Do you talk in the movies?
 

Come on, admit it. You talk during a movie, don't you? Do you curse loudly in public places? Spit disgusting phlegm-wads on sidewalks? Blast the music in your car so loudly that it makes all the surrounding cars vibrate? Tailgate whoever is unfortunate enough to be driving ahead of you?

We all have habits that we just know annoy others, yet we do them anyway. What do you do that you just know makes everyone want to punch you in the face?

I have a tendency to talk a lot in movies, depending on who I am with.

However, my friends and I usually try to alleviate the annoyance factor of this by going to the movies long after the opening of the shows, and later at night.

I also tend to correct people a lot when they get facts wrong.

When I'm unsure of something, I like to make sure I've exhausted every possiblity that I can think of before I feel comfortable with whatever decision I'm making or whether or not I am going to accept a piece of information. Most people see this as "arguing" but I really just don't like to accept anything that I'm not confident about or clear on.

I correct people when they mispronounce a word. Also, I volunteer to drive places so I can listen to the music that I like. Oh! I almost forgot...I am extremely critical of food that I deem to be not very tasty (this is probably due to my obsession with food), and I won't eat something just to be polite. I'll hurt someone's feelings rather than eat something I don't like.

My language gets pretty colourful now and then.

Same for me on both of those. Bravo ;)

However, I never ever talk at the movies. Being a film major, it's very important for me to uphold the standards of being in the theater, since so many assholes talk during the show and ruin the experience for me. Plus, it's just courteous, and if there's one place I must be courteous, it's the movie theater.

An ex friend of mine (the really controlling type) would correct people on misuse of words. It was especially annoying because she was wrong even more often than she was right and would never admit it.

I don't do it unless I'm sure that I'm right.

If I'm with my friends, I'll make jokes every now and then. Especially if it's a cliche Romantic movie.

If I'm by myself I won't talk but I eat sort of loudly. I try not to keep going to the concession stand to stop myself from doing that.

I don't do this, but what I really can't stand are all the people at a classical concert of some sort who are CONSTANTLY COUGHING. Seriously, there must be some kind of bacteria that is released only when someone is performing classical music that apparently half the population of the world is vulnerable to. You can't get a live recording of anything without some jerk hacking up a lung. Son of a bitch.

Oh, man. Don't even get me started on coughers. I hate it when some lunger sits right next to me in a restaurant and hacks up phlegm-wads every two or three minutes (this happened to me a couple of nights ago).

I'm sorry if I sound unsympathetic to the plight of the mucous-filled, but really. That crap is gross.

If the movie is good, I don't talk a lot.

If it sucks, I act like a jackass and bust retarded jokes with my firend through the whole thing.

My Dad actually blows his nose whenever we're in a theater. And he does it, hard. I think that's even worse than coughing.

Actually, my dad is the typical person who eats, talks, and does everything that can ruin a good theater experience.

I don't talk LOUD during movies. I might sneak in a few words to the person sitting next to me.

I go up to random people at school and say, "What up dude?" Many people don't like that...

I am constantly swearing in public. Fuck, I scream obscenities out my window at poor drivers. Swearing is so natural to me that I don't even think about the kids that may be around. "JESUS FUCKING MARY" comes out of my mouth a lot in public, which makes heads turn. ;_;

I play some music really fucking loud on the road. But I try to be somewhat considerate about it.

Interestingly enough, my smoking is probably the thing I am MOST conscientious about.

And any fuckwit who talks during a movie with me around gets some harsh words said to them. Or possibly crap thrown at them.

That would make my head turn.

I play some music loud, but that's only because I want the other drivers to hear my awesome music. Only at red lights. Only when I'm bored.

I applaud you. I would love to be at a movie and see something like that happen. I would make sure I was quiet the whole time though.

I think half the fun about talking in movies is to try and talk just enough so that any persons close by get irritated, but slightly not enough for them to react.
I have manged to walk this line rather well so far.

I'm an ass.

It's completely unintentional. =/

Who DOESN'T throw shit at people who talk? Seriously. I've kicked seats of people in front of me. They always turn around acting like its ME who was being rude.

And then, I threaten them. Which is probably not all that LEGAL, but I have a whole theatre of people who are pissed of behind me - with bucket loads of popcorn.

C'mon. You guys have TOTALLY gotten rude about a talker in the threatre, RIGHT? I pay GOOD MONEy to see a film in the threatre. I don't want some fucking PRICK answering his motherfucking PHONE in the middle of a movie. (This has HAPPENED to me. He carried on a CONVERSATION during the movie - AT FULL SPEAKING VOICE.) This was a bad idea for him. I was in the ghetto theatre, and everyone pretty much moved him forceably OUT of the theatre.

And I don't want to hear your motherfucking commentary on the fucking MOVIE guys. SHUT UP with the "I BET SUCH-AND-SUCH WILL HAPPEN!"

Sit down, shut the fuck up, and watch the movie.

I did tell this girl once who kept whispering on her cell phone that I was going to take it from her if I saw it again. (Sounds like a teacher, now that I think about it). She looked at me like I had lost my mind, but I think she knew I was serious because the phone didn't come out again.

It's not that I could hear her, because in fairness she was whispering, but the bright blue light it emitted was really bothering me.

Haha, I like how half of the people haven't even read the first post and just answer the question in the thread's title.

Yea, if a stranger threatened to take MY cell phone away like they were my mother, I'd probably deck them. ^_^

I can't IMAGINE someone saying this to me. "If you don't stop talking on that, I am going to take it away." O YEA, LADY? I DARE YOU TO TRY.

But thats because I have an issue with motherfigures. Heh.

Did you realize how silly it must have sounded Alice? I've been in situations where I aas like "MAN. I COULD HAVE SAID SOMETHING SO MUCH BETTER."

It's all in the tone. When you're 18 years old and some lady taps you on your shoulder and, with a smile that never reaches her eyes whispers, "If I see that phone again I'm taking it from you," with just the right amount of "don't fuck with me" in her voice, your inborn fear of your own mom kicks in and you put your damn phone away.

I think that might get me to act out but I'm not really the type to act out unless I am really angered.
Remember the quiet ones are the most dangerous. :)

I like to talk during funerals, I don't know why

Personally, I don't talk in movie theatres, even if the movie itself sucks as hell (then i'd leave)--but we do get the coughers, talkers, and worse of all, babies.
Who the heck brings their babies in to see a movie? It's like sitting in a 17 hour flight with a sugar-high toddler.
Sadly, society doesn't allow us to punch the faces of cyring babies in the cinema....so it's more of whether we should punch the parents instead. (hey, thread said tendencies that make people want to punch you, right? moving on.)

I have a friend who's super loud. Heads always turn when we're having a conversation because it's usually, 'my ass hurts,' or 'I can't take it anymore! no more oral sex for my horny husband!' in volume 60. It sometimes pisses people off because a lot of them are conservative Christians. It's funny though, because we're on campus, and the discipline office is pretty much across the hallway. Oh, all the innocent minds we've tarnished and all the exams they've failed because of that *cough cough*

You know that psychological tendency where you acknowledge that you have the advantage over something so you use it just to annoy other people? For example, when you're using the public telephone and someone comes up behind you and waits for his/her turn. So, intentionally, you prolong the conversation because you suddnly get this power trip knowing you control how long the poor guy's gonna wait? Hehe, I do that. In the bathroom stalls. See how good their bladder control is. I'm evil.:p

Yeah, makes your $15 dinner just turn to mush eh? Especially when you're starting on soup as an appetizer. ;_;

COUGH COUGH HACK HACK LET ME TURN MY HEAD TOWARDS YOUR DIRECTION AND HACK HACK SOME MORE. MEGA ;_;.

And for the sake of the thread, people who just can't shut the fuck up TALKING AND TALKING AND TALKING for 10 minutes should be dragged out of the theatre, drugged, raped, drugged some more, and shot in the knees. I mean sure you can laugh or say excuse me of you need to get out to take a piss or whatever, but have just a hint of common courtesy, pretty please?

Don't get me started on them chronic cellular phone users.

Out of respect for the audience I dont say a word, well..exept for in some cases the trailers whenever I happen to see a shitty remake coming to theateres soon.

If I'm the only person in there, I still dont say a word (we all gatta live the Siskel& Ebert fantasy..right?)

When people talk in the movies it makes me want to strangle them. That's one thing that makes me so inexplicably angry. I cant handle it. Or when people kick the back of my seat in the movies.

Actually, I guess I kind of hate going to the movies in general. =/

Meh, I usually just have the tendency to go "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" (thats my laugh) or go "Oh god!"


But for some of the more crappier movies, I tend to point out the negative things, like a visible wire or bad music or something like that.

I never talk. When I'm with a girl I like, usually we kiss... in that case, words are completely unnecessary.

I must say that I do not consciously annoy other people in public. Especially since I'm not all that comfortable in public anyway, the last thing I'd want to do is get attention, especially negative attention. I'm pretty quiet overall, and actually take special care not to bother or annoy people. I don't know if it's simply because I'm extremely courteous, I just have a huge fear of judgement by other people.

I pick my nose any time and any place it pleases me and I understand that bugs a lot of people. And I tend to ask every possible question abotu something i don't understand or agree with in conversations in an attmpt to get it. I don't know why but that one really hacks people off.

In the theater I'm quiet overall but i'll whisper something specific to whoever i'm listening to every once and awhile. People who talk throughout the whole thing, bring their easily spooked kid to anything even vaguely upsetting, or won't turn off their fucking cell phones need to be booted the fuck out. And there's a special place in hell for 15 year old boys who laugh out loud every 3 minutes during the entire film barring it being a comedy of course.

Sass you really need to work on those anger issues. (shakes head in a sadly disapointed manner)

In movie theatres, I am a fidgeter. It bothers my friends to no end. I shift my position constantly, at least every 10 minutes. I just can't get comfortable.

I'm often fidgeting when I go to new places, as well. Especially in unfamiliar houses. I will rarely sit down and prefer to stay on my feet. Also, if it is the Winter, I will wear a jacket indoors to a friend's house or gathering even if I start to get hot with it on. I'm neurotic.

Not during the actual movie, but friends and I naturally talk before the previews start. I find that if I had to comment on anything in a movie, it's usually too loud for the person next to me to understand what I'm saying.

Complain. I do it too much. About stupid things too. Like right now, I'm recovering from mono and I'm not allowed to exercise, and I bitch about it all the time. I want to go to the gym, but I can't, this sucks. I should just be happy that I'm like 1/1000000 mono people that doesn't get tired from the virus.

I don't do any of those except for play music very loudly. I can't help it, if it's techno it deserves to be played loud - hell if it's anything I like, it deserves to be played loud.

I'll talk during previews and the like at movies because I can and no one cares, but once the movie starts I shut the hell up.

I get so irritated when I go to a movie with my grandma, and she starts commenting on every little thing. What's more irritating is that she doesn't like it when other people talk during a movie, but it's okay for her to.

I personally avoid talking once the movie's in full swing (ie: after the first 10 minutes or so), but sometimes I allow a comment or two at the very beginning, like if the OP credits are really spectacular or something, or the music is remarkable. I have a friend who doesn't like to 'go out to the movies' because we can't talk during it -- so we try our damndest to go to movies loooong after they've been running, and we're sure nobody will want to see. 'Cause then we can talk in them.

The thing that's really annoying is when people talk during concerts. I'm talking classical/symphonic concerts here, not rock ones (who can talk during those, anyway?). I know in the past that was okay, but these days it's just irritating and disrespectful to the performers and the audience.

I hum ALL THE TIME. Even when other music is playing somewhere. (unless I decided to listen to it). Walking down the sidewalk. In the Library. Swimming. Probably even sleeping.

I don't think many people are annoyed by it though. I get a few turned heads, but like 1 or 2 a day or so.

I am prone to say something loud and obnoxious (never could spell that) at the quietest possible point in a movie theater. That or cracking open a can of smuggled-in pop at the aforementioned quiet point.

I don't talk during a movie because it seems like an odd way to spend $12.

"Wanna go see a movie?"
"Nah"
"Oh okay"
"See you there!"
"What?

*LATER*

"SO DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THAT CAR CRASH LAST NIGHT?"
"I'm watching a fucking movie, get away from me"
"YEAH, IT WAS PRETTY GOOD. WHY IS IT SO DARK IN HERE?"

I hate people who talk during movies, especially when they're revealing the depeest secrets of a film, because they've only seen it nine times. Usually, however, children are the ones talking when I go to the movies.
Really, parents, teach your kids >_>

Hardly ever, I'm usually the one who'd tell you to stfu. You're not supposed to talk during the movies, so don't give me those dirty looks for telling you to do what you're supposed to.

The only reason I'd talk is if I see something extremely cool, I'm never amazed at the theatre.

I rarely talk in the movies. I like to get into it and keep my eyes on the screen. there are those times where the movie is just so bad that I have to make comments to my friends, but I generally keep quiet.

The only time I talk during movies is when I'm at home in my room watching them by myself. Other than that, I laugh at the appropriate times in a movie, nothing more.

I think one thing that irritates my friends about me is that I think of things as literal at the wrong times and end up taking words and phrases at face value. I've actually had people complain that things aren't that serious. :(

You talk to yourself when you're watching a movie alone? Or do you talk to the TV? ;)

Sorry, just teasing.

yea it depends on who im with, and what im watching, usually, if its something ive been waiting to watch, then the only sound ill make is to whisper to to whoever im with how cool something was, or to explain to my girlfriend how that differed from the real version of it (usually with comic movies). or if im with good friends we might talk crap or how lame the movie was... yea, we can be annoying at times in large groups. for the most part though, i go with my girlfriend and on say under my breath "nice!" or "omg that was cool" or something.. <.<'