Etiquette & Movies

You must have gone to watch a movie and sat comfortably in your chair to enjoy the movie but as soon as the movie starts the person sitting behind you keeps his/her legs on the bar below your chair or just touches the chair you are sitting on with his/her knee and begins to shake his/her legs...

How many times has this happen to you?

Cannot the person doing such thing understand that they are disturbing the other.

After telling to stop it then also some people continue, what would be your action in such a case?

Do you feel just like other places there should be an etiquette followed in movie halls also so as to not disturb others watching the movie along with you?

Originally posted by: sweta01

You must have gone to watch a movie and sat comfortably in your chair to enjoy the movie but as soon as the movie starts the person sitting behind you keeps his/her legs on the bar below your chair or just touches the chair you are sitting on with his/her knee and begins to shake his/her legs...

Reminds of Rangeela movie. Recalling such incidents makes me 😆😆 Why only movie threater, there are plenty of other places we find such incidents - standing in queue, on local train, bus etc

How many times has this happen to you?

Movie threater incidents, Not exactly this but there are others - chewing gum on the seat, Water on the seat, baby at the back seat pulling hairs, once watching hum saath hai or Saajan..I guess - was sitting front row in dress circle... as soon as famous song came, people started throwing change (chillars) from behind - half of it landed on heads of people sitting in front row and stall - yes it was reputed cinema hall😆😆 ...

Cannot the person doing such thing understand that they are disturbing the other.

Apun ney ticket kharida hai... or they will say ok ok.. then again do it.

After telling to stop it then also some people continue, what would be your action in such a case?

Are known as Dheeds.

Do you feel just like other places there should be an etiquette followed in movie halls also so as to not disturb others watching the movie along with you?

Yes! but at the sametime there are people from different walks of life sharing the public space, too much to ask for, I guess. Just ignore and enjoy the movie, khali fokat tension nahi leneka😊.

on a funny note : How about enforcing invisible flying bees, mods with electric baton in movie threaters and giving a slight shock. in the tickling bones of people, who are offending or keeping leg on the arm rest😆😆.

Originally posted by: raj5000

🤣 🤣 @ baby pulling hair and chillar throwing... so did you gather those 😛 jk ... or anyone else gather those.... 😉 😆 😆

Also I like your idea of invisible flying bees 😊 and mods just like in IF 😛

Originally posted by: s.priya

😳 😳 For a long limbed person trying to fit into a narrow seat of a small cinema hall in Mumbai, it is often a fight and the only relief one gets is to sit with one leg on the knee. In doing so, it does occassionally hit the back of the seat in front of me, But try as much as I can, it is difficult not to fidget for a whole three hour 😭

I can understand the feeling! Sometimes I return from a movie with stiff knees from trying not to move. I once went to watch a movie in Manchester and the hall was practically empty, so I put my feet up between the two seats in front of me, happy that I had leg room 😃 .10 minutes into the movie, two women came in and of all the empty seats in the theatre, chose to sit in those two. I quickly got one foot off, but the second one got stuck because of my shoe, so there I was struggling to get it out before those two women noticed and ticked me off for my lack of etiquette. Finally, I just left the shoe there, pulled my foot out, and waited for the movie to end and everyone to leave before retrieving my shoe!
But on the chewing gum on seat or water on the seat, its just bad manners 😳 😳 But is whispering in the cinema halls, or passing comments/ laughing bad manners 😳 😳 I hope not, else I might have to stop frequenting cinema halls 😆 😆 😆

It depends on how loudly it's being done and if it is affecting the people around you. Once there was this uncleji sitting behind us who insisted on singing aloud every single song in the most besura voice. After the first two, I had to tell him to shut up because we hadn't come to listen to him. In another incident, a couple came and sat next to us and started having an argument about some family matter. Needless to stay, yours truly had to say shut up once again! 😳 Passing comments is part of the fun of watching a movie, but not beyond a certain point! I don't want to listen to whose husband is in japan and how he gets annoyed when she calls him in the middle of the night

Thank God for multiplexes in Mumbai which give you some room to breathe.

Originally posted by: serialbuff

Originally posted by: raj5000

on a funny note : How about enforcing invisible flying bees, mods with electric baton in movie threaters and giving a slight shock. in the tickling bones of people, who are offending or keeping leg on the arm rest😆😆.

Originally posted by: s.priya

Originally posted by: sweta01

You must have gone to watch a movie and sat comfortably in your chair to enjoy the movie but as soon as the movie starts the person sitting behind you keeps his/her legs on the bar below your chair or just touches the chair you are sitting on with his/her knee and begins to shake his/her legs... 😆😆😆.. many times... but since i have long legs i shake the front two chairs....😆😆

How many times has this happen to you?

Cannot the person doing such thing understand that they are disturbing the other. Why is it disturbing.. come on... you didnt even pay for it.. and you are getting simulated rides...😆

After telling to stop it then also some people continue, what would be your action in such a case? Slap the person or call the manager and have him ejected...😆

Do you feel just like other places there should be an etiquette followed in movie halls also so as to not disturb others watching the movie along with you?..Come on yaar life is made of such stupid things and its fun to have such creatures.. around ....😆😆.. Another thing I do is when the scene is too serious and almost everybody on the screen is crying.. I just make a large slurping sound on my coke.... and everybody starts laughing...when I say come on guys I am choking with emotions...😆

the best part is when we leave the theater after a kick-ass suspense movie just say out aloud and the villain is .. .people just get frustrated...close their ears try to ignore...😆😆