Even now, I still shudder with horror at this memory.
keeps replaying the glittering flight of the soda hitting all those people over and over in her mind
It wasn’t ME!
We sat in front of some movie talkers last week, and at first it annoyed me, but then I did realize that someone was being translated to for parts of the movie (the jokes). It was Stuck on You, which should have been called “This Movie Sucks”, so I didn’t sweat it. During any other movie I would have said something or moved.
This just struck my funny bone. I was so with you during the formation of the black cloud of seething hatred, I hate to think of what I’d have said, had I actually decided to take matters into my own hands. Your statement was perfect. I could feel the diffusion and the collective “ahh”.
My worst experience involving noisy chompers was during Jurassic Park. The guy next to us had formed that perfect backhoe bucket shape with his hand, and he had a mission. Apparently, the mission didn’t include hearing the movie.
Actually, IIRC there was a long pause, Like “Eat… quietly.” It came out sounding like it was for emphasis, like a dramatic pause, but in reality I was suppressing a SamKinison-esque tirade that would have been more like:
“Eat - Aaah! AAAH! Youstupidoblviousdumbassnoisycudchewingassface! AAAaaaAH! - Quietly.”
But I managed to hold in in for the sake of decorum and trying to be more of a “mediator” in tone than “rabid banshee.”
I’ve always wondered why an adult can’t watch a 2-hour movie without food or drink.
I rarely go to the theatre anymore because of the snarfing and chomping.
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You know, I frequently have to have whoever I’m with do this for me. Slight hijack, but what is UP with having the damn music so loud and the talking so low and muffled at times?
During comedies, I usually have to ask “what’d he say”??? At least three times.
I ask very quietly into the person’s ear though, and they answer back in kind.
For people that go see movies because it’s a treat, and a budget splurge, the snacks are part of the experience, not all snackers smack and slobber.
It’s not that they’re afraid they’ll “waste away” or something.
It’s the rare time they’ll have M&Ms and popcorn.
While watching “Return of the King,” it was hard enough to hear some of the dialogue, and I was in front of someone who seemed to be coughing up a lung. Hope he/she didn’t have something contagious :rolleyes: