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What are your Movie/TV viewing pet peeves?

Posted on 8/3/11 at 5:59 pm
Posted by foreverLSU
Member since Mar 2006
17074 posts
Posted on 8/3/11 at 5:59 pm
Inspired by my roommate. I just started Mad Men on Netflix last week. Watching an episode right now (roommate has never seen the show) and every 2 minutes there's a question or comment from the peanut gallery and it's driving me bananas.

Other pet peeves:
-Being at a movie theater with no one in the row in front of you, and someone comes and sits in the seat right in front of you, preventing you from putting your feet up.
-Cell phones in movie theaters (goes without saying).
-Commercials being way louder than the show you're watching.

Posted by GoldenTiger85
Member since Aug 2009
8332 posts
Posted on 8/3/11 at 6:02 pm to
People talking, period.
Posted by bddwolfpack
NYC
Member since Sep 2010
9407 posts
Posted on 8/3/11 at 6:02 pm to
I absolutely HATE it when the person (usually my gf or friend - my roommate last year was the worst at this) I'm watching a blu ray at home with asks "Wait, what's going on?" "What just happened? I don't get it."

I usually ignore said question/statement. It's not my job to explain to them a movie, especially when it's my first time seeing it as well.
This post was edited on 8/3/11 at 6:04 pm
Posted by Zamoro10
Member since Jul 2008
14743 posts
Posted on 8/3/11 at 6:02 pm to
Small subtitles in white in foreign movies or ones that disappear mid-sentence.
Posted by Leauxgan
Brooklyn
Member since Nov 2005
17324 posts
Posted on 8/3/11 at 6:04 pm to
someone that's been doodling on their phone a lot of the time all of the sudden has a question about a major plot point they missed, or by the end of it they're all like "um...this movie sucks" even though they're pretty lost as to what's going on.
Posted by TulaneLSU
Member since Aug 2003
Member since Dec 2007
13614 posts
Posted on 8/3/11 at 6:08 pm to
In theater:

1) People who talk, even during the previews
2) People who use their cell phones, even for texting
3) People who are obnoxiously loud eaters
4) People who kick your chairback
5) When the volume is not right, almost always too loud
6) When all the lights in the theater are not dimmed enough
7) People who make frequent trips to the bathroom and concessions stand
8) When during the middle of a film, someone who obviously has just come in from another film sneaks in and sits down
9) Employees who enter about ten minutes before the end of the film and stand off to the side, but completely visible
10) People at the ticket counter who don't know which movie they want to see and stand looking up to see what they want, holding the line up. Couldn't they have looked at the sign while they were standing in the middle of the line and not in the front?
Posted by Walt OReilly
Poplarville, MS
Member since Oct 2005
124694 posts
Posted on 8/3/11 at 6:08 pm to
babies not shuting up
Posted by Geaux9
Mandeville
Member since Apr 2009
5173 posts
Posted on 8/3/11 at 6:11 pm to
quote:

I absolutely HATE it when the person (usually my gf or friend - my roommate last year was the worst at this) I'm watching a blu ray at home with asks "Wait, what's going on?" "What just happened? I don't get it."
This. Especially where its a part of the movie that is supposed to confuse you. Like inception
Posted by wildtigercat93
Member since Jul 2011
115575 posts
Posted on 8/3/11 at 6:13 pm to
Shut that baby up! Shut that baby up!!
Posted by ipodking
#StopTalkingAboutWomensSports
Member since Jun 2008
58482 posts
Posted on 8/3/11 at 6:14 pm to
I hate when I'm watching movie with someone and at the start of the movie they are like "Who is that?" "What was that?" ect. Shut up and watch the damn movie and find out.
Posted by HoustonChick86
Catalina Wine Mixer
Member since Dec 2009
59135 posts
Posted on 8/3/11 at 6:26 pm to
On an opposite note of that, when I'm watching a movie for the first time with someone who has seen it before and they try and explain the movie to me as we go. Like "did you get that" "make sure you pay attention here, this is important" "that means..." STFU and stop talking to me.
Posted by iwyLSUiwy
I'm your huckleberry
Member since Apr 2008
40690 posts
Posted on 8/3/11 at 6:32 pm to
1. That girls only post on the movie board when foreverLSU starts a thread
2. tulaneLSU
Posted by jojothetireguy
Live out in Coconut Grove
Member since Jan 2009
10589 posts
Posted on 8/3/11 at 6:33 pm to
Talking. Including on the phone, what just happened, what's his name again, I dont get it, etc....
Posted by ChineseBandit0311
Behind you
Member since Sep 2010
485 posts
Posted on 8/3/11 at 6:33 pm to
:getoffmylawn:
Posted by TulaneLSU
Member since Aug 2003
Member since Dec 2007
13614 posts
Posted on 8/3/11 at 6:34 pm to
even though I don't love you as much as Cat, I still love you brah
Posted by Pectus
Internet
Member since Apr 2010
67302 posts
Posted on 8/3/11 at 6:40 pm to
A way that I've found to counteract all the annoyances of people is to view a movie I really really care about alone in my home or in the theater. On movies I don't care a lick about or movies I've seen before I'll happily watch them with other people.
Posted by drewhowie
Michigan
Member since Sep 2010
1065 posts
Posted on 8/3/11 at 7:03 pm to
quote:

1) People who talk, even during the previews 2) People who use their cell phones, even for texting 3) People who are obnoxiously loud eaters 4) People who kick your chairback 5) When the volume is not right, almost always too loud 6) When all the lights in the theater are not dimmed enough 7) People who make frequent trips to the bathroom and concessions stand 8) When during the middle of a film, someone who obviously has just come in from another film sneaks in and sits down 9) Employees who enter about ten minutes before the end of the film and stand off to the side, but completely visible 10) People at the ticket counter who don't know which movie they want to see and stand looking up to see what they want, holding the line up. Couldn't they have looked at the sign while they were standing in the middle of the line and not in the front?


dear god, get a life
Posted by americanoutlaw
Lafayette
Member since Jul 2010
4811 posts
Posted on 8/3/11 at 7:22 pm to
I already hated the crowd at my midnight showing of HP7 part 2, but when people started getting up to go piss during the last hour I thought I was gonna have to choke a bitch. The snape scene was probably the best scene in all 8 movies and people were getting up for popcorn and shite.
Babies really suck too
Posted by Atari
Texas
Member since Dec 2009
3865 posts
Posted on 8/3/11 at 7:24 pm to
Laugh Tracks
Posted by iwyLSUiwy
I'm your huckleberry
Member since Apr 2008
40690 posts
Posted on 8/3/11 at 8:15 pm to
quote:

even though I don't love you as much as Cat, I still love you brah


Appreciate that broski broseph
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