#126 – Mist
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comic
I think the only time I can go to a movie theater now is opening night of a summer blockbuster. Those nights seem to be packed solid with people excited to see the movie. If I wait a week or two and the theater is sparsely populated but that means the jerks are braver and cant resist talking during the quiet parts or blinding me with their phone.
Tags: jerks, movies, sneeze
This is why I never sit anywhere but the back row if I can help it.
Back row, right beneath the projection booth: best seat in the house (assuming a new tiered theatre rather than the old-fashioned gentle incline)
Howie Mandell once suggested a squirt gun full of unscented lotion at a porn theater
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwil.
It would be even funnier if you tried that at a normal theatre…
Haha the tag is jerks. so true.
really? weird, never had any trouble with people talking or phones or whatnot in a theatre in Canada.
Yeah, this only happens in a theater.
Last year when they put the extended version of The Lord of the Rings out in the theaters I decided I’d go see them all (one a week for three weeks, not all in one sitting.
It was mostly a good time except for the fact that The Two Towers became a 4 hour game of “try to find the jerk with the green laser pointer”.
“If I wait a week or two and the theater is sparsely populated but that means the jerks are braver and cant resist talking during the quiet parts or blinding me with their phone.”
This is why I prefer to wait for the DVD. If noise is made or food is thrown at the screen, I’m the only one at fault; and I can “rewind” if I need/want to watch a scene again. (It’s also getting cheaper to to buy a DVD than tickets and concession-stand food.)
If I’ve seen the movie, or somehow already know what’s going to happen, and the theater is being particularly short on manners, I like to react out loud as if something else was going to happen.
Me: “Don’t go in the cupboard!”
Movie: Shark eats surfer.
It’s bad enough to suddenly start MSTing a movie in the theater, but when the dude behind you joins in, you now something’s a little bit off.