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To Find this Woman in the Cinema Rude

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LessMissAbs · 03/01/2014 23:29

Me and my friend were watching a film in the cinema tonight. She doesn't wear a watch and must have been checking her phone for the time - its a habit of hers to do this, or to ask people the time. I was sitting next to her and I didn't notice it.

There was an empty seat to her other side between her and a woman. The woman suddenly boomed out in the middle of the film, "If you want to play your phone, you can go outside and do it instead of in here".

It was mortifying, and she interrupted the film for me. I was really embarrassed for my friend, but we didn't say anything.

At the end of the film, as we were standing up to leave, I said to the woman "I don't really care if you were disturbed by a light during the film or not, I don't want to have to the film interrupted by your booming voice". She then started arguing back (she said something like "Oh you'd like to be a cheeky one, wouldn't you, and some other stuff) but we turned our backs towards her and her husband so that she was talking to ourselves, put on our coats and left.

Kind of ruined the film for both of us. Normally I find going to the cinema relaxing!

OP posts:
HaroldTheGoat · 05/01/2014 00:27

That's hilarious.

This thread is making me want to go to the cinema. Not.

BlingBang · 05/01/2014 00:27

Op - you've always struck me as a goady fucker by your previous posting history which for some reason sticks out - maybe I'm not the only one to have noticed - not that that excuses annoying folk in the cinema with your phone (or your sophisticated 36 yr old EU worker friend).

RandyRudolf · 05/01/2014 00:29

Ouch!

HaroldTheGoat · 05/01/2014 00:30

If she is a goady fucker it dosent take much does it, 700 posts of outrage over checking your phone in the cinema.

If she made a real effort she could probably blow up the internet.

RandyRudolf · 05/01/2014 00:33

Grin Harold

YouTheCat · 05/01/2014 00:36

I have seen The Desolation of Smaug (looks like my living room Grin ) - it is brilliant and wonderful... but I am sick of the bloody orcs.

BlingBang · 05/01/2014 00:36

Follows a pattern - seen some surprisingly long threads where everyone has crawled out of the woodwork to give an Op a hard time on a subject that doesn't seen to quite merit it then realise that said Op is usually identified as being an arrogant GF (though Op had shown her GF credentials on this thread) so everyone piles in! Sure I'll be deleted, c'est la vie!

HaroldTheGoat · 05/01/2014 00:39

I am a bit Sad about the love interest. I'm going to see it soon.

I hope gandalf isn't nobbing anyone. In the book they just all sing nice songs a lot. NO NEED.

LilMissSunshine9 · 05/01/2014 00:43

I saw the videoblogs they did for the Hobbit and I new found appreciation for Peter Jackson and his movies. Those actors worked incredibly hard sometimes having to work against green screen imaging a scenario because they were using cgi. I loved how some of the scenes were just thought of on the spot and how much effort and innovation was used to produce some fantastic movies - no movie from a book ever follows the book to the true form unfortunately but for someone who hasn't read the books yet I think they are amazing.

TheMaw · 05/01/2014 00:44

I hope Gandalf isn't nobbing anyone is my favourite line ever on the internet. Time for a name change!

YouTheCat · 05/01/2014 00:50

Lilmiss, I do have utmost respect for Peter Jackson and realise he has delved into the appendices for his orcs. It's not that they weren't there, they were. But they weren't in the actual book and it irks just very slightly that he had to pad it out when Lord of the Rings had so much left out (Tom Bombadil etc).

I do reckon that was down to the fact that the producers of LOTR wanted it done as one film and he fought like a bugger to get 3.

The film studios are just padding Hobbit out to three films for revenue and that is shit.

LilMissSunshine9 · 05/01/2014 00:54

Fair enough - this is a rare occasion where I haven't read the books before the movie so I can't really comment on those aspects but I can understand your view point because other films from books I have read the books before and yes it can be irksome when they change/ add things to the movie that aren't right...but that's Hollywood Grin

YouTheCat · 05/01/2014 00:56

And I am just disappointed that the first 'cartoon' version never got to Bree. Grin

GhettoPrincess001 · 05/01/2014 01:02

HTG - Laugh out loud, I mean really loud and really long !

GhettoPrincess001 · 05/01/2014 01:10

I was at a pop concert last year. There was a bloke next to me blatantly recording the whole thing on his iPhone. The glow of his iPhone was a distraction to me and I was angry that he was spoiling the show for me as I had paid good money for the ticket.

I complained to auditorium staff as I was naïve enough to believe the actually enforce the, 'no recording' rules displayed at these things.

I was told that I could sit somewhere else in the auditorium. I remarked that I had come with my husband, she said ok.

So that solved that one. Did we get better seats because of the selfish twat and his selfish obsession with having something to record then upload ? Don't know, but it did cure the problem.

And yes, I did make a point of stepping on said twat's foot as I walked past him to get out of my auditorium seat.

playavsnow · 05/01/2014 01:14

I hope gandalf isn't nobbing anyone. In the book they just all sing nice songs a lot. NO NEED.

Shock Quite right!

Agree, Themaw!

Won't say who it is and spoil things for people. But it's somebody who wasn't even mentioned in the book.

Yes, he took some things from the appendices etc

AchyFox · 05/01/2014 01:58

We have professional sshhhers at the local flicks.

You wouldn't like it.

Horrible and quiet.

differentnameforthis · 05/01/2014 04:56

Kind of ruined the film for both of us.

And you ruined it for her, no doubt.

Why did your friend need to know the time so much anyway? She was watching a film that she had tickets for, so not like she had a drs appointment or anything!

echt · 05/01/2014 05:34

OP, you are so BU.

And entirely responsible for the way in which I have to remind students watching/reading a film, that they are not at home right now, i.e lots of commentary/downloading their brains.

Also reminding them that all the adults, including those who are "digital natives" forsooth, they still wear wristwatches.

rubybleu · 05/01/2014 07:21

iPhones/Samsung Galaxy type phones are unudually bright in a dark cinema. You're being unreasonable.

Duribg the latter parts of the most recent Bond film, I asked a woman (50-ish lady with adult kids) in front of me (politely, tapped on her shoulder) if she wouldn't mind waiting til the end of the film after she lit up her phone to check Facebook! Her adult son was horrified and apologised on her behalf.

Southeastdweller · 05/01/2014 09:02

Love the post yesterday at 14.41 from look Grin

2rebecca · 05/01/2014 09:45

I've seen a couple of the Live at Covent Garden screenings at the odeon. It pissed me off when they flashed up an announcement just before it started saying "tweet us with your opinions of it".
No, please don't, wait until you get home. Encouraging folk to tap away on their bright phones during a (pricy) performance is madness.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 05/01/2014 11:01

I really don't understand why people need to check/mess around with their phones during a film - other than in some very specific, and pretty rare circumstances. Yes, if your child is likely to have a melt-down, and you would need to dash home, or if a relative is seriously ill - stuff like that.

But let's be honest - most people are not checking their phones because of real, serious issues - they just can't imagine going for a couple of hours without playing with that little screen. The world would come to an end if they hadn't updated FB and Twatter et al about every breath they have taken, or if they don't learn some bit of celebrity non-news immediately it is posted.

And just because your friend's phone usage did not distract you, LessMissAbs, does not mean that it wasn't distracting other people. Frankly, if I have paid through the nose to go to the cinema, I don't want that to be spoiled because someone can't leave their phone alone. Your friend is an adult, and should have known it is bad manners to check your phone in the cinema, because it runs the risk of disturbing other people. If I had been there, I would have applauded the woman who told her off!

TheOneWithTheNicestSmile · 05/01/2014 11:32

\link{http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/advertising-app-that-sends-sonic-messages-from-the-big-screen-has-cinemas-asking-please-switch-on-your-phone-9039196.html\This is very timely}

Those who think mobiles aren't bright enough to be distracting should check out the photo Grin

The "cinime" initiative is...intended to encourage audiences to take their places early, playing interactive games that begin ahead of the trailer reel...the film itself should remain "sacrosanct"

nicename · 05/01/2014 11:42

Its pure habit. People just constantly fiddle these days. Those glowing litle screens are really irritating in the cinema/theatre.

Whatever happened to scary ushers with torches who would put the fear of god into anyone making a disturbance? They'd flash their beam into your face and hiss 'if you don't shut up/stop rustling/talking etc, you're OUT!'.