Cinemas and general public.
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I left my local Vue 15minutes into a film this evening. Three blokes just wouldnt shut up talking, plus they where taking photos with the flash, flashing away which was bloody distracting, I just got up and left as i knew it would get worse. All the Vue Manager could do was refund me the ticket, she cant kick them out as they have no security. Why do people do this?? theyve paid out to go watch a film f
king watch the film and shut up.
king watch the film and shut up.
jdw100 said:
I had an incident a few years back in the Odeon in Muswell Hill.
Was that film where the girl with long hair crawls out of the television....can’t think what it is called. Must be a fair few years ago now.
Anyway there was a group in there talking all the way through the first 20 minutes. I popped over to them and told them if they wanted a conversation best to go outside because they were disturbing people.
They ignored this, so I told them in a more forceful manner- which got backing from other audience members. Still chatting, laughing....so I went out to find a member of staff and explained the situation. They said they’d sort it....and sent it a young girl who must have weighed all of 5 stone. Of course she just stayed at the back cowering - no way could she be expected to evict a group of noisy idiots.
This carried on with various people shhhhhhing loudly and other calls of ‘shut up’ etc. In the end I grabbed my partner’s water and mine, walked over and emptied the lot over them. They went silent, I sat down, they then left to various claps and ‘goods’ etc.
On leaving at end of film I get stopped by the manager - he is talking about pressing charges for assault and calling the Police. This group of five, slightly bedraggled, late teens stood behind him.
Thankfully about ten other people stop (including a very vocal chap in a deerstalker hat!) and take my side. Turns out two other people had come out to complain during the film as well: one had spoken directly to the manager. Why didn’t he come in and sort it out she asked...instead of sending a junior member of staff?
In the end we all in fact walk off with refunds.
To this day I can’t fathom why you would go to the cinema to talk - unless they just see it as an extension of their living room somehow?
Would have been good if you had called his bluff and asked him to call the police. I'd like to think that the police would see sense and would side with you. Was that film where the girl with long hair crawls out of the television....can’t think what it is called. Must be a fair few years ago now.
Anyway there was a group in there talking all the way through the first 20 minutes. I popped over to them and told them if they wanted a conversation best to go outside because they were disturbing people.
They ignored this, so I told them in a more forceful manner- which got backing from other audience members. Still chatting, laughing....so I went out to find a member of staff and explained the situation. They said they’d sort it....and sent it a young girl who must have weighed all of 5 stone. Of course she just stayed at the back cowering - no way could she be expected to evict a group of noisy idiots.
This carried on with various people shhhhhhing loudly and other calls of ‘shut up’ etc. In the end I grabbed my partner’s water and mine, walked over and emptied the lot over them. They went silent, I sat down, they then left to various claps and ‘goods’ etc.
On leaving at end of film I get stopped by the manager - he is talking about pressing charges for assault and calling the Police. This group of five, slightly bedraggled, late teens stood behind him.
Thankfully about ten other people stop (including a very vocal chap in a deerstalker hat!) and take my side. Turns out two other people had come out to complain during the film as well: one had spoken directly to the manager. Why didn’t he come in and sort it out she asked...instead of sending a junior member of staff?
In the end we all in fact walk off with refunds.
To this day I can’t fathom why you would go to the cinema to talk - unless they just see it as an extension of their living room somehow?
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