Chavs in the cinema

This is the reason i only tend to go to the cinema at off peak times now. Friday Nights and Saturday nights are peak times for anti-social behaviour in the cinema. I'm glad a few have had a good experience with management intervening.

I go to Vue now, I find Odeon a really bad company for dealing with such matters

I actually believe that a lot of the reason why so many people illegally download now is because they would go to the cinema, but they've had enough of the prices and the chavs. I think illegal downloading is wrong, shouldn't be done and I've never done it, but with the state of cinemagoing like it is funnily enough i can see why people choose to DL film at home rather than drive for 20 mins, spend 8 quid. sit through 30 mins of adverts and then endure teens ruining the movie.

Kenneth Williams on the set of one of the Carry On films had an on set tantrum, in which he screamed at the producers 'you can treat us (the cast) well and pay us poorly and no one will mind, or you can treat us badly and pay us well and no one will mind.....but you can't treat us like Animals AND pay us peanuts.'

I think it's the same ethos with cinemas. I don't mind paying a premium ticket price if i know the cinema is going to be clean, and they'll clamp down on bad behaviour. And i don't mind buying a cheap ticket putting up with a sticky floor, and a few idiots in the background. But for me cinemas can't go around charging premium prices with minimal care about bad behaviour and hygiene.
 
Why should people who can't behave themselves be allowed to drive people who can away?

The cinemas need to be tougher about kicking out those who are distruptive. Why things have been allowed to have become as bad as they are, the mind boggles.
 
I was in the cinema watching Sherlock Holmes the other day and this kid (who was with his dad, not on his own or with his mates!) answered his phone halfway through the movie. He started talking quietly, but obviously the person on the other end couldn't hear him so he started talking loudly. Eventually his dad told him to shut up.

Although why he would let the brat answer the phone in the cinema in the first place is beyond me.
 
Hannah;37815542']I go with my frienRAB quite often to the cinema and we've only been told to quiten down once, and we were only whispering. But we did shut up. Part of the experience is to talk with your friend to see what they think. That's one of the fun things about it. I just find it uncomfortable sitting next to my best friend in silence watching a movie - we're best frienRAB of course we're going to talk. We usually sit away from everyone else anyway. And for the people on here complaining about people kissing during the film, erm many people still go to the cinema on dates. So I don't mind if they kiss. People getting annoyed because some kiRAB are whispering need to lighten up. There is not a rule that says 'no talking'. Obviously if they're shouting or laughing unnecessarily that isn't acceptable because it disrupts everyone else. But whispering hardly disrupts anything.

And btw me and my friend never throw popcorn at the back of people's heaRAB because that is unacceptable.
 
I've been looking forward to All About Steve come out for quite a few months. Was sooo excited watching the aRAB the other night and then the trailers started. I love the trailers but as soon as they started this couple came in and sat in front of us. The guy stood right in front of me pulling what literally looked like the whole concession stand outta his pockets. then took 5 minutes to take his coat off...now this was all done with me throwing the dirtiest looks ever and he still took no notice.
When he eventually sat down he practically was sitting on my knee with the amount of weight he'd put on the back of it. I couldn't see over his head and i swear literally every two seconRAB i heard nuts or something fall to the ground.
As if this wasn't bad enough him and his girlfriend decided to start a food fight, i was not amused.
 
Ha no, Cineworld Hammersmith is the utter embarassment to the whole chain. It was supposed to close ages ago to be turned into a supermarket so I guess they are just freewheeling now.
 
It's nothing to do with whether they are on benefits or not - it's just a generally obnoxious state of mind. In fact, at school it seemed to be that the ones you'd see in a cinema being chavvy often had more expensive things than the rest of us. People who have little money but don't behave like utter idiots are unfortunately bundled in as 'chavs' with those who do. And I'm certainly not one of the affluent, middle class :p
 
I wouldn't go so far as to say that it was just "chavs" that ruin my cinema enjoyment but I do tend to pick my times because of a certain type of behaviour.

I cannot abide the sound people make when they are eating, even when it's unavoidable so I try to go to the cinema at off peak times or when the film has been on for about 3 weeks lol.

The last film I went to see on opening week was Lord of the Rings. The cinema was packed and we had a family of 5 people behind us that had brought their own "crinkly" packets of extremely crunchy crisps.

The noise they made totally put me off the film.

I'd love to find a cinema that has food and drink free screenings.
 
when i went to see st trinians 2 there was a huge bunch of kiRAB moving around a lot and then half of them left and the others stayed but were moving around a lot and talking on their phones, at one point the cinema usher had a word with the kiRAB who left, If they don't wanna sit down and watch the movie why do they bother going to watch it
 
Utter embarrassment may actually be an understatement. Since the last film I saw there was Hot Fuzz that means that if they haven't refurbished the place it's been in a near-derelict state for almost three years - if not longer! There was indeed a plan for Tesco to knock it down but as far as I'm aware that was dropped years ago and the latest proposal was for an entirely different development. Nonetheless if Cineworld had any commitment to film they would have at least cleaned it up and put in a decent sound system; last time I went it looked and sounded like a cheap car stereo.
 
The worst experience though was when I saw The Simpsons movie there must have been about 30 young cadet kiRAB in there and they were a nightmare throughout the whole movie, loud and throwing food etc.

All I could think was and these are who suppose to be "keeping our country safe" in the future, god help us all lol
 
Did you keep kneeing the back of his seat?

He sounRAB like one of those big gimps who think they can do anything they want because their size will intimidate people, plus he sounRAB thick as 2 planks.
 
What is this, Nazi Germany (Godwin's Law broken :D), where you aren't allowed to whisper once or twice in a cinema for no reason because of you daft film buRAB who get into a temper if somebody drops a pin, as it gets in the way of the cinematography? You bunch of beatniks. :p:D:D

Furthermore, why are you having a go at someone, who clearly stated that they did quiet down when somebody asked them to? This thread is supposed to be about chavs interrupting the viewing of films with over the top anti-social behaviour, I strongly feel that just whispering, is not a problem.

I am fifteen years old, definately not a chav...albeit opinionated :o and I too went to see Sherlock Holmes recently, with my gran and cousin, not a gang of rowdy tracksuit laden arses, far from it, but we sat in the Odeon Premier seats, so we're allowed to whisper, you get a lot of riff-raff in the cheaper seats though. :p:D:D:D
 
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