the one thing i hate about going to see horror movies...

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned that ever-growing segment of the movie-going population who not only leave their ringers on, but answer and converse LOUDLY during the movie. That's high on my list.

Also up there are these trailer- or ghetto-trash parents who bring their infants/toddlers/small children to R-rated movies. The kids invariably talk, yell, cry, run around, and generally make a nuisance of themselves.

In the town where I grew up, an enlightened theater chain began a policy that would not allow parents to bring children under a certain age (six, I think) into PG-13 or R-rated movies starting after 6PM. I'm not a bit surprised that this isn't a more widely practiced policy, as most theaters couldn't bear the loss of $50 or so by turning away such a client.

I hate kids who bring laser pointers to the movies

so was the popcorn good.....

i hate how a SMALL popcorn cost $4.00... what a rip off...

SAW was different! liked the little clown guy on his tricycle

I usually bring candy there, and only buy nacho's and a soda

where i went you buy a mediem popcorn and regular coke for bout $6.40 ($3.20ish US), the drink was that "powdered add water stuff" which was weak, but the popcorn was decent, lasted about half hour, which was pretty good.

and yeah, i make sure my mobile phones not on, not even silent, they're still annoying as **** going off. have you seen people throwing popcorn and shit at the screen. i want to hurt them

Yup I can all be dead annoying sometimes and it makes me sick, but one thing I really hate is stupit girls SCREAMING!!!! all the time, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA OMG did he kill him? AAAAAAAAAAAAAA NO DON'T DO THAT AAAAAAAAAAAAaaaa, the whole movie..... 🙁

I went to see Freddy vs Jason...........this white trash dick had his pre-school daughter with him (1 pm showing)..........

yeah.......foul language, sex, nudity, dismemberment..........it's a wonder the movie wasn't rated G.

I haven't had any problems, I normally go to the cinema on a wednesday and thursday when there isn't a lot of people.

I have heard people in a queue line talking about films and when they mention something which isn't right I want to correct them but don't lol.

Normally lucky, went to see Dawn of the Dead remake and there were a bunch of people at the preview screening who started talking to me about the movie and Romero's movies, and they knew what they were talking about.

the prices at cinemas are incredibly high....i heard that the popcorn and drinks only cost a few pence to make...but they sell it to the public for about 3-4 pounds!

Thats because most cinemas only make money on the food and drinks because the movies cost so much to hire

Originally posted by tabby999
as i'm sure all of you do, i love going to the movies. popcorn, cola, big screen, good sound quality, its all sweet. the one thing i really REALLY hate about going to the movies is standing in line with idiots.
i went and saw "Saw" on saturday (leave me alone, only just got released in Aus ok) and got to stand behind 6 people, 3 sets of boyfriends and girlfriends. not fussed about this, just chillin, nibbling at my popcorn, waiting to go in. then they start talking really loudly about their "horror movie veiwing." i dont know about you guys in the US but our posters for Saw has "best thriller/suspense (whatever) movies since Se7en" on it as one of the blurbs. one of the girls notices this and this is when the conversation got really freaking annoying. "oh hay look, they recon its the best movie since Se7en" "what movies that" "you know that movie we watched with brad pitt in it" "that one we watched last night" "yeah that one" "what was the ending like i fell asleep, it was so boring"

well i nearly choked on my popcorn. i love Se7en, and it is a freaking tops movie, and these weiners have some to see a movie of similar type the night after sleeping through it.

then the boyfriends start throwing all these little lines back and forth about all their "gory horrible movies" they have to impress their girlfriends. you know "hellraiser" "friday the 13th" "nightmare one elm street" and "TCM." half the stuff they talked about in the movie was pretty off the mark, i wanted to correct them, but i helld my tounge (i bet C-Dic and Evil Dead and probibly Backfire all have trouble not lecturing people in the cinema too).
during the movie, i ended up sitting infront of these weiners, listening to the girls go "oh my god, hes going to cut his foot off" "oh my god, he got his throat cut" "oh my god hes going to get shot" all thought it.
then when i was leaving, i heard all these gung-ho gore lover boyfriends talking about "how grossed out they were" by the movie and how "they shouldn't be allowed to put this kind of stuff in movies"
i dunno about you but i was ready to smack them up side the head with my empty popcorn box at this stage, gave them a horribly nasty look and left.
do any of you guys get these big noting morons in your theaters? do they talk all through your movies, ruining all chances of suspence and tension? do you? i ****ing hope not

Have you ever considered decaffe? I work in an art centre which also doubles as a cinema, I hate most multiplex cinemas for the reasons metioned in this thread but the place where I work is a good place to watch a film for several reasons: 1) The screens are fully licenced so you can take alchohol in. 2) There are very rarely any kids in the building. 3) It shows all kinds of classic, including some decnt horror like Halloween, Texas Chainsaw (original) and Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. 4) Its a very nice building, not a dirty shithole like most comercial cinemas. - Thats all I can think of right now, but art house cinemas are definately the way forward.

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I wish we had that kind of cinema whare I live 🙁 I've never seen any of the great horrors from the 80's on the big screen, they mostly just show stupit stuff, like cheap ass vin dieasel action shit and stuff like that, and everutime they show a big picture like, LOTR or Troy aso, it costs 15$ for 1 ticket

$15!!!?

its about that here, i went in with concesion and got a cheap ticket. it costs around $20 for a ticket and popcorn in Aus. and we dont have many arthouse cinemas (well i've not been able to find them)

I never bother buying concessions at the cinema. I either eat before I go, or just slip something in. In all honesty, I don't eat there out of respect for the other movie lovers. If only all cinema snacks were in PLASTIC baggies, even popcorn, it would be so much quieter.

there is mcdonalds right outside the cinema where i go..i normally go there for somethin to eat...and sneak the food into the cinema 🙂

yeah, i normally take something. but popcorn is the ultimate movie snack really, with a cola, pure brilliance. completes the movie going experiance for me

ypu that right slipknot, 85 Danish Kroner, = 15$ US dollars

I don't buy anything to eat or drink, just the cinema ticket. Take a bottle of water and that's it.

Tickets cost £4.00 at the big cinema near me, that is about $7/8 a ticket.

It's about the same in the Arthouse cinema also just down the road from the multiplex cinema.

£4.50 at the Vue near me.