The people next to me in the movie theater tonight were causing a commotion

The movie was CONCLAVE and the answer is BOOMERS. These old people ran a constant commentary on the movie. It's the kind of behavior I'd expect at the low-rent theater by my house. Instead, this was an upper class part of town. They never shut up! I wanted to murder them.

R1 What race were they. This better not be no EST.

Ugh what fucking bastards

You should have given those boomers a piece of your mind OP

The candy wrappers and cell phones want a word with you, OP… 👇🏽

They were white-- and maybe kind of ethnic like myself. This is not a stealth racism post... It's a very overt anti-selfish boomer post.

I was guessing boomers and voted boomers but didn't want to say so because I'm GenX and, as everyone knows, we kiss boomer ass like no one else.

You've got the moves baby, they've got the motion

There are idiots of all generations who talk in movie theatres. Why didn’t you tell them to shut up? Or move your seat or get an usher? Any reason you just had to suck it up like a simp.

You go tell the usher and have them removed. Or is this in one of those fly over states?

You watched this movie in a -- gulp -- theater, OP?

I always wait 'til they show up in the usual places on the interwebs.

Um, how old are [bold]you?[/bold]

If they were boomers, you could have asked politely for them to be quiet and they would have apologized.

I hate the rudeness of people in theaters these days. The cell phones. The talking. I try to be tolerant of the noise of wrappers and popcorn because I know selling that stuff is how theaters survive. But people like me, boomers, seem increasingly oblivious. Is it early dementia, gummies, or treating a theater like their living room? I love film but I hate the distraction of the rude audiences, and find myself going to the theater less because of it. I suspect I am not an isolated case.

[quote]If they were boomers, you could have asked politely for them to be quiet and they would have apologized.

LOL no. Boomers live by the Narcissist's Prayer:

That didn't happen. And if it did, it wasn't that bad. And if it was, that's not a big deal. And if it is, that's not my fault. And if it was, I didn't mean it. And if I did, you deserved it.

Clearly it was Brenda from Scary Movie.

[quote]They were white-- and maybe kind of ethnic like me

Everyone has an ethnicity therefore it is redundant to refer to any person as ethnic—we’re all “ethnic”.

Obviously, everyone has an ethnicity. But "ethnic white* is a term that also has a specific meaning known to everyone on DL. Unless you're simpleminded and don't understand words can have multiple meanings.

I'll usually wait a week to go see a movie and then go to the 10:30 PM showing, never on a Friday or Saturday. It only takes one obnoxious shithead to ruin a movie and you'll usually get one with more than ten audience members. Groups of teenagers are the worst, in my experience. I love to whole movie theater experience so you have my sympathy, OP.

This is why I don't go to the movies anymore - people no longer behave.

I was just going to post something similar R18. There is no reason why I would ever got to a movie theatre again in my entire life. People from all age groups stopped knowing how to behave in public from about the year 2000 onwards and it's gotten worse and worse. Now only total trash go to the movies. That's why theatres are going out of business.

"Do you mind being quiet, your behaviour is disrupting all the other people who paid for a ticket".

I have a boomer aunt who goes to the movies with my boomer dad sometimes and she constantly texts during movies

My dad will scold her to put it away but 2 mins later she'll have it out again

That’s what you get OP for going to see that Catholic bullshit.

You’re lucky you weren’t molested!

I don’t go the movies often but have found audiences to be fine, No texting, talking etc. Maybe go see better movies.

OP is posting from 1987.

All of them. All ages are clueless,Iliterit, discourteous, ignorant, and mostly just waiting for someone to make them lose it.

[quote] All ages are clueless,Iliterit

Oh, fucking dear.

Speaking of ILLITERATE.....

[quote] What race were they. This better not be no EST.—Prince-Akeem

Shitface, your entire existence is an EST.

[quote]"Do you mind being quiet, your behaviour is disrupting all the other people who paid for a ticket".

And get shot.

Ha, “phone rang” and “candy wrappers” were the giveaways. Gen Z and Millennial trash (and there’s some trash in each generation) would be texting and they probably wouldn’t be fiddling with individually wrapped candies.

Someone saw the latest episode of Elsbeth.

[quote]Someone saw the latest episode of Elsbeth.

No. The latest episode was about billionaires who want to be space cadets. It was the first episode of the new season (with Nathan Lane) that featured the "I'll kill them for being rude in the theater" storyline.

Nobody, but NOBODY talks more in a theater than black folk.

They probably have early stage dementia and thought they were in their living room.

R14 You want some chicken?

[Quote] [R1] What race were they. This better not be no EST.

Look at Defacto — the first thing he wants to do is make it about race.

OP - I didn't realize that porn theaters showing loops was still a thing.

R35 was just talking about it on another thread. Your stank cunt ass keep calling me defacto.

If the shoe fits, fat snout.

R38 They say you hopeless like a penny with a hole in it.

voted boomers, they have the least control over technology

I quit going to movies in the late 90s. Cell phones, slurping sodas, digging in popcorn buckets, screaming kids, all of it drove me nuts. I prefer the privacy of my living room and ability to pause the movie for bathroom breaks. However, this thread seems to just be another childish attack in boomers. All age groups act like cretinous assholes these days and the millennials are the worst as far as I'm concerned. Born with electronics already in their faces they can't put them down long enough for politeness.

Several months ago I went to see The Taste of Things, and it was a Boomer couple who talked throughout and kept pulling out their phones. I’ve since gone to movies targeted toward younger generations, and there have rarely been issues.

OP was the theater packed? Otherwise, couldn't you have just moved to another section of the theater? Did anyone else seem to be bothered by the commotion?

I was also at CONCLAVE yesterday and bought myself a nice little bag of KitKats to enjoy during the film. But the damned bag was impossible to open quietly so I put them away.

Perhaps Boomers this time but usually it's over excited kids. Especially nerdy kids or theater kids who don't get out much and are so proud to be out with friends they just can't contain themselves. Part exuberance. Part showing off. Our theater is 21 and up after 5pm. No children whatsoever. They serve cocktails and pub food to your seat. Tickets cost a bit more so it keeps the riff raff out.

[quote] The movie was CONCLAVE and the answer is BOOMERS.

Protestant boomers.

R42 at the gym people of all ages are sitting on the equipment looking at their phones constantly. I agree this thread seems like an attack on boomers or otherwise the OP lacks the balls to say something or move away from the 'commotion'

Assholes come in all ages.

The best time to go to the movies is on a weekday afternoon, if you can manage it. At that time it's mostly older people who are quiet and know how to behave in a public place..

[quote] At that time it's mostly older people who are quiet

Until EMT shows up to resuscitate them.

[quote] at the gym people of all ages are sitting on the equipment looking at their phones constantly.

I see this constantly at the gym, and yes it's people of all ages. Lots of Gen Zers, even. Just sitting there looking at their phones and not working out. Why even bother going to the gym?

OP- Why would anyone bother going to a movie theater anyway.

I voted "boomers." Four of my boomer friends have absolutely no manners when it comes to using their digital devices in public. One was actually shouting into his phone when we were out for dinner a couple of weeks ago. And since he was so oblivious, I'm the one who got all the dirty looks.

[Quote] [R38] They say you hopeless like a penny with a hole in it.

Boomers, making noise in a theater about the Catholic Church?

Post Vatican II, white people who should have been complaining about their contributions going to bail out pedophiles.

So, how the movie, Op?

what the hell is EST.

The local "arthouse" theater where I live has started showing a new "be polite" trailer before showings. It's fucked up because they don't really instruct patrons clearly "Do Not Talk" and "Do Not Use Your Cellphone"- their message is "Limit talking to a minimum" and "No calling or texting". They're afraid of setting boundaries with the morons who think that talking at what they think is a low volume or surfing the internet silently on their phone (which drives me crazy to see a consistent burst of light to the side of my eyeline) is OK.

I have sometimes confronted people in the past either by telling them to be quiet or giving them death stares. It usually doesn't work (because assholes being assholes)... Has anyone ever gone the usher (good luck finding one) or ticket booth route? What happened? I would consider doing this but I don't think it would work (and after interrupting the movie I paid to see).

R52 - not OP, but a gen X movie nerd who almost always goes to a theater. Most films are designed to be viewed on a huge screen and the experience is better if you see them that way. Also, a properly behaved audience can add to that experience. There are endless popular and academic articles about the experience of us “collectively dreaming, awake in the dark”

The problems today are, as stated, many people no longer know how to behave in a theater - this now routinely happens at Broadway shows as well. And at concerts now there are so many small bright screens in view between you and the performers it is ridiculous — all for bad quality videos that nobody ever actually watches.

I also find the new led bulbs, or perhaps different fire code regulations, have caused the row end lights and exit signs to now be distractingly bright. I was at a packed screening of Megalopolis last weekend where everyone was well behaved, but the guy next to me had an Apple Watch that kept catching my eye - he wasn’t doing anything other than shifting in his seat — but we now live in a Blade Runner world full of bright vibrant distractions.

Megalopolis is a movie that should definitely be seen on a big screen and with a good audience — that doesn’t solve the film’s many issues, but it does at least make it an “interesting” experience.

R59 I believe your observation is correct. Last night I saw "Conclave" at the AMC and the red side aisle lights were almost as bad as a cell phone. And I agree with you about the collective group experience. I remember many years ago when attending the first weekend of "Brokeback Mountain" feeling the powerful impact of a fully packed house intensely invested in what was happening on the screen.

[quote] I was at a packed screening of Megalopolis last weekend

If your story weren't so dull, I would accuse you of making it up just because of this sentence.

[quote] I remember many years ago when attending the first weekend of "Brokeback Mountain" feeling the powerful impact of a fully packed house intensely invested in what was happening on the screen.

I had some high school girl sitting next to me fucking with her phone for two hours. I didn't go to another theater until the end run of Manchester by the Sea in 2017. The crowd was much more bearable. I don't go very often now. The volume of the commercials and previews, and the amount of time devoted to them, make for a misery-inducing experience.

What race were they

This is true, here if you go to a movie with a bunch of black folks, get over it, candy wrappers, slurping drinks, interjections loud ones, kids, constant moving around etc. It is what it is, like going to Chuck E Cheese or Cicis and complaining about kids.

I feel like the whole black people talk during the movies thing is an outdated stereotype. I don’t know, I was born in the 80s, it just seems so 70s and New York too. I’m black. I been in plenty of all black screenings in the south, in PG county and people weren’t talking all throughout the film. Now black people will give good commentary during a horror or maybe even comedy when it’s necessary lol. “Like get fuck outta here”.

I got my money back from a theatre near Dupont Circle, Teacake, when I saw one of the Lethal Weapons. Black people couldn't shut up. One even played his radio. I was so outa there.

[quote] "Do you mind being quiet, your behaviour is disrupting all the other people who paid for a ticket".

[quote] And get shot.

Thank you-- that's exactly why I didn't say anything. When I was in graduate school 25 years ago, I asked people to be quiet, and the man threatened to punch me in the face. I went to get the usher, and when they saw how big he was, they refused to intervene.

I don't really care to go to the movies, but my partner likes going. We go about once a month and have never had any problems. I thought this was a MADE FOR DL situation since the offenders were OLD WHITE PEOPLE and not Gen X, ethnic, etc.

R65 🤣. I don’t doubt you. That’s because you city white folk be going to the movies IN THE CITY with them projectish blacks. Sorry not sorry. Sike na I shouldn’t say that.

[quote] I was born in the 80s

Lie

[quote] I’m black.

Lie

[quote] I been in plenty of all black screenings in the south

Lie

[quote] —Prince-Akeem

Liar

[quote] 🤣. I don’t doubt you. That’s because you city white folk be going to the movies IN THE CITY with them projectish blacks. Sorry not sorry. Sike na I shouldn’t say that.—Prince-Akeem

If this isn't proof positive that you're a white man trolling the DL, pretending to be black, I don't know what is.

R69 It’s called a joke. You prudes want to make DL have a certain brand like you own the site. Kick rocks. I’m black.

Lie

Furthermore I grew up in NW DC during the 90s. I know exactly what that poster is talking about. Black people are classy as fuck. We are classier on average than white people. I can imagine that audience in my mind being 90% black, fresh to death classy as fuck. But all it takes is 10 ghetto bamas from Berry farms to ruin the show.

Maybe try going to movies during off-times, matinees, etc.

When I worked in restaurants, I had Sundays and Mondays off (as my "weekend"). At first, I hated it. Then, I started liking it. I would go to a movie, sometimes, during the day on Mondays.

I hope you gave them a good piece of your mind, OP, and told them what-for!

Thanks for letting us know how your movie-going experience was. We all worry about that so much.

[quote][R65] 🤣. I don’t doubt you. That’s because you city white folk be going to the movies IN THE CITY with them projectish blacks. Sorry not sorry.

Yeah, in the oh-nine zip code, where all the gays lived. You really are as stupid as you sound.

[quote]No. The latest episode was about billionaires who want to be space cadets. It was the first episode of the new season (with Nathan Lane) that featured the "I'll kill them for being rude in the theater" storyline.

As I haven't yet seen the second episode, the first was the latest to me.

R75 Were talking about the 90s my dear before DC became a gay Mecca. It was the murder capitol of the country. Granted DuPont prolly still had a sizeable gay population back then. Anyways I know my city.

I’m from DC. You hop your ass on the metro and go to the movies. Ain’t no movie theaters in southeast. At least not in the 90s.

[quote] Anyways I know my city.

Yeah, just like you know the "Jacob Javitz" Center.

R79 Damn right. Just didn’t know how to spell it. Ice skate Saturdays used to be lit.

Lies

[quote]Were talking about the 90s my dear before DC became a gay Mecca

Hahahahahahaha. Yeah, you [italic]really[/italic] know NW DC.

[quote] Damn right. Just didn’t know how to spell it. Ice skate Saturdays used to be lit.

Umm, sweetie, the Javits Center never had ice skating.

R83 you’re right. I’m thinking about Chelsea Piers. Jacob Javits center had the car shows. I used to live right there like a year after 9/11. High saddity aunt.

This is why I don't go to the movies anymore. I wait to watch the films at home. So what if I have to wait 2 months?

R82 Iono what that supposed to mean. I grew up in Takoma.

[quote] Maybe try going to movies during off-times, matinees, etc.

It was the matinee! Oddly enough, the theater was almost completely full.

My bad R26

[bold]Editor’s note: This article appeared in the September 1980 issue of The Washingtonian[/bold]

R89 - Is that a young Marion Barry?

Oh Karen- always bitching and griping. Just stay home and watch your soap operas.!!

R90 yes that’s him. I’ve never seen Marion Berry look like he smells cookies before. The editor of that article was a datalounger.

[quote]I’ve never seen Marion Berry look like he smells cookies before.

Well if you did it would be very strange since Marion Berry has been dead for years.

R93 ???????????????????? Yea a little over ten years. What is your point.

^^Go suck on your crack pipe and call it a night you fucking nuisance.

[quote] What is your point.—Prince-Akeem

That you're a moron.

R2, the resident race prowler.

Tell it there is snot on its lip.

I just don’t get what Marion Barry having died in 2014 has to do with my comment at r92. I’ve seen many pictures of him up until that point. He was the mayor for the majority of my childhood. I don’t get why certain posters always come for me and then act nasty when I respond. Like wtf? My comment at r92 should have made someone laugh. I don’t know if it was a “read” per se but wtf does him dying 10 years ago have to do with my lame joke. R93’s comment almost doesn’t make sense.

^^WOULD YOU JUST DIE

If you are wishing death upon an anonymous stranger online, you might want to re-examine life.

This must vary a lot by region. I'm in the PNW and see movies in theaters regularly. I rarely run into any of the problems so many other posters seem to be plagued by here.

R101 most definitely. These are mass generalizations but I find outside the northeast, people have better public etiquette when it comes to noise and stuff. Like even in Cali, people are more laid back and don’t talk so loud n shit in public. I’ve also been to Everette and Seattle.

[quote] If you are wishing death upon an anonymous stranger online, you might want to re-examine life.—Prince-Akeem

Piece of fetid shit, if you're on here 24/7 pretending to be a younger black man, you might want to take your own advice.

Defacto must have really done a number on y’all cause sone of yall be talking crazy to people. Like this cunt above, knowing damn well he wouldn’t talk that shit to my face or anybody’s face for that matter.

How could I, Teacunt? You don't exist.

I love Shake A Spear!