Earlier this week I decided to become adventurous and I went out to catch a movie with a friend. Everything seemed to be going okay. We planned out our evening based around the movie time. I walked up to the ticket booth and cringed when I had to hand over my hard-earned cash. And we were the first people there so we got to choose our VIP seats. But then things went sour. Although the theater was empty, people decided to sit in the seats in front of us and right next to me. People walked in late. People decided to add commentary to the movie. The children were loud and annoying. It reminded me of why I hardly go to the movies.
So I feel it is my duty to educate the public on good movie theater etiquette.
- Don't talk to the people next to you. You may think that your "whispering" is quiet and no one will hear it but in fact you are actually talking in a "stage whisper" which means that MOST people can hear you! I did not want to hear you telling your date how your happy to be there with him. I don't care.
- Don't talk to the movie. The characters can't hear you. Your commentary to the film distracts from the film and it is not funny. If you were a great commentator you would have been paid to add commentary to the movie before it was released in theaters.
- Don't text. We don't care that you had the sudden urge to write something to someone, but we do care that the stupid light on your phone is blinding us. Everyone near you can sense, and see, the bright light. So just don't text.
- Don't look at your phone for any reason. Googling something, checking IMDB to see where you have seen that actor before, checking the time, writing a memo, or whatever it is you are doing, just don't do it. Again, we can see the bright light emanating from your phone.
- Put your phone on silent. You may be the most unpopular person in the world, but chances are, your phone will ring during the movie. Not only is your ringtone annoying but it also takes us away from the world of the movie. For the next two minutes we are silently cursing you in our minds and will most likely miss out on an important line in the movie.
- If you somehow managed to forget that you did not put your phone on silent and it starts ringing, then you should immediately turn it off. Don't, don't, don't ever answer it. If you must answer it then put it on silent and wait until you get outside the theater to answer it.
- If someone is sitting in front of you don't kick the chair. it is rude. Your lucky that I have the common decency to not turn around and punch you.
- If someone is sitting next to the chair in front of you, don't put your feet up on the chair in front of you. We don't want to smell your feet.
- Plan to get there on time. We all know that there will be a couple of minutes of previews but when you are tripping over people to get to a seat in the middle of the aisle, well you deserved to get "accidentally" tripped.
- Use the restroom and buy all your concessions before the movie starts. It is not your living room where you can get up at your convenience.
- No pda. We can hear that slurping sound. And we know it is not from an Icee.
- If you are going to bring children, please make sure they are courteous and old enough to not talk, not cry, and not disturb people around them.
- It is easy to just throw garbage on the floor while the movie is playing, but when it is done it would be nice to pick it up and throw it away.
- When there are multiple seats open in the theater don't sit in front of me. My friend and I were the only ones in the theater and we were resting our feet on top of the chairs in front of us. This couple had the audacity to not only sit in the two seats in front of us but they gave us dirty looks to move our feet. Really?! You couldn't sit anywhere else?
No comments:
Post a Comment