Does this happen in every cinema

lovinit

Hi, Not sure where to put this

Ok so today had a long day waiting for the rugby so decided to go to the cinema and see into the woods (not recommended terrible ending) anyway i went by myself as i like doing this however it was a small room and there were about maybe 18 of us there, just behind me on the opposite row there were two teenage girls talking and laughing throughout the entire movie of course i complained she came in but at that point one of the girls went to the loo or wherever she did not speak to them or anything, I kept looking over at them and they just started back! and even pointed at the person in front of them saying it was him, i literally said shh...i hate that its like if you want to talk stay at home, go to mcds or wherever. This is the second time I have attempted to go to the cinema on a saturday and on that occasion exact same thing happened there about 4/5 teens same thing i told them to be quiet and they just laughed so i told the usher and still they continued! that movie was hunger games mockingjay and there was hardly anything funny about it more sad than anything. I was going to stay and speak to them but one of them farted and i had to get out of there!

Does this happen in every cinema? I am quite an anxious person personality wise and its hard to go to the cinema on my own i just want peace and quiet to watch the movie, think i will resort to downloading from now on
:mad:

PS sorry for the long story! and for the rant I just need to vent and know its not just be this happens too:rolleyes:

Arbiter of Good Taste

lovinit wrote: »

Hi, Not sure where to put this

Ok so today had a long day waiting for the rugby so decided to go to the cinema and see into the woods (not recommended terrible ending) anyway i went by myself as i like doing this however it was a small room and there were about maybe 18 of us there, just behind me on the opposite row there were two teenage girls talking and laughing throughout the entire movie of course i complained she came in but at that point one of the girls went to the loo or wherever she did not speak to them or anything, I kept looking over at them and they just started back! and even pointed at the person in front of them saying it was him, i literally said shh...i hate that its like if you want to talk stay at home, go to mcds or wherever. This is the second time I have attempted to go to the cinema on a saturday and on that occasion exact same thing happened there about 4/5 teens same thing i told them to be quiet and they just laughed so i told the usher and still they continued! that movie was hunger games mockingjay and there was hardly anything funny about it more sad than anything. I was going to stay and speak to them but one of them farted and i had to get out of there!

Does this happen in every cinema? I am quite an anxious person personality wise and its hard to go to the cinema on my own i just want peace and quiet to watch the movie, think i will resort to downloading from now on
:mad:

PS sorry for the long story! and for the rant I just need to vent and know its not just be this happens too:rolleyes:

I've given up going to the cinema due to the talking, texting, eating like a herd of cattle.....DVDs/Netflix is just so much more enjoyable

Looper007

Pretty much when you go to movies 12A and under, well anything that interests teenage girls. I usually avoid any romantic comedies/dramas or musicals cause you get exactly those types of teenager girls. My girlfriend dragged me to see the Best Of Me, during the film My girlfriend seat was constantly kicked and anytime we told them to be quiet they kept on getting louder. The Ushers to be honest are mostly teenagers themselves so they can't be to bothered with sorting it out. So I avoid them films like the plague.

I haven't seen it too much during 15 and upwards films, maybe from very chatty Couples but once they are told to be quiet they don't talk again.

theteal

"shh" doesn't really really cut it. Being older and wiser (although not wise enough to actually avoid the cinema completely) I tend to go straight to "please. . .shut the fcuk up".

It's worked well so far.

Although I do have a feeling that because it's an Irish accent in an English cinema, they all assume I'm one of our nomadic cousins and are afraid to retort.

Birneybau

I've stopped going as it is so endemic, can't fecking stand it.

Calibos

Our salvation is almost at hand.

johnny_ultimate

I go to the cinema an average 2-3 times a week, I reckon. Multiple different cinemas around the Dublin area.

I haven't encountered anything like this in the guts of a half decade, I reckon.

So no, it is not in every cinema. As a more than regular cinemagoer, I always find myself scratching my head at these kind of reports, considering the law of averages would surely be stacked against me.

dreamers75

Never go to the cinema on weekends.

I only go tuesday afternoons

Arbiter of Good Taste

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

I go to the cinema an average 2-3 times a week, I reckon. Multiple different cinemas around the Dublin area.

I haven't encountered anything like this in the guts of a half decade, I reckon.

So no, it is not in every cinema. As a more than regular cinemagoer, I always find myself scratching my head at these kind of reports, considering the law of averages would surely be stacked against me.

Maybe you're the problem person?:D

TheBrinch

I always go to the very last showing of the day for whichever movie I want to see. Ive never had any trouble with noise because its usually just adults.

About 2 weeks ago I saw a movie in the afternoon and there were teens running around the cinema playing chasing. Every adult in the place was going mad but they wouldnt stop. Never going to the cinema in the afternoon again.

e_e

1. Stick to the afternoon.
2. Weekdays are preferable.
3. Sit near the front so that there's nobody in front of you texting.

Made a point to start doing this a few years back and I've rarely had trouble.

goz83

I've had this a couple of times. Only two things work.

1) Tell them to shut the fùck up

Or

2) if you have it in you, let off a steaming hot fart, followed by "oh yeah!".

I've only used the first effectively, but the second was the reason I left a movie in the distant past.

FloatingVoter

Robert De Niro displays a masterclass in how to quietly and politely enjoy a cinema visit.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm81LSKJC2k

SouthTippBass

^^^^^ Ah, I can't find the video of Sideshow Bob doing that same scene on Youtube :P

spurious

Subtitled films ftw.

TerrorFirmer

As someone said above, just pick your times. I don't go to the cinema by myself much, but the odd time I would, I'd usually go on a quiet afternoon/evening. Genuinely never had any issue with people excessively talking or making a nuisance of themselves in years.

I have the Oculus Rift dk2, RiftMax cinema is very good, though the resolution just isn't there at the moment for it to be fully enjoyable...in a year or two should seem it really start to take off. The best thing about Riftmax and the DK2 is that other people can wander into your virtual cinema, I was watching Guardians of the Galaxy with 4 other people the other night that just wandered in at various stages during it, must of them stayed. One guy even sat beside me..... in a virtual cinema of about 300 seats. The DK2 has positional/head tracking so I turned to look at him, he looked at me, and we both nodded simultanously and went on to enjoy the movie in blissful silence. It is an unbelievable piece of technology, I use mine a lot.

Sonderkommando

I went to the woman in black 2 a few weeks back and it was impossible to enjoy the movie. Quite a large group of teens who were talking, playing with phones and loudly trying to communicate across rows of seats to each other. They were shushed but to no avail, it just made them worse.

That said I do use the cinema a lot and have not noticed this in some time prior to this. Although I mostly use the cinema week days which is always quite and usually teenager free.

darkdubh

I remember going to see the Mel Gibson movie The Patriot years ago.About 15 mins towards the end of the film two teenage girls came in and sat down,they were obviously waiting for the next film and just sat there loudly talking.A guy a few seats down from them got really angry telling them shut to **** up etc and there was a full scale shouting match between them,it was pretty funny.

MrWalsh

Besides telling the offenders to be quiet, if it continues, I go out and tell the cinema staff that I want my money back. If you make it their problem often enough they will police it more.

It's endemic is some cinemas though.

shruikan2553

I tend to go when they have offers on Wednesday or Thursday at about 6-8pm. Usually no issue, would rather go see fifty shades of grey rather than go Friday-Sunday or when they are off school.

cabla

Living in the Middle East there doesn't seem to be any age limit to cinema goers. I've been in over 18s movie with literally few month old babies, some quiet, some crying todlers running around the front being loud and parents not giving two f****, oh at this is at about 11PM at night... different world! So telling a few idiot girls to be quiet is something I'd happily do and thoroughly embarras them so they don't do it again.

happysunnydays

MrWalsh wrote: »

I go out and tell the cinema staff that I want my money back.

That's the best solution right here. Should be the cinemas responsibility to police their screenings, not a developing shouting match with a red face gnashers going at a millions miles per hour. I'm there for the entertainment not a stress session... patrons shouldn't be wandering in/out of different screens, 1 ticket 1 screen. Sit, watch, shudafukup please thanku!

Mr.Buzz

cabla wrote: »

Living in the Middle East there doesn't seem to be any age limit to cinema goers. I've been in over 18s movie with literally few month old babies, some quiet, some crying todlers running around the front being loud and parents not giving two f****, oh at this is at about 11PM at night... different world! So telling a few idiot girls to be quiet is something I'd happily do and thoroughly embarras them so they don't do it again.

Christ, this reminds me when The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo showing, several mothers took their children, very young children to the movie... and they were shocked and made all the fuss, so much that the movie had to be stopped while they left the cinema in protests...

Butterface

+1 on going out and telling staff you want your money back. My OH did this a few years ago and they sent an usher in straight away and removed the teens. They were simulating sex noises throughout the screening. Seriously, if the ushers have any gumption they'll remove the offenders.

charlie_says

Very rarely had issue in the cinema. Only minor things like rustling popcorn and sweet noises but I can live with that.

Did see someone take a selfie in the cinema though. Baffling behaviour.

triple nipple

lovinit wrote:

Ok so today had a long day waiting for the rugby so decided to go to the cinema and see into the woods (not recommended terrible ending) anyway i went by myself as i like doing this however it was a small room and there were about maybe 18 of us there, just behind me on the opposite row there were two teenage girls talking and laughing throughout the entire movie of course i complained she came in but at that point one of the girls went to the loo or wherever she did not speak to them or anything, I kept looking over at them and they just started back! and even pointed at the person in front of them saying it was him, i literally said shh...i hate that its like if you want to talk stay at home, go to mcds or wherever. This is the second time I have attempted to go to the cinema on a saturday and on that occasion exact same thing happened there about 4/5 teens same thing i told them to be quiet and they just laughed so i told the usher and still they continued! that movie was hunger games mockingjay and there was hardly anything funny about it more sad than anything. I was going to stay and speak to them but one of them farted and i had to get out of there!

KK ?

razorblunt

MrWalsh wrote: »

Besides telling the offenders to be quiet, if it continues, I go out and tell the cinema staff that I want my money back. If you make it their problem often enough they will police it more.

It's endemic is some cinemas though.

This, I've had to ask for a refund twice, second time, it took the manager ages to agree to it even when others had come out behind me, havent been back to that cinema since.

Ole Rodrigo

Used to drive me bananas, but as already mentioned, sitting near the front and being careful of show times does make a difference.

The cinema can still be a great experience.

Tasden

charlie_says wrote: »

Very rarely had issue in the cinema. Only minor things like rustling popcorn and sweet noises but I can live with that.

Did see someone take a selfie in the cinema though. Baffling behaviour.

Went to a kids film recently and the amount of parents taking pictures of their kids was crazy!

Agent Coulson

As someone who works nights I go to afternoon screenings when schools are on very rarely are there more than 10 people at a screening and its just so nice.


I did last year see a man get punched when he asked another cinema goer to please turn his phone off.

Agricola

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

As someone said above, just pick your times. I don't go to the cinema by myself much, but the odd time I would, I'd usually go on a quiet afternoon/evening. Genuinely never had any issue with people excessively talking or making a nuisance of themselves in years.

I have the Oculus Rift dk2, RiftMax cinema is very good, though the resolution just isn't there at the moment for it to be fully enjoyable...in a year or two should seem it really start to take off. The best thing about Riftmax and the DK2 is that other people can wander into your virtual cinema, I was watching Guardians of the Galaxy with 4 other people the other night that just wandered in at various stages during it, must of them stayed. One guy even sat beside me..... in a virtual cinema of about 300 seats. The DK2 has positional/head tracking so I turned to look at him, he looked at me, and we both nodded simultanously and went on to enjoy the movie in blissful silence. It is an unbelievable piece of technology, I use mine a lot.

You just blew my mind. I havent been really keeping up to speed on Oculus as I don't intend to bother with it til the final version releases. I didnt realize this kind of thing was already out in the wild for people to try. That sounds incredible!


For me, I just avoid weekends if at all possible. If you can manage it, early evening shows on weekdays are the best. Im also not in Dublin so that probably helps a great deal too! If I do go at weekends, I try to keep it to late shows which are normally frequented by people who actually want to see the film in my experience. I havent seen many teens at 11pm screenings on a saturday night. It's normally older misantropes like me!

Adamantium

Its not bad here at all, it's beautiful if anything, in the USA it's endemic, ENDEMIC.
It's mixture of annoyance and bewilderment that you have to laugh at it

I went to see Django Unchained in Downtown Manhattan 2 years ago and I know US audiences have been programmed for decades to whoop and holler at every slight of turn on screen, but it was insane, never wanted to tell a majority of the cinema to shut up so badly (but I was laughing to much tbh lol), discussing of the movie while going on. To put it bluntly, Django was a black revenge fantasy and the audience were loving it.

It's supposed to be cinema, not pantomime. "He's behind you, BEHIND YOU"
"THAT black motherfcuker got blown away!!!

Monday night is cinema night the rare time I go, saw The Gambler last Monday night in Mahon Point Omniplex (nicest/best cinema in Cork allegedly), only a handful there.

Little point asking folks to stfu or turn off phone imo, ignorant folk are ignorant and won't react well to requests not to be ignorant.

don ramo

i like when i go to mahon in cork, the new seats rock, so anyone kicking my seat is not gonna notice me leaning it forward with their foot pressing it, and then jerking it back quite violently, and just like that, no more kicking, this has so far worked 100% of the time,

coolisin

Adamantium wrote: »

Its not bad here at all, it's beautiful if anything, in the USA it's endemic, ENDEMIC.
It's mixture of annoyance and bewilderment that you have to laugh at it

I went to see Django Unchained in Downtown Manhattan 2 years ago and I know US audiences have been programmed for decades to whoop and holler at every slight of turn on screen, but it was insane, never wanted to tell a majority of the cinema to shut up so badly (but I was laughing to much tbh lol), discussing of the movie while going on. To put it bluntly, Django was a black revenge fantasy and the audience were loving it.

It's supposed to be cinema, not pantomime. "He's behind you, BEHIND YOU"
"THAT black motherfcuker got blown away!!!

I went to the opening night of minority report in Boston in 2002.
Never realised the opening of scream 2 to be accurate.
People very much getting into all the trailers same with the movie.
But now I'm picky about the time I will head to the cinema.

Cannot stand chattering in the cinema munching doesn't bother me in the slightest.

DoYouEvenLift

I'm not pushed about going to the cinema these days for this exact reason, waiting for the movies to come out online/bluray and watching them on your TV is way better. I don't really like pausing movies because it interrupts and takes you out of the movie but it's good that you have the option in case you need to go to the toilet or something

If we had free reign to kick the sh!t out of these people, while pausing the movie so we don't miss anything, I'd gladly go to the cinema regularly again. I think ganging up on annoying pricks with fellow movie lovers you don't know would add more to the experience, once you're finished you all just nod in acknowledgement of your fine work and then return to your seats to resume the movie in peace. I'd also like if each seat had built in headphone jacks like on planes just as a backup option

cloud493

I go the cinema 4-5 times a week. Spilt between swords, cineworld, and one other one. Majority of the time my cinema experiences are overwhelmingly pleasant. Pro tip is to try to avoid rush hour.

smallgarden

Try other cinemas in your area. I find tallaght cinema the worst for this, followed by cineworld. I find I rarely have any problems in dundum or liffey valley.

TheDoc

Find things like this happens in waves to me. The girlfriend and myself went on a kind of shop around for about 6 months trying different cinemas before settling on one.

The Swords cinema would be our local, but it became all too frequent having incidents like the OP and other disruptions through the film. It seemed gangs of teens just went to the cinema to hang out, no interest in the actual films but just sitting together in a dark room having a chat for 120 minutes and acting the bollox. Then the technical issues started and the cinema just felt like it was being let run down, so we upped and shifted.

Odeon in Coolock was the destination for a good while. They were running a special offer on Mondays originally I think, and it was brilliant. We were going to see our stuff at like 10pm+, tickets costing €4 a piece and it was brilliant. We had a good few consecutive weeks doing this, no hassle, no disruptions, brilliant. Then we came in for a film one evening and the place was black. It wasn't being heavily advertised, but word got out. We had pre-booked by card a few days in advance, and turned out the screening had been overbooked entirely. Bit of too and froing with management about what the point of booking in advance was if they just sell our seats anyway, and we got sorted and got in. Absolutely packed, sweltering hot, and various groups acting the bollox ruined the entire nights film. At one point the film was stopped and management came in to give out, and sure it was back to the way it was.

So we moved on again. Thankfully we are settled now. We have a cinema that is comfortable, clean, has relatively low foot traffic and isn't too much hassle to get too. Havn't had a bad experience in it relating to disruption. There was one instance of teens sneaking in, but they just sat there genuinely watching the film before they were asked to leave, and I barely even noticed it was dealt with so well.

As I said though it seems to happen in waves. I wouldn't say every cinema is the same, but we just seem to encounter consistent weeks where it's a bad experience and then we move on to somewhere else. We've been going to the current place over a year now and touch wood, it's been brilliant.

Ageyev

It's the munching on popcorn, slurrping of drinks, rustling of sweet packets and stink of hot dogs that really bothers me since eating in cinemas is encouraged by cinemas.

e_e

Ageyev wrote: »

It's the munching on popcorn, slurrping of drinks, rustling of sweet packets and stink of hot dogs that really bothers me since eating in cinemas is encouraged by cinemas.

Went to see The Equalizer a few months ago and walked out two thirds of the way through not just because the film was rubbish but for the obnoxious wet mouth sounds of the guy behind me eating his nachos. Was absolutely repulsive! To say this guy was eating like a pig is an insult to farm animals.

Part of the reason why I love the Lighthouse, popcorn comes in cardboard and drinks in bottles so you neither get slurping nor rustling.

Technocentral

Honestly never had it in the IFI, Lighthouse or Screen on College St. Luckily my taste is for more adult Indie films that tend not to attract the assholes.

Saipanne

You get a classier, less... braindead presence at independent cinemas like the Lighthouse, etc.

Commercial cinemas are for people who prefer a pub like environment.

Mickeroo

Only time I ever confronted anyone was when they started watching porn on their phone in the seat on front of me. Gate multiplex in cork it was, was fine the rest of the time but I'm generally quite careful about what time I go to see a film in order to avoid the crowds and teenagers.

MrWalsh

Technocentral wrote: »

Honestly never had it in the IFI, Lighthouse or Screen on College St. Luckily my taste is for more adult Indie films that tend not to attract the assholes.

Ugh, the IFI is terrible for bad behaviour!

I remember being in one of the small upstairs cinemas in it once and a guy in the front row was continuously rustling the noisiest food packaging possible and actually commenting aloud on the film! A number of people walked out. The staff are worse than useless in there too so no point asking them to sort it.

Sorry - bit ranty, Ive more bad experiences than good in the IFI in recent years.

Saipanne

MrWalsh wrote: »

Ugh, the IFI is terrible for bad behaviour!

I remember being in one of the small upstairs cinemas in it once and a guy in the front row was continuously rustling the noisiest food packaging possible and actually commenting aloud on the film! A number of people walked out. The staff are worse than useless in there too so no point asking them to sort it.

Sorry - bit ranty, Ive more bad experiences than good in the IFI in recent years.

I've had the opposite of your experience. Been there countless times.

Technocentral

Saipanne wrote: »

You get a classier, less... braindead presence at independent cinemas like the Lighthouse, etc.

Commercial cinemas are for people who prefer a pub like environment.

I've experienced it on the odd occasion I go to big films like Interstellar in Cineworld type places, smartphones are the biggest problem, people beside you texting on them with their huge bright screens is so distracting, ignorant fcuks, maybe a cinema or chain could have a dampening field to stop signal for certain showings, the gits who want to be on their phones all throughout can go to the normal screenings?

Pat Mustard

I was at the cinema a while back and a small boy was running up and down the steps in the centre of the theatre, huffing and puffing and creating a lot of noise. I don't know whether he was looking for somebody or why he was doing this. One man stood up, pointed at the little boy and exclaimed; "HEY YOU. YES, YOU, THE BOY WHO IS MAKING ALL THE NOISE. SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP OR GET OUT'.

And the boy slunk off sheepishly into the darkness, with not another peep out of him.

Gave me a laugh anyway.

Saipanne

Technocentral wrote: »

I've experienced it on the odd occasion I go to big films like Interstellar in Cineworld type places, smartphones are the biggest problem, people beside you texting on them with their huge bright screens is so distracting, ignorant fcuks, maybe a cinema or chain could have a dampening field to stop signal for certain showings, the gits who want to be on their phones all throughout can go to the normal screenings?

The likes of the Lighthouse show interstellar now, in 35mm too... if that's your thing. :-)

Mickeroo

Technocentral wrote: »

I've experienced it on the odd occasion I go to big films like Interstellar in Cineworld type places, smartphones are the biggest problem, people beside you texting on them with their huge bright screens is so distracting, ignorant fcuks, maybe a cinema or chain could have a dampening field to stop signal for certain showings, the gits who want to be on their phones all throughout can go to the normal screenings?

I saw people snap chatting pictures of the film when I went to see Wild, which was a new one on me. Along with being moronic it's probably technically illegal too.

Technocentral

Saipanne wrote: »

The likes of the Lighthouse show interstellar now, in 35mm too... if that's your thing. :-)

I know, I usually go but sometimes showing of film is only on in Cineworld at the time I can go. Again I can't see why eg one out of ten showings of films can't be with mobile phone ban?