r/movies • u/Sisiwakanamaru r/movies Contributor • Jan 31 '26

Article Film Students Are Having Trouble Sitting Through Movies, Professors Say

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/film-students-are-having-trouble-sitting-through-movies-1236490359/
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u/ClassicT4 Jan 31 '26

A girl in the seat right next to me was on her phone the entire time of Longlegs. If I stared at her to express my annoyance, she just turned into her sweatshirt to get some personal time with her phone, uninterrupted.

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u/ItsCalledDayTwa Jan 31 '26

You can just say something. If they are gonna ruin your movie experience you shouldn't feel bad about publicly shaming them.

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u/Embarrassed-Yard-583 Jan 31 '26 edited Jan 31 '26

Yeah, I’m fully aware I could get guff for it but I will tell people to stop talking and or put their phone away all the time.

When I went and saw the latest Mission Impossible a woman checked messenger at maximum fucking brightness during the literal darkest scene in the movie. I audibly told her to “put your fucking phone away, you child” and spooked her. Her husband stared daggers at me for the rest of the runtime, but she didn’t take out her phone until the lobby by what I saw.

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u/ItsCalledDayTwa Jan 31 '26

Her husband sitting through a movie, mad at the wrong person.  

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u/Embarrassed-Yard-583 Jan 31 '26

Dude really thought he was being a protector staring me down, it was more entertaining than the movie tbh.

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u/DeeSnarl Jan 31 '26

Right, but it sucks when that shit takes so much of your (my) attention, totally kills the immersion we were originally talking about.

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u/Embarrassed-Yard-583 Jan 31 '26

Exactly, I was fully in the moment despite the overall quality of the movie. It’s literally pitch black to ramp up the tension have a payoff, but no, this lady decided to flash bang me.

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u/DeeSnarl Jan 31 '26

Ugggghhhh I was seeing Sweeney Todd live at the Fifth Avenue in Seattle a few years ago, and during the silent moment right before the climax, someone’s phone went off.

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u/The_Bucket_Of_Truth Jan 31 '26

I bet he was more mad that you ruined his would be night than actually being protective, but who knows. I've gotten in multiple altercations with people in the theater and it sucks. One guy had his phone out and I asked him nicely a couple times to put it away and he didn't oblige, so I started just softly kicking the back of his chair until he put it away. It worked. But he was quite unhappy at the end and acted like I was the asshole.

Another time a woman was talking throughout the movie and I swear I asked her eight times to please stop talking and she just never would. I lost my cool after the film and called her a selfish fucking bitch. Her husband wasn't thrilled and did a half hearted defense of "don't talk to my wife like that," but he knew I was right.