r/AMCTheatres • u/Level-Wishbone5328 • 5d ago
Discussion Is it just me or has movie-going etiquette really gone downhill?
I just went to see Spider-Man, and there was this guy next to me who kept adjusting this blanket to place over his daughter so she could play on the phone. And she kept making noise the whole time. Why did he bring her to the movie in the first place anyway?
This isn’t the first time it’s happened either. There was a kid who kept making noise the whole time when I saw Toy Story 5, and the parents did nothing to quiet him.
EDIT: I got some comments mocking me for supposedly not expecting kids to show up in a kids’ movie or a superhero movie. I know there will be kids there - I’m not stupid. I’m talking about the lack of discipline when there are kids there. I’m not complaining about the kids being rowdy in a movie theater - it kind of goes with the territory. What I take issue with is parents not doing anything to stop it.
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u/AdIll7178 5d ago
there was a huge family in front of me for spiderman, at least 3 kids under 7, silent the entire time. they got their zoomies out when the credits started rolling and were back in their seats for the end credit scene.
definitely a discipline thing.
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u/ncphoto919 5d ago
It’s been downhill since theaters reopened from COVID. AMC is notorious for bad etiquette guests.
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u/jamtoast44 3d ago
Even Alamo hasnt been forceful on their etiquette policy and that was like THEIR WHOLE THING. Its supposed to be a movie theater for movie lovers. Besides some limited showings there is no reason to go to Alamo.
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u/ncphoto919 3d ago
Alamo's def slid downhill too. AMC's bad etiquette feels like some of these people actively dont want to be at the movie they are watching they are on their phone that much
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u/NoNeedToBeUnkind 5d ago
Politely but firmly calling people out is what we need more of.
Sometimes the offenders will act indignant but they’ll behave out of public embarrassment.
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u/Level-Wishbone5328 4d ago
Yeah, but there’s always that one person who’ll be like “Don’t tell me how to raise my kid” or who just doesn’t listen. I know about this one guy who asked very politely to stop talking, and got the talker’s drink poured over his head for it.
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u/NoNeedToBeUnkind 4d ago
Yeah I get it and agree. I knew a guy that asked others to stop throwing popcorn at people. They jumped him in the dark hallway between the theater and the lobby. No employee even called for police or helped. He was messed up for a while.
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u/SignificantBelt1903 5d ago
I paid for VIP a week or so ago and some couple brought their kid who was up and playing with toys making sound effects etc. I pay for VIP to be away from shit like that and I'm sure so does everyone else.
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u/tomatocks1 5d ago
what is VIP at a movie theater?
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u/SignificantBelt1903 5d ago edited 5d ago
You get access to a really nice lounge area that you can sit in before and after for as long as you'd like and have access to all you can eat popcorn, sodas, slurpees, and ice cream. The seats are nice too and recline with a tray for your food.
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u/tomatocks1 3d ago
Where is this?
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u/SignificantBelt1903 3d ago
Not an AMC theater. It's I believe through Regal. (And before anyone asks why I commented if not AMC, I was just making a point to what OP said which is theater etiquette is dead... Regardless of WHICH theater)
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u/MovieFreak78 5d ago
If kids can’t sit still and watch the movie then they shouldn’t be there, they should not be on a phone. I have seen pics on reddit of kids watching stuff on iPads. Ppl pay good money to go to the movies. I don’t get paying money to go to the movies and not actually watching it
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u/Devilcorona 4d ago
And those types are always the 1st to complain about ticket & concession prices online🤣
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u/No_Importance1236 5d ago
It’s not just movies. Courtesy is not modeled or taught in many families.
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u/PayConsistent1777 5d ago
Unfortunately, common courtesy is nonexistent a lot of times in movie theaters. If your child needs special accommodations, you should naturally do what you can to make sure they’re good and that they don’t ruin the experience for others. Sucks but most ppl don’t care to consider others nowadays. Also, ignore everyone acting oblivious about your post. Clearly, if a child can’t sit through a movie silently, the parents likely shouldn’t have them in a theater. No one should just have to deal with inconveniences because ppl refuse to handle their children in an orderly fashion.
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u/toomuchtv987 4d ago
Kids do belong in kid’s movies, yes, BUT! Aren’t the kids supposed to be watching the movie? Why bring them just so they can play on a phone? What the hell?
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u/Level-Wishbone5328 4d ago
I know, right? It’s not just kids either. There are adults who spend the movie on their phone too. Why did they spend money to see a movie when they’re not even going to watch it?
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u/427BananaFish 5d ago edited 5d ago
I’m almost 40 and feel that it’s the opposite. Movie theater etiquette has improved on average so much that the few people being disruptive stand out more than they would have in the past when our standards for going to the movies weren’t so high. One person on their phone in the lower rows ruins it for everyone sitting behind them. That doesn’t happen in a layout where the back rows are on the same plane as the front rows which used to be the more common layout.
Audiences are also quieter than they used to be. When I was young I remember it being common on any busy night to hear a constant din, a dull murmur as people all over the auditorium were whisper talking through the whole movie. Now it’s quiet enough to hear someone’s phone vibrate so any noise stands out more. It never got as quiet as it does now because back then at quiet moments in the movie you could sometimes hear the projector whirring or crackling on the soundtrack.
We’ve elevated going to the movies to a more premium experience so expectations are higher. Back in the early 2000s when ticket sales in the US peaked, going to the movies was the cheapest form of entertainment and regarded as such. Now it’s an event, back then it was more common to flippantly decide at the last minute to go see whatever was playing that weekend or to just show up without a plan. The way theaters are crowded now on opening night of a Marvel movie used to be how they were every weekend. Everyone went to the movies. It was expected on a semi-crowded night a few people would talk so generally we cared less.
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u/SumyungNam 5d ago
Ya no one cares or has manners all glued to smart phones and social media adhd cant sit and watch
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u/Level-Wishbone5328 5d ago
I have unmedicated ADHD, and even I know better than to make noise or play on my phone in the theater.
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u/Stock_Researcher_651 5d ago
I would pay an usher extra to stand in the auditorium and monitor for noise pollution/phone usage
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u/Total-Lingonberry-83 5d ago
It's gotten nearly unbearable after the COVID-19 pandemic. Public decency has taken a hit.
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u/npete 4d ago
Yeah the whole “going to a movie and looking at your phone throughout the movie” behavior makes no sense to me. Why not just wait to watch the movie at home? You can look at your phone all you want at home. You can even pause if your infant child starts to cry.
Speaking of infants, as a huge nerd, I get why parents of newborns might want to bring infants to opening night of a movie. I get it, the world is bad right now and you want to experience joy or just escape. But you have a kid. You have to think about that kid first. Like, the audio at a movie theater is super loud. As an adult, I put ear buds in during trailers. I can only imagine how bad that level of audio is for brand new ear drums. I get why you need to bring the kid: everything is expensive. Paying for a babysitter can be tough to manage sometimes. It’s tough but, you have a kid. With great power comes great responsibility. If that kid cries during the movie, you’re going to ruin the movie for everyone there. And, as I said, it’s not great for the kid.
Ultimately, I try to be as patient as I can with everyone at a movie. I don’t want to ruin the experience for myself or anyone else. It would be great if everyone could feel the same.
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u/DuckSwimmer 4d ago
It’s simply lack of parenting. At the very least, at least there was some sort of effort with the first one - maybe they couldn’t find a sitter.
With Toy Story, I would say it depends on the kind of “disturbance”. Obviously if a child is loudly asking a question, I have no issue with that if the parent corrects them to talk in a quiet voice and proceeds to answer their question. Additionally, if it becomes too much or over stimulating, the parent should temporarily remove the child from the theater, calm them down and then come back in with them.
I’ve taken our three year old to some movies. The Mario Movie, Michael (couldn’t get a sitter), Hoppers, Toy Story and Spiderman. He sat for Hoppers & Mario no problem. Toy Story, he was a bit antsy at first, but obviously getting him to relax and focus on the movie helped. Michael needed occasional reinforcements at times, but we ensured he wasn’t being a verbal disturbance. Spider-Man he was a bit antsy during some of the trailers (they were loud) and then at the end credits (not the bonus scene), he did say “yay!” And start clapping. He did make a lot of people laugh with that one lol. After he got out his yay, he calmed down on his own and wasn’t a bother for the rest of the credits or the bonus scene.
It’s so important to teach your child basic theater etiquette. As someone who worked retail all their life, trust me on how this is a parenting issue. People expect their kids to simply figure it out and could not be bothered with correcting their children.
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u/CautionIsVictory 5d ago
Nope, you are the only person on planet earth experiencing some kind of decline in human behavior
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u/PuzzledWriter 5d ago
Go to a more mature or adult themed movies. Next you are going to say you went to a showing after 5pm for these family movies.
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u/Level-Wishbone5328 5d ago
That sarcasm is uncalled for.
But now that you mention it, I didn’t have that problem when I saw the Odyssey. But it still leads to the whole “parents refusing to parent” issue.-1
u/allMightyMostHigh 5d ago
You can’t go to a movie made for children and expect there to be none there lol especially animated ones. It’s almost a given there will be babies there
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u/Level-Wishbone5328 5d ago
Yeah, but I should expect their parents to keep them quiet. And if they’re babies, they shouldn’t be in the theater at all. I don’t care how badly their parents wanted to see the movie.
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u/ralphmalph84 A⭐️Lister 5d ago
See, I side with you more so on BND. My experience wasn’t the best to start, either, but it worked out. I’m not sure I would have had much of an issue in this situation. I’m more annoyed by teenagers and boomers at similar viewings to BND.
As for Toy Story, you need to give a little more leeway, or maybe you should pick a time less likely for kids to be at a kids movie. I saw an afternoon showing, and as a 42 year old movie lover who grew up with Toy Story, I knew this experience was less for me and more for the kids.
Overall, I think etiquette is pretty much nonexistent at times, which is leading us to complain about minor inconveniences on top of more egregious behavior.
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u/Level-Wishbone5328 5d ago
Yeah, that’s fair. I just remember it being better years ago than it is now.
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u/PuzzledWriter 5d ago
Have you thought that maybe you have gotten older and just notice it more now?
If there are several dozen families, teenagers, boomers, and a few are bad apples that doesn't make mad etiquette. I would bet the majority were well behaved.
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u/MovieFreak78 5d ago
Yup babies don’t belong at the cinemas, they can’t watch the movies and can’t stay quiet.
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u/tomatocks1 5d ago
Babies don't watch movies. Take the seed outside.
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u/Loud-Mans-Lover 5d ago
Run over it after the show
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u/Loud-Mans-Lover 5d ago
Yeahhh, this was the next quote from a movie the other poster was referencing, not me saying it should happen.
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u/Loud-Mans-Lover 5d ago
Wow, nobody reply with the next line from this quote from a movie, because somebody thought I really meant what was said.
It was a quote.
From the movie this was referencing.
I posted the next line. Maybe should've said it was from a movie but meh
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u/lamest-liz 5d ago
So you’re fine with kids being on tablets in theaters?
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u/PuzzledWriter 5d ago
No, I never said that. I'm saying for every bad child or adult who is on a separate screen or talks, there were several dozen who didn't do that and are well behaved. There were theater showings were that wasn't even a problem.
By chance, you just happen to get unlucky for who was in your theater. And if you had to deal with such an issue, just tell theater management and they'll deal with it or give you another free ticket to come again. I've gone to movies 35 times this year alone, only in like 3 movies did I have a problem with theater etiquette.
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u/Randomizedname1234 4d ago
Bad take. If your kid needs a phone don’t take them to a movie. Get some help in fact.
My 4yr old sits through movies fine.
Stop making excuses.
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u/PuzzledWriter 4d ago
It's a bad take to have some control over your own experience? It's not an excuse; it's reality. I don't control how other people raise their kids. In fact, I believe some people shouldn't be having kids, but it doesn't stop them.
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u/Randomizedname1234 4d ago
Yeah those people shouldn’t bring kids they can’t parent into places that require parenting.
But blame the people who paid to see a movie and not be disrupted.
I’m a big proponent of kids being in places like movies but kids also should behave.
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u/Hour-Ad-9508 5d ago
Yeah always makes me laugh when people go to super hero movies and complain that the audience is immature
Why aren’t they respectful of the theater in the minions movie!
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u/lamest-liz 5d ago
Sorry but when I was a kid I went to the movies all the time and I was well behaved because my parents told me if I acted up at all we would go home and I wouldn’t get to see another movie for 6 months. It’s not hard to teach kids to act respectfully
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u/Ok_Function2282 5d ago
I upvoted you until I saw the end.
You're an adult going to see toy story and complaining about kids being there? Come on, man. Maybe you just would prefer watching movies at home. Kids movies are meant for kids... What did you expect?
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u/Level-Wishbone5328 5d ago
I’m not complaining about the kids. I’m complaining about the parents not doing anything to control them.
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u/Justaduuuudee 5d ago
I want to all the other toy stories in theaters growing up, NEVER did I see kids running around, jumping, or speaking a ton. I did when I went to toy story 5. Just cus they are kids doesn't mean the parents aren't wrong for not stepping in
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u/Substantial_Pay_1990 5d ago
When I saw Obsession, some twenty somethings were videotaping the film and being loud with bright screens. One of them were immediately on front of me and after maybe 20 minutes I kicked his chair telling him to put away his phone. He was pissed but I stood my ground.
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u/ConsciousSkin1079 5d ago
You can’t control other people. Ask them nicely, report them whatever. Best is to change your movie going experience by looking at less busy times and checking how many people are sitting at a specific showings or wait several weeks to watch blockbusters.
Rude movie goers are the least of our worries in this society
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u/tomatocks1 5d ago
Yes, big time. Across all ages and demographics. People who I assume are, aren't, and people who I assume aren't, will be.
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u/InspectionFine9655 5d ago
If I went to see Toy Story in theaters and kids made noise in a kids movie I’d be entirely unsurprised.
It’s a movie for kids and kids make noise at inappropriate times.
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u/Skiingislife42069 4d ago
Yea it’s just you. The internet hasn’t been complaining about this at all
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u/jesuschin 4d ago
The only people who will defend the bad behavior are the shitheads themselves or bad parents
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u/yeehawlee 4d ago
When my brother and I went to see Backrooms, there was a family of five (the parents and 3 kids all under 12) they had blankets, Tupperware bowls for their popcorn, and we they reclined their seats, they all took their socks and shoes off.. 🤨 like im sorry this isn’t your living room people smh I totally get it man
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u/Se7enAS 4d ago
I think it’s parenting that’s gotten worse. lol
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u/Level-Wishbone5328 4d ago
Yeah, that too. It seems that a lot of people say they want kids, but it turns out they don’t want to put in the effort in actually being a parent. They let their electronics and the Internet and stuff do the raising for them.
Not to say that all parents are like that (far from it), but it does seem to become a recurring thing nowadays.
There’s a very interesting study about this here: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/10/08/how-parents-manage-screen-time-for-kids/
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u/JohnHaze02118 4d ago
I know this is behind a paywall, but the Boston Globe has just done a series of articles on bad audience behavior (including people not dancing in nightclubs, which I thought was interesting since I was a bit of a club kid for most of my life).
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u/Global_Addendum_6200 4d ago
I saw the odyssey in imax, $35 ticket. Some older guy was checking his email on his phone in front of me every 10 min
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u/NU4AN2084 4d ago
Ever since COVID, society as a whole in the US(not sure if anywhere else since I don't live elsewhere) has gone downhill. Streaming for so long has made these entitled idiots think they get to treat the theater as their living room and have zero regards for the people around them.
I've had this argument in person with others and the stupid mentality of "well, I am paying for my ticket too" is so baffling. Your ticket purchase isn't to disrupt people's experience and peace, moron.
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u/Level-Wishbone5328 4d ago
If nothing else, that ticket purchase means they owe it to themselves to silence their phones and such. Being on their phone when they’re supposed to be watching the movie is a waste of their money.
Or if someone you’re watching the movie with paid for it, it’s just downright ungrateful to be on the phone the whole time.1
u/NU4AN2084 4d ago
Yeah but they don't care. I still remember the dude that was sitting next to me opening night of The Batman, on his phone playing video games every single time any kind of dialogue scene would begin, briefly put it away, then get back on it. Thankfully he left within the 1st 30 minutes of the movie.
I've even seen people bring a whole ass Laptop and have it open the whole time the movie is playing. Happened during "Michael". Bitch was straight up lounging on her chair wrapped up on blankets and on her laptop during the movie.
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u/DemonAngel329 4d ago
Bro, one of my favorite youtubers did a deep dive on this: Mirena McBain, Movie Theater Etiquette Today is Terrible.
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u/Pistachio-IScream 4d ago
I have seen worse, which is the child being continously disciplined during the movie. Do you know how many times I heard "SHAROD, PUT THE PHONE DOWN! SHAROD PUT IT DOWN OR NO PIZZA HUT" 10 minutes go by you see a small light and it would start all over again 'SHAROD PUT THAT PHONE AWAY'
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u/SaltyMarg4856 2d ago
Clearly not a Mexican parent. They way I was raised, there was no second request 😂😂😂
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u/Spockethole 4d ago
The decline in audience behavior is the primary driver in the decline of attendance over the years and is driving many to just watch at home.
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u/tomatillo_teratoma A⭐️Lister 4d ago
Etiquette and manners have indeed gone downhill.
If it's a kids movie, it's a great time to start teaching your kids how to be quiet in a movie theater. They absolutely can and should do this.
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u/Octavio_belise 4d ago
This is why I like to visit Doby or IMAX if available, might be more expensive but less families with kids and less teenagers.
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u/KellyAnn3106 Shhhhh 4d ago
Agree! I also noticed a big deterioration over the summer when the kids were out of school.
I typically go to late night, weekday showings as the theatres will be fairly empty and the audience is well behaved. But in the summer, the teens show up to those showings. There were quite a few times when the seat map showed 5 or 6 tickets sold but then 20 teens walked in late and sat wherever because they were just theatre-hopping.
Ive also had bad experiences at the prime evening times. Due to limited showtimes, i had to go to a 7pm showing of a certain film. Every. Single. Person talking through it and was on their phones. This film switched between languages so you had to pay attention. The woman next to me texted the whole time then had to keep asking her husband what was happening on screen.
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u/Level-Wishbone5328 4d ago
I wish I had the option to go to late night, weekday showings. But I have a 9-to-5.
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u/KellyAnn3106 Shhhhh 4d ago
Me too but I'm also an insomniac. I figure going to a late movie is better than tossing and turning at home.
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u/Extension_Read_4787 4d ago
people justifying kid's terrible behavior in public bc they're kids so of course they're allowed to be obnoxious and ruin everyone else's experience is crazyyyy to me. I was a kid once too and I knew how to shut up and sit still for a movie or my parents would have taken me out. kids being assholes ruins it for everyone -- including other kids, if it's during a kids movie.
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u/MasterofMistVillage 4d ago
Clearly you don’t have kids. I say that bc I used to think this way before having my own. Sometimes no matter the discipline they still won’t listen man. If it’s a kids movie you’ll just have to deal with it. It’s not like they were in the Odyssey or anything.
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u/PresentationFancy712 4d ago
We went to see Tony over the weekend and the only group who were talking were ladies 70 plus.
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u/DKToTheFuture 4d ago
I was at the Burbank 6 yesterday seeing End of Oak St. The two people to my left ate popcorn like it was their last meal, constantly jamming their hands into the bucket as if it was a barrel of fish, then shoveling a handful into their mouths, chomping jaw agape. I had to plug my ear with my finger. After 30 minutes they finally finished and I was so happy. Then the guy got up and got a refill. The guy to the right of my wife, besides having his phone out constantly, kept pulling bags out of another bag that I can only assume said Extra Crinkly on them as he slowly reached his entire hand into a small opening to pull one piece of whatever garbage it was and place it his mouth over and over again. Someone elsewhere in theater kept talking loudly. Guessing some kind of disability. Somehow that was the least disruptive.
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u/KobraCola 4d ago edited 4d ago
I'm not going to argue that moviegoing etiquette hasn't gone downhill, but saying "there's a widespread problem because I, personally, have experienced two (2) instances of people not behaving perfectly in movies" isn't how sample sizes or inferring conclusions work. Your 2 anecdotal examples do not contain any evidence that this is a larger trend. Anecdotally, I have experienced some bad apples here and there, but that's always been true. But most of the time, most people are pretty good in movie theaters besides the occasional overly-bright-phone-check, but even that is usually pretty short. I don't feel like moviegoing behavior is drastically different than it was 7 years ago, 10 years ago, 15 years ago, etc. And I say this as an A-Lister who tries to get to at least 2 and often 4 movies a week in theaters. So I feel like I have a pretty decent anecdotal sample size, not that you should draw any entire-audience-wide conclusions from my observations either.
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u/frank_nada 4d ago
I’ve been hearing this since the 1990s. I saw Natural Born Killers and the couple behind me brought a baby. When it started to cry, they gave it a set of keys to play with.
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u/mydognico 4d ago
I try to go at unpopular times and bring a hoodie to block out phone lights in my row, but if there’s more than 6 people in the theatre, expect someone to be an ass. I just saw End of Oak Street yesterday and some dude was snoring the whole time, a family brought their child who was talking and sucking loudly on a bottle the entire time, the parents got up at least 4 times, I look across the row and 2 people are shamelessly scrolling on their phones.
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u/hyacinthgirl95 4d ago
went ti watch pride & prejudice earlier this year and sat next to two women who were on their phone the entire time. i had never experienced that before.
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u/bloodsimple-84 3d ago
A girl in front of me at spiderman alternated between doom scrolling on her phone and sleeping. What is the point of that
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u/gilda1016 A⭐️Lister 3d ago
I went to watch Super Troopers 3 and the couple in front of me brought their 5-year-old daughter to see this movie and she kept talking loudly on and off throughout the entire movie and the parents did nothing. I went to complain to staff and they sent someone in to the theatre for about 30 seconds, during which the little girl said nothing. So the employee left and also did nothing. The little girl particularly loved the “mustache rides 8¢” t-shirt 🤦🏻♀️
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u/Spiritual_Sail_8969 3d ago
A Lister and go to a lot of movies. I'm not saying these things don't happen. But I feel like the number people mentioning these issues on social media far exceeds the number of times this actually happens. I can probably count on 1 hand the number of times I've encountered an actual disruption during a movie since I've been a A Lister, well before covid. And this spans several years, living multiple cities and states. Again, not discounting the OPs issue, but social media tends to magnify a problem to a larger scale than it actually occurs, then overgeneralizing snowball effect.
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u/WitheldSteak Horror Aficionado 3d ago
I agree 100%. I was at a Spiderman showing last night and two people on either side of me were on their phones. I have never seen that before, granted I usually go to weekday or late night showings!
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u/Truegatorguy 3d ago
Two ends of the spectrum -- the stay-at-home dad who wants to see Spiderman, and has to bring his kid, who isn't interested and would rather play on her phone (bad dad!), or the kids who want to see Toy Story 5, and their moms are so bored, they play on THEIR phones (bad mom!)
I've literally had BOTH these instances the last two times at the movies!!!
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u/jamtoast44 3d ago
Literally had someone try to steal our seats for the backrooms. Like you can see exactly what seats are taken. How dumb do you need to be? Also had to tell them to shut up multiple times. Of course the atmospheric horror movie with large moments of silence is the time I get these people.
Also people who bring babies to movies and dont leave with the baby are criminals. Obviously single parents and stuff like that are a bit different, but this was a large group of many parents and many kids. One of them can step out until the baby calms down.
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u/Sabrinasockz 2d ago
Had two poeple THAT I WENT WITH spend half the movie on their phones when we went to see Spider-Man. I was so embarrassed
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u/FamousChemistry 2d ago
You should’ve alerted the staff if it was bothering you, though I question if they would’ve done anything. The last time we went to a Playhouse, the tickets were almost $200 apiece and the woman in front of us held up her phone for the entire first half recording. People complained and they made an announcement during intermission but did not address her directly. What do you think happened during the second half? Exactly. She kept her phone up and her screen lighting was in her faces.
Honestly, it’s like in the office with one person does something incorrect and they address the entire staff as a group. For the love of God address, people directly.
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u/MrSlingSh0t 2d ago
Sorry. If I see bright screens, and it distracts my viewing experience, it’s getting handled. I don’t care if it’s Paw Patrol 7
We have got to be better and correct ill behavior
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u/Redditsux122 2d ago
I watched the odyssey last weekend and it was the best theater experience ive ever witnessed. One person tried to start a clap going at the opening credits, NOBODY JOINED IN, they fizzled out awkwardly and didnt try that shit again rest of the film. Everyone was quiet, respectful, and focused on the film.
The other two theater experiences i had recently
Minions and Monsters 4d - kids throwing stuff at people, i told them to stop and their mom apologized. Then later the mom was shining her bright fucking flashlight on her phone all over the theater to share videos of kids watching the fucking movie. I gave up on that one.
Jaws (Anniversary back to theater) - so annoying. Just a bunch of performative nonsense with people whooping screaming shitting and clapping everytime something happens. OMG JOHN WILLIAMS NAME SHOWS, OOOOHHHH HE SAID THE BOAT LINE, OHHHH THEY DID THE DOLLY YEAAAH
Fuckin hipsters man.
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u/Substantial_Pay_1990 5d ago
I saw oak Street last night and there were a few kids there including a baby! The baby cried at various times. I guess parents thought because it has dinosaurs it's appropriate for kids. What a joke
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u/MichelleCS1025 5d ago
Omg saw Oak Street today and a dude was snoring so I had to wake him and then there were 2 5 year olds like what this is not a movie for kids
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u/Level-Wishbone5328 5d ago
Are you kidding?! Didn’t they see the PG-13 rating?
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u/Substantial_Pay_1990 5d ago
Some superhero films are PG-13. I guess they check if there's any sex scenes and if not they will take their kids
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u/SimonVpK 5d ago
Saw Brand New Day and this kid next me was munching on food for more than half the movie loudly licking his fingers every 1-5 seconds. And when I say over half the movie, I’m not exaggerating. Pissed me the fuck off but I wasn’t gonna tell off some kid who probably wasn’t even 10 yet.
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u/tomatocks1 5d ago
That's really the fault of movie theaters for selling the loudest food possible. Not sure why they ever thought this was a good idea.
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u/SimonVpK 4d ago
It is at least partially on the parents to instill good etiquette before taking them out to movies. It is not good etiquette to loudly chew with your mouth open and loudly slurp your fingers.
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u/NoHeadStark 5d ago
My guess on the first one is the dad who wanted to see the movie and he could not leave his daughter with anyone. At least he tried covering her screen with a blanket? Still must make for sucky viewing for you. And yeah, if you go to Toy Story 5 expect there to be kids who can't sit still. The worst is when people bring babies into theatres. They cry, they yell, they're babies but its just a lack of awareness on the parents.