[Snail]

Oh, I also forgot to mention that someone brought a ****ing baby to Inception, which started crying halfway through and didn't stop until near the end. No joke. Who the **** brings a baby into a cinema, anyway?

[Dilmah G]

I don't watch movies in the cinema - Too many stupid people, screaming kids, and all-around annoying people, without exception.

Heh, I was watching Sherlock Holmes about 7/8 months ago and these 11/12 year old kids behind me wouldn't stop reading out the text on the ads on screen. Most ****ing annoying thing ever. Especially when they wouldn't stop after being kindly asked about five times by us and the other group of people in the cinema.

Annoying child: Just cars, just insurance!
*Dilmah gets out of his seat grasping his ginger beer bottle tightly in one hand*
Dilmah: Argh! Shut the **** up!
Annoying child 2: Aaaaah!
Annoying child: No!
*Dilmah jerks the bottle violently as if he's about to smash it against the seat and lunges over the back of the seat towards the children with the left side of his body*
Both children crawl into the very back of their seats and brace for impact. Dilmah's friends chuckle quietly.
*Dilmah sits down and resumes drinking his ginger beer.*

Unsurprisingly, the children didn't say a word for the rest of the movie.

[Nemesis6]

See the real problem is not the idiots, it's the complacent ones - Etiquette. We're all taught(I like to think we are) not to talk in the cinema, and then when people actually do it, everyone else stays quiet because of the unspoken rule - Don't talk, no matter what. An annoying form of peer pressure.

[S-99]

By the way, didn't the MPAA or RIAA introduce a tax on CD-RW's to mitigate them being used for pirating movies or something?

Yes, but only on any cd-r/rw that's labeled for audio use. Any cd-r/rw not labeled for audio use (but can still be used for audio nontheless) does not have the tax. It's a stupid and illegal tax. How was a business allowed to levy a tax?

I stopped pirating a while ago. There's a lot of free games and media i'm just loving the hell out of. When i get highspeed internet i'm sure going to get netflix (maybe combine it with a little program called recordmydesktop). Yes, you can rip silverlight video

But, i think i'll go see inception first since that one actually looks decent. It could be worse for the stupid **** in theaters that make people want to pirate stuff like monsters vs. aliens (of which the only saving grace was steven colbert). Someone rented that movie, and i've been racking my brain over how an alien is drinking an earth beverage before it visits earth for the first time (that movie is also very loosely put together).

This makes you beg the question, is some of these movies not even worth pirating since a good deal of them aren't worth watching. I drop the big yes bomb.

[Scotty]

Too many stupid people, screaming kids, and all-around annoying people, without exception

Glad to know I'm considered stupid and all-around annoying.

but srsly, I bet if you don't go see a premier or close-to-premier showing of the movie, you'll get a lot less retards in the theater.  Waiting a week or two means that theater crowds drop from packed to near empty.

[Snail]

Too many stupid people, screaming kids, and all-around annoying people, without exception

Glad to know I'm considered stupid and all-around annoying.

but srsly, I bet if you don't go see a premier or close-to-premier showing of the movie, you'll get a lot less retards in the theater.  Waiting a week or two means that theater crowds drop from packed to near empty.

But no less annoying, in my experience.


In fact they might even be able to get away with worse stuff since there are fewer people in the theater. Like bringing babies in.

[Nemesis6]

Too many stupid people, screaming kids, and all-around annoying people, without exception

Glad to know I'm considered stupid and all-around annoying.

but srsly, I bet if you don't go see a premier or close-to-premier showing of the movie, you'll get a lot less retards in the theater.  Waiting a week or two means that theater crowds drop from packed to near empty.

That's what boggles my mind - I went to see Star Trek with my brother, and we did indeed wait. I remember going "this is not gonna work" over and over again in my head as we were walking there. Turns out, when we got there, assholes were amongst the other cinema-goers, and not just the assholes you can hush, the "Please be quiet!" - "YOU be quiet!"-type. And it ended up with two guys cornering and attacking me in the small hall leading out of the room as I exited to find a staff member. Somehow I managed to break free from the stranglehold of one of them, and the fight continued into the main hall. Police wasn't called, no-one went to help. At my insistence, I got my money back. Later I watched it with my brother at home. In light of this whole situation, the only thing that would make me consider going to a cinema again would be having some sort of weapon with which to defend myself.

[BloodEagle]

Too many stupid people, screaming kids, and all-around annoying people, without exception

Glad to know I'm considered stupid and all-around annoying.

but srsly, I bet if you don't go see a premier or close-to-premier showing of the movie, you'll get a lot less retards in the theater.  Waiting a week or two means that theater crowds drop from packed to near empty.

But no less annoying, in my experience.


In fact they might even be able to get away with worse stuff since there are fewer people in the theater. Like bringing babies in.

This has been my experience, every time.

And I refuse to see premiere shows, on principle.

[Mongoose]

You guys have some ****ed-up theater crowds near you.  I don't think I've ever had an overtly-negative experience when going to see a movie.

[General Battuta]

Me neither.

[Kusanagi]

Actually, the newest way they gouge you is the whole D-Box thing. Regular admission is $10.50. Add $3 more to see it in 3d. Now if you want the D-BOX experience, it's an additional $8.

Total cost of the movie: $21.50

And the worst thing is that they ripped out all the seats in the middle of the theatre, the prime ones, and replaced them with these huge ugly DBOX things. And you can't sit in them even if the theatre is full...unless you paid the extra 8 bucks.

[Liberator]

WTF is a D-Box?

[Kusanagi]

DBOX is their term for motion sensitive chairs. You know how if you go to universal studios or disneyland, they'll have an attraction that's like a movie but the chairs move as well in time with the action on the screen?

That's DBOX, but less pronounced. The chairs vibrate and shift in time with the action on the screen to give you a more "immersive" experience.

[Liberator]

Right...ok...any theatre manager that puts those in in place of probably 2x the number of normal seating is out of his non-existant mind.

[General Battuta]

Right...ok...any theatre manager that puts those in in place of probably 2x the number of normal seating is out of his non-existant mind.

Actually, by the pricing above, it's a slightly better deal for the theater to go for the DBOX seats if the demand exists.

Or is the free market now out of its mind?

[S-99]

This DBOX sounds retarded as hell. Sounds like a great place to put your baby during the movie.

Eventually watching movies will be as horrible as that one scene from war inc. where they're watching the news on what is the equivalent of an amusement park ride.

[karajorma]

See the real problem is not the idiots, it's the complacent ones - Etiquette. We're all taught(I like to think we are) not to talk in the cinema, and then when people actually do it, everyone else stays quiet because of the unspoken rule - Don't talk, no matter what. An annoying form of peer pressure.

Last time someone did that to me I told them to shut the **** up. Literally.

I remember that NYC once passed a law saying that there would be a $50 fine for talking in a movie theatre. They should have made it legal to beat people to death for it.

[SpardaSon21]

Has nobody seen the "Our Mrs. Reynolds" episode of Firefly?  Apparently there's a special level of hell reserved for people who talk too much at the theaters, and they share it with the child molesters.

[Nuclear1]

See the real problem is not the idiots, it's the complacent ones - Etiquette. We're all taught(I like to think we are) not to talk in the cinema, and then when people actually do it, everyone else stays quiet because of the unspoken rule - Don't talk, no matter what. An annoying form of peer pressure.

Last time someone did that to me I told them to shut the **** up. Literally.

I remember that NYC once passed a law saying that there would be a $50 fine for talking in a movie theatre. They should have made it legal to beat people to death for it.

It's alright...when I'm in a theater I just "LOL INBD IDK MY BFF JILL" text my friends

Seriously do people under 18 actually talk to each other or just LOL text?

[Kosh]

Lulz?


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*runs*