Is it just me or is movie etiquette completely dead?
I’ve been going to the exact same cinema for the past 15 years, and it always used to be a reliable spot. But these past two months have been absolutely insane. I’m honestly starting to wonder if people have just lost all basic social awareness.
For the past four movies in a row, our experience has been at least partly ruined by loud talkers, teens acting the fool, or people treating the theater like their personal living room.
We just got back from watching the new Spider-Man movie. I specifically waited a few weeks after the release so it wouldn’t be so busy. Unfortunately, the dude sitting right next to me wouldn’t stop talking loudly to his partner. To make it worse, his phone rang and he actually got up to take the call, loudly shouting "HELLO?!" before finally walking out.
We watched Odyssey last week, and it was the exact same thing. The people right behind us were talking super loud and constantly sucking their teeth through the whole movie.
When we saw Supergirl last month, three kids literally ran into the cinema, let out a loud moan, left, came back to blast some meme sound from their phone, and then came back again to dance right in front of the screen.
You’d think paying for a prestige screening would be better, right? Nope. A group of four spent the entire movie on their phones on Snapchat, filming the screen on full brightness, loudly reacting, and giving a running commentary.
I just don’t understand it anymore. Do people not know how to act in public? Has anyone else noticed a massive decline lately, or am I just getting incredibly unlucky?