Theater etiquette and stories
 

You want some advice? Um, don't pay. Go to theaters with side doors, pay a little and one friend goes in, buys their little ticket, you watch to see what side of the theater they go to, you meet them at the exit doors, everyone enters - box office discussion

Do I even have to go over how to get food in the theater? Pockets + Candy (please no chip bags or the like cause it's loud sh*t when you're down to the bottom and you got to crunch it to get the last bit of trash food) = cheaper food. Don't support their candy, I once saw a bottle of water, more like a thimble, for more than 3 bucks? Who do they think I am?

Um.. Don't film in the theaters, it's bad enough when you've got some nerd wearing a dorky vest coming in with a little flashlight - ruining my free mood.

Don't try to smoke in theaters, everything I've recommended SO FAR wont get anyone fired or piss off other customers/suckers. Smoking will make you out to be a punkass and you might feel tough until the big guy with the mustache feels like impressing his date by impressing your head into his knuckles.

If you're going to consume alcohol, do it like a champ. Don't drink and drive (It's important cause your night, or day if you're hardcore, will go from good to "This is stupid" real fast). Anyways, once you've found a way to get to the theaters (cab, bus, non-drunk friend) drink a lot before you go. Don't go with the loud guy that likes to talk trash when he's drunk or you'll end up in a fight you can't win cause everyone you're with is drunk. If you still aren't satisfied and must drink in the theaters, try to get the alcohol with limited stench. It'll make people angry, even if you're being nice cause they'll probably be jealous and wish they had though of it. I wouldn't recommend, but if you're gonna, Vodka works well. Sometimes the movie ends up better than it should have been, unless it's The Punisher, then no amount of alcohol is gonna save it.

By all means, if you've only got the friends that think it's funny to hear themselves laugh and fuel eachother with unseen mind force, tell them to shut up. It's better than the mustache saying "You must think you're pretty funny down there, wait till I flex my muslces around your head." Then shutup wont work.

Movie hoping - Do it. What's the worse that could happen? You'll get kicked out. It's a cheap and entertaining way to stick it to the man. I personalyl like to stick it to the man by going to an all you can eat buffet and eating till they kick me out, during which I make them feel foolish for hanging the sign "all you can eat."

This might be illegal - it's not recommended. So don't do it. But if you're gonna, I think these words of advice will make those around you more tolerant.

I didn't know there were more faces; :drevil:

Anyone have good theater stories? Some guy got stabbed in the lobby when I was buying a ticket one time.

Thats a good story :rolleyes:

I thought it was - not for the guy who was shanked, but just pretty entertaining in general.

You should be more straight foreward too. Something like; that wasn't a story, or, and?, or, that's no story, etc, etc.

I forget the film, perhaps, in a way, the film is irrelevant, but I clearly remember the soothing words drifting into my East Coast -addled brain. Like manna from heathen, these 11 simple words cut through the socio-political-conspicuous-consumer-driven morass I had unwittingly mired myself in, and to he/she/it/they, the creators of this...credo? mantra? proverb? I am eternally grateful:

Thank_you_for_coming to Loews, sit back - enjoy - the_show!

Now I'm not here to tell you my entire life changed after that fateful and sublime moment, but I am here to tell ya this, there's something else, the afterworld. A world of never ending buckets of popcorn, you can never wipe away the "butter", day or night...so when you pour out that drink at the megaloplex in Beverly Hills, you know the one - Magic Johnson makes it alright - instead of asking them how much Junior Mints sell for, ask 'em how much they'll give for your mind, baby...and if the pimple-faced usher tries to bring ya down, go crazy - take an aisle seat!

Be careful, cause I stab people in the ticket lines... if I have a crazed feeling that they will not be polite & quiet during the show!!! Knife goes in- guts come out!

ya better recognize...

Is Loews the name of a theater? We've got somthing like that but you buy walls and toilets, not popcorn.

I recognize for my dead homey's when I'm out representin' the two-of-the-one-and-the-three with my heaters in my trunk and beef in my grill for the women ladys that want my cheddar. I recognized.

What did I say? What did I say?

[quote=PimpDaShizzle]You want some advice? Um, don't pay. Go to theaters with side doors, pay a little and one friend goes in, buys their little ticket, you watch to see what side of the theater they go to, you meet them at the exit doors, everyone enters - box office discussion

Do I even have to go over how to get food in the theater? Pockets + Candy (please no chip bags or the like cause it's loud sh*t when you're down to the bottom and you got to crunch it to get the last bit of trash food) = cheaper food. Don't support their candy, I once saw a bottle of water, more like a thimble, for more than 3 bucks? Who do they think I am?

Um.. Don't film in the theaters, it's bad enough when you've got some nerd wearing a dorky vest coming in with a little flashlight - ruining my free mood.

Don't try to smoke in theaters, everything I've recommended SO FAR wont get anyone fired or piss off other customers/suckers. Smoking will make you out to be a punkass and you might feel tough until the big guy with the mustache feels like impressing his date by impressing your head into his knuckles.

If you're going to consume alcohol, do it like a champ. Don't drink and drive (It's important cause your night, or day if you're hardcore, will go from good to "This is stupid" real fast). Anyways, once you've found a way to get to the theaters (cab, bus, non-drunk friend) drink a lot before you go. Don't go with the loud guy that likes to talk trash when he's drunk or you'll end up in a fight you can't win cause everyone you're with is drunk. If you still aren't satisfied and must drink in the theaters, try to get the alcohol with limited stench. It'll make people angry, even if you're being nice cause they'll probably be jealous and wish they had though of it. I wouldn't recommend, but if you're gonna, Vodka works well. Sometimes the movie ends up better than it should have been, unless it's The Punisher, then no amount of alcohol is gonna save it.

By all means, if you've only got the friends that think it's funny to hear themselves laugh and fuel eachother with unseen mind force, tell them to shut up. It's better than the mustache saying "You must think you're pretty funny down there, wait till I flex my muslces around your head." Then shutup wont work.


Well, PimpDaShizzle, yes you will be be caught and kicked out (FOR GOOD) at the theater.
You're ideas of fun, which I hope you were just joking around, will get someone in serious major trouble.

Especially if I catch 'em !




Working at a theater for 5 years I have witnessed a whole lot.

One major event that sticks out happened sometime after 9/11.
It was in the afternoon when an employee found a briefcase right in the middle of the lobby, just sitting there. The manager was told about it I presume because out of the blue while working, the alarm went off.
All the employees ran to the lobby concerned and the manager stated if we all can please execute the building....for he told us there was some sort of a 'bomb' in the briefcase. I was about to sh*t in my pants. Some employees had to go theater to theater to get the customers and bring them outside somehow without making them too nervous. ("GULP").

Thank God it wasn't real.

a dude got shot at our theater. he pulled a gun on a police officer...and bam! he didnt die though. now security at the theaters is insane. don't even try to sneak in at the theater i go to.

You mean to say that an altercation took place prior to the incident in which an off duty police officer who was carrying a gun, tried to intervene, thereby igniting a sequence of events that led up to the shooting?

Please tell me you're trying to blame this on the cop. I like it when people try to weed out statements to support Bullsh*t ideas about people, especially cops. If I'm completely off, I'm sorry. It's 2:46am and I'm tired.

I agree with you on that. I've gone to the movies with some friends where they've just sat in the parking lot before the movie and got pretty trashed before going in. Not only does it smell, but god it is annoying when they just shout at each other in the lobby. Luckily we were all sitting in a row with a gap infront of it so they didn't have to bump into people every five minutes when they got up to go take a piss. I don't get going to the movies drunk...what the **** is the point?

I remember going to see the remake of Dawn of the Dead and this punk ass kid was sitting towards the front, all by himself, and was just ****ing chatting his head off on his cell phone. Didn't care whatsoever. He just sat there with his legs propped up, calling people and talking at a completely normal level about some nonsense. People can get shot for good reasons.

You should have yelled at him. I'm willing to bet they was atleast one sexy lady that would have fonud it brave. You could have kicked his ass, got the lady, and had some sex.

I didn't care that much, didn't ruin the movie any for me, I was just embarassed for them.

Looks like your ass is banned but i'll answer you anyways. What i am wondering is what the police is doing there in the first place. Did this guy already start something prior to getting shot that brought the arrival of the cop. If not, then is the presence of a police officer mandatory in that neighborhood's movie theatre. Or was he an off duty cop who was at the right place at the right time. :confused:

Just start your response with, Hey Fast&DAShizzle...

Yeah, i noticed he changed his name but didnt he also say he would willingly stop posting here anymore even with the new name?

Anything is possible as long as Caitlyn ~or~ Yoda allow his new name to have a get out of jail free card & to pass GO! and collect the $200.00.

the worst that has ever happened at a theater when i was there was this crazy guy came in and started yelling a load of BS but it was pretty funny. the place where u see really funny stuff is at baseball games in Houston, now that is funny as hell

I was staying at my grandma's for a few days, in albequerque. And for those of you that know the town, you know what i mean when i say that theres golf, and malls. Thats about it. Luckily, some of these malls have theaters.
It was back in 97, so i was.....carry the 1.......eleven. My grandma decides to take me to pocohantas. Yay! After about 3 minutes i bailed, and wandered into another theater, showing some shoot-em-up flick, R-rated. About 10 minutes go by, and by then im mildly entertained, when a red-vested flashlight-weilding popcorn jockey comes right up next to me, and says, "you supposed to be in here, son? Wheres your parents?"
Being the brash, young sack of caffine that i was, i ran, down the steps, out of that theater and into the one across from it. I was fast enough that he didnt see where i went. I plunk myself down in the middle of the theater, inbetween two older guys, and i slouch down so as not to be seen. I wipe the sweat off my forehead, and look to the screen just in time to see that beautiful crawling text at the beginning of StarWars: A new Hope. I had never really seen the whole thing before, and in fear of being caught, i stayed put. I had always remembered the star wars movies being pretty boring, but it wasnt 5 minutes before i was glued to the screen like a neglegence lawyer to a speeding ambulance. And after that, well, you can fill it in. And here i am.

It was either that- or the story about the drunken teenage orgy in the back row during the screening of Toy Story. But no one wants to hear that.

Did you watch all of Star Wars or just like 5 minutes of it until the coast was clear? And as for the teenage orgy... dear God, please don't tell me that that actually happened...

Once the back five rows of a packed movie marathon was kicked out because some one broke on of the lights. Thank god i was close to the front

This is something that happened to an old friend of mine:

Her first job was in a theater, and she'd been working there for a little while when she was scheduled to work an evening shift. I don't know if it was the town, the time of the week or month, the movies being shown, or all of the above, but that night was pretty slow, just a few people in each theater. One in particular, though, had a young couple that were all over each other the moment they walked into the building (don't know what movie they came in to watch), and they kept making out during the movie.

After a while, my friend was sent to do a quick scan of certain rooms, and when she finally made it to the one holding the young couple, she found that they'd turned it into a honeymoon suite. They were going at their business, didn't really care that she saw them (and, no, there wasn't anyone else in this particular theater). At first she was too shocked to know what to do, and just went out to think about it. A coworker approached her and asked her what was wrong, and my friend told her. So then this coworker goes inside to verify, comes out laughing hard enough to break one of her ribs, goes off to inform her supervisor who then personally goes into the theater to throw the couple out.

The young lovers left without any argument, but they were still all over each other even as they were leaving, and they continued their business out in the parking lot in their car. It was a cold night, so the windows got all steamed up, and the car was rocking every which way. My friend could still see and hear everything the couple were doing, and so could anyone else that happened to be walking by. The whole staff that night just stood outside, watching all of this, along with the supervisor. The police were never called, and it was all over in about 15 minutes.

That's hilarious. I wonder how many times that has been done in a theatre. I personally would never try it.

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Recap of recent Cinema experiences in Monterrey:
THE HATEFUL EIGHT - Baby brought into cinema. Cried throughout. We complained - got 2 free tickets
ROOM - Persistent talking from the people behind us (we eventually told them to "shh" 3 times, obviously they didn't ****ing listen)
DEADPOOL - Fine
CAROL - 4 Phone Calls/Alarms going off (3 from woman in front of us, who ignored my "hey!" & 1 from the front of cinema which was answered)

EDIT: Most of this thread seems concerned with funny/shocking cinema theatre stories, but mine's just all about being pissed off.

,,,oh well, gotta rant somewhere!

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Too many cellphones, ringing, texts, lights... Too many people talking...

I don't plan on going to the theaters anymore, unless I have the place to myself. I won't sit with animals again.

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the reason theaters have boxed candy instead of bags is so that it makes less noise
so if you're going to smuggle in candy make sure you buy the box kind

i recommend it

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I will not go to a movie theater. Always always always get stuck in front of someone who will not stop talking.

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You should join in their conversation as if you're part of the group, that'll weird them out enough that they will probably move.

LOL. You don't know Americans. Most likely they would invite me to sit with them.

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I scared a guy out of a movie theater once. But he did a super weird thing so he deserved it. :lol:

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Most people around me in a theater are completely oblivious to a world 3" beyond their bubbled awareness. And I hate them all with an indescribable passion for ruining what has for most of my life been a *magical event.


*edited because "joyous" was a bit too twirly.

What was the weird thing?

One of the times i went to see The Dark Knight there was a dude masturbating the row behind us. It's really gross and i didn't even realize until a dude sitting in the row behind the masturbator confronted him and chased him out the cinema before telling us what happened. It was a really late showing near the end of its run so there was barely anyone there.

Wonder what got that dude going so much in The Dark Knight that he just had to do it then and there, hope it wasn't the back of our heads :laugh:

Don't know if it's true today, but there used to be a lot of pervs in movie theaters. Especially in the daytime.

It was probably the sexy nurse.

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Oh wow, two of you posted right after me and now that is weird and makes no sense. Awesome :cool:

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He leaned over, and sucked the air directly above my friend's head. Through his mouth. He wasn't even subtle about it.

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Stuck in front??? If I had (insert currency here) for every time I have a great seat when the trailers start, but by the time the movie has started I get the idiot latecomers who talk (or worse) sitting RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME!!!!

Uh, i don't know how to respond to that kind of weirdness or accept it's part of our reality so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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How about the idiots behind you, riding the back of your seat with their feet?

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It's ok. I sorted it.

When i was a kid there was this little a-hole about the same age as me who kept kicking the back of my seat on a plane and i was losing it; i was legit considering violence which i don't ever do. Thing was there was a mess up with the seating so me and my dad ended up seated away from my mum and two sisters: so i was basically myself having to confront this a-hole and his family and i was only like 11. Well anyway he attempted to get out of his row to go to the bathroom and at that exact time the stewardess was going by with the drinks trolley: smacked him right in the face at a fair pace and burst his mouth and nose open. He didn't kick my seat for the rest of the flight and it's the most satisfying schadenfreude i've ever experienced.

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Funny, that. ;)

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You combat that by bouncing in your chair, I'm tall, I know that when your legs touch the chair in front of you, you feel every little movement

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Oooh. I am not impervious to tips from tall guys.

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OMG. :facepalm:

Another reason I will not fly in coach again. Almost as bad as the idiot in front who wants to push his seat all the way back.

Oh so that was you? Sorry, I had seen a really cute ticket taker and she winked at me so I was a little "bothered" .

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When I went to see La La Land there was a lady who would cough every 30 seconds. I coughed in a goofy manner twice during the movie so she could take the hint. When the movie was finished and I was in the lobby telling my grandmother about it I heard the same lady cough behind me.

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Ermahgerd!!!
This my first merging!!!! I feel like ...I FEEL like... I FEEL LIKE CONNOR MACLEOD during the quickening!!!!

We are immortal!!!
https://youtu.be/ccrhTmWurvQ

There are so many things there that don't add up. Dark Knight is not a very sexy movie and there are no Batman related fetishes that I'm aware of. Also why did he do it in a public place instead of his house? Literally nobody is comfortable with their privates exposed in a public place (Apart from nudists).

Sorry for creating a safe space for awful people to say why they hate poor people.

Mine was a specific instance and i have enough things to say that will even it out, lets absolutely not feel comfortable shaming someone for having less money than you ever, thanks MovieForums.com.

The thought of being caught was titillating to him. You would be amazed at how many pervy guys sit next to women in movie theaters & then start playing with themselves. When I was young & pretty I stopped going to movies alone, especially in NYC, because this kind of thing gave me the creeps.

We're talking about crazy experiences in cinemas, not shaming poor people. Maybe you sent on the wrong thread?

Holy *****!

Was about to post something else but c'mon?

:laugh:

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I love how this topic was "replanted" back to where it belongs.

The chance for cell phone usage to ruin ones night vision, aka theater vision changes exponentially when you sit closer to the screen.

Find that sweet spot that you can still be comfortable visually, yet not have that many people in front of you.

The less the traffic means the less the rudeness.

If you are going to sneak something in, buy something as well. So like hey sneak in those reecees, but buy a soda.

I love when a film shuts people up because how awesome it is:

I saw Aliens in the theater and for the first 10 minutes the people near me were loud as FK - then the film really started and they were quiet as mouses - other than breathing heavy cause they were freaked out.

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But was it an ironic cough? ;)

Probably, haha.

Weirdly enough, the last unruly patron I had to deal with was at a screening of Fanny and Alexander. This guy was sitting in my row (at most about six seats away). Throughout the film, he kept making audible (not loud, but he wasn't whispering either) comments to someone next to him (mostly expressing annoyance or disgust with various characters such as the bishop or Gustav) and spending a not-insignificant amount of time pulling out his phone and looking at it. This lasted the entire film - he might be the most annoying audience member I've ever experienced (though I've only dealt with very few memorable annoyances so who knows if I'm forgetting one).

Speaking of which, that's a good question - where do we stand on people who use their phone as their timepiece while in a movie?

They shouldn't check their phones when the lights in the theater are out. All other times are ok.

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You can look up movie runtimes in advance, so I'm not sure there's much need for it.

More importantly, it's really not that hard to angle the phone in such a way as to eliminate (or nearly eliminate) any possible screen light for people behind you. It just requires that you actually think of people around you and make a modicum of effort.

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I guess the main reason would be to check how much longer the movie goes for. Ideally, you'd keep it to a minimum - as few times as possible, angling it to be unobtrusive like you said, and also putting it away as soon as you've checked the time. It should only take a few seconds at most to see the time on your lock screen before you put it back, but this guy I was talking about was looking at it for much longer than that and he must have done this at least half a dozen times.

Get a fracking watch.

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A couple of infants were brought, for no good reason, to see The Giver on a Friday night. They cried and cried and cried, and listening in, I was even able to hear the Mother trying to sooth them by singing in a jam-packed theater! Eventually, she bit the bullet and left, but it still blows my mind how inconsiderate some people can be. It’d be different if The Giver was a children’s movie and the children can engage themselves in the subject-matter, as opposed to sitting idly by while their mother watches the film.

For instance, in a recent outing, this outing for Hotel Translyvania 3, a small boy hollered and hooted excitedly, (and at one point even chucked his large bag of popcorn across the room, spilling it everywhere) at least I could tell that boy was having the time of his life watching the film. The kid was special needs, in case you wondered why his parents didn’t effectively end up right then and there with the popcorn incident. I understand his disturbances might still annoy people (and, honestly, if you pay the price of admission, you have every right to be upset about pterodactyl cries filling the room), but I was able to move on from it.

They obviously knew he would cause a scene and were in the back row, unlike the mother with infant’s, who sat smack-dab in the middle. Also, they went on a matinee showing on a weekday, knowing less people would be there and that price of admission is cut-in-half, whereas the woman brought her crying infants in on opening night. I don’t really have an essential lesson to teach with this tangent, but I think reasonability and consideration are more likely to paid back in equal measures. That said, the brief moment where the small boy moved three seats away from his parents and sat on his knees staring at me with a Cheshire cat grin was admittedly unpleasant.

How is this here when no one has bumped since 2004? So i will bump it.?

Oops my mistake. I swear those posts werent there. Carry on.

I remember years ago a group of teenagers letting off a fart bomb in a comedy movie. It made me laugh honestly.

I watched the new sicario the other day. A bloke maybe mid 20s in a group of three let off a giant fart. It made me laugh honestly. He also had the balls to stay til the very end when the lights came on which I give him credit for.

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Stop trolling Dani lol

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Ok larry. Its a bit too breezy on tbis after lunch on friday when people want to rum amock rather than do their stuff

was just joking :)

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I know. It was funny. Are you on north side or south? Pretty niply on the north.

South. It's freezing and has been for a couple months! Very cold winter.



PS - stop trolling.

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Couple who make out (And I mean all the way). Also, the reason why I had to watch Thor Ragnarok twice in the theater, cause on the first time.....

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Why do yiu keep saying tthat. Stop beung a menace. It was funny the first time.