Poll: Was called MENTALLY RETARDED after seeing DESPICABLE ME

[gl1koz3]

I once went to a movie where a bunch of U.S. nerd tourists sat some few seats next to me. Popcorn, loud laughing, talking. While all the rest of theater was silent.

If I wasn't 13 at the time, I'd definitely yell something, too.

Though, I'm not voting. Both have it partly right.

 

[Calatar]

In short, what she said didn't bother me.

It sounds to me like it hurt your feelings so you ran off to tell the internet how mean she was.

When you tell a one-sided story, you're typically going to get people to agree with you. Which is what you want: to think that you didn't do anything wrong.

My appraisal is that, as is common, both sides were at fault here to an extent. You may be underestimating how annoying you were. She clearly should have mentioned that she'd like you to be quieter at some point during the movie.

Moral of the story: Not everyone at a movie theater is going to like you or your witty comments. Better to share your insight with a nearby friend than the whole theater. Even during godawful previews.

 

[likalaruku]

Hehe, who were you sitting next to? Ms. Flamiel from Animaniacs?

 

[Bouncing Ferret FIlm]

...

How does BOOING at a TRAILER ruin the MOVIE? Hell, I once booed at a trailer for New Moon, but no one heard it because they were cheering.

And Mentally Retarded drunk? People shouldn't talk about themselves like that.

How old was she, anyway? What's an ADULT doing watching a movie meant for kids? Sounds pretty fishy to me...

oh she was an adult

 

[Sarah Kerrigan]

Seriously?

As if I was called mentally retarded to cosplay in a mall for a anime convention that was taking place in the mall and other people were dressed up too!

Anyway, I believe thats a really idiotic this to say. Some people are idiots

 

[A Pious Cultist]

You can say ***** and jackass you know; you don't have to censor yourself.

but i fear the BANHAMMER

Because a site that didn't allow swearing would totally be pleased with your circumventing of the swear filter with leetspeak.

 

[Penguinness]

She was being a *****, but all in all you were being a bit annoying. You said you kept these all to a minimum but there was a lot of things you were doing. By the sounds of it you were constantly doing something or another, albeit mildly annoying. Spose she wanted to get you annoyed as much as she has been through the film, seems to have worked!

Loud laughs -> Annoying
Clapping - WTF ANNOYING
I reckon oreos could make a bit of noise, more so than popcorn, and especially if they're in a packet -> Annoying (some people get annoyed with anyone eating at all, so oreos making even more noise than other stuff would be more annoying)
Whispering which means also fidgeting in your seat to do it -> Annoying
These annoyances are increased greatly if you're sat next to them!

I'm glad my cinema isn't as busy as that, there's never an event where you're required to sit right next to someone to watch a film. There's always someone who will sit right behind you though, that's like the law of the cinema.

I do get slightly annoyed when I hear people talking (or whispering - is it whispering if I can hear it or just breathy talking?), as well as people behind me knocking my seat and people constantly checking their phones which should be turned off.. but thankfully I don't have to sit that near people, helps a lot!

 

[Bouncing Ferret FIlm]

She was being a *****, but all in all you were being a bit annoying. You said you kept these all to a minimum but there was a lot of things you were doing. By the sounds of it you were constantly doing something or another, albeit mildly annoying. Spose she wanted to get you annoyed as much as she has been through the film, seems to have worked!

Loud laughs -> Annoying
Clapping - WTF ANNOYING
I reckon oreos could make a bit of noise, more so than popcorn, and especially if they're in a packet -> Annoying (some people get annoyed with anyone eating at all, so oreos making even more noise than other stuff would be more annoying)
Whispering which means also fidgeting in your seat to do it -> Annoying
These annoyances are increased greatly if you're sat next to them!

I'm glad my cinema isn't as busy as that, there's never an event where you're required to sit right next to someone to watch a film. There's always someone who will sit right behind you though, that's like the law of the cinema.

I do get slightly annoyed when I hear people talking (or whispering - is it whispering if I can hear it or just breathy talking?), as well as people behind me knocking my seat and people constantly checking their phones which should be turned off.. but thankfully I don't have to sit that near people, helps a lot!

Oreo's really? seriously, you can take nacho's in there... like that's the TOO LOUD food. with all the candy in there, oreo is pretty low on the list. and moving.... really?! I have issues with my lower back, so i have to lean forward on the occasion... and your pulling that into the mix. There comes a time to where, its people in a movie theater. I generally let a lot of stuff go. The only time i speak up is when someone is kicking the back of my seat or when people above me are having full fledge conversations with each other. I mean more than "that guy is an idiot" i mean

"so i went down to the store the other day"
"which store"
"the one off of carmel avenue, And i saw Cindy with someone that wasn't her husband"
"get out"
"i'm serious and it was a girl"
"NOOOOOOOOOOOO"

That shit will get on my nerves.

yes laughing to loud is annoying, clapping is annoying, but I guess when the whole theater is going Fuck all nuts and laughing so hard that i'm seeing mouths move, but i'm not Hearing anything... its weird that i would be singled out by her, especially when everyone around her was looking at her like she was crazy. People who were in as close proximity as she was.

 

[Bouncing Ferret FIlm]

u should have said to that women 'SOOOO you didnt like the movie then.'

I should have done my impression of Special Ed from crank yankers

 

[Rachel Flohr]

OK then.

I'd love to hear her side of the story though.

Don't worry, once we get to the very end of the discussion board and no one has responded to in in years, at that point she'll find this discussion board and make some kind of uncalled for nasty remark. You know, when what she says is no longer relevant.

 

[HigherTomorrow]

I went to see Toy Story 1 & 2 in 3D, and a child sitting behind me with his mother kept kicking the back of my chair. I continually asked the boy to stop, and then went on to ask the mother to stop. I was being completely polite, calm, and overall respectful. I merely asked, "Ma'am, will you please ask your son to refrain from kicking the back of my chair? It hurts and I'd like to be able to watch the movie in peace." She says, "Whatever," and 'tells' her son to stop. The son obviously continues, and when the intermission between both movies began, I turned around and confronted her, this time rather angry. She flips out, and starts yelling at me for being disrespectful to elders, and that I ruined the movie for her by distracting her when I asked her about it before.

Needless to say, when the second movie came on, I moved behind her, and made sure to give her chair a few kicks.

 

[Bouncing Ferret FIlm]

you know now that i think about it, I think the thing that is subtly bugging me is she went nuclear on me when i wasn't really aiming for the whole asshole movie goer. I was sitting there, minding my own business, fully enjoying a movie and laughing at scenes and gags which are FUNNY AS SHIT and she calls me out on it.

Guys and gals let me say this. (big booming echoey voice) SHE HAS NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO IDEA. Its like if jet li, while out in the land of mortals, misjudges the weight of something (even if we are a martial arts god, we are still victim to this) and picks up something that is a whole lot lighter than he thinks it is and accidently elbows a patron behind him. And then is accused of being a bully who's soul purpose in life is beating up random people... If he wanted to be just that, it would have been a while lot more brutal than an accidental elbow to the face.

Now back to me. I hate, HATE,.... i have a borderline unhealthy sith hatred for the actor Will Ferrel. Guys and gals, I hated Will Ferrel before i knew him as Will Ferrel. All of these seemingly random characters in SNL that for some unknown reason would just piss me off. It wasn't that the jokes were bad, no they were funny as hell. But the mere existence of him in front of me, made my ears wanna bleed. Its like if they made him play Hanukah Harry. That dude was FUNNY, now it isn't.

ANyways, I hate Ferrel a whole lot more than i hate this smurf travesty and during the previews the preview for Will Ferrel's (shutter) new movie came up... I said nothing. No boos, No YOU SUCK, nothing. In fact a guy behind me "whoo hoo'd" when Will's name came up and I kept my mouth shut... WHY? Well one reason is I believe in a movie you get one, maybe two, MST3K comments from the time the previews roll till the end of the movie before you are a douche bag. Is it inappropriate and uncalled for?... most likely, but at least we got it outta our systems. And generally, as a whole, there are only three comments that are allowed to be made. So lets review, Everyone is allowed to make (in theory) two out loud comments about what's going on in front of them and for the whole night, collectively, only three comments are allowed to be made. And I burned through two. And lastly, everyone had shut up by that point. I was filled with a theater of non-texting, quite people... In all honestly, I didn't want to jinx it.

I want to step away from this comment for a second and redirect you to another time i Gauged the crowd, made a comment and it was funny. I had gone to see Predator Requiem, and my comment was making fun of the black guy in a horror movie movie trope. For those of you who don't know what the hell i'm talking about, In movies, the black guy is usually the token dude who says shit like "that's wack" and "DAMNNNNN". He's usually a football player in a jersey. And in a horror movie, is guaranteed to DIE. Now I'm the only white guy in this theater and its relatively packed. So we are all, quietly, watching our movie and I swear to you, the temperature of the room is gradually dropping. This is happening because the movie is going and we are seeing a shit load of white guys and no black actors. I'm kind of aware of shit being cold, but not really sure why. Then the "black guy" does shows up and he's BEYOND token... the poor bastard doesn't have any lines. He's basically a backup singer to the white football quarter back, who's whole job, and i swear this to you, was to stand there and look scary. So now i'm noticing the total theaters overall not happiness with what's going on. Fast forward a bit. Predators and aliens are running rampant. And we find ourself watching the main character and his crush about to have premarital sex in a pool at night (FUCK ONE OF THE RULES) and the Quarterback douche bag comes in with black guy in toe and they all get in the pool. FUCK! So now the guy and girl are (to us) going left to right, dude and girl. The black guy is on the left side, (probably to keep him from as far away from the poor white girl as possible, going by mentality of director at this point) and a slew of nameless white jocks and the quarterback are to his right. Alien hits the water and everyone runs left. And this dude treads fucking water. He pretty much goes just short of Legolas running on top of the water to get to the edge. the next scene everyone is pulling themselves out of the water and the alien, of course, grabs the black guy and the black guy gets his line "noooooooooooo".

I will tell you that it was FRIGID a this point, the tension would have cut the knife... so i made a judgment call. i bellowed, "That's some bull shit, you know that quarterback mother fucker was the farthest one out there" and everyone laughed... hard, and it suddenly wasn't cold as shit anymore.

anyways, now that that useless story is shared, lets switch back. If she wanted me to ruin the movie for her, i could have easily done that. Now i would have more than likely done this in a Will Ferrel movie, if I'm going to get kicked out and potentially banned from a theater, I'm going to make it count and I'm going to have it done to a particular actor that i despise. And i would have, if the proper pre-planing had been taken, figured out ways to do obnoxious shit and NOT get kicked out. Anyways, any time Will talks, I would let out a BLOOD CURLING SCREAM and stop when he stops. Go in with a shit load of tick tacks (juno style) and a straw. Hell even if sat next to her. For lunch and dinner have rice and beans laced in garlic with a side of watermelon and cabbage. Oh and also yell out spoilers. IE in Despicable me, I was able to figure out a lot of what was going to happen before it happened (yes it was easy, its an old story arch, but still). So figuring out what's about to going down before it goes down is what I do. Especially in a horror movie, I can count DOWN from 5 to shit happening. Imagine me in a theater yelling 5 to 1 and when i say 1 the scary creature goes BOO! These are all of the top of my head, but yeah I could have been a movie DEMON to this *****... If i wanted to. But no I was just there, enjoying the movie with my awesome friend, Rachel.

 

[Bouncing Ferret FIlm]

I went to see Toy Story 1 & 2 in 3D, and a child sitting behind me with his mother kept kicking the back of my chair. I continually asked the boy to stop, and then went on to ask the mother to stop. I was being completely polite, calm, and overall respectful. I merely asked, "Ma'am, will you please ask your son to refrain from kicking the back of my chair? It hurts and I'd like to be able to watch the movie in peace." She says, "Whatever," and 'tells' her son to stop. The son obviously continues, and when the intermission between both movies began, I turned around and confronted her, this time rather angry. She flips out, and starts yelling at me for being disrespectful to elders, and that I ruined the movie for her by distracting her when I asked her about it before.

Needless to say, when the second movie came on, I moved behind her, and made sure to give her chair a few kicks.

I went to go see THE LAST AIR-BENDER and I'm the kinda guy that loves to sit in the middle of the movie theater. So behind the empty middle seat is a guy with his feet propped up on top of the seat that i'm about to sit in. Normally i would have said fuck that, but I really wanted that seat. So I told the guy (asking him if he watched the cartoon would have been a stupid question to ask to someone catching the midnight showing) that I knew the martial arts that the Rock bending was biased on and would unleashed untold doom upon him if he kicked the back of my chair or propped his feet up above my head. This worked for the whole movie, except for one part to where he forgot i was there and kicked the chair in his way to prop his feet up. At which point, and in a joking way, said "Earth bending DOOM ON YOU!" and he said sorry and dropped his feet. Sorry your's didn't sink in as much, but yeah that's some bull shit.

 

[Bouncing Ferret FIlm]

Cant you see? She's a die hard smurfs fan who thinks they need a live action piece in New York.

yeah i gotta say no to that. and like the scooby doo movies, i think people are going to agree with me.

 

[Bouncing Ferret FIlm]

You can't just say, she should have told you to be quiet, because some people try to avoid confrontation. Maybe she felt uncomfortable saying that to you knowing she would have to sit next to you after saying that. Also, she maybe didn't move because she didn't want to make a scene or really wanted to sit in that particular seat.

In all honesty I can be rowdy at films aswel, especially in a group of friends. But don't start moaning when people complain about you or call you retarded.

but that's all she had to do, i'm a really nice guy and apparently have harmless tatoo'd on my forhead. so all she had to do was lightly poke on my arm and ask me to keep it down.

 

[mattttherman3]

Man that was a wall of text. She's just one of those stuck up people, don't worry aboot it.