Should have stole his shoe, OrcaChow. Seat-kickers are even lower, in my mind, than incessant talkers.
I am not a shuusher. I am a “Will you PLEASE be quiet, for the love of God(dess)”. Said in my best Margaret Dumont.
I was with Brachy watching Dressed to Kill which starts off with a woman in the shower who starts fondling herself etcetcetc. The World’s Most Irritating Male Voice starts off with:
“Oh…”
“Oh, Margaret, I think we are watching the wrong movie…”
“Oh, OH, Margaret… they can’t show this stuff at the movies…”
:voice gets louder; audience is beginning to get restless and you can hear lots of shshshshshs:
“Oh, Margaret… you can’t watch this pornography.”
“OH, Margaret shut your eyes…we are leaving right now”
As this couple marches up the aisle:
“You all are nothing but a bunch of porno lovers. This is filth. You are all going to burn in hell.”
Meanwhile Margaret is trying to catch the last glimpse of the shower scene. Audience is now applauding their departure. It was the weirdest thing I have witnessed at the movies.
I hate talkers, but sometimes they make the movie much more interesting…
Ha, kiffa, I forgot about that. Margaret obviously wanted to stay while Hubby was all in an indignant Grandpa huff.
Oh yeah, I was a major stalker for I don’t know how long, but you’d be surprised at how well the police enforce restraining orders these days . . . what? Oh talker, I’m sorry, I must have misread the OP. Gosh, that sure is emabarassing.
I have to admit I’m surprised by the number of people who admit to being talkers. Although I will very rarely make a whispered comment to my companion, I think that is the most rudimentary courtesy to be quiet and allow others to enjoy the film. I’m curious, do talkers think that shushing is rude?
The last time I saw the Rocky Horror Picture Show, I could barely hear the movie. No matter how much I shushed, those darn kids kept talking!!! It ruined the whole mood of the movie!!!
That is what surprised me about this thread, the number of people who admit they talk during movies.
I would think movie-talkers would be like Reagan-voters. Yeah, we know lots of people do it, but nobody admits it.
(Isn’t it amazing how every living person voted for Kennedy and he barely won, and yet nobody voted for Reagan in '84 and he won by a landslide?)
I only whisper during movies, but I can only think of one occasion where I shushed someone. I went to see Star Wars Ep. I and there was this woman with her kids behind me. The youngest asked questions constantly (‘Who is he? Why did he do that? What’s that?’) and instead of trying to shut him up, the mother would answer him, in a rather loud speaking voice. I asked her if they could please be quiet, and she just glared at me, and spoke even louder after that. I was pissed because I had been looking forward to seeing the movie and had to go through the trouble of finding a theater that would let me preorder tickets to see it, so I complained about her to the usher and he made her leave.
I’m more of a thrower. If you’re talking near me in the theatre, I will throw popcorn, peanuts or whatever else I have until you stop. If you don’t stop, I may throw my soda.
When I went to see ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’, there were three teenager boys in the front row, all by themselves. When the film started, they wanted to play ‘Mystery Science Theatre 3000’ and talk and laugh at their jokes. I got up from my seat and chose to sit directly beside them in the front row. (I am a 6’1" 205lb shaved bald man w/goatee) They got the message pretty quick, and I did not have to douse them with soda.
It is rude to talk during the film!!!
It is rude to talk during a film? Isn’t throwing popcorn and soda rude too? What if you hit someone other then the talker?
I don’t think that the best way to respond to rudeness is to be rude yourself.
As I mentioned in the I just saw The Exorcist thread, people were not shy about telling people to keep their children quiet.
When I saw Titanic, I was seated in front of two matrons who barely had a brain between them. (At the end of the movie they couldn’t understand why Rose threw the necklace into the ocean. “I would have kept it! She could have gotten a lot of money for it!”) They were chatting throughout the movie and no amount of evil glaring would shut them up. I finally turned around and said, “Do you mind? We are not in your living room!” They didn’t take the hint, but by that time the movie was almost over.
To the talkers: As said by other people in this thread, I paid to see the movie; not to listen to your commentary or the events of your day or the date you had last night. I did not pay to listen to your crying infant or your child who needs everything explained to him. You are not funny. You are not Tom Servo. You are lucky I’m non-violent and don’t carry a gun.
Zumba The Cat wrote:
"It is rude to talk during a film? Isn’t throwing popcorn and soda rude too?.."
Sorry, Zumba, you lose. Movie talkers deserve worse than rudeness, but most of that is probably against the law.
Spooje, fire at will. And if you run out of popcorn you can have mine.
“Will you please stop talking and let the rest of us enjoy the show?”
Or, if they’re drunk:
“Will you shut the f*** up and let us enjoy the movie?”
I’ll notify management in a heartbeat.
There is NO TALKING during the movie.
I don’t lose just because you say so Stuyguy.
Didn’t you read my third question? What if you hit someone other then the talker? I find someone throwing popcorn or their soda at a movie much more distracting (and ruder) then someone talking. Tell management if the talker is bothering you. Don’t disrupt things even more. If you are against rudeness you don’t fight it by being a jerk.
Years ago when “Like Water for Chocolate” came out, there was a couple who apparently didn’t realize that the movie was subtitled. I don’t know if one of them was illiterate, or had bad vision, or what, but the other read the entire movie out loud, in a full voice. They were on the other side of the theater, and I succumbed to groupthink; when no one else complained, I didn’t either. What a wimp!
Spooje is very accurate when hurling popcorn.
Bzzzzzt! Zumba, you lose AGAIN!
Morons who talk in movies spray their annoying, inane chatter to everyone in the theater, whereas Spooje only directs his wrath at the offender.
If there is collateral damage I’m sure he’d be the first to apologize profusely for an errant kernel or two, hopefully with a line like, “I’m awfully sorry sir. Please accept my apology. I did not mean to hit you with that popcorn… I meant to hit that asswipe in the green shirt sitting two seats over who won’t shut the f*ck up during the movie!!”
And, personally, if I was the guy who accidentally got hit, I’d pluck the popcorn off my shoulder, go over to the chatterbox, flick it in his/her face and say “Oh, I think this was meant for you.”
I am a shusher who is married to a talker. Actually, he is a narrator- you know, the ones who don’t seem to understand that you’re all watching the same freakin’ movie, so he has to keep a running commentary going about what’s happening on the screen (“Look, he’s going into the attic now!”), or worse, repeats the lines he thinks are particularly funny. Once it got so bad I actually changed seats because I was about to have to slap the #&$^ out of him. And he wonders why we haven’t been to a movie in a theater for over a year! At least at home in front of the DVD player, I can be annoyed without the whole theater being annoyed along with me.
StuyguyI don’t lose!! I hate to lose! I can stand to be wrong, but never to lose. (How did you know that about me?) 
I still think that you are very wrong.
Throwing popcorn (or soda!) does disturb everyone. I can very easily ignore outside noise but I would be very distracted by popcorn flying over my head or into my hair.
If he makes sure to apologize for inaccurately thrown popcorn then he is talking too!
I would request the popcorn thrower be removed from the movie long before the talker. How do you justify being a jerk because someone else is being rude? Unless you are nine years old there is no excuse for throwing popcorn. None.
Besides, (no disrespect Spooje) unless the talker is sitting right in front of you, you can’t accurately throw popcorn! It is too light.
Well, you have to get it wet first, and be sure of your firing position.
I don’t normally attend crowded shows, working the graveyard shift as I do. There’s not that much chance of hitting an innocent bystander. Stuguy’s right, they’d be on my side. Have you ever been in a theatre when someone has a conversation on a cell phone? Dousing them with soda is a restrained response, I assure you.
Shushing is no good because the talker doesn’t normally respond, or will respond loudly and defiantly. And if I have to get out of my seat to get a manager to get rid of talker, I will extract my admission price from said talker.
I’m neither a talker not a shuusher, I’m a person who suffers through other people talking, until I get so angry I turn around and tell them to “Shut the fuck up!”…