Movie theater experience - teenagers

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They are lucky you only told them to shut up. You could have had them kicked out since they were underage in a rated R movie.
Next time, only give them about a 15 min grace period before telling them to shut up. I very much relate to this post and even when I was a teenager it annoyed me when other teenagers did this.

Unfortunately, we live in a society where parents will defend their kids when they do this. I will never forget going to the movies when I was a freshman in college. I was with a group of my friends, and a couple of rows behind us were some pre-teens/teenage girls. They spent the movie throwing popcorn at us, giggling and generally making a disturbance. About half way through, one of us turned around and politely asked that they stop throwing popcorn at us, though it did no good.

Later as we left the theater, the girls started pointing at us, and one of their mother's came over and yelled at us for harassing their child. Apparently, asking someone not to throw something at you is harassment.

Good for you for doing that. In my experience, teenagers ruin damn near everything. They demand respect and to be "treated like an adult", yet do the exact opposite. I'm only 24, but I don't recall acting that way, ever. Probably because my dad raised me better than that.

In my case, my husband and I went to see this at 10pm, expecting it to be a pretty empty theater. We sat down in the front where we usually sit. The movie begins, and 10 minutes in, these two middle-aged women come in and sit right behind us. The theater had maybe a total of 20 people in it. Just our luck. They knock into our chairs, kick them while sitting down and getting comfortable, start talking (not whispering, TALKING) about whether they want to sit there or not, the setting of the movie, "should we move closer to the back?", "oh, you know, that man was in this movie and it was just unbelievable!"

After about 10 more minutes of this, loudly, I said "are we going to talk throughout the whole movie?" My husband decided we should move down several seats to the other end of the row, and I stared at them as I got up and moved.

Seriously, show some consideration for others. Talking and giggling and whispering and playing on your phone is not something you should be doing in a theater. Save that for when you're at home, in your own miserable company.

Horrors are the worst. I must put someone in their place almost every time I see one in theatre. Too bad they not always shut up.

While I have to say it's not all teenagers and it's not just teenagers, it often is. I never did it when I was a teenager (which wasn't too long ago, I'm only 21 now) but the talking, the phones and general disruptiveness is annoying and disrespectful to all other people in the cinema. Also, throwing. My friend and I went to see a movie a few weeks ago and we were sat watching and these teenage boys who were sat a few rows behind us decided it was hilarious to start throwing sweets at us. We didn't have a problem with turning it back on them so my friend shouted out at them to stop throwing sweets. We felt bad shouting because we didn't want to disturb other people but we couldn't sit there having quite hard sweets being lobbed at our heads. They stopped for a while and then decided to start up again. So again, we shouted at them. It's pathetic.

When I went to see the latest Hobbit movie, I'd bought tickets for the day it was released, during the day (which was a Friday) so that there'd be less people around and my friend and I could enjoy it without too much disturbance. Unfortunately, we bumped into this guy (who was a friend of a friend) and his friends who were seeing the same movie and in the screen they decided to sit with us. There were only three of them but they didn't stop talking the entire way through the movie. I was so pissed off with them and I kept having to refrain myself from telling them to shut up because I knew the chances were I'd have to see that guy again and he wasn't the problem, it was his other friends. They also had a girl with them who clearly hadn't even seen the first movie or read the book and kept asking questions throughout the entire thing, and loudly.

Although I do have to say, it's not just teenagers. Adults don't throw things but some of them certainly still have complete disregard for other people (these are probably the parents of the teenagers that do things like that). I've been to see movies before where adults will sit there nattering away to each other while the film is on, and not quietly either. I don't have a problem with people whispering during the trailers because I haven't paid to see the trailers and sometimes you'll watch one of the trailers and lean over to your friend and whisper 'that looks good' or something like that but you should still whisper so you try not to disturb anyone.

Also, last night I went to the cinema and the man behind me (who was I'd say at least about 30) kept kicking the back of my chair and leaning his feet on the back of it or to the sides of it where there's the gap for the arm rest. I know cinema seats aren't exactly the most comfortable but that's just rude and unfair on the other person who has to sit through a movie with feet pushing into the back of their chair. At first I thought it was just pushing the back of my chair as he crossed his legs or moved them but no, he was just leaning on my chair. I also think he probably thought he could get away with it with me because I'm a small girl and I look young (although I'm 21, I generally look about 16/17) but he was wrong and about half way through the movie I turned round and asked him to stop putting his feet on my chair.

Basically, rudeness and disrespect doesn't seem to have any age limitations. It's just unfortunately there will always be people that are.

'You people. If there isn't a movie about it, it's not worth knowing, is it?'

I don't think it differs much from country to country. But here in Portugal, normally we see those annoying teenagers mostly in:
- Horror Movies;
- Comercial Movies (low quality comedies, action, etc..)
And we notice them in the most obvious hours. That's why I love to go to the movies at midnight and so, or go at the middle of the week because much of those teenagers are in school or can't get out all the time.
Unfortunately that's awfull, because I don't like to shut up anyone, even less call for assistance so they can kick out them. I just love to pay for my ticket, and enjoy the movie with a silenced crowd.
I'm sorry for your poor cinema experience, but I hope these hints can help you avoiding these annoying little creatures. They eventually realize that, almost all of them I guess.

Cheers :)

Good on you for telling them to shut up. I had to do this to a very talkative group of 3 or 4 people (in their late 20s/early 30s) when we went to see The Conjuring. I really hate to do it but it was just mind boggling how inconsiderate these douchebags were.

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