Hyperbole much? If you want to compatre it to violent crime (ridiculous as that comparison is), then it's akin to me saying "Hey, don't want to be a victim of violent crime? Then stay the hell out of that dark alley on a Friday after midnight". It's no where near the same thing as saying just stay the hell home. Thanks for playing though.

It's pretty simple: you know there are going to be a crowd of fans that are going to act the way they do. Solution: avoid going when that crowd is there. You can whine and rail against it all you want and go off on some 'bad parenting' tangent that has nothing to do with the subject at hand. But the fact is, the theaters are counting on and expecting these types of crowds. Deal with it.

And yes, if you go to the box office and tell them you want your money back because the current crowd of rowdy fans makes it impossible to enjoy the film, you'll get your money back.

LOL you think crimes only happen in dark alleys? No, I'm not going to "deal with it". Not with people behaving like wild animals just for a little bit of extra fun. And your solution is not a solution. Just because you bend over to everything doesn't mean everyone else is okay with doing the same...

I don't 'bend over for everything'. I just exercise a little common sense. Yeah, I don't like those crowds either. But is it really worth your time to piss and moan about them? They're really not hurting anyone, and you can easily see the movie at a different time. Seriously, you need to lighten up. I'm done.

Next time eh..like go with a jar full of moths eh, and like release them eh, then go get your money back when they all go to the projectors light eh? ;P
(If you don't know, I am telling you part of a movie entitled "Strange Brew", its funny dumb)
Anyways guys, I see a lotttt of writing on this rude crowd or whatever problem...Trust me when I say, get some sleep, don't think about this tommorrow and then by the day after this will all seem like no big deal...No worries eh all? :D

Well I actually had a lot of free time today. But I'm sick of fighting with you people. I'm done too.

I find coke and popcorn integral part of going to the cinema. not just the movie.

I can see movie on dvd and enjoy just the movie. Cinema is the whole pack. big screen, good sound, popcorn, coke. went few times without coke and popcorn and it just was not the same experience. something was missing :P
sure. i enjoyed the movie but it could be better

if i couldnt have that component im sure i would stop going so often to cinema.

Sorry if I turned this into a flame war by stating how much the people in the theater annoyed me. It was mostly the pressure put upon me that caused me to snap. The people I went to see the movie with insisted on arriving at 9:00 for a midnight show, because "the theater will be full at 10:00!" So we arrive at 9:00, and no one shows up until 11:30. After sitting in a theater for a total of five hours, I was in a less than delightful mood.

But I do think knighting people before the movie, and then throwing a temper tantrum if someone just calls it a movie, is over the line. This guy told me "You're not a real Harry Potter fan." I've read all seven books. I went to the midnight openings of several of them, drinking "butterbeers" and dressing for the occasion. I have extra copies of the first two imported from Britain, which are beautiful hard-bound copies. I have seen every Harry Potter movie at midnight. I even bought several of the shitty games, because exploring Hogwarts digitally is like a dream come true. Yet somehow I'm supposed to be totally enthusiastic when I'm waiting in a long line to buy popcorn, and you come up and start quizzing me/tapping me with little sticks. If that's what it means to be a true fan, then I don't want to be a true fan.