Cinema hell - Loud people in the Cinema - Are they getting worse

dato_007 · 07-03-2007 01:05PM #1

Just felt I had to write in and have a moan and see if anyone else has noticed this . . .I was in Cineworld (UGC) on Parnell street a few weeks ago. I went with a friend to see Hot Fuzz . Long story short – there was a couple behind me, about 20 minutes into the movie her phone rang , then she actually took the call and spoke loudly on the phone , then this was followed by loud conversations with her boyfriend and general noise from eating etc. . . It totally ruined the experience for me , WHY??? Why do people behave like this in the cinema.

Anyone else got any similar experiences. This is not the first time iv been to the cinema lately where people have taken calls on their mobile and chatted loudly for the entire movie. I wise there were headphone jacks in each chair , at least then id have the option to not listen to people talking . . moan moan moan . . ok rant over . .

KTRIC · 07-03-2007 01:09PM

Cineworld seems to attract these morons. I was there last week and several people around me were talking.

dato_007 · 07-03-2007 01:18PM

Yea i agree, I notice it happens a lot more in Cineworld . I have hardly ever noticed it in the Savoy. . .

RuggieBear · 07-03-2007 01:21PM

i've more or less given up going to the cinema due to this sort of crap. If i do go it is on a day off from work at a morning show so that there are **** all other people there to cause problems.

kmick · 07-03-2007 01:24PM

Why did you not complain. They will kick them out pretty quick. As long as we take it sitting down these morons will get away with this crap. No one ever holds them to account so they don't learn what are acceptable behaviours.

Jello · 07-03-2007 01:25PM

Agreed Cineworld seems to be the worst. I was in a cinema in Paris last week and it was brilliant. Everyone was completely silent, not a word from anyone.. except the Irish. I wish it could be like that here.

dato_007 · 07-03-2007 01:30PM

Its not easy to complain, i tried the usual, turn around and give them a dodgy look. It sounds crap, but sometimes for my own sanity i just try and ignore the behavior so i can try and salvage some bit of enjoyment from the experience. But I recon its getting worse (or maybe im just getting older and less willing to put up with it. ) . Im getting to the stage now where its easier to just download the movie I want and watch it at home, where I can keep my sanity and get to watch the movie without interruption from some chav on the mobile and eating like an elephant . . .

humanji · 07-03-2007 01:37PM

dato_007 wrote:

Its not easy to complain, i tried the usual, turn around and give them a dodgy look. It sounds crap, but sometimes for my own sanity i just try and ignore the behavior so i can try and salvage some bit of enjoyment from the experience. But I recon its getting worse (or maybe im just getting older and less willing to put up with it. ) . Im getting to the stage now where its easier to just download the movie I want and watch it at home, where I can keep my sanity and get to watch the movie without interruption from some chav on the mobile and eating like an elephant . . .

And that's where big screen tv's come in!

Slow Motion · 07-03-2007 01:41PM

Not to mention the a**holes who have seen the film already saying to their mates "Oh this is a good bit coming up" or "Yeah he gets killed later..."

Frown 'em to within an inch of their lives I say:mad:
Frown 'em all to hell.........:mad:

J.R.HARTLEY · 07-03-2007 01:45PM

we get the same crap in UCI blanch, i've long since given up looking for staff to sort it. now i just tell the people to shut up and threaten them if i have to do it again, works a charm,i don't feel the slightest bit bad about it, why should i? i paid enough for the ticket, what right has some aszhole to ruin it for me.

KTRIC · 07-03-2007 01:49PM

I find pepper spray very effective

Whilst they are admitted to hospital I can enjoy the film in peace.

TerrorFirmer · 07-03-2007 01:54PM

Thankfully I've not experienced this in a long time, although there was a period during the summer when it was unusual for me to not be seething with rage at least once during every movie.

DamoKen · 07-03-2007 01:55PM

gave up on Cineworld a few years back, always seemed to be one or 2 minor incident, such as some bloke wolf whistling to his mates sitting behind us while standing in the centre aisle in the last 5 minutes of the film as he was bored and wanted to go.
Worst and last time was when this total skanger couple arrive 20 min into the film, his first move before sitting down is to stick his ar$e directly across my line of sight as he roots through a nice loud Dunne Stores bag he for some reason had stuck conveniently under the seat for crisps and other nice rustly treats.
Next move was to sharply elbow my arm off the side rest and put his there with his elbow thoughtfully placed under my ribs, all the while eyeballing me from the side.
Then he decides to vigourously rub the stubble on his head, producing an impressive mist of dead skin cells which lazily floated across my view, staring at me again, perhaps to see how long I could hold my breathe in the cloud.
His partner meanwhile is running a commentary on the film with such insightful exclamations as "jaysus will ye luck a dat!" or "Jaysus dats bleedin terribill".

I left shortly afterwards with my date (first and last with the girl coincidentally) and have never gone back to the place.

dato_007 · 07-03-2007 02:01PM

I agree with KTRIC

Pepper spray and/or tear gas, or even Elephant Tranquilizer darts can be very useful for shutting up the plastic bag rustlers and chavs . .

BlitzKrieg · 07-03-2007 03:24PM

normally never have a problem...

but there was one time during the film festival, me and monkeyfudge were watching this film called a the bothersome man, when about 30 minutes from the end this family (i think it was a family) walks in, talking quite loudly, laughing etc. They walk all the way up the back talking...then back down again to sit in the front row...still talking excessivly loud. Then they finally look at the film they are in...immeaditly start argueing with each other and run out of the film.

it seems they walked into the wrong theatre...its shocking that they got that far without noticing...or without the ticketperson stopping them and pointing it out.

It was in f*cking Iclandic..how the feck do you not cop on your in the wrong film if it was in another bloody language.

bruce wayne · 07-03-2007 03:34PM

well my visit to see x men 3 in cineworld was compleatly ruined by the two people sitting next to me practally having sex......to be honest she looking like bit of a thai hooker and yer man was a fat ugly.....way older man.....odd couple....but really irritating had to concentrate really hard on watching the movie....

Savman · 07-03-2007 03:43PM

I make sure to go to off-peak screenings and avoid a lot of the ignorant populus

spurious · 07-03-2007 03:43PM

First show of the day in Cineworld is generally fine, unless it's a children's film. Methinks the clan of scang are not early risers. Subtitles tend to weed them out too.

Galvasean · 07-03-2007 04:41PM

spurious wrote:

Subtitles tend to weed them out too.

Not always. I watched Passion of the Christ in UGC (or Cineworld as the kids are calling it these days). Some skanger girl behind me answered her phone yelling, "Hello Mah? Oim in da pictures!" Luckily someone turned to her and told her to "Shut the hell up or get the hell out". She tried to defend herself by saying, "Not like you need to hear it". Suffice to say we shut her up...

My funniest cinema experience was Jurassic Park 3 in Ballinasloe where some kid behind me grabbed my hair every time something 'scary' happened. I also say a young girl being escourted out by an embaressed mother while the kid wailed, "A dnosaur, dinosaur! Waaaaghhhh!!!!!" through her tears. Now this was at the point where you first see the Spinosaurus. Going to see Jurassic park, what where you honestly expecting?

supernic · 07-03-2007 05:10PM

When i was at the film festival, these 3 walked into a film 3/4 of the way in and started talking really really loudly, and swearing about how no one was moving to give them a seat. even though people were quietly trying to tell them that they must have come into the wrong cinema (how did they get in?), they were too busy being d**kheads to listen. d**ckheads.

oh, and for the record this was at Cineworld...

BlitzKrieg · 07-03-2007 05:17PM

supernic...i believe we where in the same film.

gazzer · 08-03-2007 05:58PM

I havnt been to a movie in Cineworld since I went to see Wedding Crashers.. It was the 5pm showing on a Friday.. Gang of about 8 scumbags sitting at the back. I was about 6 rows in front of them.

They were talking all through the movie and some people including myself were doing the usual 'shuh' thing.. Anyway about an hour of this and they started moving into different seats and throwing bits of popcorn etc at people.

My blood was boiling at this stage and nobody else was doing anything so next minute I had one of those out of body experiences where you do something and not realise you are doing it.

I just stood up, turned around and said. "If you lot dont shut the f*ck up I will go up there and knock 7 different types of ****e out of you, not sit the f*ck down or get out"... and do you know what... they didnt say a thing after that.. i suppose it could have went the other way and they could have jumped me and battered me...

K!LL!@N · 08-03-2007 06:27PM

Irish people just don't complain enough.
I'm guilty of it myself.
We'll sit through a film with people talking, we'll eat crap food in a restaurant or whatever.
Will we complain to someone that can do something about it? No.
Will we regale our friends and family with stories of people ruining the film we went to see or about the horrible dinner we ate? Yes.

I'm living in the US now and generally people here just don't accept bad service.
If there are people talking during a film, they will be "Sssssh'd" by at least one person.
If they continue they might get "Ssssssh'd" again.
If they still continue then they're going to end up getting thrown out, i've seen it happen quite a few times.

All it takes is a quick word with a member of staff.
I can guarantee everyone else in the cinema will be grateful and you'll feel pretty good about yourself too.
You could also snag yourself some free passes for your troubles if you push the issue.

The worst thing you can do is just sit there.

Killian

monkeyfudge · 08-03-2007 06:33PM

supernic wrote:

When i was at the film festival, these 3 walked into a film 3/4 of the way in and started talking really really loudly, and swearing about how no one was moving to give them a seat. even though people were quietly trying to tell them that they must have come into the wrong cinema (how did they get in?), they were too busy being d**kheads to listen. d**ckheads.

oh, and for the record this was at Cineworld...

Ha... Yes... I too was at that screening.

I wonder just how many boardsies they managed to upset.

Noelie · 08-03-2007 06:45PM

I went to see X-men 3 when it came out in Dundrum, two girls come in before the trailers start and begin to chat to one another in a normal voice. This doesn't really bother me as long as they shut up when the movie starts. 5 minutes into the movie they still haven't stopped chatting, so i leaned over to the girl beside me and said " I haven't paid €20 to listen to you two chat, so will you kindly shut the fcuk up".
Which they did, ten minutes later they get up and leave. i never really saw the point of them going to the film.
But usually i never have any trouble with other making noise.

johnny_ultimate · 08-03-2007 10:18PM

I must pick good showings to go to. Very, very rarely have this kind of problem. And am a regular attende of Cineworld. Although my current annoyance is the odd laugher. My worst case was at a show of Little Miss Sunshine when we had someone right in front of us with the most bizarre laugh ever. And they found every single line comical.
But yesterday I was at Letters from Iwo Jima and we had one. Which was odd because it was the most humourless film ive had the unpleasantness to endure in a long while.

the_syco · 08-03-2007 10:59PM

I find that if you tell them to be quite, they do. Well, for me, anyhoo's.

If a 6 foot 6 man stands up and tells you to "shut the f**k up!", I'd say you generally would.

[quote=supernic]When i was at the film festival, these 3 walked into a film 3/4 of the way in and started talking really really loudly, and swearing about how no one was moving to give them a seat. even though people were quietly trying to tell them that they must have come into the wrong cinema (how did they get in?), they were too busy being d**kheads to listen. d**ckheads.

oh, and for the record this was at Cineworld...[/quote]
Ah. Screen hopers. Usually, they go from one screen to another, and create a disturbance. See above. If anyone annoys me enough, in the cinema, I'll either tell them to shut the **** up, or ask the staff to kick them out.

Galvasean · 09-03-2007 12:58AM

Ah yes the odd laugh. I went to see Hot Fuzz (in the IMC Dundalk). At that where the fat fellow runs into the fence a guy about 5 rows in front of me started making this really loud giggling/laughing noise. it was one of the most bizarre things I have ever heard. Infact everyone in the cinema was laughing at him more than the scene itself. Its strange since that bit was in all the trailers. Its like he didn't expect it to happen. I mean it was the most obvious joke in the whole film.

dafresh · 18-03-2007 06:19PM

Some people here seem a little too sensitive....If you can't handle someone eating their popcorn of M&Ms or laughing in a comedy (not everyone sees the trailers!) then stay at home

Bradidup · 18-03-2007 07:00PM

Its the crunching and the rattling of papers that drives me mad in the movie theatre, unfortunately with the revenue they make from the rip off charges one pays for pop corn, sweets and other garbage this is not going to stop.

NUTLEY BOY · 18-03-2007 08:12PM

DamoKen wrote:

gave up on Cineworld a few years back, always seemed to be one or 2 minor incident, such as some bloke wolf whistling to his mates sitting behind us while standing in the centre aisle in the last 5 minutes of the film as he was bored and wanted to go.
Worst and last time was when this total skanger couple arrive 20 min into the film, his first move before sitting down is to stick his ar$e directly across my line of sight as he roots through a nice loud Dunne Stores bag he for some reason had stuck conveniently under the seat for crisps and other nice rustly treats.
Next move was to sharply elbow my arm off the side rest and put his there with his elbow thoughtfully placed under my ribs, all the while eyeballing me from the side.
Then he decides to vigourously rub the stubble on his head, producing an impressive mist of dead skin cells which lazily floated across my view, staring at me again, perhaps to see how long I could hold my breathe in the cloud.
His partner meanwhile is running a commentary on the film with such insightful exclamations as "jaysus will ye luck a dat!" or "Jaysus dats bleedin terribill".

I left shortly afterwards with my date (first and last with the girl coincidentally) and have never gone back to the place.

Are you sure that you were not at a Fianna Fail Ard-Fheis ?

Cinema hell - Loud people in the Cinema - Are they getting worse

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