I enjoyed seeing “The Longshots” the other night. However, the audience was the worst behaved of any movie I’ve ever seen. And that’s why I’m writing this blog.
The LCJ Rules for Movie Theater Audiences
#1 – Children should not be allowed to see a movie in a theater until they are 5-years old. Children under 5 do not know how to behave at a movie so they spend most of the time talking, crying or running up and down the aisles.
#2 – No talking at any time during a movie. This is already a rule but unfortunately most people don’t follow it. Zip the lip. I didn’t come to the theater to hear you talk and you’re not in your livingroom, you’re in a public place.
#3 – Silence the cellphones and pagers. No calls or checking messages or texting. Just having the light of a phone come on during a film is a distraction. I wish they had a policy where people had to hand their phones to a guy at the door of the theater and then get them back when they left. If you can’t live without your phone for 2-hours don’t come to the movies.
#4 – Do not interact with the film. No talking back with the characters or repeating the lines. Laugh, when necessary, but that’s it. And clap at the end if you liked the film.
#5 – Stay until the credits are over. Show some respect to the people who worked hard to make the film you just spent $10 to watch. Plus, if you leave early, there’s a good chance you’ll miss a bonus scene after the credits.
#6 – Pick-up after yourself. That means taking the food and beverage containers with you when you leave and putting them in the garabge cans on the way out. Yes, the theater has workers to clean-up after each screening, but they’d have a lot less work to do if everybody simply cleaned-up after themselves.
Hopefully, after reading this, you’ll consider following some or all of these rules. And pass them along to others.