The Unwritten Rules of Movie Watching

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when people in general don't pay attention to movie ratings...they are there for a reason

i saw avatar in 3d last week...its pg13 for a reason people! and parents bring their 5 year old kids and they can't sit for that long and they are restless and yes..of course the most annoying are right behind me kicking the chair...so freaking annoying! the kids can't whisper...they can't understand what's going on and its not for kids...i hate when parents do that! bring kids to a kids movie!
 
Well, I'm 17, so I'm not much older than that, but I agree. :lol: I was at a movie with my friends and these 13-14 year olds walked in and sat in the very front row, so everyone could see them. They would get up and dance and laugh and they kept switching seats. After 10 minutes and I got so fed up with it my friend and I got them kicked out. :lol:
 
:lol: Parents have a true gift for walking into rooms during sex/drug/scary scenes. It's more like a freakin talent! Heh.

I'm 25 and I still laugh whenever a sex scene starts and there's my mom. :D

JR- I always check the rating when going to a theater if I'm going with family. Hee. I don't like sex scenes, but in a theater you can't FF so I watch them and I have no problem, but with family, uh no. Heh.



Oh, I know. It's usually people who have nothing interesting or smart to say too.



Bwah! :lmao: I HATE this. It's so weird and uncomfortable in a way. My friend joked about going to an empty theater and sitting down right next to only people in there, just for the joke. lol But people do that for real, so, heh, so annoying.
 
Especially when they just continue to stand in front of you for minutes on end talking and such...

Yeah, it's the boo-ing that really gets me. But, yes, as you said, the cheering has its limits.



Ditto.



And when they say 'Oh, this is the best part...ohhh, watch this...oh wait...' - that annoys me too.
 
Watching a movie, your pet always has to insist on sitting on you when you switch dvds.
 
and its usually your dad who walks in... :lol:

Also, when you are watching a movie that you have never seen but your friends have, and they start quoting all the lines before they actually are said in the movie. drives me insane
 
:lmao: O.M.G. It had to be the Monster's Ball sex scene. :eek: Poor you! The entire family had to walk in... Dude. Then the scene is so long and freakin' graphic, it's not even like most movie sex scenes when people are covered up and making weird faces.

It's a true unwritten rule, proven time after time.



I hate when this happens, I always get secondhand embarrassment. :embarrassment:



I know! I always wonder if anybody warns them and they simply don't care, but I would like to think somebody would mention something. I saw a mom with two kids, not a day over 10 during Watchmen. I almost stood up to tell her the movie wasn't really kid friendly, but I would never dare.
 
People have to stop bringing their kids R rated movies. My husband and I went to see a Halloween sequal in the theaters, and there was a few kids in that movie theater. There was a brutal killing in one scene, and one of the kids screams, and says, "Mommy, I am so scared, I don't want that happening to me or you".

That is why you have to leave those kids at home. Just plain lack of common sense and being retarted in my opinion. :mad:
 
I want to see that - I heard it's awesome - but I also heard it's not a movie to laugh at.

Or when people get up in the middle of a movie to get food or something and they're right in front of you.



I HATE that! So annoying. I mean, the cheering, fine, if it's a good scene, but even then... Limit it!
 
People bringing kids to R rated movies is terrible. I don't know what goes through their minds to make it acceptable for themselves.



This happened to me during Bejamin Button, I was dazed for a while. Ugh, they actually came late, made noise, walked around then up and left the place after leaving all their garbage on the floor. :rolleyes:
 
Gah, I hate that because it never fails. My worst experience was watching Monster's Ball for the first time at my house. The big sex scene came up and, of course, in walked my grandparents who were staying with my family for the weekend. And they stood there and watched. Oh, and then my father walked in.

I was mortified.

I also agree with the too-young-for-this children in certain movies. I will never forget the two-year-old girl that walked into Man on Fire.

But my biggest pet peeve is when people get on their cell phones during movies. I saw Public Enemies the day it opened and the woman in the row in front of me answered her phone, like, three times then proceeded to listen to her (very loud) voicemail towards the end.
 
You would think that someone working at the theatre would say something if a parent is bringing a little kid or baby into an adult-themed movie. Or do they and the adults don't listen?
 
I saw a movie, can't remember what it is now, but it was rated R and a family brought in their kids. They were all like between 6 and 10. That annoys me so much---get a babysitter!

I also saw Trainspotting a few years back in a theatre and there were a bunch of young kids in that one also. It's a drug movie with nudity and cussing, oh and it was like 10 at night on a school night! What kind of parents do they have?
 
Especially movies that are adult themed. What I mean is a baby is going to react more at a movie with lots of sex, yelling, and violence than a cartoon comedy.
 
One of my biggest pet peeves is when people bring babies to the movies and then they start to cry.

And then of course general talking during a movie or tv show. If you need to talk either wait till the end of the movie or the beginning before the movie starts or during a commercial break (for tv).

Those are my two big ones.
 
Or...when they choose to sit just a few seats down from you....that really annoys me, when there's plenty of space everywhere else.



I also hate it when people laugh at the most inappropriate times just to be stupid or when they start to cheer or boo. That drives me crazy!

And yeah, I wish people would just turn their cell phones/cameras/whatever off during the movie. I don't think that's too much to ask...or at least, put it on vibrate.



I'm really short, so that always bothers me too.
 
Oh yes! I agree about the inappropriate laughter.

I was watching The Reader the other day and a couple kept laughing---if you've sene the movie, it's really not a movie that you can laugh about!
 
When you're in a theatre and a gruop of taller people sit right in front of you.

If you're watching a movie on TV and the station has really long commercials.

You borrowed a DVD and it's all scratched up and it doesn't work at certain scenes.

When a couple is making out right in front of you in a theatre (it seems) for the whole movie. (This happened to my friends and I once.)
 
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