Something worse than teenagers in a theater...

[movieguy1021]

are old people in theaters. I have nothing against them, but often they can't seem to follow the plot and ask each other VERY LOUDLY who each character is and who they're related to...even when it's not very hard to do. Then I hear "That's his wife!" every few minutes. This happened to me today in Mystic River, and everyone around me were yelling at the to shut up. At least teenagers don't usually go into good movies, so they won't bother you there.

[bowieee]

I don't usually mind too much. A really cute situation happened the second time I saw kill Bill. This old man kept reading the subtitles to his wife swear words and all because she couldn't see that well. It made me feel all fuzzy inside because he was trying to do it in such a hushed way.

[Reigh Kaufman]

But old people tend to walk out really quickly. I've been at several screenings (Boogie, Nights, S.F.W, True Romance) where, not only have they walked out, but they have actively complained to the ushers/managers extremely loudly about the content, as though they have the power to stop US seeing something that they deem unfit for OUR consumption...

Plus, my mum's family run a chain of nursing homes and they keep adopting me, or worse, calling me their grandson 'James'... and getting misty-eyed if I even look like I'm going to correct them, thus ensuring that for hours and hours on end I have to listen to them witter on about THE GOOD OLD DAYS, and how I've ALWAYS BEEN A GOOD BOY...

Top Tip For Dealing With Old People: You know, you can punch them about the face and neck if you like...they never remember, and even if they did, they would say it was their grandson, a particularly rotten apple named James..

[Could Be Worse]

An old couple in front of me at a movie managed to ruin Insomnia and The Others for me. I was extremely pissed, and I "accidentally" spilled my soda down the seat. I felt guilty after, but come on, they were practiclly yelling the endings to the movies.....(bows head in shame.)

[Sad man]

Old people are horrible! They are annoying and yell all the time.

[Mrs. Wallace]

I know a little something about old people in a movie theatre. I work for a local radio station that sends tickets out to movie premieres, usually we send them to old people. Mainly, because that's all they do really and also old people love free shit.
Anyhow, when I work these premieres they can be very annoying, always asking for free shirts, loud, and sometimes rude. But then you get a old couple that remembers the last movie premiere you did, looked to see if you were at this one, and pinches your cheek and tells you how pretty they think you are. It kind of makes you feel all warm inside. Only for a minute though. because when the movie starts it's that same couple that's complaining about how cold it is in their LOUD whisper voice and how they forgot their sweaters at home.

[C-Desecration-]

At least teenagers don't usually go into good movies,


I know! I can't believe I watch shit like Requiem for a Dream, Mystic River (hey--you too!), Donnie Darko, Fight Club, gosh!
. . . wait a second . . .

Sorry, mini-rant inside of a rant. I'm the guy who quickly sticks up for any bad raps teens get.

Back to topic . . . I know many (the majority) of old people are pretty unhealthy (shame), but it's just one of my pet peeves, I guess: one of the only times I saw a movie alone (AI), there were old guys to both sides of me . . . sniffling, coughing, regergitating something, hacking--ugh. It was just really irritating.

[movieguy1021]

I'm not saying that teenagers don't see good movies (hell, I see quite a few with my friends and I'm 14), but the majority isn't interested in Lost in Translation, they're into The Rundown.

Also, one more thing I don't like about old people in movies is how there's so many seats and they always wind up sitting next to you.

[Frank the Tank]

When I went to see The TCM remake their were these 3 old ladies sitting behind me and they were screaming their lungs out everytime Leatherface or R. Lee Ermey appeared. I as ready to punch them after the 74th time.

[Cunning Visions]

Sometimes I think old people go to movies just to complain. Shouldn't they be at home doing what people their age should be doing...like preparing for death? :p

[Tagia_Romero]

Originally posted by bowieee
I don't usually mind too much. A really cute situation happened the second time I saw kill Bill. This old man kept reading the subtitles to his wife swear words and all because she couldn't see that well. It made me feel all fuzzy inside because he was trying to do it in such a hushed way.

That is quite sweet! :)

[Marshal Law]

Old people aren't always a problem. When I saw the re-release of the Exorcist, the theater was deserted except for me & my buddy, 2 old ladies a couple of rows behind us, and a rather large group of 13 or 14 year old girls sitting up near the back. The head spinning part came, the girls high-tailed it outta the theater squealing, with these old ladies LAUGHING THEIR ASSES OFF at the fleeing youths. They were as into the movie as much as I was. (my first time seeing it actually)

[Fulci_Fan]

I have never actually had a problem with fellow teenagers in movie theatres... What I have had trouble with is drunken twenty-something guys who come to the last showing in between bar hopping. Happened to me whilest watching Kill Bill Vol. 1. If there was anything sexual on the screen they would be hootin and hollering... Just trying to prove they are hetero... It was disgusting... Close up on Uma Thermon's toes..

"OH THAT'S NICE!!!!"

Uma Thermon walking away.

"ohh!!! YEAH LOOK AT THAT ASS!! WHOOO HOOO!!!"

That ruined the whole movie experience for me.. I was uber pissed. And when the wire fighting started they were like.

"Oh jesus now they start with the Matrix shit!"

Ugh, people suck.

[Michael_myers]

Jesus stop generalizing people. My grandparents are better to take to the movies than all of my friends and most of my relatives. Jesus. Also, I have more of a problem with the middle aged man and his wife talking about their current finances in the theatre.

[tbone]

All age groups have the ability to be annoying at the movies.

[Lynn Minmei]

I absolutely hate teenagers in movie theaters. Irony is so sweet.

[The Postmaster General]

60 minutes into PUNCH DRUNK LOVE, one elderly lady to another:

"Is it just me, or is this kind of weird."



Best one ever --

Towards the end of EYES WIDE SHUT, again, another elderly lady:

"I miss the nudity."



Classic!

[movieguy1021]

Originally posted by Michael_myers
Jesus stop generalizing people. My grandparents are better to take to the movies than all of my friends and most of my relatives. Jesus. Also, I have more of a problem with the middle aged man and his wife talking about their current finances in the theatre.

Is this better?: I find that many elderly people at movies have the tendency to be quite annoying, for they continously interrupt due to their decreasing hearing?

I don't have anything against old people, but I'm saying in general. It's like saying teenagers are annoying: most of them actually aren't (at least at the movies I see)

[Twisted Sister]

There is NOTHING - and I mean

GODDAMABSOLUTELYMUTHAFUCKINNUTHING

worse than teenagers in movie theaters.

[Reigh Kaufman]

Yes, there is, Twisted Sister: dead musicians from the last three centuries. I tried to tsk-tsk Mozart and some sniffy fucking acne-faced usher told me to be quiet because 'the maestro was decomposing'. Wankers to the fucking man, these people.

[Grebdron]

Old people piss me off.

Young people piss me off.

Loud people piss me off.

People piss me off.

I'm pissed.

Off.

[kopek45]

Old people's smell pisses me off. there is always an obnoxious bitch that screams during a horror movie "get the motha fucka". babies should never be allowed in theaters, but they are sneaked in anyhow and completely ruin the movie experience.

[James Logan]

Originally posted by Sad man
Old people are horrible! They are annoying and yell all the time.

That cracked me up...because I agree. :D

[Twisted Sister]

Originally posted by Reigh Kaufman
Yes, there is, Twisted Sister: dead musicians from the last three centuries. I tried to tsk-tsk Mozart and some sniffy fucking acne-faced usher told me to be quiet because 'the maestro was decomposing'. Wankers to the fucking man, these people.

LMAO!

[MarkItZero]

When I saw LOTR:FOTR for the first time in the theatre there was a very elderly couple sitting directly in front of me in a completely packed theatre. Apparently, the old gentleman couldnt see the screen very well, because his wife had to tell him the entire time what was going on. She would be like "ok, now there is a wizard and he is standing on the bridge fighting the monster........ok, now the wizard just fell down the pit". For the whole movie!!!

I would have been pissed, but I saw it three more times in the theatre. And I figure he was probably an old LOTR fan who was just as excited about the movie as I was.

[Twisted Sister]

Originally posted by MarkItZero
I would have been pissed, but I saw it three more times in the theatre. And I figure he was probably an old LOTR fan who was just as excited about the movie as I was.

I want a nice, understanding, strapping young lad like you to take care of me in 40 years.

[MarkItZero]

Originally posted by Twisted Sister
I want a nice, understanding, strapping young lad like you to take care of me in 40 years.

Its true, I am strapping!

[Unicron]

The worst is durring the school holidays when parents give thier little brats $50, knock yah selves out at the movies.

Last last year durring Jeepers Creepers, a whole bunch of shit-eating bo-gans (like red-necks) started screaming out "ohh this is some scary shit" and laughing throughout the movie. It got to the point some tough nut up the front yelled out
"if you dont shut the fuck up, im gonna knock some heads"

They were quiet for about 10min before they started up again.

The guy got up and started walking up the alise toward the ferals. They all got up and raced out the Exit at the back of the theater.

He got a cheer, and i got back to watching a crappy movie :p

[moviemuffin]

People can say what they want about kids. Teens can be a pain in the ass, but when they are they are usually the little snot nosed punks who are looking for attention. You nod to the manager, he boots them, it's over.

I find elderly people very often talk through movies, as has been pointed out. They tend to be at matinees in my area so I avoid seeing stuff they flock to at that time.

The worst, though? Middle aged women in groups, and you can spot the trouble crowd: they haven't gotten out in months, and they are all in a cluster speaking very animatedly about every frigging thing they have missed since January 1998.

They WILL be talking well after the trailers start.
They WILL comment loudly on each trailer.
They WILL whisper loudly throughout the feature.
They WILL get up to piss 42 times and never together.

[Cronos]

i hate old people,

when i saw Jurassic Park 3, there were this old couple and they kept saying what was happenning in the damn film, its so fucking annoying

this is one of the reasons i always wait for a film to nearly finish is run before seeing it, theres hardly anybody there

[BullockFan]

LOL! This thread reminds me of an older couple who was at the "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" last night. I couldn't imagine why they wanted to see the movie. lol They got up when it started to get nasty ... the woman was CRYING. I heard her talking from all the way at the back of the theatre ... "I can't watch this, it's so disguisting."

[The Delfonics]

Originally posted by bowieee
I don't usually mind too much. A really cute situation happened the second time I saw kill Bill. This old man kept reading the subtitles to his wife swear words and all because she couldn't see that well. It made me feel all fuzzy inside because he was trying to do it in such a hushed way.

I work in a theater and the same thing happened, perhaps you were there that day. An old couple read the subtitles during Kill Bill but it was kinda loud. Some people told me and sadly I had to tell them to hush. I had to go in and do it again cause I got another complaint.

[imkmk]

Originally posted by Cunning Visions
Sometimes I think old people go to movies just to complain. Shouldn't they be at home doing what people their age should be doing...like preparing for death? :p

Amen

Don't even get me started on old people and driving

[Lynn7]

The one thing I've learned is that old people don't care if they bother anyone. The same people that might have been insecure as teenagers, become terribly aggressive when they become old. My grandmother will talk out loud in the movies and I'll tell her "shh, there's other people watching" and she'lll say "I don't care!" she wasn't like this when she was younger!
I take her to the 5 pm shows now, when no one is there.

[Grebdron]

There IS nothing worse than teenagers.

Except toddlers.;)

[Jon Lyrik]

Originally posted by tbone
All age groups have the ability to be annoying at the movies.

tbone=The Man!

I've never had problems with elderly people in films, it's generally kids under 6 who can't shut up.

[MarkItZero]

Originally posted by Grebdron
There IS nothing worse than teenagers.

Except toddlers.;)

Greb wants everyone to stop bashing his fellow geezers!



:D

[blurofserenity]

Old people are just clueless it seems. Funny story, when I went and saw Unfaithful in the theater, I was sitting behind this old woman. When the credits started to roll at the end she says "Well I've seen about enough". Well no shit you did, I think everyone has! The fucking movie is over you fossil!

[bowieee]

Originally posted by The Delfonics
I work in a theater and the same thing happened, perhaps you were there that day. An old couple read the subtitles during Kill Bill but it was kinda loud. Some people told me and sadly I had to tell them to hush. I had to go in and do it again cause I got another complaint.

My case was in San Diego but that would have beeen sort of strange if it was the same coincidence.

[Dimension]

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[Grebdron]

Originally posted by Dimension
I can't believe how stereo-typical some people are. I'm a 17 and when I go to the cinema I sit down and shut the fuck up. I agree with an earlier post that a bunch of pissed 25 year olds, laughing hysterically throughout a film such as Kill Bill is a hell of a lot worse than a couple of teenagers sharing comments on the film.

When you people were teenagers I really hope you were taken the piss out of by older movie goers too..

Hey! I hate 20 somethings, too. All people, except me and my friends, are inconsiderate.

People are great...

For me to poop on.

[Jon Lyrik]

Originally posted by Grebdron
Hey! I hate 20 somethings, too. All people, except me and my friends, are inconsiderate.

People are great...

For me to poop on.

Stop generalizing me and the people! Don't hate every other six billion people.

:rolleyes:

[Grebdron]

Originally posted by Jon Lyrik
Stop generalizing me and the people! Don't hate every other six billion people.

:rolleyes:

What can I say? I'm a hater.

:rolleyes:

[sAtAn666]

This thread needs to be bumped...I can't stop laughing.:D

When I saw Matrix Reloaded, there was some old guy a few chairs down, and I think there was something wrong with him...he kept making weird noises like Ozzy trying to throw up in his sleep.:confused: I ignored him at first, but halfway through, when it was really quiet, he kept going, "Raaaraghurghaaa!" Amazingly, after the film, he got up and left quietly...

[Kastman]

Crying babies are really annoying, shut it up or kill it.

[AppleHuntr]

I work at a theater, and it doesnt get any worse than the "tween" crowd. We get the most complaints about them, and I've given up about being polite to them. Every employee there has snapped at them one time or another. The theater I work at is in a wealthier area and its all a buncha spoiled shits who pay for their twizzlers with a hundred dollar bill (true story). They revel in their brief independence from when their parents drop them off in the big SUV til when they get picked up. They scream, cackle, heckle and hug non stop. Its sickening. All of us swear we werent like that at that age.

I'm a teen and I'm pretty quiet during movies (ok, not so much during bad ones that are just asking me to make fun of). I feel like a prude but I've shushed my friends a few times.

only had one problem with drunken twenty somethings and that was during the first Scary Movie. "Ah! Hooters!"

Old people havent bothered me so much.

[jeo4]

My only negative experience with older people was when one of them got sick. The party left the theater and didn't return. They probably took the sick one home or to the doctor. Nothing else bad as far as old people go.

Young people, on the other hand, suck a big one. It happens every time I see a film now. At ATTACK OF THE CLONES, a teenager (15-16, somehwere in that range) sang along with the theme music and read the opening scroll out loud. I didn't even bother with an usher. I turned around and told him to shut the fuck up. He said "Okay!" rather startled that anyone would mouth off at him. My best friend laughed about it.

During SIGNS, there were a set of pre-teens (12, maybe 13) giggling and carrying on. I tried to be patient, but finally lost it and went off. My wife found an usher to shut them up before I hit the roof.

During RETURN OF THE KING, there was some teen/ twenty something a couple of rows ahead of me jabbering on a cell phone. The theater posts a slide show before the film telling people to be quiet and to turn off cell phones and pagers. Why the fuck did she not go outside if she wanted to talk on the phone?! You're wasting your $8 and mine too!
:mad:

Stupid parents that bring an infant or toddler to a theater (especially during an action or sci-fi/horror flick where the noise is often startling) shouldn't be parents. This isn't the place to have small children. If you can't find a sitter, then don't go out. Simple as that. I'm trying to watch the film, not listen to your baby scream bloody murder while you change it in the theater.

[Jess]

Ha. Old people.

That reminds me of the time when I went to go see Pearl Harbor in the theatres. It was just me and my bud relaxing in the very top row, "enjoying" the show when somewhere around the end, this old guy (walker and all) walks all the way up the stairs and ends up trying to pass by me and my friend. Now, at first, I didn't know what the fuck to do because he didn't say anything. All he did was walk up right next to me and then proceeded to breathe heavily. I thought he was having a heart attack!
But after standing next to me for some time, he finally said "Excuse me" and walked right by us. Then he stopped again, turned around and asked us where the exit was. So I replied "It's right there, where it says exit" and he continued on his way. When he was nearly 1/4 of the way down, the movie finished and everyone piled out. Frankly, I was weirded out but the question that still remains on my mind is why the hell was he there? Old people are weird. And I believe that the fogies should be retested for their licences after 65. But that's another rant...

[movieguy1021]

Originally posted by jeo4
Young people, on the other hand, suck a big one. It happens every time I see a film now. At ATTACK OF THE CLONES, a teenager (15-16, somehwere in that range) sang along with the theme music and read the opening scroll out loud. I didn't even bother with an usher. I turned around and told him to shut the fuck up. He said "Okay!" rather startled that anyone would mouth off at him. My best friend laughed about it.


When I saw ATTACK OF THE CLONES, my aunt and uncle wanted to see it too, so I saw it with them, including my cousins, who are 10 and 6. When the opening scroll came, my aunt read it to my little cousin, but at least she read it in a hushed tone.

[jeo4]

Hushed is okay when a little kid can't read. Blurting shit out loud enough for people to hear across the theater is just obnoxious.

[therealjohng]

Originally posted by Kastman
Crying babies are really annoying, shut it up or kill it.


Truer (sp?) words have never been spoken.

[Shakamaker]

Originally posted by therealjohng
Truer (sp?) words have never been spoken.

Truwah, john. Truwah.

I don't hate the lawn bowls set. I just wish they'd stop favouring cardigan vests, ruffled blouses, and off-white. Sure, some don't care how loud they are in the movie, but that's why god made con-artists with which to take their money! Teens? Sure, some are obnoxious, but that's why god gave us fists! Ever notice how easily they fit into trunks?

Old and loud? How's that colostomy bag treating ya?! Young, and stupid? Keep worrying whether or not it or they will ever grow some!

They may be annoying, but they've bigger problems than I!