Comments on: Things I Hate About Going To The Movies

By: MechoPower

MechoPower — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 22:55:17 +0000

Man, you all pay some money for tickets…we (Marines) can get tickets on base for 5 bucks a pop and use them out in town!!! But what I totally despise about going to the movies is noisy ass little kids. Please parents, (and I have a 2 year old daughter so I am not being biased) how can you take your little bratty kid to a movie and expect him to sit still and quiet the whole time especially when the movie is not a cartoon? Yeah, I know there are a few kids with decent parents who actually know how to raise them, and they are well behaved…but for the other 95%…please get a baby sitter.

Remember when laser pointers were the fad like 10 years ago? Those things pissed me off to no end when you would be watching a movie and some dumb immature teenager would start laser pointing boobs and ass everytime a girl would pop up on screen. Our theatre actually started kicking people out for it so it stopped for a time.

And last but now least…the people who put their feet up on the seats and you can smell their nasty smelly feet. And then they start wiggling and kicking and all you want to do it turn around and stab them in the eye. I have actually found that if you sneak a water bottle with the pop cap into the theatre and pretend to stretch and squirt the person annoying you…he usually gets the point and stops!!!

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By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 22:40:41 +0000

To me, going to the theater is a great experience. Where i live(Jacksonville,Florida), the matinee is 6 bucks, and i go to the Baskin Robbins that is 5 minutes from the theater to get my drinks($1.50 for 44 oz. fountain drink). The popcorn makes me puke, so I never get the popcorn. I buy snacks in advance (candy that costs about 3 bucks). So it costs me a whoppin’ 10 bucks to go to the theatre on Saturday afternoon.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 00:25:04 +0000

And after all that, we wonder why people choose to invest money on home theater. I agree with just about every point and I also agree with John about experiencing blockbusters in the theaters. Of course, after the last dozen or so attempts to enjoy a movie, that I’m making an “exception” for, I must say that I continue to be reaffirmed that I’ll enjoy the experience more if I just stay home and watch it there. I may be a little behind but I’m a lot happier.

Price for my wife and I to attend a film in Southern California = $20 – $30 depending on whether we want to snack or get something to drink. Plus, an annoying time due to very rude people (see above).

Price of watching it at home = $16.49 if I catch it at Best Buy during the first week of release.

So, in the end I own it for about half the price of going out – for us, its a no brainer…

By: nOva

nOva — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 02:27:48 +0000

I was going to do a list similar to this, but it would’ve only pointed out the things that annoy me on the part of the film industry and the theaters. There’s been a lot of talk about theater attendance going down, and all these journalists and insiders site every reason but the ones you’ve listed. They don’t seem to understand that going to the movies these days is nothing less than excruciating. I can almost guarantee you that movies would make more in theaters if they didn’t do

1. a slideshow

2. commercials

then 3. previews

that way they’d be able to fit in more showings.

By the time all that stuff is done with, I’ve forgotten what movie I came to see.

Furthermore, there is no justifiable reason for not being able to bring in outside food and pay those outrageous prices for theater junk when people are just gonna throw the shit on the floor anyway.

By: Agent george

Agent george — Sun, 16 Oct 2005 05:58:58 +0000

Is that your picture?

By: Marla Singer

Marla Singer — Sun, 16 Oct 2005 00:25:20 +0000

people who put there feet up right next to your head. batman begins.

people who give blow jobs in the row behind you. finding neverland.

people who smell bad. lemony snickets.

people who bring lazer pointers. the island.

people who choose the seat in front of you in an empty theater. proof.

people who let their kids run free during a film. corpse bride.

people who dont shut up and are in big groups so if u tell them to shut up you’re outnumbered and no one else speaks up either. white noise.

By: anon

anon — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 06:43:49 +0000

1. Bad sound systems (torn drivers, buzzing, side/rear channels that are not working). Also, movies that you know are in digital surround but presented in dolby analog. grrrr.

2. Image that is not in frame or in focus or matted correctly. grrrrrrrr

3. The whole movie-house industry is run like an amusement park (with equivalent crowd issues of sloppy food, noise, general chaos) instead of a “cinema” anyway these days so the home theater movement provides the better film-experience IMHO.

By: Vince

Vince — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 06:26:07 +0000

I own a theater. The staff speaks to everyone after the show is over and ask them to come back and see us. The last show of the day the theater is as clean as the first show. Staff picks up and cleans up pop corn and mop up spills after each show. Gift ticket package is $20.00 gets you 2 tickets 2 med (32 oz) drinks and 1 Large (130 oz) popcorn. We sell water in the machine for $1.75, same as other drinks in machines. Some people don’t like some of our fountain drinks. We have a candy machine for kids that NOTHING in the machine is over .95 cents. Regular prices are adult $7.25 child $5.00. We have a happy hour show between 4 and 6 all seats are only $4.50. The projectionists are given bonuses at the end of a month if they send out all movies with no scratches. The almost always get the bonus. That is money I am glad to pay. We show NO rolling stock ads. We run NO more than 4 previews. We do run slide ads during intermission (better than a blank screen) We start the movie on time. So if you have 5 minutes of previews we start it 5 minutes early. The movie starts on time. Our ushers have radios with ear pieces, guest can’t here the radio sound. If the movie stops, the usher is on the radio and asking the proj. how long it will be? If it is 3 minutes or longer everybody is told head to the concession for FREE refills. If it is to long we hand out Buy 1 get one tickets. First things first SAFETY, after that it is all about the guest. We do everything to make them want to come back. If they don’t want to come back we have failed and try even harder next time.

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 01:39:06 +0000

At the theater I go to the big talkers are the geezers in the back. And these geezers are all pretty much deaf, so a whisper to them is a holler to us. During Downfall I had to watch the entire movie with my hands cupped behind my ears, so I could hear the screen instead of their endless chatter.

Re: The business of hearing explosions from the theater next door – for almost ten years of my moviegoing life I thought that was thunder. I’d hear a boom and say “Must be raining out”, then after the film I’d go out to the parking lot and say “Hmm, I guess it cleared up”.

For years this went on.

“Must be raining out.”

“Hmm, I guess it cleared up.”

“Must be raining out.”

“Hmm, I guess it cleared up.”

“Must be raining out.”

“Hmm, I guess it cleared up.”

“Must be raining out.”

“Hmm, I guess it cleared up.”

I’m not actually stupid, though. Really I’m not.

By: jp

jp — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 01:14:47 +0000

it’s sad that this is the first thing that comes up on google when you type “film blog”….nobody here really cares about film….typical american hollywood-fed mouth breathers….while you guys are standing in line buying popcorn, i’m watching decent, well made films in small, quaint theaters that might be all of the above but with so much character and mystique….why don’t you guys go to blockbuster….the odds of any of you getting laid are probably about the same there…nil….