Badly Behaved Movie Audiences

I have been to the local multiplex twice in the last week.
Both times I have had the misfortune to be sitting next to folk who chatted throughout the film.
The first time I ignored it but on the second occasion I asked them politely to stop chatting. This was met by swearing on their part and I felt quite intimidated and it really ruined the occasion. These folk also had what seemed to be the contents of the refreshment stand, huge buckets of popcorn which they munched noisily between slurps of their gi-normous colas.
At this multiplex, they just take your ticket and then you walk a fair distance to the screen so there are no staff on hand to deal with complaints.
Was I just unlucky or have fellow forum members had similar experiences?:(
 
simple....always go to the first screening on a saturday or a sunday morning....No idiots can be bother at that time of the day, so it's always quiet, and theres just a few other people in the audience....
 
I have encountered this many times recently. It's not a new thing, but I think it is getting worse. It has got so bad lately, that I have frienRAB you refuse to go to the cinema.
 
This happened the other day when I went to see Juno at my local cinema. A group of about 10 young teens, maybe about 12 years old were disruptive the whole way through. I didn't mind so much at first, because it was just a low murmer in the background (this was before the film had actually started, adverts etc) but it gradually got louder and louder and progressed to screaming, laughing, throwing things, turning round to talk to other people and running around. Right near the end of the film they got chucked out, but it spoiled the experience for me, and I wish I had complained to a member of the staff earlier (looking back, I don't know why I didn't). You get the odd noisy lot in the cinema but this is the worse I've seen. :mad:
 
How about we do away with the BBFC and just rate all cinema films "25", so that stupid kiRAB can't get in anyway :p

Or better still, replace the age certificates with a class-ist system, eg 'U' would become 'suitable only for Underclass audiences', 'PG' would be 'suitable only for Popcorn Gobblers' or 'Pikey Gear', etc etc :D:D
 
you should complain - i have before and they ALWAYS sort them out

what bugs me more than ANYTHING though is people who bring in food from outside in those cheap corner shop bags then spend AGES rustling around in them. GAH

also people who eat popcorn as though they're sat in their living room - not with other people nearby who probably DON'T want to hear them chew as loud as they can..
 
I always try to go when it's least busy just for this reason, and I hardly ever see big films when they're first released, I go after about a month or so, then you end up with the room to yourself almost!

Although it does get shoved down to a smaller screen usually, but that's a small price really.
 
I won't go to the Cinema anymore - it's just not a nice experience.
I wait for movies on DVD instead and watch them in comfort and peace at home.
 
Yeah, happens a lot at the local Empire

Normally when teenagers are in and have grown bored (normally after the first trailer)

The Empire staff come in, sit with a torch and then bugger off again

Come back Odeon....all is forgiven!
 
When I went to see Sweeney Todd some imbecile sat right next to me was sending text messages every five minutes, and the phone screen lighting up was really bloody distracting. The cinema was full, too, so I couldn't move.
 
Well, hooray, for people like your brother. I've told people to shut up as well, I say to them 'I've paid to hear the movie not listen to you', it usually works.
The ones I find are the worst are when me and a friend go to seniors club, the old dears in there think nothing of talking all the way through a film, and when I'm forced to say something, they get quite affronted.
 
Can't obviously speak for the cinema you visit, but at the one I work at, we do screen checks every 30 minutes and stand at the back of the screen for 2/3 minutes to make sure everyone is keeping their trap shut/behaving. If not, they're ejected straight away. Perhaps people are checking the screens at your cinema, you just don't notice them as the point is to be as discrete as possible!

Also the policy at my cinema is if someone complains about someone, we WILL throw the offending person(s) straight out!
 
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