole excursion?
You're probably wondering what made me so angry, so because you're unbelievably stupid, I'll tell you: Your loud wife and snotty teen felt the need to pretty much NARRATE the entire prologue of the film, which is clearly a dream sequence and therefore not beholden to logic. Your repeated queries of "Huh?" and "What's goin' ON?" were not answered by the giant movie screen, and so you replaced your questions with simple assertions.
"That's creepy," is what I hear when a shadow moves across the screen. "That bikini is pretty small," you helpfully inform me when a girl in the film appears wearing a bikini. And yet, not only five minutes earlier, I asked you (politely and with a SMILE) if you'd please stop talking. But you took that as a challenge to be subtle.
After about seven minutes of actual quiet, Mom and Teen had hatched a plan: Ugly daughter would fake-cough very loudly and dryly, while stupid mother would pat her on the back (very loudly) as if some sort of gastronomical emergency was taking place. Dad, for his part, probably a little worried that the "shush guy" one row ahead might actually have a firearm, did nothing. On the other hand, he sure didn't tell his wife and kid to stop acting like monumental ass-faces.
By the time teen daughter had taking to CRUNKLING UP her popcorn bag really loudly, but well after I started to realize that they were focusing more on annoying me than they were on The Uninvited ... I just snapped. I'm surprised I didn't throw a soda right in the sneering little harridan's face. "So you're just gonna make SPITE NOISE until the movie ends, huh? Just because I had the ignorance to ask you to stop talking during a movie. And you, the parents, condoning it. Brilliant." The young one tried to mumble a response like "Hey, we paid for our tickets TOO, y'know," as if this someone gives a moron the right to harass an entire audience, but I was too livid to respond. Plus there were at least five other people in the auditorium, and I felt bad about bothering them.
So I ran to the AMC security-looking guy, who promptly went in and chastised the family. I felt good. Then the manager gave me some free passes and I finished watching the damn movie. I feel even better. Oh, and thanks, jerks: I actually have to review this film, and now all I can think about is beating that snot-faced brat with a stick.
But I will keep fighting the fight. The one that says "You know what? Public auditoriums are not your freakin' family room! Shut UP!"
Geez, more like Scott Whineberg.
J/k.
I would have punched that snotty little 13 year old girl IN THE FACE.
Boo ya bitch! Boo ya!
Quote from: MacGuffin on October 30, 2008, 10:38:56 AM
A South Jordan, Utah, movie theater said patrons attending the opening of Disney's High School Musical 3 were instead briefly shown a sexually explicit film.
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Onion AV's Worst Moviegoing Experiences
http://www.avclub.com/articles/avqa-worst-moviegoing-experiences,24745/
if you read only one, make it As Good As It Gets.
Movie theater, other businesses in Anderson 'disconnect' cell phone use
Source: Independent Mail
ANDERSON COUNTY — AmStar Cinema is cracking down on cell phone use as local government bodies and other businesses in Anderson do the same.
Patrick Clifford, the day shift general manager for the AmStar in Anderson, said a new policy took effect Sept. 18 prohibiting the use of cell phones in the movie auditoriums at the theater. Under the policy, if a theater staff member sees a customer using a cell phone, the patron will be asked to leave without a refund.
All of the AmStar Cinemas and The Grand Theaters in 18 locations across the nation are now following the same policy, Clifford said.
Only one person has been caught so far in the Anderson theater at 193 Civic Center Blvd. That customer was let off with a warning in September because it was the first week the theater was enacting the policy, officials said.
"For it to be consistent, we have to stick to it regardless of the excuse," Clifford said.
Before the new policy was enacted, he said, he heard complaints two or three times a month about residents interrupting a movie with cell phone use. Customers now receive notice of the new policy with their movie tickets, and signs are posted within the theater.
Clifford said more than a dozen customers have told him they are happy that the new policy is in place. People are allowed to use their cell phones in the hallways of the theater and in the lobby.
Marion Strickland, 57, of Anderson said she is glad the theater is trying to crack down on cell phone interruptions. She walked into the AmStar in Anderson on Thursday to see a movie.
But kicking customers out of the theater for cell phone usage may be a little harsh, Strickland said.
"I would give them a warning," she said. "It doesn't bother me when they go off."
Heidi Trull, the owner of Grits and Groceries restaurant in Belton, said her business also has a no cell phone usage policy. Customers are confronted with a clanging cowbell on first offense, she said. On second offense, customers are asked to place their cell phones next to the cash register until they leave.
"My opinion is most people have 30 minutes for lunch," Trull said. "I get up at 4 o'clock in the morning to cook it. I believe you should spend your 30 minutes enjoying lunch."
A large sign in the restaurant lets customers know cell phone usage is not permitted, she said. She came up with the creative cell phone policy because she was bothered by cell phones ringing in other restaurants, she said.
Anderson County Council Chairman Eddie Moore said he has a strict stance on cell phone usage at council meetings because he has a right to a quiet council chamber.
"I think if somebody won't cut their cell phone off, I have the right to ask them to leave," Moore said.
He also said in July that audience members at council meetings could no longer use electronic devices at meetings because it is distracting, and the cords could create tripping hazards.
Anderson City Manager John Moore said cell phones have only gone off a few times in city council meetings since 1991. A cell phone usage policy is not in place for city council meetings, but under city code the mayor has the right to preserve order and remove residents who are out of order, Moore said.
Marcus Brown, the owner of Marcus D. Brown Funeral Home in Anderson, said his staff members must keep their cell phones on vibrate or silent during services at the business. The employees are asked to step away from a service if they need to use a phone.
Ministers remind people to silence phones if any ring at a service, Brown said.
Crystal Hamon, a public relations manager for Cornerstone Marketing and Advertising Inc., a public relations firm for AmStar Theaters, said the new policy at the theaters was put in place because of complaints from customers across the nation.
"People are looking for an experience when they go to the movie," Hamon said. "They are paying for an experience that is being intruded on by people around them."
She said the policy will be enforced if staff members witness cell phone usage or if a customer complains about another customer's usage. Under the policy, people cannot text, e-mail or turn on a cell phone screen during a movie presentation.
Quote from: MacGuffin on October 19, 2009, 12:15:50 AM
Movie theater, other businesses in Anderson 'disconnect' cell phone use
"I would give them a warning," she said. "It doesn't bother me when they go off."
That's because you're a dumb bitch.
I wouldn't go to a restaurant that doesn't allow cell phones. It's not that it's important to me. They're two totally different venues, and people talk all the time in restaurants anyway.
Yeah, you're supposed to talk in a restaurant. Why go to a restaurant with someone to talk to if you're not going to talk? A restaurant is not the dinner table at your moms new boyfriends house!
When I saw Inglourious Basterds for the first time.
Well... It was actually a fantastic experience since the movie was great. But one thing happened which ruined it a little. After a while the film began to play upside down and backwards, which was so damn weird. I didn't understand why either. So then we had to wait a half an hour or so before it started again. Ruined the experience a bit, but not much. I mean, it was still my best theater experience ever. When the opening credits began to play, and you're sitting in your chair and can't really understand that you finally gonna see it. It was incredible. And I hope I will feel the same thing when The Master comes out.
Quote from: KarlJan on May 01, 2010, 09:21:31 PM
When I saw Inglourious Basterds for the first time.
Well... It was actually a fantastic experience since the movie was great. But one thing happened which ruined it a little. After a while the film began to play upside down and backwards, which was so damn weird. I didn't understand why either. So then we had to wait a half an hour or so before it started again. Ruined the experience a bit, but not much. I mean, it was still my best theater experience ever. When the opening credits began to play, and you're sitting in your chair and can't really understand that you finally gonna see it. It was incredible. And I hope I will feel the same thing when The Master comes out.
Upside down and backwards? Odd. Quite a glitch
But, this testimony kind of reminds someone's first sexual experience. A ton of excitement about the fact that *it's going to happen* and although you probably had a good time, that doesn't necessarily mean it was good for the others involved. But hey, you had a good time, you got off staring at his/her feet. So, it was Win Win.
Movie Theater Kicks Customer Out for Texting, Turns Her Angry Voicemail Into PSA
The Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, Texas, now airs her expletive-filled rant before all R-rated movies that it shows.
Source: THR
You might want to think twice before texting the next time you are at the movies. A movie theater in Austin, Texas, has gotten its revenge on a customer who insisted on doing that very thing. In a blog post on the Alamo Drafthouse's website, the theater claims it has a strict no-talking policy that was adopted in 1997. "Recently, we had a situation where a customer persisted in texting in the theater despite two warnings to stop," the blog post reads. "Our policy at that point is to eject the customer without a refund, which is exactly what went down that night. Luckily, this former patron was so incensed at being kicked out, she quickly called the office and left us the raw ingredients for our latest 'Don't Talk or Text' PSA." That's right: The customer not only got kicked out of the movie without her money, but her angry, expletive-filled voicemail is now being played as part of a video airing before all the R-rated movies shown at the theater. Watch the video --and listen to her rant --below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L3eeC2lJZs
Oh man i'm as bad as her i didn't know about the no texting tule in theaters. I mean it's on silent, didn
t think it was a big deal.
Did it a couple times.
Yeah, this texting thing from the Drafthouse has really blown up. Anderson Cooper said that Tim League should get a Nobel Peace Prize.
There's already shirts being sold that say "Magnited We Stand".
I hope it doesn't turn cool to get kicked out of the Drafthouse for texting.
She
sounds
exactly
like an
asshole!
Whatever.
I LOVE how her voice rises excitedly as she says "Magnited".
Quote from: Pas on June 08, 2011, 05:50:37 AM
Oh man i'm as bad as her i didn't know about the no texting tule in theaters. I mean it's on silent, didn
t think it was a big deal.
Did it a couple times.
This. If you're paying any attention to the movie you shouldn't see my teeny little light. Eyes forward.
I text in theaters sometimes, but I hate when others do. It's rude! :yabbse-angry:
Texting is bothersome but I love it when people make whispery or loud phone calls. It's just so damn absurd the only thing to do is laugh.
I posted on Xixax while watching the awful movie ''Last Night'' . A pretty big post too.
Quote from: ono on June 08, 2011, 12:48:56 PM
Quote from: Pas on June 08, 2011, 05:50:37 AM
Oh man i'm as bad as her i didn't know about the no texting tule in theaters. I mean it's on silent, didn
t think it was a big deal.
Did it a couple times.
This. If you're paying any attention to the movie you shouldn't see my teeny little light. Eyes forward.
Fuck you both. In a dark theater, that teeny light in your peripheral vision is distracting as hell. Especially if you keep doing it at infrequent intervals, it's like fucking Chinese water torture.
Quote from: polkablues on June 08, 2011, 03:38:28 PM
Fuck you both. In a dark theater, that teeny light in your peripheral vision is distracting as hell. Especially if you keep doing it at infrequent intervals, it's like fucking Chinese water torture.
Word.
Turn off the phone.
Watch the fucking movie.
I didn't even use my phone last weekend during X-Men and that shit was BORING.
Quote from: Pozer on June 08, 2011, 02:53:44 PM
Quote from: Christian on June 08, 2011, 12:32:58 PM
Passhole!
Are you referring to the people in lawn chairs at promo screenings? That's what we used to call them, but I've never heard anyone else use the term.
Quote from: john on June 08, 2011, 03:46:36 PM
I didn't even use my phone last weekend during X-Men and that shit was BORING.
I'm happy you said that because I wanted to. The title sequence was okay and then the long middle section was like a boring title sequence. Meet so and so meeting so and so meeting so and so name this explain this meet this name this etc.
I like movies a lot, but I check my phone.
I usually text with my palm or sleeve over the phone screen so light does not leak, is that ok?
Quote from: pete on June 09, 2011, 02:03:49 AM
I usually text with my palm or sleeve over the phone screen so light does not leak, is that ok?
How do you read what you wrote and what people are saying back?
It seems at some point, you're going to be blazing that screen and it's so distracting during a movie.
If you can do it without the light ever showing, then great job, text away... I don't care that people are texting, I care that that screen is so bright.
Also annoying:
People whose wristwatches beep every hour on the hour. Happened during ToL last night.
Quote from: pete on June 09, 2011, 02:03:49 AM
I usually text with my palm or sleeve over the phone screen so light does not leak, is that ok?
Nope. Can you not go without texting for two hours?
I just watch movies at home and I can do what I want- get sloppy drunk, look at internet porn. It's great
Quote from: Reelist on June 09, 2011, 03:19:01 PM
I just watch movies at home and I can do what I want- get sloppy drunk, look at internet porn. It's great
Total Norman Bates move.
Quote from: cinemanarkissed on June 09, 2011, 03:32:08 PM
Quote from: Reelist on June 09, 2011, 03:19:01 PM
I just watch movies at home and I can do what I want- get sloppy drunk, place flower petals in my dead mother's vagina. It's great
Total Norman Bates move.
Are you guys more offended by the prospect of someone disturbing your movie experience, or by the notion that somebody cannot stay "immersed" for the whole movie?
The disturbance.
I'm actually self-conscious about the fact that I think I am a super fidgety person and worry that my constant moving and shifting in my seat pisses people off, though no one has ever said anything to me...
Quote from: JG on June 09, 2011, 07:36:46 PM
Are you guys more offended by the prospect of someone disturbing your movie experience, or by the notion that somebody cannot stay "immersed" for the whole movie?
It's more the former but if we're being completely honest (and why not) the latter does play a factor under some circumstances. Just like in X-Men: First Class when Charles Xavier gives his first presentation to the CIA and because he's a mind reader he knows they were thinking about pies and other things not related to his speech, if I'm showing you a Tsai Ming-liang movie (for example) and you're picking your fingernails, eating chocolate donuts, and texting your friends I know the film isn't going to work for you. I'm Charles Xavier for a moment, and I'm thinking the presentation isn't being given a chance and that sort of bums me out and while I'm thinking about your experience I'm also puncturing my immersion. Although I'm not a mind reader in actuality and different people watch movies different ways and some people are not going to watch movies the way I watch movies because that's not how they watch movies so I really need to get over it and concentrate on my personal experience (being annoyed by texters for example).
if i absolutly have to text, i tuck my head into my shirt and pull the bottom over my knees and text teepee style- it looks weird, but everyones watching the screen... could we make this the official movie-text ediqute, i feel like it works. Someone make a diagram
I think this has less to do with total immersion in a film and more with lack of immersion in your own personal life. You can't even, for a movie you paid for, spend a couple hours not communicating with people who will likely not snap into cardiac arrest if you are silent for a little while. God forbid you keep your thoughts to yourself for once or perhaps you skip the small talk for a little while with friends who don't need it anymore than you do.
You like movies, right? Isn't that why you post here? This question may answer itself, but when you read, do you constantly check your phone? This may be an awful comparison because one may also do that. But one does not have to, is the point.
Speaking of texting during movies...
http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/2011/08/travesty-of-the-day-woman-fined-260-for-scolding-theater-texter (http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/2011/08/travesty-of-the-day-woman-fined-260-for-scolding-theater-texter)
http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/2011/08/follow-up-texas-theater-texter-blames-liberal-media#more-49640 (http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/2011/08/follow-up-texas-theater-texter-blames-liberal-media#more-49640)
On a related note, I've been thinking lately about how we don't use the word "cunt" enough in the US. This dude is a cunt.
Yes! And he is.
His first version of events: "I got a text, and I responded to it because it was something important. It was something that was on a deadline situation, OK."
His retelling of the story: "These trolls are just jealous because they were at home with their ugly wives and pimply gnome kids while I was out watching Transformers 3 in 3D and text messaging with hot babes."
Well at least the fact that he was watching Transformers 3 explains why there were only 2 people in the theatre. I'm surprised I haven't heard anything about this locally actually.
no the retelling wasn't his words; it was the blogger summarizing what he said.
Nude Man Arrested For Stripping During 'Chipwrecked' Screening
Source: THR
A Chicago citizen gave an X-rated performance during the family friendly film.
Parents got more than they bargained for at a recent screening of Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, when a dentally challenged man decided to go nude.
Edward Brown, 34, was arrested by Chicago police last week after stripping off his clothes and parading his naked body inside the movie theater. According to the Chicago Tribune, officers arrived at the North Riverside Park Mall's Classic Cinema to find Brown seated in the front row -- stark naked -- watching a 4 p.m. showing of the 20th Century Fox film along with 96 fellow patrons. Police said that at one point, Brown turned to face the audience with his exposed genitals.
The audience members were quickly ushered out of the theater and offered refund vouchers, while Brown was ordered to get dressed and was subsequently arrested. He was charged with sexual exploitation of a child and misdemeanor disorderly conduct.
The streaker claims that he was promised sex and drugs by a woman who asked him to sit in the front row and get naked. Brown remains in bail with bond set at $100,000 and the alleged instigator has yet to be found. Brown's next court date is set for Monday at the Maybrook courthouse.
No human being should ever experience that. By "that" I mean "Chipwrecked."
Quote from: MacGuffin on January 05, 2012, 05:25:52 PM
... when a dentally challenged man decided to go nude.
Dentally challenged? What was wrong with his teeth?
Quote from: Champion Souza on January 05, 2012, 09:46:38 PM
Quote from: MacGuffin on January 05, 2012, 05:25:52 PM
... when a dentally challenged man decided to go nude.
Dentally challenged? What was wrong with his teeth?
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Holy crap. That guy could eat a hot dog without unclenching his jaw.
Kinda ironic that this all went down in a screening where all the main characters have huge front teeth...
'The Artist' outrages viewers who didn't know it was silent
It's wowed critics and awards juries worldwide, but to some filmgoers in the UK, "The Artist" was bad enough to warrant a refund. After all, where was all the dialogue?
According to the Telegraph of London, movie fans in Liverpool demanded their money back after sitting through the Michel Hazanavicius-directed Hollywood homage, claiming they had no idea that the Golden Globe-winner was a silent film.
"Odeon Liverpool One can confirm it has issued a small number of refunds to guests who were unaware that The Artist was a silent film," the film chain involved told the Telegraph in a statement. "The cinema is happy to offer guests a refund on their film choice is they raise concern with a member of staff within 10 minutes of the film starting."
source: Huffington Post
Not mine, but...30 years ago when Jaws was first showing in the Adelphi Cinema in Dublin, Barry Lyndon was showing on the screen next door. A drunk joined the queue but ended up in Barry Lyndon. After a while, as he tried to get an angle on the film, his inebriated self was heard to shout out, "Where's this fucking shark they're all talking about?"
sorry man, I don't really get it, did you make that up?
If so that's the worst made up story I ever heard.
You should have said the dude thought he was lining up for All the President's Men and then during the screening he was heard to shout "when is Lady Lyndon going to deep throat that fucking candle?!"
what do you not understand exactly? no, it's not made up. true story.
Quote from: Pubrick on January 19, 2012, 09:22:35 AM
You should have said the dude thought he was lining up for All the President's Men and then during the screening he was heard to shout "when is Lady Lyndon going to deep throat that fucking candle?!"
much better...
Joshua Thompson, Michigan Man, Sues Movie Theater Over Expensive Snacks
It would appear Joshua Thompson has bought his last box of overpriced Goobers.
According to the Detroit Free Press, the Livonia, Mich., resident is suing his local AMC theater "in hopes of forcing theaters statewide to dial down snack prices."
The class-action lawsuit was filed in Wayne County Circuit Court, according to WJBK.
Thompson reached the decision sometime after he purchased a Coke and a box of Goobers for $8, according to the Free Press, which also notes that the lawsuit seeks refunds for allegedly gouged customers and a civil penalty against the theater chain.
Typically, movie theaters make around a quarter of their entire operating revenue from concession sales, Smart Money previously reported.
Seeking to defend theaters' right to charge what they want for snacks, a representative from the National Association of Theater Owners told Smart Money that it's "not a requirement" to buy popcorn when you go to the movies and that "people who want concessions can order them or not."
someone's gotta take a stand, but there are absolutely no grounds to sue. What a dummy.
Seriously. Just sneak some shit in under your jacket like a goddamn grown-up.
Yong Hyun Kim Accused Of Hitting Noisy Kid At Seattle Suburb Movie Theater
AP
SEATTLE — A Washington state man fed up with a group of noisy moviegoers behind him stepped over the seat and punched a 10-year-old boy in the face.
The man, who told police he thought the person he hit was a grown man, was watching "Titanic" in 3-D with his girlfriend and had asked the people sitting behind to quiet down and stop throwing popcorn, but they laughed at him, he said.
"I got so mad that it just happened," Yong Hyun Kim, 21, told police who arrested him the night of April 11 at the AMC Kent Station 14, in Kent, a south Seattle suburb.
The 10-year-old lost a tooth and had a bloody nose in the confrontation.
Kim spent a night in the Kent city jail and appeared April 12 in King County District Court and was released, said county prosecutor's spokesman Dan Donohoe.
Kim was charged May 16 with second-degree assault. If convicted, he could be sentenced to three to nine months in jail, Donohoe said Tuesday.
The Auburn man will be arraigned May 31 at the Regional Justice Center in Kent.
A phone number for Kim could not be found, and it's unclear whether he has a lawyer.
The boy, identified in the police report as KJJ, was at the theater with three friends. They met police in the lobby. They said they were watching the movie and talking when Kim told them to be quiet. They quieted down, but KJJ says when he whispered something, Kim jumped over the seat, threw an iced drink at them and punched KJJ in the face.
Kim said something to the effect of "You know what, I paid a lot of money to see this movie," the police report said.
Kim told police the boys' behavior was worse than talking. He says they were hitting him and his girlfriend with popcorn, running back and forth in the aisle and bumping him with their arms.
"At one point Yong stepped over the seats and confronted the subjects behind him," the police report says. "Yong said he was talking to the subjects when they started laughing at him. Yong said he became so angry and swung his arm at one of the subjects and him in the face."
A manager at the theater referred a request for comment to a corporate spokesman.
"We strongly encourage guests to be respectful of their fellow moviegoers, and to report any disturbance to an AMC associate, so that we may handle it directly," AMC Theatres spokesman Ryan Noonan said in a statement. "The safety and security of our guests and associates is important to us, and we want everyone to enjoy the moviegoing experience."
Noonan said the theater's management told him no one had complained about audience behavior prior to the incident.
Ninjas keep patrons in line at London cinema
A British movie theatre has come up with a unique solution to the problem of patrons using their cell phones, throwing popcorn, or having conversations during a movie: ninjas.
The Prince Charles Cinema, in London's West End, has teamed up with Morphsuits, a Scottish company that produces skin-tight, head-to-toe zentai suits, to create their own volunteer movie theatre "ninja taskforce."
These 'theatre ninjas' aren't actually trained in the dark arts of Ninjutsu - they're simply film lovers who provide their services in exchange for free admission to films.
Wearing black bodysuits, these volunteers roam the theatre in stealth silence during films, pouncing on anyone who may be disturbing other patrons with a warning: "Shhhhhh."
Recent Prince Charles cinema patron Abdul Stagg told slashfilm.com that his experience with the ninjas made an impact:
"I normally hate noisy people in cinemas, but I got a call from my friend just as the movie started and thought I could get away with taking it," he said. "The last thing I expected was two completely blacked-out people suddenly appearing by our seats and give me and my mates a warning to shut up. It was actually pretty terrifying at first, but then I realised it was a bit of a laugh and a great way to make it clear what I was doing was having an impact on those around me."
Gregor Lawson, Morphsuits founder, told Slashfilm that the idea actually for theatre ninjas actually stemmed from his company's Facebook page, where fans discussed using his zentai suits to dress up as ninjas.
Years of bad movie theatre experiences helped him come up with a plan that put Morphsuit-clad ninjas into the cinema.
So, dark figures are saying "Shhhh" to other people in movie theaters?
The tables have turned.
Quote from: Reelist on September 15, 2012, 08:59:33 PM
So, dark figures are saying "Shhhh" to other people in movie theaters?
The tables have turned.
What is this supposed to mean?
it means he's racist.
that's what I thought. So is the person who up-voted that post.
For shame, racists, for shame.
I actually had to check to see if I upvoted 'cause I thought it was an ok joke. but reelist, as I recall, has that family guy-esque brand of humor that I try not to condone.
Quote from: pete on September 17, 2012, 04:57:57 PM
reelist, as I recall, has that family guy-esque brand of humor that I try not to condone.
Explain.
I was browsing the chats and it seems like he's just flailing wildly with every response he types, looking for the quickest way to shock somebody. like, that's what he thinks comedy is. I'm not saying I'm funny, or that he's not funny, but that brand of humor is a brand that needs no fostering.
Woman Sprays Man with Mace During AFI Screening
Variety Staff
The AFI Film Festival screening of "Mr. Turner" had theatergoers scratching their heads (and eyes) on Monday night when one audience member maced another in the face for asking her to turn off her cell phone.
It happened during Mike Leigh's historical drama "Mr. Turner," starring Timothy Spall, at the Chinese 6 theater in Hollywood.
According to an eyewitness account, the man repeatedly told the woman to turn off her cell phone five minutes into the movie. After she refused, the man then reached over the seat and tapped her on the shoulder ("You need to turn off your phone!" he said), causing the woman to stand up, and after a brief exchange, she sprayed him in the face with the self-defense chemical.
"Everyone in the audience was watching in disbelief," the eyewitness said.
The man and his girlfriend quickly left the theater. It's unknown how many other moviegoers also left the festival screening.
The woman, after showering the man with incapacitant, returned to her seat and continued watching the movie like nothing had happened.
Security quietly came in and removed her from the theater 15 minutes later.
As for "Mr. Turner," which is about 19th century painter J.M.W. Turner, the audience rather enjoyed the rest of the film.
Quote from: MacGuffin on November 10, 2014, 10:52:39 PM
Woman Sprays Man with Mace During AFI Screening
The woman, after showering the man with incapacitant, returned to her seat and continued watching the movie like nothing had happened.
like the cinemania dude
Quote from: MacGuffin on November 10, 2014, 10:52:39 PM
on Monday night
3pm
the end of this post is a friend told me she'd seen mr. turner and i asked where it was from and she told me it's a mike leigh movie and that's how i learned about the movie