O.k., you all know if you’re one of the following two. Do ya talk or shuush during the movies? I’m a talker. I met one of my favorite (now ex) girlfriends because we were both talkers. Long story, not very entertaining. Well ok, the hanging out of the car window on the highway and unscrewing other car’s gascaps is entertaining, but that’s about it.
Where was I? oh yeah, so do you talk or shuush? And do you have any entertaining stories about a time you were gabbing or told someone to shut the hell up?
I like making sarcastic comments, but I do it pretty quietly to whoever happens to be with me, so I dont get shushed.
My SO is usually tolerant of this from people as long as they’re not TOO bad, but when we went to see What Women Want, there was one cranky old man who was constantly babbling behind us. He was quite loud, but we had no idea what he was saying.
First, she gave him a few glares. Then a few more, HARD glares (and she can GLARE). Then, enough became enough. she turned around, and in the sweetest, most sugar filled voice I’ve ever heard, with enormous, cute cute CUTE puppydog eyes, she said:
“Excuse me sir; but do you plan to shut the hell up anytime soon?”
It was all I could do to keep myself unsoiled, let alone keep the laughter in.
He did, incidentally, shut the hell up. Mostly.
When The Patriot came out me and my frined Jose went to see it.
Me and Jose are big talkers. We couldn’t shut up the whole movie and the people around us didnt mind. We would say something funny and they would laugh and in some instances clap. The one thing that got the best response from the crowd was the scene where Mel Gibson shanks the villian with a bayonet and there is a crunchy sound, right after he did it Jose said “Ooohh, that felt good… doit again!”
Add me to the “additional live entertainment” chorus.
I generally keep it to my friends around me, but sometimes about ten of us will go see a movie with an almost empty theatre and heaven help the 2-4 other people in the room.
I’m definitely not a talker, but I’m not a “shusher,” either. I’m usually a “get twelve inches from your face and firmly-but-politely request that you either whisper, take it to the lobby, or prepare to get kicked out of the theater” person. The “in your face” gets their attention and the “polite-but-firm” keeps them from tuning me out.
It’s one thing if the whole house is rowdily enjoying a movie, but if a few people are yakking it up during a movie while everyone else (including me) is quietly trying to watch the flick, I’ll step in.
Shusher. I didn’t pay $20 for me and my wife to listen to you and your friends, no matter how entertaining you think you are. When you have a movie out or are headlining the Improv, then I’ll pay to see you. Until then, I paid to see the movie, so shut the hell up.
Mostly, I’m a talker. But I keep it to the person I’m with. I saw Miss Congeniality a few weeks ago, and the two people I was with were very loud, and irratating, and I love them both dearly. I spoke for the rest of the theater when I told them very nicely to shut their facces, or they’d be walking home.
The other night I sa Antitrust, and there was this large group of preteen girls sitting behind me. They were annoying. A preview came on for Hannibal, and one o them was practically screaming, “Oh my god! It’s Hannibal, the cannibal! He like, eats people, I swear!” I couldn’t help but exclaim in mock enthusiasm, “Oh my God! Like, for real?” That shut them up for a little while. 10 minutes later, the girl next to me was telling to shut up, and the girl in the next row was screaming at them too
I just remembered this time in 11th grade, I was seeing The Crow for like the fifth or sixth time. And right at the ending theres the part where Shelly comes back to take Eric to Heaven… she makes the stooopidest face (yes, that’s Stupid with a whopping three “o”'s in it). So anyways, right at this perfect perfect moment I have to yell this loud, retarded yell that was something like “Gur-huuuuh!”. It was one of the funniest things to most of the theater.
I come from a family of talkers. When we watched movies at home we kept a running commentary the whole time.
I find it difficult not to make comments under my breath in the movie theater to my partner. I have a low voice though so I don’t bother anyone else.
I would never shush anyone. Coming from a large family of talkers I am able to block out extra noise very easily. It takes a lot of talking to bother me.
If someone is right behind me talking practically in my ear, I’ll give them “the glare” once or twice. If that doesn’t work I ask them to please shut the hell up.
If it is a funny movie and people are making pretty funny comments, or if there is a particularly painful scene and there is some commiseration (i.e. a guy gets kicked in the nuts and there are many exclamations throughout the theater) it is not too bothersome and I don’t say anything.
I always try to keep my talking down to whispering in my companion’s ear.
When I went to see American Beauty this woman behind me would not shut up. She kept making comments in a normal speaking voice. I gave her “the glare” a couple of times to no avail. Finally I just had to turn around and ask her to shut the hell up. She looked indignant and glanced to her date for support. Too bad for her that her date looked like he wanted to sink in to the seat from embarrassment. She looked back at me with a stunned expression and sucked air like a dying fish for a second but I didn’t hear a peep out of her for the rest of the movie.
Oh yes, I’m a shuusher. In fact, I’m a call-the usher, slap-the-kid-in-the-back-of-the-neck, borderline psychotic shuusher. I’m the guy who, if there’s one little noise in the theater by the time the opening credits start, is sitting at the edge of his seat, hands balled into fists, shoulders bunched, head darting left and right, hissing out furious shshshshs until the only sound in the theater is my wife whispering “Honey, calm down, okay?”
Maybe I should stop reading this thread. It’s causing me to become extremely agitated.
I’m a glarer (is that a word?) and sometimes shusher. I cannot stand it when a Talker inflicts himself or herself on the rest of us.
A crowd participation movie is one thing-- I saw “What Lies Beneath” and people were screaming at the characters, making derisive comments about some of the lamer scenes, and so on. But, if it’s a generally quiet crowd, shut the hell UP already!
The last movie I saw, I sat in front of some guy who spent almost the whole time having a conversation. I did the glare thing several times, but to no avail. I only resort to actual shushing when I really can’t stand it anymore-- by which time you’ve ruined the movie for me.
I’m not above making a whispered comment to whoever I’m seeing the movie with, but, c’mon, people, there’s a difference between watching a movie in your living room and seeing it in a theater. The diff is, if it’s in your living room, if you’re making too much noise and your comments are not of groudbreaking profoundity, the people you’re with will feel comfortable asking you to shut your cake-hole. In a theater, your being rude enough to cause other people not to enjoy the movie forces them to be rude by disrupting the movie further to ask you to be quiet.
I’m not a shusher–I’m too shy for that.
I just saw a movie this weekend with an aquaintance who just kept making noise until I wanted to nail him in the nose with my elbow. I really don’t mind a few comments, but he was saying stupid, pointless shit, like “Oh, what beautiful mountains!” Oh, god, and laughing at inappropriate times–his smug little, “Oh, I’ve figured out something that I’ll bet the rest of you haven’t noticed!” laugh. . . and he’d laugh at anything remotely sexual. Two characters who have been pining for each other all movie finally give in to their love and fling themselves into a passionate embrace, and he’s next to me guffawing.
Moral of the story: don’t see a movie with a thirty-year-old virgin.
Also, for chrissakes, people, don’t bring your kids to the movie unless it’s aimed at their age group. I don’t want to have to listen to you explaining the damn plot to Little Bobby while he kicks the back of my seat incessantly.
shhhh. do you mind?! i’m trying to read these posts!
seriously, i’d rather walk out of a bad movie than sit through it and make fun of it. i might whisper during a good movie, but not often to warrant shushing.
i will talk to the woman who brought her 5 and 7 year olds to the R-rated movie if her kids talk through the whole thing. grrrrr. what is she doing bringing them here? what was she thinking?! don’t get me started.
Had one asshole who kept kicking the back of my seat, and no matter how many times I asked him to stop, he just kept going.
::steam building::
Then his foot went between the seats and he got me on the back of my arm.
I reached over the back of the seat, grabbed him hard on the ankle and didn’t let go until he promised not to kick the seat any more. The look on his face was pretty funny, but his wife’s expression was priceless (part “the nerve of this guy!” and part “honey, why don’t you just make him let go of your leg?”).
Like several others here, to me movies are too expensive to suffer amateur narrators and spoilers, and once the movie starts rolling, I want to concentrate on the movie.
All of you who happily admit to talking at movies are now officially on my shit-list.
I hate it that there are some people are so unaware of what their living room looks like that they get confused by the movie theater.
Yes, I talk during movies at home. I also eat potato chips, answer the phone, place phone calls, check my email, and tickle my wife. I do not do these things in a movie theater.
Yes, you may have the ability to whisper in a way that is audible to the people in your group, but not audible to the person 23" in front of you but I doubt it. So please, shut up!
Now, I am actually pretty tolerant of talking. I can easily ignore it (though it still annoys me), but every time one of you dips breaks into needless conversation I have to watch my wife turn around and shush the offender.
You can talk during the commercials, I don’t care. You can talk during the previews, I don’t care. Just shut up, please, once the opening credits start.
Talking during movies is, of course, EVIL. Especially when it’s a dumb teenager who is not funny and makes comments that show they’re pretty much uneducated. Hint: making fun of a word you’ve never heard before is not witty.
