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deej
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May 10 2007, 8:13pm
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I think the majority of the folks here already follow these (in my opinion) common sense rules, but I would personally like to post this in every theater in America:
No matter how bad the movie is, no one wants to hear you talk through it.
If you go to the bathroom during the film, you are allowed one 5-second recap upon your return. If you can't hear it or don't "get it," sorry.
Try not to laugh when a fellow audience member yells out something funny. You will only encourage him.
If you show up after the previews have begun, you've forfeited your right to ask someone — especially an elderly person — to move seats so your six-person party can sit together.
While we appreciate you leaving your seat to make that call on your cellphone, we can still hear you if you're standing inside the theater doors. Step outside.
If you're one of only a few people in a theater, do not sit directly in front of one of them. Even in stadium seating.
Do not spend five minutes looking through your bag for something after the movie starts. It's dark. You're not going to find it.
Open the candy quickly. Yes, it will be loud, but only for a second. As opposed to what happens if you try to do it slowly. And you make noise anyway. And your friends feel the need to laugh at you.
Is there anything else that should be added to this list?
Sincerely, deej - The Artist Formerly Known as djdeathskiss
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Curious
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May 10 2007, 8:25pm
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Some theaters are audience participation theaters.
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Maybe there should be a sign saying so. I've had lots of fun at theaters where the audience was loud and boistrous. How would rules 1 and 3 apply to a viewing of the Rocky Horror Picture Show, for example?
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greendragon
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May 10 2007, 8:27pm
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Well I'd LIKE to be able to add
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'When I am in the movie theatre I expect this to be my own private viewing. If I HAVE to share the cinema with you, I expect you to sit as far away from me as possible, to be ABSOLUTELY silent and still throughout, and I reserve the right to throw you out if anything you do in any way compromises my movie viewing experience.'
But obviously, that would be a little unreasonable... I'd also like to say something similar at the gym, (ie 'If I am on this piece of equipment I do not expect you to work on any machine anywhere near me'), on the bus, etc.! Maybe I'm just a tad antisocial... 
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Darkstone
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May 10 2007, 8:58pm
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Please do not threaten the cashiers with bodily harm over the price of tickets, sodas, or popcorn. They can’t do anything about it. Go threaten the manager. He can’t do anything about it either but at least you’re no longer holding up the line.
If you must throw something at the screen, please throw popcorn, not ice.
When your change your baby in your theater seat please do not kick the dirty diaper under another seat a few rows over.
When you put your feet up on the chair in front of you please leave your shoes on.
If you must converse with your friends during the film please sit in the same general area, preferably next to each other.
If you must smoke please extinguish your cigarettes properly. Do not flick the lit butts at the back of people’s heads.
Please be creative in the use of your laser pointers. Thank you but we’re all well aware of the location of the actors’ genitalia.
If you absolutely must clog up the toilets please leave at least a little paper for the next occupant.
When you bring food from home please do not bang the plates and silverware together. And don’t pop the paper bags after you’ve finished.
If you must fight, please do it in the aisles. If you use knives, go out to the lobby. It you use pistols please go out to the parking lot. If you use automatic weapons, please give the rest of us the time to leave.
Please buy your young children enough candy and popcorn. Do not let them indulge in free range grazing under all the seats.
If you must have sex please do it in the back row. That’s what it’s there for. Doing it in the bathroom is unhygienic and scares the little kids.
All is not gold that glitters,
All is not pure that shines.
Follow your mother's teachings
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-Bugs Bunny, "Bowery Bugs", 1949.
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Alcarcalime
Tol Eressea
May 10 2007, 9:23pm
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I don't know where you live...
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but I don't want to go to the movies there!
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RosieLass
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May 10 2007, 9:52pm
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Please take a bath before you come to the theater.
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And if you're a heavy smoker, please wash your clothes and don't smoke in the car on the way.
NOTHING spoils a movie like choking to death on body odor and rancid cigarette stench.
This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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May 10 2007, 10:44pm
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Rocky Horror is something entirely else.
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But there are rules there too. Like don't spit chewing tobacco on participants (yes, that happened to me).
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JRandomRohirrim
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May 10 2007, 11:06pm
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I'm shocked I'd have to list this one at all, but it still happens sometimes.
I went to see Malcolm X when it came out, and some idiot thought smoking a joint during the prison scenes (Malcolm X went to prison as a young man on a drug charge) was an appropriate thing to do!! The theater was pretty empty, but I was so frustrated I muttered, "Don't you get what's happening here?" and the idiot seemed to get it and put out the joint. If you've really got to smoke during a movie, watch it at home.
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Ataahua
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May 11 2007, 12:15am
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A couple of months ago I sat next to a teenage boy whose body odour was rancid. It was a packed theatre so there weren't any other seats to move to. It was an unpleasant couple of hours.
Celebrimbor: "Pretty rings..."
Dwarves: "Pretty rings..."
Men: "Pretty rings..."
Sauron: "Mine's better."
"Ah, how ironic, the addictive qualities of Sauron’s master weapon led to its own destruction. Which just goes to show, kids - if you want two small and noble souls to succeed on a mission of dire importance... send an evil-minded b*****d with them too." - Gandalf's Diaries, final par, by Ufthak.
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diedye
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May 11 2007, 12:37am
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Sounds like the neighborhood where I grew up.
Good times, they were.
*sigh*
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diedye
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May 11 2007, 12:42am
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Don't hit on women in the theater...
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... you might end up on the receiving end of the theater manager's wrath, who just happens to be the brother and fiancé of said women. 
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Annael
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May 11 2007, 1:44am
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I think we need to add the "Karen the Magnificent" rule
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If you talk on your cell phone during the movie, other patrons have the right to make snowballs out of their drink ice and pelt you with them.
(I'm still laughing over that story.)
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Ataahua
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May 11 2007, 3:38am
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Do you know if she really did that?
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Part of me is hoping it's a true story! (The small, evil part.)
Celebrimbor: "Pretty rings..."
Dwarves: "Pretty rings..."
Men: "Pretty rings..."
Sauron: "Mine's better."
"Ah, how ironic, the addictive qualities of Sauron’s master weapon led to its own destruction. Which just goes to show, kids - if you want two small and noble souls to succeed on a mission of dire importance... send an evil-minded b*****d with them too." - Gandalf's Diaries, final par, by Ufthak.
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RosieLass
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May 11 2007, 4:22am
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So we can enjoy vicariously someone else doing something we don't have the guts to do.
This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.
--Eeyore
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Eledhwen
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May 11 2007, 5:55am
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Smoking in cinemas has been banned for years in the UK, and it's banned here in NZ too. I can't imagine people smoking during a movie.
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Aerin
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May 11 2007, 6:25am
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I haven't experienced most of these things, but I'll second the bit about wearing shoes. It wasn't the person behind me putting up her feet on the back of my seat, but the person next to me sitting in such a position that one of her bare feet was pretty much right in my face. I politely asked her to please move her foot, and she did, but during the course of the 3-hour movie (TTT, I think), she kept forgetting and sticking her foot in my face again. Actually, shoes wouldn't have helped much, as the distraction was mainly visual, but it wouldn't have seemed quite so weird.
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Sherry
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May 11 2007, 6:37am
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Maybe we are too polite in the UK
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or maybe I just never see films and find people leaving their mobile phones on during a screening, but people as a rule switch them off here before the film begins. We get an announcement/advert on screen before the films starts reminding us to do so and you see heaps of people reaching for their phones and turning them off.
Its kind of that polite mentality and knowing that everyone around you will glare, mutter or say something else should your phone go off. And that would not do :p
And as far as seating problems go, most cinemas here have seat allocation. Usually on a first come, first choice basis, I love being able to choose on screen where I want to sit. Paying £15 for 2 tickets, I damn well want a decent seat thank you. So you find most people get there reasonably early before the film starts to find their seat numbers and get in them. The annoying ones are those that come in late and have to climb over you, but you can bet people grumble at them ;) But we don't have the problem of a bun fight for seats. I always book tickets for end of row so I don't have those problems and can go in just a bit before the film starts and not annoying anyone else.
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Patty
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May 11 2007, 7:06am
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Please do not take a bath in your perfume. It is supposed to be private between you the person with whom you have close contact. Please do not let it give me allergy attacks and headaches sitting 3 rolls behind you.
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JRandomRohirrim
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May 11 2007, 9:31am
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You're right, it's not legal in the States either
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That's why seeing it happen that one time shocked me so much.
I think if the audience had been bigger, it wouldn't have happened.
Smoking during rock concerts used to be very common back in the '70s, but it wasn't legal then, either.
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luinfalathiel
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May 11 2007, 9:52am
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TURN YOUR $*&^*!&#@* CELLPHONE OFF ENTIRELY!!!
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... or at least set it to "vibrate".
I love these things in Korea called "DVD bangs" (bang is Korean for room). They're business that have a bunch of private theatres. You go in with a few friends and rent a DVD, and instead of taking it home to watch it you go into one of the theatre rooms, sit on comfy couches, have free candy, and get a nice big screen and surround sound. They're private, not expensive, and you can bring in whatever munchies/drinkies you want. And you don't have to worry about that idiot with the gigantic hat and loud cellphone eating fistfuls of Captain Crunch in front of you. :)
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grammaboodawg
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May 11 2007, 11:26am
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and I know others have already touched on these... BUT:
Why in the world do theatres sell concessions in NOISY PACKAGING!!??! GEEZ! Open it, take out the food and chew with your mouth closed!
Don't bring small children and babies to the theatre. I counted 7 different babies/kids fussing, crying and talking through Spiderman 3.
Have a care if you're forced to sit in front of someone who you're obviously taller than, sit still and be courteous enough to switch over to another seat if possible.
At the end of the film, don't stand up and just stand there talking, putting on coats, etc. Some of us enjoy watching the credits!
Same goes for coming IN to the film... especially when the trailers/film has already started. When I came for the first viewing of TT, it was just barely starting when a young couple came in and wanted the two empty seats in front of me. He sat right down, but she stood right in front of me messing with her coat, her purse, her popcorn... and I'm starting a slow boil. I couldn't take it any more. "SIT!" She dropped like a rock. Those people probably drive the same way. "Lahhhteeedahhh. I'm the only one on the road."
Don't be so stiff that you can't applaud at the end of a good film. I don't know why, but that really bothers me.
And I include all of those from your list! People forget they're not in their living room.
 
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a.s.
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May 11 2007, 11:58am
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yes, the cell phone rule applies to YOU TOO!
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In general I find a vast number of people ignoring clearly posted rules about cell phones, not only in the theater but in doctor's office waiting rooms and libraries, etc. I haven't been to a crowded theater in the last year that hasn't shown a little film about cell phones prior to the previews...and yet inevitably someone's phone chirps sometime during the movie.
If the sign says "Turn your cell phone off" then do. Yes, it means you, too. It really really does mean you!!!
It seems like people ignore the signs that say "please" even more than the straight out requests, adding more insult to injury. "PLEASE comply" means the same thing as "COMPLY".
Apparently more people can talk on phones then can read simple English words...I am personally in favor of legislation that will require you to read a sign that says "for the courtesy of our clients, please turn off all cell phones and do not make or accept phone calls from our waiting room" and explain what it means prior to obtaining a license to carry a cell phone!!
Everyone makes legitimate errors and forgets. But if your phone rings in a place where calls are clearly prohibited, turn it OFF. Check your missed calls or voice or text mail and CALL BACK---from somewhere I can't hear you!
Please PLEASE PLEASE do not answer your phone while in the public bathroom stall while clearly doing what the stall was intended to HIDE. People have apparently lost all sense of proportion when they answer phone calls while using the facilities. And I mean "using" literally. What is this world coming to (she asks curmudgeonly)? Not to mention the matter of sanitation...think of where your hands have just been!!! And remind me never to borrow your cell phone...
sheesh, I'm on a roll here...
Unless it's a matter of national security (and your husband calling you from the grocery store to ask what brand of bologna to buy does not count!!), your conversation can wait.
Gee, deej, you got me started!!!
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But I've heard that I'm on the road to Purgatory, and I don't like the sound of that!
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And I choose: let the mystery be.
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Patty
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May 11 2007, 3:45pm
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Not to hijack the thread, but...
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"I am personally in favor of legislation that will require you to read a sign that says "for the courtesy of our clients, please turn off all cell phones and do not make or accept phone calls from our waiting room" and explain what it means prior to obtaining a license to carry a cell phone!!"
.... If I could only influence legislation once I'd rather use it to ensure that idiot drivers who wait until they are making a lefthand turn before putting on their turn signals. I don't know anything that makes me boil worse than that, as it is clearly stated in the driving manuals that you should signal your INTENT to turn. But that's an argument for another day...
Back on-topic, our local theater sends an employee in just before the trailers start to verbally remind people to turn off their cell phones. I think that does help.
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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May 11 2007, 4:02pm
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At the end of the film, don't stand up and just stand there talking, putting on coats, etc. Some of us enjoy watching the credits!
People in our town are reasonably polite, but they do get up as soon as the credits roll, and our family always stays until the end of the credits.
Remember when FotR added a trailer for TT toward the end of its run? Our family was sitting, waiting, knowing it was coming. When it started, I let out a whoop, and several people came running back in from the hall.
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"For DORA BAGGINS in memory of a LONG correspondence, with love from Bilbo; on a large wastebasket. Dora was Drogo's sister, and the eldest surviving female relative of Bilbo and Frodo; she was ninety-nine, and had written reams of good advice for more than half a century."
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and some other stuff I wrote...
leleni at hotmail dot com
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