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[Stinkles]

Actually this thread just brought back a traumatic memory from my teenage years in Scotland. Was at the movies with a friend. Imagine a giant Begbie from Transporting but not as pacific or predictable. I won't say his name in case he has Google and is still alive so we'll call him Barrie Bingham. His nickname then was "psycho Barrie Bingham."

We were watching Rocky IV - a famous boxing documentary of the period, and a douchebag - or colloquially "radge" started babbling annoying garbage. As a huge vajingle I just sat quietly, seething. But Barrie was obsessed with this masterpiece. Barrie had in fact threatened three of us with horrors unless we came.

Barrie did not sit there seething. Barrie turned around and said nothing. He grabbed the radge by the hair, pulled him into the narrow space at our feet, pummeled the shit out of him and told him to stay there and be quiet.

Dude lay there sobbing for the next forty five minutes and never budged. In our row. At our feet.

 

[Fury451]

I guess all that chit chat really did get him hurt.

 

[Transhuman]

This isn't the worst thing someone with red hair has done in a movie theatre. It's still bad though.

 

[JeremyEtcetera]

This is why we need to make theaters exclusively for people who make tons of noise or generally bother others, and let them all watch the movie together. Talkers, teenagers with phones, people who bring babies or kids to a PG or R movie, and people who constantly need to get up and walk around.

 

[DizzyCaffeine]

I have no problem telling someone to put their cell phone away at the theater, buy I'll just sit there and stew if I encounter talkers. I think it's because the talkers always seem a bit crazy, like the one in the OP.

 

[IndoAssassin]

America's laws are weird. In Canada if you don't press charges the police have to let the culprit go but in the US the police can still detain her even though they have no evidence.

 

[wachie]

Wow Stinkles, that story! That's psychotic.

 

[DizzyCaffeine]

America's laws are weird. In Canada if you don't press charges the police have to let the culprit go but in the US the police can still detain her even though they have no evidence.

That's a weird interpretation of evidence.

 

[Count Dookkake]

More like Gentleman Barrie Bingham, imo.

 

[tornjaw]

America's laws are weird. In Canada if you don't press charges the police have to let the culprit go but in the US the police can still detain her even though they have no evidence.

as for the punches, Taborn explained that she hit the man in anticipation of him retaliating for her pushing him.

"No evidence."

 

[User 479360]

She deserved it. He didn't. I hate people who talk during movies.

Fuck her.

 

[outunderthestars]

This is why I stopped going to the theater. The general public is simply too annoying to willfully subject yourself to if you don't have to.

 

[User 479360]

I went over a week ago, and kids down the row from me were talking and laughing during the movie. I almost said something, but didn't have the cojones because I was alone, and thankfully they mostly stopped after a while.

I find it very distracting in my old age.

 

[Ponn]

This is why I stopped going to the theater. The general public is simply too annoying to willfully subject yourself to if you don't have to.

Yea, I mean i suffer from major anxiety issues anyways but it's just not worth it to go to theaters anymore. Overpriced ticket where everyone feels they are entitled to do what they want because they paid for their ticket is a consistent recipe for disaster.

 

[Renekton]

That guy has pretty good EQ and restraint.

I would have tried to fight back, though she looks like she would dumpster me easy.

 

[Peléo]

What if the initial sarcasm sentence was actually an anticipation of her retaliation for being expelled from the room?

 

[Night Angel]

Bending over backwards? I guess I am, since I made such strong defenses of talking about a theoretical situation where all she did was push him. I hope this defense better empowers the alternate history version of this woman, because it does very little for this woman considering the defense doesn't exist for her.

Also, you keep making this false equivalence, and it's frustrating to have to point out how bad it is because it requires continuing to discuss "alternate history lady". No, if she had simply pushed the man for confronting her in order to create separation between the two of them, it would not be the equivalence of her randomly pushing someone away who literally ONLY was close to her. The argument is extremely weak because it supposes that the reason for her pushing him was not related to the fact that they were in a confrontation (however mild it likely was).

Seriously, the kind of responses you get from "I could understand if it was just a push", lol.

Ok, so we're coming back to my original point that physical violence is unwarranted in a situation where someone near you is shit talking. Whereas you think escalating such a situation is the smart thing to do.

Is it the combination of proximity and words that means shoving is ok?

 

[outunderthestars]

Yea, I mean i suffer from major anxiety issues anyways but it's just not worth it to go to theaters anymore. Overpriced ticket where everyone feels they are entitled to do what they want because they paid for their ticket is a consistent recipe for disaster.

Yep, and my home theater is more comfortable, has much better popcorn, and strong jack & cokes.

 

[Alligatorjandro]

People take movies way too serious

 

[ThisGuy]

People take movies way too serious

I'm not trying to defend anyone in this thread, I think it's funny myself. The reason I feel it's okay to laugh is because the guy didn't feel the need to press charges.

Buuuuut Ghost Busters has been like 14.50 a ticket. For me, thats 29 dollars right out the gate. Yeah, people ruining movies does bother me. I drop 30 on food and someone ruins my meal or whatever, I'm gonna be mad. Same for movies.

Which, you know, how the hell you gonna drop that much money on a movie and then talk through it? That's just irresponsible spending.

 

[Monocle]

Special hell.

Yep.

People take movies way too serious

Wrong. Don't be a disruptive prick in a setting where conversation is clearly inappropriate. It's not unreasonable to expect people to STFU in a theater.

 

[shintoki]

Should be arrested and banned from movies for life.

 

[Alligatorjandro]

Yep.


Wrong. Don't be a disruptive prick in a setting where conversation is clearly inappropriate. It's not unreasonable to expect people to STFU in a theater.

Eh

 

[Violence Jack]

That's why you go to the Alamo theaters.

^This. The Alamo near me will throw you out with a quickness for talking excessively during a movie.

I got no patience for people like this. Hope they banned her from the theater.

 

[TwoDurans]

She's a bad guy, it's what they do.

 

[Nephtis]

During police questioning, Taborn reportedly said that she pushed the man when he got close to her. As for the punches, Taborn explained that she hit the man in anticipation of him retaliating for her pushing him.

Yo, fuck that shit. The guy is cool for not wanting to press charges, but she absolutely did deserve to go to jail.

Also, people who talk during movies should be kicked out of the theater.

 

[A Link to the Past]

Ok, so we're coming back to my original point that physical violence is unwarranted in a situation where someone near you is shit talking. Whereas you think escalating such a situation is the smart thing to do.

Is it the combination of proximity and words that means shoving is ok?

I never said okay? I used very specific words, and none of them meant "okay." They gravitated towards understandable.

Yes, if someone is confronting you both physically and verbally, it is an understandable thing that someone would feel threatened and push them away - a form of deescalation in that it creates a separation between the two parties.

 

[Monocle]

Eh

Basic consideration for other people. It's so simple.

Actually this thread just brought back a traumatic memory from my teenage years in Scotland. Was at the movies with a friend. Imagine a giant Begbie from Transporting but not as pacific or predictable. I won't say his name in case he has Google and is still alive so we'll call him Barrie Bingham. His nickname then was "psycho Barrie Bingham."

We were watching Rocky IV - a famous boxing documentary of the period, and a douchebag - or colloquially "radge" started babbling annoying garbage. As a huge vajingle I just sat quietly, seething. But Barrie was obsessed with this masterpiece. Barrie had in fact threatened three of us with horrors unless we came.

Barrie did not sit there seething. Barrie turned around and said nothing. He grabbed the radge by the hair, pulled him into the narrow space at our feet, pummeled the shit out of him and told him to stay there and be quiet.

Dude lay there sobbing for the next forty five minutes and never budged. In our row. At our feet.

Damn, what a story.

 

[Count Dookkake]

I can't let the talkers get away with their boorishness; I am compelled to confront them. I used to start off being polite about it ("Excuse me, would you please..."), but that invariably gets read as being weak. Nowadays, I go straight into terror mode.

I suspect that I'll probably end up getting shot or stabbed for my efforts, but I can think of no better death than in the service of my fellow cineastes.

 

[SapientWolf]

Counterpoint: The drunk people in my theater making fun of Snakes on a Plane somehow made that film even better.

 

[Zemm]

Chat shit get banged

 

[Phased]

This is why if there's a movie I really wanna see badly I'll take the day off work and catch a showing at like noon on a Weds.

That way the theater is nearly empty and the people that are there tend to be old people who usually fall asleep. Tickets are cheaper too.

 

[Mexen]

The Movie?