When did talking and holding conversations during movies become the social norm?

Should have punched them in the face.

They deserve to be thrown in prison.

Real OT ballers have home theaters

Going to the movies is a social experience, as long as they're talking about the movie I don't see a problem with it. My favorite is when someone says a funny thing in the movie and then someone in the audience repeats it really loud. It's always funny the second time.

I now pretty much only go to the movies either Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday before 4:30pm. Good thing is every casino here pretty much has a theater now so if you go at those times usually always pretty empty. I won't go to a movie on the weekends though at all.

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I don't know, but I really do wish the theaters would crackdown on it harder.

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Agreed.

It's one reason why I don't really rush to see movies anymore...I'd just as soon wait a few weeks and then see it when the theater is more empty and I can enjoy myself.

Trashy people have always talked during movies. The population of trash has grown over time in your area. Sorry you live in a craphole :(

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Going to the movies is a social experience, as long as they're talking about the movie I don't see a problem with it.

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Honest answer: my theory is that people started behaving worse at the movies with the advent of home video.

Two reasons. First, at home you can stop the movie, get up, go to the can, get a beer, talk on the phone, rewind a spot you missed, etc. This has conditioned people to place their personal conveniences over the need to sit still and shut up, because the movie is on. The movie is de-valued.

Secondly, also de-valuing the movie is that you have literally thousands of movies you can watch any time you want on a device in your pocket. Missed it at the theater? So what? It will be on Amazon in three months. Movies have a reduced value in terms of grabbing and holding people's attention now.

The way that movies used to be... I'm old enough to remember it. It was a big deal to go to the movies. Home video wasn't an option then. A movie came to your town, stayed three weeks and was never to be seen again. The only time you got to see movies is if you went to the theater or it came on broadcast TV, and you were at the mercy of the stations. You didn't get to pick what you wanted to see. And because of that, movies had more "power" to command your attention. Even a sub-par movie would be watched just because it was a movie, and CBS showed it on Saturday night.

Nowadays... frick that movie. It can't hold anyone's attention when their attention is constantly being bombarded by other stimulus.

None of this excuses bad behavior. This is just what I think the origin is. It started going south in the 80's.

this is why I go to Sunday morning matinees

brunch + movie is an awesome date "morning" FWIW

anyways, we finally took our 2 year to see her first movie (Inside Out) and we went to the Sunday morning matinee because we thought it would be empty. But nope, it was packed as shite. And it was all families with small children. I thought it was going to be horrible, that the kids would be screaming, crying, etc, but nope, everyone was quiet and everything was great.

And then I thought "oh yeah, that makes sense because the responsible parents are the ones bringing their kids to the early movies, its the shitty parents bringing their kids to the 10:45 movie and thus all the problems with kids screaming"

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