The horror! The horror! A rant about morons at the movies. (1 Viewer)

[Ross Williams]

Ben,
No.
I imagine the same thing was going on in about every theater the first couple days of Star Wars showing. It was special circumstance based on the fact that there was a new Star Wars movie showing for the first time in 16 years.
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[Andy_S]

I agree with Ross. In all my years of going to see movies in the theater I've never experienced what I did when I went to see Phantom Menace opening night. Up to that point I would hear applaus at the end of some really good movies, but never any chearing/booing.
[Edit] Also, I think it's funny that Ben assumes that all Americans, in all cities, chear and whoop during every film because he saw one movie that showed people chearing/booing.

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[Edited last by Andy_S on September 14, 2001 at 12:08 PM]

 

[AaronNWilson]

Yeah those rowdy american pfft, we never get any of that rowdyness up here in polite Canada .
Ryan as someone who used to live in Ireland I find that smoking in restaurants and movie theaters, stores etc is disgusting. Knowing what we know now about passive smoking it makes me want to unsheath my kbar on some of these smokers. Smoking in public buildings is one of the rudest things I can imagine.
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[Kimmo Jaskari]

I saw The Phantom Menace in Stockholm and there was much booing at the start of it. Why? Because the trademark scrolling Star Wars text... was in swedish! Ack!

I joined in the booing and am not ashamed.
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[Mick Wright]

Smoking in public buildings is one of the rudest things I can imagine.

Agreed, but don't forget the assholes that smoke right outside building doorways, producing a cloud of disgusting smoke I have to walk through to enter/exit.

 

[Mark Cappelletty]

I can't believe that no one has pointed out the worst result of smoking in a movie theater-- that everyone behind the smoker can't see the screen because of (duh) clouds of smoke!
I'm opposed to the California vote about no smoking in bars if only that it never went to a state-wide vote. But no smoking in movie theaters seems pretty obvious to me.

 

[Steve Lockwood]

God damn smoking! I will bring a pipe next time!
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