the movie experience and liking crap

kakihara · October 09, 2008, 06:47:04 PM

does anybody get annoyed when other people arent watching the damn movie? not a movie that youve already seen or making fun of a bad movie with some friends. i mean when you actually sit down and commit an hour and a half of your life to something. people with short attention spans really bother me sometimes. i want to see what happens and i want to hear the dialog, thats why im sitting here. if you had shut up and paid attention you wouldnt have to ask me what just happened. that makes me want choke the fecal-matter out of you. and b-movies, does anybody ever catch hell for liking them? theres nothing wrong with liking them. they can be alot of fun, and better than most of the crap thats filmed in this day and age. sorry, i had to rant a liitle. i tried to keep it clean.

zombie no.one · October 09, 2008, 07:09:43 PM

I have this friend Ive known him for 10 years he's one of my closest friends but he has the attention span of a goldfish, and had many experiences of watching films with him, but he's unable to shut up for longer than 10 seconds. he's also unable to follow plotlines etc even on the rare occasions when he is paying attention... so yeah "infuriating" is the word.

JaseSF · October 11, 2008, 04:36:24 PM

Unfortunately my girlfriend can be a bit annoying at times when it comes to watching movies. She's one who can't seem to sit still and be quiet at times although I do have to give her credit for not giving me too much grief about my bad movie watching habits.

Psycho Circus · October 11, 2008, 06:10:57 PM

If I've ever been at my mom's house and there's a film on - Dear Me! The opening credits will come on and she'll already be asking me questions; "what's going on?", "I don't get it?", "So what happens?" - JUST WATCH THE FILM & FIND OUT! Arrgh!

My girlfriend watches ALOT of films, but when it comes to my films she talks right through them and gets really bored. I wanted to show her "Dead Heat" a couple of days ago and she managed about 5 mins, before we were talking and then it ended up on mute!

Mr. DS · October 11, 2008, 06:17:43 PM

Hence why I watch 98% of movies I intake alone.

JJ80 · October 12, 2008, 12:34:08 PM

I tend to prefer the solitary experience when watching "B" type movies. My parents aren't particularly keen on them so I watch them either in my own room or late at night.

peter johnson · October 13, 2008, 01:53:58 PM

Hell, we "cheezefest" our B movies with friends, where we all yak through the whole thing & then go back & rewatch the parts we talked over. Makes an 87 min. film like "The Beginning of The End" last about 2 hours, but we manage to do both, yak AND experience the film.

For serious fare like "In Bruges", however, I want dead silence. More annoying to me than talkers in this regard are eaters -- rattling a drink cup around and around isn't going to magically produce more Coca-Cola -- and why must popcorn be served in such loud crinkly bags? If someone wants to whisper a quick comment to their companions, I really don't mind, but eat BEFORE going out!!

peter johnson/denny SCHLOMP!! SCHLOMP!! SCHLOMP!! . . .

Nukie 2 · October 14, 2008, 11:01:36 AM

Well, I always act kinda like a test pilot when it comes to b-movies; I view the movies before others and if its good or of the "so-bad-it's-good" variety I recommend them or watch them with friends-- that is if they are into those movies. Most people don't have our tolerance. What we may think is "so-bad-it's-good" they might think it's just terrible. So we gotta be careful.

Andrew Bortenegger most of the time, is usually good about understanding what b-movie the average person might find entertaining. It's sure fire if he says it's good or "so-bad-it's-good".

The old phrase "One mans trash is anothers treasure" can't hold truer anywhere else but here, or boards like these. Movies like "The Creeping Terror" are deemed "Cult" because it's a taste a few people will have and will really enjoy.

Dennis · October 14, 2008, 12:04:34 PM

My wife and I both like to enjoy a movie in silence, she does understand my addiction to "B" monster/horror/sci-fi type pictures and generally will let me watch in peace. Her comments occur at the start of the movie, "I can't believe you're going to watch this.........again" is fairly typical even if it's the first time I've watched the film. The most annoying person I've ever watched a movie with had to be my mother, she was the only person I've met who could watch a movie for 45 minutes and then ask what was going on in the film, at which point my dad and I would spend 5 minutes or so explaining and missing parts of the movie. My dad and I both liked to watch monster movies and mom came into her own on these occasions. She was a registered nurse with an interest in science and biology, her comments on movies we were watching were unforgettable.
"Is that supposed to be a grasshopper?"
"Yes."
"Grasshoppers can't get that big."
"It's a mutation mom, ate some radioactive plants."
"That much radiation would kill it before it got big."
"It's just a movie mom."
"Besides, insects don't have lungs, this puts a limit on how big they can grow."
(For some reason I was surprised that she knew this.)
"It's just a movie mom!!"
"Well it's a stupid movie, I can't understand why you and your father watch junk like this."

Fishasaurus · October 14, 2008, 05:02:18 PM

My responses:

>> People who can't sit down, shut up, and watch the movie without mouthing off, slurping, chewing out loud, etc. should be jailed.

>> People who take issue with my taste in movies should be jailed.

>> People who laugh when the guy's head goes spinning across the room in a fountain of blood should be paid money.

Psycho Circus · October 14, 2008, 05:06:55 PM

I hate when you go to the cinema nowadays and all you can see is 100's of little lights in the dark. People don't watch the film as they are too busy texting pointless garbage back and forth, get an attention span!

And when I took my girlfriend to see Sex & The City (

boy, was that painful), some douche kept kicking the back of my chair. When he went to the toilet at one point, I took my revenge by lobbing my coke all over his seat!

Cthulhu · October 15, 2008, 01:34:59 PM

When I watch movies with friends, we usually like to go mst3k on it. We pay attention to it, of course, but it's more fun that way.
But when I'm watching a "serious" movie, or watching a movie alone, I want dead silence. I hate it when the phone rings for the 5th time in 2 minutes...everyone decides to call me when I'm watching Scarface.