People Who Spoil Movies

[nikki]

I used to work with someone who would tell me all the jokes, movie endings and surprises. I'd tell him to stop because I'm planning on seeing it too, but he never did in all the years I worked with him. As a result, I pretty much stopped going to movies.... unless I knew the ending already, like Titanic, LOL.

Once I was standing in line to see Sixth Sense, and a guy walking out yelled to everyone, "He's a ghost!!! Bruce Willis is a ghost!!!" It's funny now, but not at the time!

Why do some people do that??

[Serenity]

For me is....

What I don't get is...

Why the HECK do people talk at all in the movie theaters ?!?!

If you wanted to talk to your friends or family (out loud), why come in in the theater when the movies have already started, & start talking to them???

you should just talk to them outside :mad: !!! Have lunch or dinner & talk to them, not inside the movie theater!! GAWD!! :mad:

Now, for me, those are the kind of people that SPOIL MOVIES for me!! :mad: I am over there to enjoy the movies & not listen to someone talk through out the damn storie of the movie, GAWSD!! :mad:

[hifotog]

The pet peeve that bugs da living ^#%$# outta me is when I ARRIVE EARLY ENUF to avoid da crowds and get a good END seat and if get time befo the movie start...go buy my popcorn and soda...but den, wen da movie starts...HERE COMES EVERYBODY!!!! MARCHING IN DA DARK trying to find a seat...HELLLLLLOOOOOO?!?!??!?! Do you know what time da movie started? and by all means and human natcha...get plenty seats around...YET, dey come and take the seat..RIGHT IN FRONT OF MY SEAT!!!!!! Ahem! but dat gets me PISSED OFF

[Hellbent]

I heard in the UK they employ a cell phone blocker - making it so that cell phones dont work in the theater... I wish they would do that here.
You know that punk with the sidekick3 isnt answering a page cuz hes Doogie Houser.

[mel]

The pet peeve that bugs da living ^#%$# outta me is when I ARRIVE EARLY ENUF to avoid da crowds and get a good END seat and if get time befo the movie start...go buy my popcorn and soda...but den, wen da movie starts...HERE COMES EVERYBODY!!!! MARCHING IN DA DARK trying to find a seat...HELLLLLLOOOOOO?!?!??!?! Do you know what time da movie started?

Yep, I hate that too. If I am paying full price for a movie (like first run at Ward or Regal Dole Cannery) I try to go the first matinee of the day and hope the film is in the larger halls. Usually if I am lucky enough on a weekday, you avoid the crowds, latecomers and noisy kids and enjoy the movie in relative quiet in a not so packed to the gills movie hall.

On the other hand if you go during peak time like in the evening or on weekends of first runs, you run into that crowd, latecomer thing. It is even worst at the $1 Wallace Restaurant Row theaters where even for an older movie, people can be still be packed in like sardines in one of those smaller closets that pass for a theater... but then at a dollar of the movie I probably don't have much to complain about.

Still the late comers urk me as well as the cell phones and noises that happen during the movie.

I guess that is why I loved the old Cinerama and Waikiki Theaters so much. They were so large that if you went to a marginal movie or a hit movie late in its run, you would not have to cope much with the crowds or the annoying late comers.

Luckily for most movies, I wait it out for the DVD these days.

[craigwatanabe]

I was at a movie once and the girl in front of me was literally doing a play by play of the movie such as, "Okay this is the part when she finds out he had an affair, watch she's gonna stab him with the bottle of wine after she cracks him over the head with it".
:mad:

[Random]

The pet peeve that bugs da living ^#%$# outta me is when I ARRIVE EARLY ENUF to avoid da crowds and get a good END seat and if get time befo the movie start...go buy my popcorn and soda...but den, wen da movie starts...HERE COMES EVERYBODY!!!! MARCHING IN DA DARK trying to find a seat...HELLLLLLOOOOOO?!?!??!?! Do you know what time da movie started? and by all means and human natcha...get plenty seats around...YET, dey come and take the seat..RIGHT IN FRONT OF MY SEAT!!!!!! Ahem! but dat gets me PISSED OFF
That's why I never go on the opening or the second week of movie's debut. If I'm lucky, I try to get my days off on the weekdays when most people are working rather than spend time at the movies. That way, no one sits besides me (getting all up in my "elbow" business) and no one sits in front of or behind me.

I also bring a whoopie cushion to make loud "wet" fake farts so they'll switch seats away from me.

[ChicagoGuy75]

The funniest spoiler was when a radio show here in Chicago went out when the Star Wars:PM first came out and over a bullhorn, they gave the ending.

There was a horde of Star Wars fans screaming and trying to tip over the radio's co-host's car. The best thing was....it was played live on the air.

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About the original thread, yeah someone did give away the "Sixth Sense" ending before I saw the movie. Ruined it for me.:(

[mel]

That's why I never go on the opening or the second week of movie's debut.

If it is a huge movie like a Star Wars that I am keenly interested in, I go on the first day or a day very close to it. Otherwise you end up facing the other type of movie spoilers... people at work who saw the movie and tell you what happened.

[DannyWilliams]

I used to work with someone who would tell me all the jokes, movie endings and surprises. I'd tell him to stop because I'm planning on seeing it too, but he never did in all the years I worked with him. As a result, I pretty much stopped going to movies.... unless I knew the ending already, like Titanic, LOL.

Once I was standing in line to see Sixth Sense, and a guy walking out yelled to everyone, "He's a ghost!!! Bruce Willis is a ghost!!!" It's funny now, but not at the time!

Why do some people do that??



Well in the movie 50 FIRST DATES, Drew blurts out the same thing.......
providing if YOU have seen it already.

I kinda don't like that aspect of ppl spoiling a movie I wanna see.....
Takes away the element of suprise...
I do have to share when I went to see SCREAM at the Nanakuli Theaters (is it still there by any chance?) and was getting something at their manini concession stand...... I over heard 2 workers talking about the movie MICHAEL (the one w/ John Travolta) and is talking about the ending......
I was thinking to myself............ WHAT THE?!?!?

[craigwatanabe]

The pet peeve that bugs da living ^#%$# outta me is when I ARRIVE EARLY ENUF to avoid da crowds and get a good END seat and if get time befo the movie start...go buy my popcorn and soda...but den, wen da movie starts...HERE COMES EVERYBODY!!!! MARCHING IN DA DARK trying to find a seat...HELLLLLLOOOOOO?!?!??!?! Do you know what time da movie started? and by all means and human natcha...get plenty seats around...YET, dey come and take the seat..RIGHT IN FRONT OF MY SEAT!!!!!! Ahem! but dat gets me PISSED OFF


So back in the 70's when humongus Afros were in style, having one seat themselves in front of you was a pain. So we improvise...we sit behind someone already situated. That way there are no surprizes come showtime:)

[nikki]

I can't remember what theatre it was, but I know I was watching the very end of Star Wars. A few rows behind me, we could hear a guy peeing right on the floor... it was a looong one. At least, I assume it was a guy. We all could hear it, but I didn't know where it was coming from. I picked up my feet and made sure to look before walking when we got out.

[DannyWilliams]

I can't remember what theatre it was, but I know I was watching the very end of Star Wars. A few rows behind me, we could hear a guy peeing right on the floor... it was a looong one. At least, I assume it was a guy. We all could hear it, but I didn't know where it was coming from. I picked up my feet and made sure to look before walking when we got out.




first off...



ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

:D



wonders if this was back during its intial release or when the extra footage were put back in on its re-release run?

- Cinerama ?
- Pearlridge 4 Plex?

[buzz1941]

we could hear a guy peeing right on the floor... it was a looong one.

Business as usual at the old King theatre

[Hellbent]

I was at a movie once and the girl in front of me was literally doing a play by play of the movie such as, "Okay this is the part when she finds out he had an affair, watch she's gonna stab him with the bottle of wine after she cracks him over the head with it".
:mad:

It could be worse... me and a friend got suck in the back row watching 'dumb and dumber' and a girl in front of us kept talking like "i dont get it" "huh"
omg, dumberer in front of us!

[DannyWilliams]

Business as usual at the old King theatre



LOL


That theatre was soooooooooo DARK if you walked in when the movie started you obviously had to wait till there was decent lighting from the screen to know where you were going. Ya dunno who u are going to walk into or sit in someones lap by accident. :rolleyes:

Now swinging back to the topic onhand

when I went to see "Poseidon" this lady brought her grandkids with her.. :confused:

Ohhhhhhhh auntie why is da ship flipping over?

thinking to myself SHADDDDUP!

or how bout when these 2 chicks would'nt shut their yap during SNAKES ON A PLANE...

If the conversation was short and soooooo quiet ya could hear a pin drop.... NO BIGEE


Girl #1 - Awwwwww man my Boyfriend the other day YAK YAK YAK
Girl # 2 - Really? Haaaay over at A&F I saw this cuuuuuuuuuute top yak yak yak
ME - (fed up and turns around) HOW LONG ARE YOU TWO GOING TO BE TALKING?

*SILENCE*

[buzz1941]

On the other hand, I encourage everyone to sing along with the Coca-Cola commercial: La-La-La- LA LA LA LA!

[Got2HaVKaYaNoW]

The pet peeve that bugs da living ^#%$# outta me is when I ARRIVE EARLY ENUF to avoid da crowds and get a good END seat and if get time befo the movie start...go buy my popcorn and soda...but den, wen da movie starts...HERE COMES EVERYBODY!!!! MARCHING IN DA DARK trying to find a seat...HELLLLLLOOOOOO?!?!??!?! Do you know what time da movie started? and by all means and human natcha...get plenty seats around...YET, dey come and take the seat..RIGHT IN FRONT OF MY SEAT!!!!!! Ahem! but dat gets me PISSED OFF

Oh sorry hifotog, I guess I'll apologize now, I'm always late for movies, but I try to do everyone a favor by just sitting in tha front rows..:D

[craigwatanabe]

On the other hand, I encourage everyone to sing along with the Coca-Cola commercial: La-La-La- LA LA LA LA!


Hey! That's the Tickle Me Elmo song...get your tunes right man!:D


And Nikki...how do you know it was a MAN peeing on the floor? Hmmmm do women grunt when they pee too? :D

[nikki]

And Nikki...how do you know it was a MAN peeing on the floor? Hmmmm do women grunt when they pee too? :D
Men grunt?:confused:

[zff]

Men grunt?:confused:Are you kidding? Grunting is the predominant form of communication for the human male.

rrrnt.

[cynsaligia]

eric and i have decided we will avoid going to the dollah theatah at restaurant row from now on. everytime we've gone, we've gotten into some sort of drama. the last time was when we saw transporter 2, and the fun started even before we got to our seats.

how so? well, i stopped at the ladies' room (you know, cause i didn't want to get up in the middle of the movie) and when i went to wash my hands, i noticed a forty-ish woman with three school-aged girls heading straight from the toilets to the ladies' room door. ewww! i said to myself and moved on, making sure to open the door with a few layers of paper towel in my hand.

the beau and i then went into the theater, when lo and behold, the non-handwashing lady was seated all the way in the front. cept the three girls she was with had multiplied to six or eight boys and girls, from toddler to intermediate school age. i told eric about the lady and what i had seen her do (or more correctly, not do) in the bathroom, and he noted, "nice. they're all eating popcorn now."

did i say ewwww before? cause let me say ewwww again.

let me remind you, transporter 2 was definitely an R rated movie, what with the nudity, language and violence.

anyway, throughout the movie, the woman and her brood insisted on talking loudly. the children, who were spread out over two rows, were so poorly behaved they constantly would change seats between rows. it was so bad that noise they were making was often louder than the movie itself (and like i said, this was transporter two, not a sensitive merchant & ivory film). the beau and i, who were sitting pretty much in the middle, could hear the muted groans from all over the theatre everytime we heard the toddler screech, the kids fight over popcorn, and the lady yell such things like, "eh! junya! take da soda and sit da hell down already! how many times i gotta tell you!" people who had seats near them got up to move further away in the hopes of being able to watch the movie.

finally, during a quiet spot in the movie (you know--that lull that happens shortly after a whole bunch of gunfire, expletives, and explosions plus some cool chase scenes), i hollered:

EH, LADY!! KEEP THE NOISE DOWN!!!

about ten people gave me an approving nod or the thumbs up. the lady with the kids just glowered at me. in fact, she got up just before the end of the movie with her row of runts, carrying the toddler, and made sure to hiss at me, "YOU shut up, you BITCH!"

when we got up to leave, our seat neighbors expressed their aghast at how the lady had the nerve to call me a bitch. i only shrugged and said, "main thing was that they did get quieter after i yelled," which they did.

story doesn't end there. when eric and i left the theater, guess who we saw camping out, sucking on a cigarette by the plants between the theatre and the ocean club?

the lady. her kids were nearby, running around, no doubt high on candy and soda.

and she actually called me out!! she yelled, "eh, come ovah hea! i like talk to you! who you tink you are" etc etc.

i laughed, and called over my shoulder, "lady, cool it! you're setting a bad example for your kids!"

what did she say back?

"dey not my keeds! dey my GRANDKEEDS!!!"

god help us all.

[Hellbent]

That can happen anywhere. Doesnt only have to be the $1 theater, I've had bad experieces at all the theatres, mostly the low-brow movies tho. Ive gone to Dole at 10pm to see Dawn of the Dead and seen three 5-6 year olds running up and down the steps.

[ChicagoGuy75]

Are you kidding? Grunting is the predominant form of communication for the human male.

rrrnt.

Yeah and we talk while peeing like it's a sports game.

"Come on get in there, get, get, get, alright!"

Or as Quagmire would say, "GIGGIDY GIGGIDY - ALRIGHT."

[Random]

That can happen anywhere. Doesnt only have to be the $1 theater, I've had bad experieces at all the theatres, mostly the low-brow movies tho. Ive gone to Dole at 10pm to see Dawn of the Dead and seen three 5-6 year olds running up and down the steps.
Ah. That brings back memories, when I was able to sneak into a theater that young and saw "breasts" for the first time from a B-flick. :p