[Serious] How often do you encounter rude and inconsiderate movie goers at your theater, and how do you deal with them?

In the past few years, my wife and I have found ourselves stuck in theaters with loud, obnoxious, clueless and/or rude movie goers multiple times.

Some examples of this include:

• a trio of teens vaping beneath the IMAX projector for The Incredibles 2.

• a cackling hyena of a man who thought he was the funniest person on Earth by constantly cracking jokes during the opening scene of Avengers: Endgame.

• a guy who brought a puppet along for a showing of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man Tell No Tales and just kept bouncing it on his leg while having it react to scenes, including making it turn to my wife with an open mouth during action scenes. I genuinely don't know why this was allowed.

• a mom who kept her phone brightness on maximum and just kept scrolling through her facebook feed during The Predator... While seated near the front center so everyone behind her could see.

• a grandpa loudly cutting up with his grandson during Hotel Transylvania 3 with insult/joke comments about the characters. Which, ok, this guy is just trying to bond with his grandson but there are other people in the theater, at least whisper or something.

• a group of senior ladies seated behind my wife and I who spoke clearly for the entirety of The Shape of Water and kept commenting "Oh, that's too much!" when the woman and fish man had relations.

• a snobby horror buff critiquing Mandy throughout it's run time. My eyes rolled into the back of my head at some of the stuff this dude was saying.

• and most recently, last week a young couple making their own sound effects and loud exclamations every time something happened in Shazam!... We were the only other couple in the theater and even had the place to ourselves for the first fifteen minutes. They sat in the very back and we were in the very front... it still sounded like they were right beside us.

• Oh, and a bonus. When we went to see Bohemian Rhapsody, there was only one other family of three in the theater and even though we sat in the back left corner of the theater, all we could smell was their mildewy, unwashed clothes and body odor. It was disgusting.

Some of these situations, I handled by trying to get management like the kids vaping in Incredibles, but despite popping in three times, they never caught the kids.

Others I was more direct, like yelling "Yo, shut the fuck up!" to the guy cracking jokes at the start of Endgame. (My IMAX showing was cancelled due to a power outage blowing the projector, so we had to buy front row seats to a standard showing at the last minute... I was stressed and just wanted to watch the movie).

But most of the time, because my wife hates conflict and I'm not exactly a fan of confronting others in the first place, I just deal with it.

This has made going to the movies a chore and more often than not, a less enjoyable experience.

We've tried going to premiere showings to be with big fans (which has worked each time with Star Wars!), we've tried going in the middle of a weekday to dodge big crowds, we've gone during fourth and fifth week showings at off hours and still end up with rude folks (Old ladies in The Shape of Water for example...)

Recently, we've tried watching more movies at home. But there are more upcoming movies we want to see right away to dodge spoilers and well... we're just excited about them.

So how often do you guys and girls encounter folks like this and how do you react? Have you found certain methods to dodging these types of people? Has there been like... a study into why people act this way? I'd love to see the science behind spending $12-$19 on a movie ticket just to play on your phone for two hours.

Submitted May 07, 2019 at 07:36PM by xCaptainSlayer http://bit.ly/2JtN8Rj