i remember once, maybe it was The First Omen or Immaculate, right as the movie started a guy a row ahead of me still had his phone out. I said "hey man, put your phone away please" and then had no issues
yeah, I definitely don't think anyone is out of line for yelling at people to be quiet but at the same time there are some crazy people out there and you have to be careful
there is a social contract going to the movies. the theater even tells you to shut up and put your phone away. you have to hold your fellow audience members to a standard admittedly, i don't usually go to busy showings (weekend nights) and sometimes it's an auditorium with like 40 seats with maybe 15 occupied but yeah
I think I already mentioned this on here, but I try not to get into any altercations in public at all, especially if I'm with my family, but we went out to dinner a while back and I went to the bathroom and some dude in the men's room had gone #2 and he went to just walk right out of the bathroom without even stopping at the sink and when he got to the bathroom door I very loudly & confrontationally said/yelled "hey, wash your fucking hands!"
Indie theaters I think do it better than your AMC or Regal when it comes to annoying audience members. That and I think by the fifth AMC preroll ad, peoples’ brains are turned off by the time it gets to the “no texting or posting” ad. It washes over them without a second thought.
The other day in Sam’s parking someone was backing out of a spot while I was walking. I started to move a different direction and my wife was like what are you doing and I loudly said “I’m trying not to get hit by this car” because I saw that their windows were down and my wife got annoyed with me lol
But then my wife has also loudly yelled at someone who brought a toddler with a tablet on full volume to AquaMan 2
mentioned this somewhere else, but the crowd at Obsession wouldn't shut the fuck up, laughing or talking at inordinate times. was about to say something, but then some of the disturbing parts started to come into play and shut them up very quickly. when i saw this, there was this guy who wouldn't stop coughing, which is different, but if you can't stop coughing, maybe get up and go out of the theater to clear your throat or get some water?
There's a line in one of the Discworld books about a group of people where their attitude to being hit would be to move aside and wait patiently for the other person's arm to fall off. I can relate.