U-571 and manners in cinemas

TwoShedsJackson

Went to see the film today, perfectly good Boy's Own action adventure yarn, very enjoyable.

On the way in I saw a couple of oul wans helping each other up the stairs then going up the back of the cinema. They looked like the type who would gab on throughout the entire thing, so I sat as far away from em as I could - not very far in the Savoy 4.

True to form they were totally unable to follow the most minor plot development and talked constantly through the whole thing. e.g. there's a five minute scene explaining that the Yanks are going to disguise their sub as a German one to hijack the eponymous U-571.

Straight after that scene they're out on the sea, taking off the coverings on some Nazi insignia etc on their sub and you get 'why are they doing that? Why do they have German signs on their ship? Who's he? Why did he say that?' etc etc ad fu<king nauseum.

That annoys me more than anything else in a cinema, more than mobiles, more than young knackers - anything. If people can't follow the most basic of plotlines, and this plot was very basic, why go to a cinema and annoy other people by discussing it endlessly.

They piped down a bit after I asked them to keep it down about a half hour into the film, but that was soon replaced with tsk-ing and general whispering whenever anyone swore or got killed!

Suddenly involuntary Euthanasia seemed a cracking idea

richindub2

heh,luckily that hasn't happened to me yet,maybe if you went to a cinema with some big screens you could sit far awy from pple like that

Hobbes

Ooh! Aaah! Well I never!
Oooohh! Aaaaahh! Well I never!
Oooooohhhhh!!! AAaaaaahhhhh!!!! Well I never!

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH WELL I NEVER!

WhiteWashMan

i reckon conor i will never go to the cinema with you.
you always seem to end up sitting near complete jerks/talkers/knackers/scum/ol drunks.

TwoShedsJackson

Not always, but it seems to be happening with increasing frequency of late, or more like it's just me getting older

Robbo

Come to the Galway Omniplex for prime knacker etiquette. Go to the jacks and the urinals are filled with empty naggins of (cheap) vodka. Re-enter the theatre and you're greeted by 14 year old knackers retching said vodka into the aisle........CHARMING

Regards,
Robbo

Hobbes

The audience in the US are very vocal when it comes to movies.

The good guy whacks someone, everyone cheers. The movie sucks and everyone outside the building will hear the noise.

People talking while the movie is playing are politely told to STFU by everyone in the theather.

LoLth

worst one i've had was when I went to see Brahm Stoker's Dracula (you know, the wooden Keanu one).

Well, behind me is a woman and her two daughters. The mother complains non-stop, especially about the impaling scene at the beginning - and the chuck spear at cross bit... then along comes the scene with the female servant vamps and keanu on the bed.

the woman stands up , knocking the popcorn of the poor guy beside her, grabs her daughters and ushers them, noisily, out of the cinema. Ok, embarrassing for the daughters, annoying for everyone else. But the old bag's not finished yet. She turns to me and my friend and demands "how can you watch this sinful filth. Perverts!" and storms off, nearly biting the hand and torch off an usher on the way by.

What a WENCH!

t'was the Adelphi cinema.

Shiminay

Originally posted by LoLth:
worst one i've had was when I went to see Brahm Stoker's Dracula (you know, the wooden Keanu one).

Aren't all Keanu's flicks like that

I'd have followed that dumb biatch out and told her what I thought of her manners at a film that other "sinners" had paid to see.

Oh ya, Conor - you're turning into an old grump
I can see it now - yourself and Eamo - the Grumpy Old Men (or the Stadler and Waldorf) of boards.ie

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LoLth

but if I'd followed her out I'd have missed my opportunity to letch at those lovely vampire lasses...

no win situation

ThunderingMike

Actually I used to get bugged by the anal retentiveness of our local Cineplex owner. Now I like the guy. He has a keen eye for people who might ruin a film. When two old Hens come in chatting non stop he will actually come in during the film and ask them to stop. He kicks out little Knackers indiscriminantly because (and I am sorry but this is a fact) they always cause trouble. He asks smooching couples to try and control themselves and once I even heard him say '... if your really desperate you can do it in one of the stalls in the toilet. Just knock it off'.
Hes a class act

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So the pope puts down the Badger and leans over to me and says , " My son , sometimes you talk a lot of ****. Knock it off." Before I could speak in walks Christopher Lloyd with a time machine under his arm and just then...it started to get weird...

pat kenny

People talking is a bit annoying.
But the one thing that gets to me is if you go to see a comedy or even if there's a comical sceen in a movie there allways some **** with an annoying laugh,who laughs too long or too hard at a minor bit of wit.

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O man it's total grid-lock.

Mills

I haven't had too many films ruined for me by members of the audience. The last one was Gladiator, several "young knackers" down near the front roaring their heads off at every bit of violence in the start. 1 minute later down walks the Usher, mutters something to them, and marches every single one out of the cinema, How I LAUGHED

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I am inflatible !

Stephen

Ahh... little knackers, don't you just love their mischievous antics . Isn't it fun the way they throw their rubbish into the rows in front of them, how they make animal noises, how they laugh their ar$es off during some serious, crucial scene, and, isn't it only just hilarious when they sit behind you and continually kick your seat.

Ok, so its not. What is fun is turning around and laughing your ar$e off at them when they eventually get kicked out.

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Yossarian

or the irritating laser pointer dancing about the screen...

Stephen.

Shiminay

I remember the manager of the cinema in Castlebar coming in and making all these kids clean up all the popcorn they'd been having a pop-corn fight with. It was hilarious - he bollocked them, made them march out and gather up the brushes and rubbish bags and then told them to get the hell out of his cinema and never come back. Everyone in the (very full) cinema was watching them and laughing themselves silly. It was tremenduous fun!

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UNIFLU

The worst cinematic experience i ever had was in the Stella of all places. A real quality place ~chokes on his words~. Went to see the first batman movie there and aout 30 mins into it the rell snapped and we had no film to watch. They did get the film going again but the next 15 mins of the film werent played.

plastic membrane

Same thing happened to me when i went to see X-Men in Limerick . Right after Magneto kidnaps Rogue. Kinda ruined the momentum somewhat. Still, if there is one thing that parents have to rigidly teach their kids it's, DO NOT TALK IN THE CINEMA. It drives me banana's..

plastic membrane

oh yeah, U-571 was great....

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