<p>Sticky floor - ewwww! H hates going to the movies because of that. He always tests the floor for stickiness before choosing a seat. I understand that it might be hard to eat neatly in the darkness of a movie theater, but it is no excuse for the incredible mess people create in just a couple of hours. The kids who work at the local theater use leafblowers to clean after a show. Brooms just don’t do it.
Speaking of cupholders, our theater has them, but the soda buckets are too big to fit into them!</p>
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<p>LOL—hysterical!</p>
<p>I haven’t been to the multi-plex in our area (a mere 5 mins. away) in over 3 years. I agree with every complaint listed so far, and at ten bucks a pop, it’s just not worth it. It seems that our society is growing increasingly uncivil, with people’s attitude being, “It’s all about me!”</p>
<p>My sister and I toured a model home close to her house in Columbia, MD last week. Listed at almost 2 million, it had an amazing home theater to die for—Eight reclining leather sofas in a “stadium seating” arrangement, each with built in cup holders (four seats to a row). There was this gynormous flat panel HDTV with surround sound, and wonderful theater lighting. It felt just like being in a movie theater, but with none of the drawbacks. As soon as I hit lotto (i guess I’d had better start playing, huh?), one of those setups will be among the first of my dream home specifications.
Meanwhile, I’ll just wait for movies to come out on DVD, and watch them in the privacy of my family room with my feet up on the coffee table.;)</p>
<p>Gosh, I think the sticky floors are the only one of several complaints of mine that have been mentioned.</p>
<p>Major Hate #1: Children and/or adults (!) kicking the back of my seat.
Tied for #1: Children or adults with feet up on the seat in front . You know what? I don’t care even if there’s no one in that row. It is just amazingly rude to behave as if the theater is your bedroom or living room. And clearly if you’re taking your shoes off & putting your socks up on the seats, you’re fantasizing that this is “your” space and you have no regard for the other guests.</p>
<p>Hate #2: Parents without the common sense to have their kid go to the bathroom BEFORE the movie, and who sit near the front with said frequent travelers to and fro DURING the movie – bathroom breaks, snack breaks, whoops-I-forgot breaks, Where’s-my-sister breaks, etc. Zero consciousness of anyone else. This just demonstrates that BOTH child & parents are not ready for Movie Prime Time outside the home. The Unconscious leading the Undisciplined.</p>
<p>Major Hate #3: Sexually explicit (or almost so) trailers/previews. Ya’ know, if I wanted to go to that particular almost-X-rated movie, Hey, I would’ve waited for that release. But I’m going to THIS non-x-rated movie because I have hopelessly old-fashioned taste, even though it’s maybe an R-rated movie, since there’s seems to be obligatory suggestive sex in even non-romance genres these days. Um, MY KIDS ARE WITH ME, get it?</p>
<p>Major Hate #4: Ear-splitting sound at all costs – for special effects, TRAILERS, commercials (!), and announcements. Unfortunately, during the important dialogue, either the sound is often muted, distorted, and/or several jerks in the audience are talking.</p>
<p>Have I made your day yet?</p>
<p>someone said that pj’s and drive-ins dated them. Well, how about this for my old-fashioned memories? Ushers! Actual ushers! Ushers carrying authority and flashlights. Ushers who roamed the aisles, looked down rows, and removed ill-behaving spectators. (What a concept!) Ushers whom you could summon in person, would follow you to said offenders’ location, and demand an exit from the same. Try that today, and get a big laugh.</p>
<p>We have been going to a theater in our area which has reserved seating which you can purchase on line, seating in comfy chairs with table/cupholder on the side, and ADULTS only after 6pm. They have cocktails too.
You aren’t blocked by the person in front of you and the highback seats seem to seperate you from the rest of the audience.</p>
<p>I remember when movies all had double features or at least cartoons 
I even sat through Reds ( which was long enough on it’s own) when I was pg & supposed to be in bed.</p>
<p>I worked at a family owned drive in when I was 18 ( the mom & her daughter lived above the theatre in a pretty nice place), in the kitchen. It was fun & they also had an indoor seating area in case the car was too uncomfortable I guess.</p>
<p>I like the theatres around here & there is an upside of families moving to the suburbs, is that they aren’t taking their kids to see The Diving Bell & the Butterfly in the city.
( great movie BTW & one of the best soundtracks)</p>
<p>The theatres in the suburbs are newer but I think the between show music is very loud and then you have to sit through all the dumb ads. Really steers me away.</p>
<p>In the city we have [Landmark</a> Theatres](<a href=“http://www.landmarktheatres.com/]Landmark”>http://www.landmarktheatres.com/) who bought out a local chain , but they have kept the well loved theatres essentially the same. ( inclunding a 2nd run theatre with $3 tickets) I don’t often go to any other theatres.</p>
<p>Seattle is not only a big bookstore town, but a big film town
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<p>Ken Alhadeff a local developer & philanthropist reworked our neighbohood theater ( his wife Maureen did the interior) and exceeded the community expectations. ( they show usually mostly family movies) @ [Majestic</a> Bay](<a href=“http://www.majesticbay.com/]Majestic”>http://www.majesticbay.com/)</p>
<p>but I dont often go to the movies, can’t sit still & not anything I really want to see. ( when H & I met- we went to lots of French farces that were great fun- but he can’t sit still either anymore- his back 
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<p>I would have loved to have seen Into the Wild again for $5,
[intimate</a> + Eddie? I’m there!](<a href=“http://fuelfriends.blogspot.com/2008/03/vedder-plays-5-secret-shows-in-west.html]intimate”>I AM FUEL, YOU ARE FRIENDS: Vedder plays $5 secret shows in West Seattle)</p>
<p>Let me add to the list of pet peeves: teenagers (and adults behaving like ones) with excessive PDA! If I wanted to see sex, there are X-rated movies out there.</p>
<p>PDA? Clue in the clueless or PM me if you need to.</p>
<p>EK, further on memories:</p>
<p>Not just double features, but Continuous Movies. Big fun. So, if some jerk WAS talking and WASN’T booted by the oft-present ushers, you got to catch the dialogue you missed on the first go-round. No new admission fee. Just stay seated.</p>
<p>Actual intermissions, sometimes even during one (long) movie. Most people actually waited for intermission to take snack & bathroom breaks.</p>
<p>I will say that at other chains ( Landmark shows previews of things like the Wind shakes the Barley), I have no idea how they come up with the trailers.
For a drama- that may have a tiny bit of violence and sex- they show trailers for movies that are very violent.
[Movies</a> | Web trailers are sexier, more violent | Seattle Times Newspaper](<a href=“http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/movies/2004014559_trailers18.html]Movies”>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/movies/2004014559_trailers18.html)</p>
<p>I watched the Station Agent recently with Peter Dinklage- which is a very sweet movie about a man who loves trains and it was rated R because of some cursing, & in one scene there is apparently someone smoking a joint ( although you have to really look) 
But I have seen violent movies that were PG</p>
<p>I do have a beef with movie reviewers.
I hate violence- especially graphic- I know it is fake but I can’t stomach it.
Most reviewers seem to understate the amount and intensity of violence in a movie & while the movie might be very good otherwise, I really love Javier Bardem for instance- but I didn’t go see Country for Old Men & Daniel Day Lewis,There will be blood, because I was afraid they would be too gory.</p>
<p>PDA=public display of affection. ^_^</p>
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<p>I’m ashamed to admit I’m guilty of this one. When I was younger, though…I don’t really do it anymore.</p>
<p>No Country for Old Men is definitely gory. You could read the book instead. There Will be Blood is not, to my recollection, particularly gory–and DDL is, if anything, even more amazing than usual–but it is <em>really</em> strange. :)</p>
<p>I did actually watch Gladiator on my computer- when there was a fight scene I just resized the screen and played Texas Hold’em ;)</p>
<p>I also thought in Gladiator it was appropriate- but I still didn’t want to watch it.</p>
<p>No multiplexs for me either…last time I went to one a 20 something was on his cel phone, texting away. I asked him to turn his phone off and he told me to do something pornographic to him. Not the usual F but something more graphic than that. </p>
<p>Nice…the girl sitting next to him was completely embarassed and he turned it off. I was about to go get a manager.</p>
<p>We just put a home theater in our basement. It is as great as you might imagine. My hubby’s idea, but we all love it.</p>
<p>Alright - since we’re expanding pet peeves to include the movies themselves–</p>
<p>Mine is CRUELTY TO ANIMALS, especially in comedies. Will Ferrell, Jack Black, Adam Sandler and others take note. We know the animals weren’t really harmed in filming, but even the IDEA isn’t funny, and it’s irresponsible to imply to kids that it’s supposed to be. On top of that, there’s always the very real possibility of the occasional cruel idiot out in the real world who thinks it might be funny to reenact something he saw on screen.</p>
<p>Going to the movies has become a horrendous experience. Whenever I do go, I typically go out of my way to a theater further from my house just because it caters to the quieter sort. People are so incredibly rude and inconsiderate of others. I don’t want to hear their children screaming or loud conversations, nor should I have to. It’s such a waste of money. I’ve taken to watching movies online which I hate to do, but I can’t take it anymore.</p>
<p>I am so glad I started this thread, since in my family I am the wierdo for not liking to go to the movies…popcorn is my only reason! we have netflixs and I love using them instead…I wait 3 mos for it to come out, but the day it is released on dvd it is in my mailbox, I watch it and drop it in my mailbox the next day…it is so easy.</p>
<p>Plus I hate it when you are in the theatre and somebody is talking so you miss a crucial line and get confused of how did that happen!</p>
<p>When did our society get to the point that we don’t care about the other person sitting next to us…better yet, when did we get to the point that these same rude people feel comfortable enough to endure glares for everyone around them!</p>
<p>b&p: You just reminded me of another reason I hate multiplexes–the popcorn. The one closest to us makes popcorn ahead of time, and after you have paid whatever enormous amount of $ they charge, you get a container of cold, stale popcorn that tastes horrible.</p>
<p>I LOVE my own homemade-with-lots-of-oil popcorn, so that is another reason to stay home. I even purposely burn the bottom layer so I can get a bit of that heavenly (but probably bad-for-you) flavor.</p>
<p>Our local “classic” theater where it is fun to watch movies has very good, hot popcorn, but it is incredibly expensive–more than the ticket for the movie by far.</p>
<p>EK, Gladiator with Russell Crowe & Joaquin Phoenix? That is one movie that is a different experience when watched on The Big Screen. Scary. Not just because of the fight scenes. (Those weren’t as difficult for me to watch as the protagonist’s return home to find his family savaged.) It was the scary totalitarian atmosphere immensely conveyed in larger-than-life format. When I saw it again later on The Small Screen, it was clear that the “immersion” and “surround” could not be replicated even on a normal TV screen.</p>
<p>What I do now, when I want to experience an epic, is wait until the popularity dies down & the movie is about to disappear – if you can catch that tiny window. And I go at some unpopular time when I’m likely to have very little company.</p>
<p>Gladmom…I am with you about the popcorn…luckily our theatre pops it that day so it is fresh! However, I love cold fall days, b/c I make the popcorn in my old reverware pot (my everyday is calphalon…it isn’t the same), the smell in my house and then throw salt on it as soon as it is finished is the best…call me silly, but I never even put butter on it, the mixture of the oil and the salt is pure elation! I am sure the cheap pot that is 20 yrs old is the real factor, since my calphalon pot pot just doesn’t give it the same taste…Off topic…but that holds true for my cast iron skillet, for whatever reason the LODGE $10 9" skillet is the best to make pancakes, eggs, bacon and grilled cheese in compared to the expensive one, can’t figure out why, but even our kids ask me to make all of that in the cheap pan! Don’t get me wrong I am a die-hard calphalon fan, but these 2 pots/pans will always be in my house for these reasons! </p>
<p>BACK ON TOPIC…I would not mind the inconsiderate people if I went to the cheap theatre (ours closed…$2 movie anytime)…you get what you pay for, but when the mat is $5.50, it ticks me off…remember I live in NC</p>