Reply #7: I agree...

[thom1102]

I have on a number of occasions gone and got the usher when patrons in the theater are being rude. Others in the theater have thanked me for doing so. Look, your $8.50 is just as good as theirs, and you have every right to expect a level of common courtesy in the theater. Addtionally, if you are ever driven for a theater by rude patrons, the first place that you should go is to the customer service counter to get your money back.

I remember one incident where I was in the theater with my partner and some friends, and two couples took the seats right next to us. The two women were chatting away as if they were in their own living room (we were in a theater in one of the affluent suburbs, while we normally go to the theater in the city, which has a much more urban, and generally more rude crowd). They chatted away through out the opening sequence with the dancing candy bars, cellphone pager warnings, previews etc, and I made a comment, rather loudly, that the people here were more rude than in the city, hoping they'd take the hint. When the opening credits started to roll, and they were still chatting away, I turned to them and said right to their faces "Would you please shut up?" They looked appropriately cowed and did shut up. My partner was mortified, but he is easily mortified!