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Do you ever "shush" someone in a movie theatre?
One of the posts below made me curious. I have done this on rare occasions, when people are being *really* disruptive. I don't actually say, "shush," just "Could you please keep it down?" or something. DH gets terrified, though, he's always convinced someone is going to whip out a gun and kill us. Please also volunteer if you've ever had an actual altercation about this. My cousin's friend got in a hair-pulling, crotch-kicking fight once at the movies. Jersey girls. ;-)
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Re: Do you ever "shush" someone in a movie theatre?
Yes, I do, because if someone doesn't do it, the behavior just continues. And it's my experience that most people won't say anything.
The worst time was when my husband and I went to see Thor. The theater was kind of crowded, and this woman sat in front of us with her two very small children. The entire film, the little kids (we're talking under 5 years old) kept saying things like "What's that?!" "Why he hurt!" and "I gotta pee!". The movie was just inappropriate for them, and it was so freaking disruptive. I kept shushing her, and at one point I leaned forward and asked her to please keep it down. She could not take a hint! The woman got so offended that she stood up and went "SHHHH" right in my face. I just stared back at her until she sat down, and then continued to shush her when the kids started crying and chatting again. It was ridiculous. I don't even know what happened in most of that movie.
Honestly, haven't been back to the movie since. I no longer have the desire to pay money to go sit near strangers that will ultimately annoy the shiit out of me.
I have no problem sending dirty looks or 'shhhhhs' to people in places where being noisy and disruptive is not appropriate. Movies, performances, band contests, any place. If I bought a ticket, it wasn't to hear you chat about God knows what.
H says I'm bad about it, but I don't giveashit. It's rude to the performers (if it's a performance) and it's rude to the people sitting around you.
I would pay a super-duper premium for theatres with a "call button" like airplanes have, where you could silently summon an usher if someone is being disruptive.
I watched "A Beautiful Mind" with like 10 loud high school students sitting behind us. At the beginning of the movie I almost turned around and said, "This movie is about MATH and SCHIZOPHRENIA...are you sure you're in the right theatre? Soul Plane is playing next door." Sure enough, they were ridiculously disruptive, and I finally shushed them.
I also had "Love, Actually" ruined for me in the theatre. I think some family members spoke Russian, and one family member was translating for the others so loudly I couldn't hear the actual dialogue. It was awful, and even after I shushed them they kept on.
DH and I went to a movie once for a sold out show and the kids behind us kept kicking our seat and talking loudly through the show. We asked them to stop but they wouldn't. We complained to management, and they asked the kids to leave.
I'm asking. Please tell the whole story!
Last time H and I were at a movie we had 3 teenage girls in front of us texting and laughing and just being really disruptive.. My H had enough so he actually started reading the girls text messages out loud. She got upset and turned around and 'yelled' (kind of a whisper yell) at him something like "thats my private messages blah blah...
H said then keep them private the whole place can hear you laughing, I figured they wanted to know why...
Then the guy in front of them turned around and said pretty much the same thing but finished it up with a solid Shut Up!
The girls didn't make a sound the rest of the movie.
There's really not much more to the story. My friends and I can't even remember what movie it was. It wasn't a movie that I think this girl would have enjoyed sober. I think people were very happy when she was escorted out of the theater. And I know her friends were rather embarrassed about her behavior.
FYI: The people I was with exhibited restraint with her. Let's just say that.
When I was in just out of high school a group of us went to see Braveheart on opening night. The theater was sold out and everyone there was excited and chatting away pre-movie.
The movie starts and some weasley little guy would not stop talking. We could see him from where we were sitting.
After 5 minutes there was a very loud "SHHHHHHUUUUSH" that rang out.
I thought in my head, Finally!
I would have done it myself but I was too far to do it discretely.
The talker guy then says out loud "Don't shush me!"
Then from across his aisle the largest, most beastly man I've ever seen in my life stands up out of his seat (and was illuminated by the screen) and says "I didn't pay good money to hear you yap for 2 hours! You wanna take it outside??"
You could hear a pin drop.
It was amazing!
An usher was now running down the aisle and asked the talker to come out side with him for his own safety. Ha!
My friends and I still talk about it to this day when someone is loud in a movie.
But yes, I will shush a person if they are close enough to me. If not I will go let an usher know.
We usually avoid this by going to the first showing of the day and not the weekend it comes out.
I'm more annoyed with texters lately. It's like shining a flashlight in the eyes of the people behind you! If you can't turn your phone off for 2 hours, then you shouldn't be at the movies.
I rarely go to the theatre anymore because of all the rudeness.
If I go it's the matinee, and hopefully there aren't many others
there. Too many movies have been ruined for me over the years!!
And yes, I did shush. But your husband may be right, people are
too cray-cray now. Also, I live in South Jersey and almost never
get in fist fights. So there.
LOL!
I agree with this. I picked the 'special snowflake' option because I feel like my 'shushing' behavior falls between rarely and all the time. I have no problem doing it, though, and I will also tell people to put their phone away if the light is distracting me. Movies cost so freaking much now, there's no way I'm going to let someone ruin it for me.
People have yelled and/or cursed at me for asking them to be quiet, but it's never gone beyond that. Usually someone else agrees that they need to STFU and they do it, or I (or another patron) will get the usher. The only time I didn't do it was when there were some pretty scary looking teenagers who were talking about dealing drugs on their phone - I went straight to the usher, and when he didn't do anything we got our ticket refunded and they gave us free tickets to the next showing, which was in about thirty minutes so it was NBD. That was in central NJ, by the way. I won't even go to movies in Baltimore.
I almost never do but a girlfriend of mine asked a group of 13 year olds to please sit down at the midnight premiere of Twilight. They had been standing in the aisles talking during the whole first half of the movie.
After the movie was over they followed her to her car and started kicking her car.
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That's nuts.
Maybe because I am from Philly.
One time kids were sitting at the top while their parents say at he bottom and they (kids) kept going back and forth and then the kids would switch seats at the top. I finally had enough and I told them to either sit down and stay quiet or go sit with their patents as I paid good money to see a movie and rretired of them moving all the time. They sat down and didn't move.
If the person is texting and stuff I usually make a comment under my breath where they can hear it (something like wish that light would go away or it sure is bright in front of me) and they usually turn it off. Rarely have I had to go to a manager.
If you want to talk before the previews fine but be quiet during the movies as I paid $11 to see it and would like to enjoy it.
I voted ss.
I would LOVE to have the balls to do this but I have the same fear - that I am going to be blown away right there in the movie theater because of it. Or worse, they will confront me in the parking lot after. lol. I have never even witnessed a confrontation like this but people are crazy and I am kind of a wuss so... yeah. Every time I hear a news story about someone getting killed over something stupid I am like "yup this is why it is ok I am a wuss!"
This. We never go the first couple of weeks a movie is out, or on a friday or saturday night because they are usually packed.
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I love this.
I want to know what artsy-fartsy movie it was. Tree of Life? The Artist?
I was at the movies with DH and during the "preview" "pre-movie" time they had a flash that had the phone ringing and a "no texting during the show" message. The teenagers kept making fun of that message as it was playing over and over (they repeated the message - as if only an idiot wouldn't "get it" the first time, etc.).
But, wouldn't you know....when the movie started what do you know - they started texting! So annoying.
I don't "Ssssh" people, I go right to the usher and tell them to have the people quiet down.