It’s not hard to grasp surely?

[MrsOverthinker25]

Just watched Avatar, why do people insist on attending the cinema to sit there and talk the ENTIRE time? And I don’t mean quietly either! Unfortunately I had the pleasure of sitting amongst two utter twats for the longest film ever 🤣 they sat there full on talking, on their phones taking pictures and texting and vaping and also sitting in seats that they didn’t pay for.

When I politely told them to “SHHHHHHHH” rather than launching myself over to their seat, I was met with a sarcastic “oh sorry mate sorry, fucking hell” from the boy.

They then had a cheek to continue talking after half an hour of silence and then leave making these most noise ever, 20 minutes before the film ended.

I refuse to believe they are THAT thick that they don’t understand to stfu when in the cinema??

It's so rude. People do it in live theatre too. Yacking away while actors are trying to deliver their lines. I always shush them and glare and they look so baffled,

I've stopped going. Cinemas, theatres, anywhere you could spend good money only to have your enjoyment ruined by the people around you, I don't go. Public transport is bad enough but that's unavoidable.

Agree with this. People have really changed.

Oh my gosh, I’m glad I’m not overreacting! I am really surprised no one else shushed them or even reported them to be honest. I was absolute seething by the rudeness of them. I’m actually still wound up by it, it completely ruined the film! Knobs!! X

There's a danger that I would have lost my temper and shouted and I would have itched to thump them.
A few years ago I went to see a film on a Saturday morning, not a time I'd usually choose. It wasn't a child's film. There were two teenage girls talking away and climbing over the seats. They were just a nuisance all the way through.
Sometimes old people natter through films, too, certainly through the Denzel Washington trailers!

We had a group of women cackling through Song Sung Blue...I went over and politely asked them not to. They were like mice afterwards

Yes, and on the bus to the venue you have to deal with people watching videos on their phone without headphones, people swearing loudly, people behaving generally with no consideration for others.

This makes me murderous

I had to calm myself at a showing of Hamnet the other day. It was a weekday afternoon and only a few of us there. At one point, a woman's phone went off (even though they had been there for the whole 'switch your phone off' messages). I could let that one mistake go.

Then at the climax of the film - as the actor said 'silence is rest' her fucking phone went off again!

People really are that thick.

I helped get a group of loud posh teens get kicked out of the theatre before Xmas. Awful lot, squeaking, on phones, chatting and getting up and down non-stop in the first half. I was one of several who spoke to the staff. The girls were gone halfway through the second half as they continued to be idiots. Loads of litter under their seats when the lights went up.

I stopped going to the cinema years ago due to other people's behaviour, talking like they are at home, checking phones, drives me nuts.

Gigs are even worse, I come to hear the band, not you chuntering away about fuck all.

Having said that I have managed 2 music and one comedy gig last year without falling out with anyone.

Oh noo 😩😩 I didn’t realise how common it actually is. How annoying. I really cannot understand it. I could have resorted to violence it was that infuriating 😩🤣 I had to keep reminding myself that it is not worth losing my job over hahaha. It’s so disrespectful I think next time I’ll suck it up and report it, but I don’t see why I should miss out on bits of the film because of other people’s dumb behaviour!

As with others, I've stopped going to the cinema because I get SO fed up with the talking, phones, lack of consideration for anyone else and paying stupid money for the privilege - it's about £17 a ticket now and just not worth it given the experience!

I was on the Tube in London this week, something I haven't done in rush hour for ages, and couldn't believe how many people don't use headphones and just treat a public space as their own.

😩😩 it is so annoying. I am mortified if I click on something and my volume is really loud, but some people really do not care. It’s not worth confronting people these days either as the world is such a horrid place, you never know what you’ll be on the receiving end of!

Agreed...but people just don't care!! I did ask a couple of teens if they could turn the volume down on their phones the other day as they were just behind me and even with my (noise cancelling) headphones on I could hear them. I did have to do a risk assessment first though.

(It's not the same but I guess symptomatic of being out in public nowadays. My daughter had a horrible experience on a train recently where a drunk man was being loud and awful and then started saying really racist things to the girl sitting next to my daughter. My daughter eventually got so angry she turned and said "I think you should stop talking now" and this man abused her for about an hour, (shouting and swearing at her for being a "posh white c*nt) and she tried to just ignore him, but when she got up to get off he blocked her way and she was quite scared. Luckily, finally, another man helped her off the train and asked if she was ok and wanted to report it. The police were dealing with another issues and she had to run to catch another connection, but it is about the third train journey this month where she's had 'an incident' of one sort or another....)

Oh my goodness, bless her 😢 good on her for saying something but what a shame she had to subjected to that! I am honestly sick of people. The world is full of horrible bastards and I dread to think what the world will look like in 10 years time. It does not even bare thinking about 😩

We saw Stuart lee recently and he did a bit before the show warning about poor behaviour and mobile phone use in particular, audience were very well behaved.

I’ve had a few situations like this too, it makes you scared of getting involved. People used to have a bit of shame when you called them out, now you don’t know if they’ll double down or worse.

I must live in some parallel universe, because I don't find this at all and I'm in the cinema a lot. I think I've told people to put their phones away maybe twice in the last year or so, and I remember some youngsters talking all the way through the trailers at something, but they piped down when the film started.

I'm pleased to see we're not doing the usual rude, insulting comments about people who like snacks when they're at the cinema though. It makes a change from when we usually have this thread, and the faux-naive 'I just don't understand why people NEED to eat in the cinema!' (they don't, but they might WANT to, genius) is mindnumbingly tedious.

People who stand up in front of the screen as soon as the credits roll and twat about with coats and so on instead of immediately moving out of the way of those watching will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes, however

🤣🤣 do people really moan about people eating in the cinema?! I mean.. I hate to be the person that makes the rustling noise trying to open my crisp as quietly as possible but Jheez, I thought it was standard to take snacks 🤣

i go to the cinema often as well and can honestly say it’s only ever happened to me twice, the last time a male told them to shut up and they remained silent for the rest of the film. These were just horrible little knobheads that wouldn’t have even listened to staff if I’m honest!

I’ve stopped going to the cinema because of this.

I was at Les Miserable concert i had to ask the woman behind me to stop.singing i was so angry i had paid £80odd for them to sing not her, she gave me an earful but shut up.

Aww that is such a shame :( no one should have their fun ruined becuase of other people’s selfishness! A better system needs to be put in place for when this happens.

A lot of people won’t report them because they fear repercussions from the people, some won’t because they don’t want to miss the film etc. It’s not good enough

I see a lot of touring comedians, sometimes those off the tv but mainly those who are on the circuit as well, and the audiences are so well behaved! Maybe it’s because the venues are smaller and to know about these comedians means you have a genuine interest and aren’t going to talk all the way through. There’s also the treat of being picked on if you misbehave. However, saw an improv troupe a few years back and some fangirls of theirs were on the front row taking photos and making notes of the improvised sketches as a kind of diary. So that was weird.

Went to see Tommy Tiernan a few years ago, and he provided locked pouches that every single audience member had to put their turned off phone into. To unlock them you had to go and see a member of staff. Knowing his audience I doubt many people would have caused a disturbance but he did it for a reason!

Generally found the bigger the venue and the more popular or well known an act/show is, the worse the audience will be.

Maybe that’s that they should do for the cinemas now! 😂 people just cannot be without their phones it’s ridiculous. I understand if you need to keep an eye on it for various reasons but majority of the time it’s just looking at things that can wait! X