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Question: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Option 1: The Cost of tickets votes: 7
Option 2: Cell Phones ringing votes: 2
Option 3: Commercials before the movie votes: 10
Option 4: Cost of food at theatre votes: 1
Option 5: People talking votes: 9
Option 6: People kicking your seat votes: 2
Option 7: Babies Crying votes: 2
Title: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: MURP on August 11, 2005, 01:25:20 PM
 :deion
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: PhillyGirl on August 11, 2005, 01:27:58 PM
Tie between people talking and cell phones. Both are so incredibly irresponsible and disrespectful.
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: General_Failure on August 11, 2005, 01:29:08 PM
Commercials. People can be knocked out, babies duct taped, and tickets aren't too bad. But for farg's sake get the movie going already.
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: rjs246 on August 11, 2005, 01:47:10 PM
Hands down, the cost of tickets. Soda for two and a movie is like $25. Give me a break.
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: PhillyPhanInDC on August 11, 2005, 02:05:50 PM
Quote from: rjs246 on August 11, 2005, 01:47:10 PM
Hands down, the cost of tickets. Soda for two and a movie is like $25. Give me a break.

I'll give you a farging break for $5.75. Would like some farging butter on that?  :deion
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: rjs246 on August 11, 2005, 02:21:59 PM
Quote from: PhillyPhaninDC on August 11, 2005, 02:05:50 PM
Quote from: rjs246 on August 11, 2005, 01:47:10 PM
Hands down, the cost of tickets. Soda for two and a movie is like $25. Give me a break.

I'll give you a farging break for $5.75. Would like some farging butter on that?  :deion

Would you like to eat the corn out of my turds? Well good luck! Like I eat vegetable. Pffft.
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: Sgt PSN on August 11, 2005, 03:14:41 PM
I went with commercials but I'm going to expand on that one.  Because it's not even the commercials that really bother me.  They help pass the time while I'm waiting for the movie to start.  What I absolutely hate about going to the movies is that stupid little AMC film strip figure they have running around on the screen before they actually start the movie.  I hate that little rat bastich and every time he starts galloping across the screen I just want to rip his stupid little film strip arms off him and beat him relentlessly.  ARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!  I hate that gay little biatch!  :boom
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: General_Failure on August 11, 2005, 03:34:10 PM
Don't mention that to anyone when you try to get your kids back.
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: Wingspan on August 11, 2005, 04:25:02 PM
i actually havent heard a cell phone in the movies in about 2 years i think.

you forgot one option...THE MOVIES SUCK AND ARE UNORIGINAL PEICES OF HORSE CRAP

AMC theaters still run a matinee price. and my (wife in 48 hours) has a student ID... :yay
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: MURP on August 11, 2005, 04:44:16 PM
Quote from: Wingspan on August 11, 2005, 04:25:02 PM


you forgot one option...THE MOVIES SUCK AND ARE UNORIGINAL PEICES OF HORSE CRAP


thats your own fault for going to the gay ones. ;)   of the last 4 flicks I went to see, i enjoyed 3 of em. Devils Rejects, Wedding Crashers, Cinderella Man..... the one I didnt care for, War of the Worlds, was just an effects flick anyway which is best viewed on the big screen. 
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: rjs246 on August 11, 2005, 04:46:19 PM
TV sucks. Movies are awesome. Except when they suck. Which is often.
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: Sgt PSN on August 11, 2005, 07:09:46 PM
Quote from: General_Failure on August 11, 2005, 03:34:10 PM
Don't mention that to anyone when you try to get your kids back.

:-D Funny thing is, my daughter hates him too.  I flew to Seattle for a few days after I finished recruiters school back in March and took her to see Robots.  After that little film strip homo got done doing his thing she tapped me on the arm and said "Dad, what was that?" and I said it was some movie film that was supposed to be shaped like a person.  She said "Oh.  That's kind of stupid."  I damn near dropped my soda.  :-D
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: Diomedes on August 11, 2005, 10:35:55 PM
I voted babies, pecause that was the closest I could answer to register a vote for "other people."  I can't stand the people.
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: QB Eagles on August 11, 2005, 11:14:35 PM
Cell phones ringing is bad, but things can get a lot worse. People answering the cell phones, chatting, raising up their phone to take pictures....

Babies are okay. Loud whining and taking a dump right in the theater are legitimate responses to some of the films out there lately.

Dio nailed the basic problem. People are inconsiderate idiots, and in a large crowd, chances are excellent that at least one person around you will find a way to remind you of that fact multiple times during the movie. As a result, I usually only go to movies when they have been out so long that most people don't even think they are out anymore. When there's like 10 people spread around the theater, it's a tolerable place. I think the last time I got roped into going to a packed theater, it was for Passion of the Christ. Some ugly fat teenagers were making out in front of me the whole time. The film had scenes that were cringe-worthy enough, without the added spectacle of those behemoths sucking face a couple feet from my eyeballs.
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: hunt on August 12, 2005, 12:40:27 PM
it's hell getting all that butter off my unit.
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: Rome on August 12, 2005, 12:55:32 PM
Commercials.  It's bad enough you have to sit thru previews but now you als have to sit thru fricken ads too.

Annoying.

:boo
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: Diomedes on August 12, 2005, 01:17:28 PM
Quote from: T.O._81_RIP on August 12, 2005, 12:55:32 PM
Commercials. It's bad enough you have to sit thru previews but now you als have to sit thru fricken ads too.

Annoying.

Ain't that grand?  You pay a small ransom to take your old lady out for a movie--$35 easy with refreshments--and then they make you watch ads. 

So lemme get this straight:  I pay money to watch ads? 

That's farged up.  I boo them.  People actually get pissed at me for booing the ads.  Sheep.
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: hunt on August 12, 2005, 01:21:24 PM
yeah, the commercials piss me off too...and they cause the movie to start 1/2 later than scheduled.

damn capitalist pigs!
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: mussa on August 12, 2005, 02:21:32 PM
those fargkkin commercials are getting out of hand.  id have to say people talking close second.  when i lived in philly, people would alwys be making comments and opening their worthless traps.  fargin ignorant.  since moving back to lanc, not a problem. 
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: Mad-Lad on August 12, 2005, 02:44:40 PM
cell phones don't go off as often as in the past thanks to the commercials they run before the movies.  its the douchebags that constantly yap during the flick that piss me off.
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: QB Eagles on August 12, 2005, 06:38:33 PM
I'm moving to Pittsburgh in a little less than a month. I noticed there's an enormous Loews Cineplex right by my new place that advertises the legitimate start time of the movies, in addition to the traditional method. The revolution is coming. :evil

By the way, if I ran a theater chain I'd either block out or jam cell phone signals at each screen. Of course, then someone would have a heart attack or something and try to call 911, and I'd end up getting sued.
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: rjs246 on August 14, 2005, 10:12:38 AM
Quote from: mhunt on August 12, 2005, 12:40:27 PM
it's hell getting all that butter off my unit.

Apparently no one has anything to say about this post. I thought it was rather hilarious.
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: MadMarchHare on August 16, 2005, 12:41:39 PM
What can you add to that?!
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: satoshi on August 17, 2005, 06:10:50 AM
Quote from: General_Failure on August 11, 2005, 01:29:08 PM
Commercials. People can be knocked out, babies duct taped, and tickets aren't too bad. But for farg's sake get the movie going already.

Just go to your seat 5 minute later. Maybe 10 minutes.
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: MURP on August 17, 2005, 09:09:36 AM
by that time your stuck in the front row. 
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: satoshi on August 17, 2005, 09:39:27 AM
Well, I almost always reserve my seat via internet. 8)
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: MURP on August 17, 2005, 09:53:19 AM
hmmm, I've never been to a movie theatre in the US where your ticket reserves a particular seat.   This is in Japan your talking about?
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: PhillyGirl on August 17, 2005, 09:53:43 AM
Quote from: MURP on August 17, 2005, 09:53:19 AM
hmmm, I've never been to a movie theatre in the US where your ticket reserves a particular seat.   This is in Japan your talking about?

Good question, I'd like to find the theaters here that do that!
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: Sgt PSN on August 17, 2005, 07:55:17 PM
Slow down speedy.  Focus on finding a theater with booster seats first.  ;)
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: satoshi on August 17, 2005, 10:25:33 PM
Yeah, there are not many theaters that reserve seats though. Especially around Tokyo. My hometown theater has the system. I live in Kobe now and some theaters have the same system. However, tons of people in Tokyo always make a line and it's really gross to join.
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: Zanshin on August 18, 2005, 09:09:02 AM
So, you're out of New Orleans for good?
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: satoshi on August 18, 2005, 09:21:50 AM
Quote from: Zanshin on August 18, 2005, 09:09:02 AM
So, you're out of New Orleans for good?

I left there for a long, long time ago. Now I work for the government.
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: Zanshin on August 18, 2005, 09:48:58 AM
You're a spy.  I knew it.
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: thrillhouse on August 18, 2005, 12:01:58 PM
 I always manage to sit next to that one person that feels the need to scream "The killers in the closet!Dont go in there!"
therefore, talking annoys me.
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: Tomahawk on August 18, 2005, 01:56:09 PM
Quote from: thrillhouse on August 18, 2005, 12:01:58 PM
I always manage to sit next to that one person that feels the need to scream "The killers in the closet!Dont go in there!"
therefore, talking annoys me.

If the offending person is directly to your right, you should scream, "Right Turn, Clyde" then bunch the offender in his jabberjaw. If he's on your left, scream "Left Turn, Clyde."
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: hbionic on August 18, 2005, 02:19:32 PM
Anyone else think sticky seats are a bit annoying?
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: Tomahawk on August 18, 2005, 02:29:16 PM
Quote from: hbionic on August 18, 2005, 02:19:32 PM
Anyone else think sticky seats are a bit annoying?

Nobody other than you goes to gay men XXX movies.
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: satoshi on August 18, 2005, 09:25:27 PM
Quote from: Zanshin on August 18, 2005, 09:48:58 AM
You're a spy.  I knew it.

lol. Actually, I work for the Ministry of Finance (MOF). :paranoid
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: satoshi on August 18, 2005, 09:28:29 PM
Quote from: Tomahawk on August 18, 2005, 02:29:16 PM
Quote from: hbionic on August 18, 2005, 02:19:32 PM
Anyone else think sticky seats are a bit annoying?

Nobody other than you goes to gay men XXX movies.

You can check those out at http://www.hbionic.xxx.
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: General_Failure on August 18, 2005, 09:50:21 PM
Quote from: Satoshi on August 18, 2005, 09:25:27 PM
Quote from: Zanshin on August 18, 2005, 09:48:58 AM
You're a spy.  I knew it.

lol. Actually, I work for the Ministry of Finance (MOF). :paranoid

You're like my long lost Japanese brother or something.
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: Zanshin on August 18, 2005, 10:07:13 PM
He's just like you, only he can eat way more hot dogs.
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: satoshi on August 18, 2005, 10:10:09 PM
Am I lost? hehe.
I really hate that my computers in the work place don't have the internet. 1 out of 40 computers have one. Not much time to spend online. I'm now on summer vacation which lasts two more days.

Our government sucks.
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: Diomedes on August 18, 2005, 11:45:42 PM
Quote from: Satoshi on August 18, 2005, 10:10:09 PM
Our government sucks.

Yours too, huh?
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: satoshi on August 19, 2005, 07:56:36 AM
Quote from: Zanshin on August 18, 2005, 10:07:13 PM
He's just like you, only he can eat way more hot dogs.

Cheesesteaks must be better.
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: satoshi on August 19, 2005, 07:58:25 AM
Quote from: Diomedes on August 18, 2005, 11:45:42 PM
Quote from: Satoshi on August 18, 2005, 10:10:09 PM
Our government sucks.

Yours too, huh?

Yep, I don't think we are paid enough. They are trying to cut our salary every year.
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: Sgt PSN on August 19, 2005, 08:02:12 AM
Quote from: Satoshi on August 19, 2005, 07:58:25 AM
Quote from: Diomedes on August 18, 2005, 11:45:42 PM
Quote from: Satoshi on August 18, 2005, 10:10:09 PM
Our government sucks.

Yours too, huh?

Yep, I don't think we are paid enough. They are trying to cut our salary every year.

You could always threaten to hold out and go on tv complaining about how you can't feed your family.  :paranoid
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: satoshi on August 19, 2005, 08:07:43 AM
Quote from: SSgt PSN on August 19, 2005, 08:02:12 AM
You could always threaten to hold out and go on tv complaining about how you can't feed your family.  :paranoid

Good point, but we government officers are not allowed to hold out in any case. Is that possible in the US?
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: Zanshin on August 19, 2005, 08:39:45 AM
Only for T.O.
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: satoshi on August 19, 2005, 08:54:26 AM
Quote from: Zanshin on August 19, 2005, 08:39:45 AM
Only for T.O.

Tyron Olivo is nothing with the government, man.
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: henchmanUK on August 19, 2005, 09:09:46 AM
Quote from: Satoshi on August 17, 2005, 10:25:33 PMI live in Kobe now

I bet he loves it, the whiny Laker biatch. P.S. Tadahito Iguchi rules. Mr. Zero kind of sucks now though.
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: henchmanUK on August 19, 2005, 09:10:40 AM
They have mother and baby matinees at cinemas over here. Christ, all those screaming babies. Pure hell.
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: Zanshin on August 19, 2005, 09:13:08 AM
I can't believe that people would be dumb enough to bring a baby/toddler to the movies.  Shoot, I can't get my kid to sit down for two minutes, let alone two hours.
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: satoshi on August 19, 2005, 09:19:58 AM
What's the point of bringing babies to a theater? Just get a babysitter.
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: henchmanUK on August 19, 2005, 09:23:27 AM
Quote from: Satoshi on August 19, 2005, 09:19:58 AM
What's the point of bringing babies to a theater? Just get a babysitter.

Exactly. But if a load of mums want to bring their kids to the cinema, fair enough if it's a special showing.
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: General_Failure on August 19, 2005, 02:37:55 PM
Quote from: Satoshi on August 19, 2005, 07:58:25 AM
Quote from: Diomedes on August 18, 2005, 11:45:42 PM
Quote from: Satoshi on August 18, 2005, 10:10:09 PM
Our government sucks.

Yours too, huh?

Yep, I don't think we are paid enough. They are trying to cut our salary every year.

It's like you're living my life, but in Japanese.
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: satoshi on August 19, 2005, 09:32:16 PM
If they continue to cut salary, no young good guys come in. They still didn't notice this. I might work for Toyota.
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: QB Eagles on August 20, 2005, 09:48:19 AM
Quote from: Satoshi on August 18, 2005, 09:28:29 PM
Quote from: Tomahawk on August 18, 2005, 02:29:16 PM
Quote from: hbionic on August 18, 2005, 02:19:32 PM
Anyone else think sticky seats are a bit annoying?

Nobody other than you goes to gay men XXX movies.

You can check those out at http://www.hbionic.xxx.

:-D
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: FreakisaKearseWord on August 22, 2005, 11:20:46 PM
I actually like the previews O-o. But it was a tie between people talking and people kicking your seat. I just hate people, sometimes I wait until the last day the movie's in theaters and then go, just because noone else is there.
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: Wingspan on September 01, 2005, 10:51:46 AM
Quote from: QB Eagles on August 12, 2005, 06:38:33 PM
I'm moving to Pittsburgh in a little less than a month. I noticed there's an enormous Loews Cineplex right by my new place that advertises the legitimate start time of the movies, in addition to the traditional method. The revolution is coming. :evil

By the way, if I ran a theater chain I'd either block out or jam cell phone signals at each screen. Of course, then someone would have a heart attack or something and try to call 911, and I'd end up getting sued.

is that loews right next to a target? along the river? you must be moving to the shadyside/squirell hill/greenfield area of the city.

if thats the place, there's a bar called Silky's on Murray Ave in Squirell hill (next to barnes and noble i believe) that gets a pretty nice eagles crowd every week. i lived there for 2 years and was there every sunday.
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: SD_Eagle5 on September 04, 2005, 11:36:34 PM
I hate the people who show up late to the movie or while the previews are rolling, then procede to walk up and down every isle asking "are those seats taken?"  :boom
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: MDS on September 05, 2005, 01:47:08 PM
How 'bout most of the choices blow as an option? Who the farg wants to see The Island or Stealth?
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: QB Eagles on September 08, 2005, 04:50:34 PM
Quote from: Wingspan on September 01, 2005, 10:51:46 AM
if thats the place, there's a bar called Silky's on Murray Ave in Squirell hill (next to barnes and noble i believe) that gets a pretty nice eagles crowd every week. i lived there for 2 years and was there every sunday.

Thanks for the heads up. I've made the move and finding an Eagles bar is my next order of business. :cfhead
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: Wingspan on September 08, 2005, 04:54:54 PM
they arent an "eagles bar" but they have (or had) sunday ticket with about 8 TVs going each week.
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: QB Eagles on September 08, 2005, 04:58:28 PM
Yeah, won't find a true Eagles bar in Stiller country but a healthy contingent is good enough. That's what I meant.
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: ice grillin you on November 08, 2006, 05:06:53 PM
the last few times ive gone to the movies ive tried to bring in my doggie bag from dinner and the bastiches wouldnt let me....im like its a half a reuben and some soggy fries not ju ju bees popcorn and a coke...they actually made me bring it out to my car and come back in....fargfaces
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: MURP on November 08, 2006, 05:11:53 PM
you just didnt plan well.  have your girl put it in her purse, or put it under a coat.   Its not like they frisk at the theatre.
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: Wingspan on November 08, 2006, 05:13:37 PM
you've brought the same reuben to the movies the last three times you've gone?

Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: General_Failure on November 08, 2006, 06:12:28 PM
Igy luvs him sum reuben.
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: Tomahawk on November 08, 2006, 06:29:06 PM
link?
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: General_Failure on November 08, 2006, 06:30:35 PM
http://www.concretefield.com/forum/index.php?topic=15985.msg467184#msg467184
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: ice grillin you on November 08, 2006, 07:47:15 PM
you just didnt plan well.  have your girl put it in her purse, or put it under a coat.   Its not like they frisk at the theatre.

i didnt not plan well i didnt plan at all as ive never had a problem with that
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: Sgt PSN on November 08, 2006, 08:35:10 PM
So you've walked into a movie theater with food before and never been hassled?  If that's the case, I'm surprised that no one's ever said anything to you before. 
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: ice grillin you on November 08, 2006, 09:34:21 PM
leftover food from dinner?

ive done it a thousand times and never had a problem


candy popcorn soda or anything that screams im bringing this in to eat during the movie i would obviously hide and can understand them not allowing it...but a styrofoam container inside a tied plastic bag...come on
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: phattymatty on November 09, 2006, 12:06:41 PM
i brought a beef and cheddar and some curly fries into the movies last week.
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: Geowhizzer on November 09, 2006, 06:08:40 PM
What bugs me about movies nowadays is, after forking over $9 per ticket, you have to sit through 10 minutes of commercials before the previews start.
Title: Re: What do you dislike the most about going to the movies?
Post by: Sgt PSN on November 09, 2006, 06:44:38 PM
I hate that stupid little filmstrip motherfarger who dances around the screen before movies in AMC theaters.  Everytime I see that little bastich I wanna throw my 5 gallon coke at him.