Aha! Found the link.
http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4912&perpage=40&pagenumber=8
Gentleman’s name is jonrog1
We also saw TTT this weekend, and I decided to start keeping track of how many freaking trailers there were. At the end of the 5th, I said to SO “That’s 5.” As each new trailer unspooled, I said the number and it got picked up by the whole theater-the last thing we all said in unison was "“That’s 9!” and big laughs ensued, followed by solemn silence as soon as the movie started.
I sometimes make quiet comments about trailers, and even more quietly during movies if it’s not a good one, but when I take the little girl I watch to the movies, she has to proclaim loudly after almost every trailer that “I have to see that!” She also makes comments during movies. Since this only happens in kid movies (I only take her to kid movies), I think it’s all right, but I do tell her to keep it down.
I’m from a family of talkers, so we have to comment on everything, but talking during movies does annoy me.
thi6
I’m pretty much in agreement with everyone else here. I like to watch the trailers too but see nothing wrong with comments between them. I posted in the pit about a chatterbox that could have ruined LOTR:TTT but I was able to convince her that silence was golden wihtout resorting to rudeness and we didn’t hear a peep out of her for the next three hours. 
Talking during commercials - encouraged (I hate Joe Boxer)
Talking during trailers - STFU if you’re not funny
Talking during movie - I will rip out your tongue and wear it as a bracelet.
When tongue-ripping is not allowed and you have the talking idiot escorted out - priceless.
“Now that was Dumb and Dumberer” isn’t much of a “zinger,” I’m sorry to say. Most people are likely to be amused (though some will be annoyed) if a patron makes a witty or clever remark, but that’s just not very witty or clever. I think they may just end up looking at you as the guy who really needs attention.
Whispering the comment to your wife would be fine, though.
I only say this because my wife finds me funny, though movie patrons don’t seem to. So I found out long ago not to make attempts at public MST3K-ing.
I live in Knoxville, TN, where the standards for most everything are not that high, nineiron. The line won’t get me a stand up gig in LA, but it was well-received here.
[slight hijack] There was one commercial I enjoyed tremendously – it showed in-the-car and outside-the-car footage of a fast little vehicle simply tearing up the streets of Prague. No narration, and I believe not even any music. Did anyone else see this? What was the type of car? (See how well the advertising imprinted this on me?) [/end slight hijack]
I don’t mean to single you out here, and I’m glad you try to get her to keep quiet, but I’ve seen this sentiment before and have to ask: Why is talking okay during a kid’s movie? Do people assume kids aren’t actually interested in hearing a movie? I understand how difficult it is for kids to keep their attention and to know how to be quiet, but time and again I hear people say that we simply shouldn’t expect to hear the dialogue in a “kid’s movie” (and people have very different standards of ‘kids movie’ than I do).
Have you kids, Lego?
They tend not to remain quiet, regardless of their parents wishes, if all the other kids are talking.
So then it’s okay for them to disrupt a movie that other people have paid to see. I don’t want this to turn into yet another children are evil thread, but if the theoretical Little Kimmy Mancer and I pay to go see a movie, I think it’s understood that we want to see and hear it. But apparently that’s not the case, and the agreement seems to be that anyone going to a kids movie that would like to see the movie is living in a fool’s paradise. That seems odd to me. If the child can’t sit still and be quiet for a movie, why have you brought him to one? I don’t understand.
…Kids go to movies to have fun with other kids. And who cares if they miss part of the movie - it’ll be out in DVD in 3 months, so they’ll get to see it again another 40 times…
The above does seem to be the mindset, and I have to wonder if it is because of the wide selection of films for children plus the opportunity to see the very same film just a few weeks later on video.
When I was growing up (early-mid 70s), kid movies (and I mean movies aimed at the 5-9 set) were seemingly quite rare, unlike today, and going to the movies was not a weekly thing. I think this relative abundance of riches* has helped contribute to the attitude that going to the movies is no big deal, that all you’re doing is seeing the video before it comes out on video.
*We’ll leave suck-ass parents for another thread, howaboutit? But, truth be told, I NEVER was allowed to go to the movies unsupervised until I was 10 or so, which doesn’t seem to be the case today.
I think, for kids, seeing a movie is like playtime, and it’s better enjoyed with someone. Every time I’m at a kids’ movie, there are kids talking and laughing and generally having a good time during the movie. The kids are responding to what’s happening on the screen. It doesn’t get too loud, but it’s never quiet. That is why I don’t think it’s so horrible for a little girl to make comments once in a while during a movie.
I still prefer no talking during a movie. OTOH, I have been shushed from across a mostly empty theater when someone else whispered something to me during a movie. It wasn’t even during a suspense-filled moment, nothing vital was going on. There is such a thing as being too sensitive.
thi6
When I was a kid, which wasn’t too long ago since I’m only 20, my parents would take me to the movies quite a bit, at least once a month. I never talked during the movie and would even shush my parents if one of them made a comment. When the movie was over, I would not move from my seat until all the credits were over, and my parents were not allowed to move either. I am not quite that obsessive anymore; I will leave before the credits are over. I still hate it when people talk during movies though. I’ve just been a movie buff from a very early age. When I went to see Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets for the third time, a group of kids that would not shut up sat behind me, and one of them kept kicking my chair. Really fucking annoying. The parents would tell them to stop or shut up once, and then they would say nothing for about 20 minutes, while the kids talked and threw popcorn at each other. I just don’t understand, but I’ve yet to meet anyone who loves movies as much as I do. shrug
[slight hijack]
Last night we went to see The Two Towers. There were six people in the theater and we were all there to actually see the movie – oh joy!
Anyway, in the middle of the previews they ran the “no talking, turn off your phones, pick up your trash” clip. This one was so hilarious I nearly peed my pants! It showed a theater filled with various types of Barbie-like dolls, with “placards” similar to the ones used in silent movies between each segment and a voice-over to match:
“Please don’t talk during the movie”: Cut to a hand coming down from above and yanking one of the dolls out of her seat.
“No Smoking”: Two dolls shown holding regular-size cigarettes (the length of their arms); cut to a fire hose coming at them from the aisle and blasting them out of their seats.
“Turn off your cell phones”: A doll using a full-size cell phone “saying” “Oh, yeah, I can talk, not much going on, blah, blah”; giant electrical device comes down and fries her BZZZT – we see smoke, flames, her skeleton.
“Please pick up your trash”: Entire theater full of dolls shown sitting in popcorn up to their necks; big shop-vac hose comes down and vacuums up the offender, head first.
My description may not have done it justice, but we were laughing our asses off. Made me think of “Mr. Bill.” Has anyone else seen this one?
[/slight hijack]
I’m sorry, I just don’t think what you said was so funny that someone would need to leave the theater for a few minutes because they were laughing so hard.
Tell that science advisor to explain which parts of the lightning hitting the colleseum and causing it to explode like the death star are pretty darn accurate.
haha
So, in the great internet tradition of believing that people with higher post counts have, somehow, more “weightier” voices, lets see what the SDMB thinks by adding up the posts of the respondants:
- Was I being rude?
Yes - 8,552.
No - 27,486
Doesn’t matter = 1,739.
The no’s have it. Whew!
- Was the line funny?
Yes - 3,145
No - 1,105 (DiffT, the person leaving was my spouse - obviously, her standards are going to be lower. 
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Despite the positive reaction, I’ll likely still keep my day job.
Tars, I posted a link to where he hangs. I think he’s got an email. Go over, ask him yourself, invite him here, he’s a cool guy, I think. A heck of a suspense DM, at least.
Seriously. I’ve not seen the trailer, or I’d have done it myself. I don’t go to movies much… can’t stand theaters.