Cinemas - why can't people just be quiet?

[Hammy02]

I went to the cinema yesterday afternoon having not been for years due to people's lack of consideration for others, thinking as it is mid-week in the afternoon, it might not be so bad. I was wrong. Why can't people go without food for 2 hours? Why the need to mutter comments to the person you are with? Why the need to check your mobile? Muppets. I won't be going back again. I'm sure it wasn't like this 20 years ago?

I go regularly and am not bothered by rustling and food.

I am bothered by mobiles shining, they catch your eye and it is distracting.

People putting their feet on the back of the seats

Baby cried all the way through Tangled on sunday.

To be honest we usually go on a weekend afternoon and actually find the later /evening night screenings have the worst/most distracting behaviour.

upahill

I found Black Swan a bit gruesome. It was also quite slow in parts and definitely dark. Glad I saw it but wouldn't rush back for a second viewing.

there were several parts that were nearly slipping into humourous, but it just pulled itself back from the brink. I liked that you didn't know where it was going. I like ballet too, so that, and the music, helped.

I like going to 'art house ' cimemas.

They show indie films, foreign films but also current 'big' films such as Black Swan, the Kings Speach and so on and costs the same as 'the vue' and similar but there doesn't seem to be the same annoyances.

However one that I go to about 3 times a month is about 40 miles away and the other that I go to abot twice a month is about 35 miles in the other direction.

You are allowed to take a glass of wine or beer in with you which is a bit more civillized than popcorn and doesn't rustle!!

The mother gave me the creeps and, towards the end, it was impossible to tell what was real and what was imaginery. It was brilliantly done but just left me feeling not fully satisfied.

I teach ballet and used to be in a ballet company and did adore the dancing scenes. Also, a lot of the behind the scene stuff was accurate

Bruffin, a baby cried all the way through a film? That is terrible. A minute or so, fair enough but the parent should have realised that this would make the film unwatchable for everyone else in the cinema and have taken the baby outside. Unbelievable. I'd have asked them for the money so that we could see the film properly in future.

Yep the baby was the otherside of the cinema and grizzled all the way through. Could hear it but not see it. That was the first time I had that problem with a baby at the cinema. But going on recent posts on mumsnet it seems it is now acceptable to take a baby into cinema

No problem with babies in cinema as long as they don't make any noise. Simples.

We're an intolerant lot, aren't we? :)

I hate noise too, I hate it so much that I don't go to the cinema anymore no matter how long I have to wait for the dvd to come out.

Cinemas seem to have lots of spaces, perhaps because they are bigger now, but if people really get aggravated, they'll stop going and the ticket price will go up.

We live in selfish times... Most people consider only themselves and their own needs.

It looks like o;m in the minority. I thought Black Swan was the biggest load of rubbish!

i though Natalie Portman was beautiful and I have read how hard and how many months went into training before filming started and all credit it to her.

As I said int the Movie Section me and mate just got fed up of all the simpering and gasping.
As it finished mate looked at me and said 'Drivel, total and utter Drivel!' and churnneed for ages about how bad it was and she can see the spoof films coming out soon!

if there is a film i really want to see as i hate fidgeting in the cinema etc - i wait until the film has been out for a good while then go EARLY on a monday morning!! guarantee the cinema pretty much to yourself :)

upahill - it definitely was a love-it-or-hate-it

When we came out I was sure my DH would say - what a load of crap!, but he loved it too.

i love the adult only showings that they do at the view :D These can be for films of any rating, I went to see harry potter for one and it was brilliant!