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"Oh for god's sake!"
(No spoilers, don't worry, but yes, he does say that).
Suck from other customers and from employees also.
So after a very bad weekend, my boyfriend decided to treat myself and our best friend to seeing Age of Ultron. BF and I had already seen it, but our friend had not, and BF has a Cineworld Unlimited Card- so for a flat rate that he pays monthly, he gets to go to the cinema whenever he likes. As our friend and I were both broke, he very kindly paid for both of our tickets. Ok, so he didn't have to pay for his own, but it did mean he paid the best part of £20.
So we get into our screen, get settled in, and during the last few trailers (which as a real movie buff, BF anticipates almost as much as the film) a group of young men, I would say early 20s, all come in. At least 5 of them I think. They sat on the same row (back row) from us, a few seats along, and are having an extremely noisy conversation (over a bloody Mad Max trailer, to give an idea of their loudness). As they sit down, one of them takes out his phone and makes a call. BF and I exchange looks- oh well, at least its only the trailers right? Some people like to get all their annoying talking out in the trailers...
Any of you who have seen Age of Ultron knows that it gets stuck in straight away, but after a couple of minutes of watching the Avengers being awesome, I realised they had started talking again. Loudly. Not the odd mutter or comment, but a full blown fucking conversation. They clearly had no idea what was going on in the movie because they were laughing over dialogue but not laughing over the hilarious and witty one-liners that got everyone else laughing. Seriously, you'd think they'd sat down in the fucking Wetherspoons down the road instead of a cinema.
I very loudly hissed a SSSSSHH! to which one of them made a mocking "meemeemee!" noise but for a couple of minutes they were quiet. But only for a couple more. I turned to my BF and whispered "I'm giving them 10 more minutes and then I'm going to get someone." Last time I had something like this happen was admittedly in a Vue cinema, not a Cineworld, but I assumed that the procedure Vue told me would still be the same- they told me to come and get them to deal with disruptive patrons.
I didn't even give them 2 more minutes from that because they got even louder. I was very tempted to go over and give them all a solid beating (I was wearing steel-plated boots <.< ) but I cracked my fists, got up, and left the screening.
Enter employee suck.
I step out, and look around. No one. I step out into the lobby, and I see one small, round young woman leaning on a counter. I said "Excuse me, there are some boys in screen 6 who are being disruptive."
"Oh, in what way?"
"Talking very loudly over the film, using their phones, they clearly aren't even paying attention because they're not even laughing at the funny bits. They are just having a full blown conversation, using their phones and being really loud. They're on the back row a couple of seats from us and they are being very rude and disruptive, and I'd like them to be removed."
She started to fob me off straight away. "Oh well I'm going to be doing the rounds in a minute and if they're doing anything I'll sort it out."
"And if I have to come back out again? My boyfriend paid a lot of money for us to watch this film and its being spoiled. I've even asked them to be quiet myself."
"Well, as I say, I'll be doing the rounds, I'll be wearing black so they won't see me. If they're still being a bit noisy I'll do something about it."
She had the demeanour of someone who clearly had NO intention of doing anything. I ended up repeating myself a little, and I hope I didn't seem sucky myself, but I've been told this is what you do when someone is being so disruptive at the cinema. She was small and clearly meek in manner, I had my doubts as to how she would be able to "do something about it" when she seemed very lacking in, um, authority, even if she felt so inclined to try to assert it.
Anyway, I return to my seat where the little fuckwads were still nattering away. BF told me that while I was gone, one of them had dropped something on the floor so he obviously had to take his phone's torch and used it to look for it. The dumpy staff member did indeed turn up, but the little twats clocked why she was there (so much for "they won't see me") and hushed up! Typical!
But then a few minutes later, they dumped their snacks on the floor and just walked out on their own accord!
Nice to know that in this fragile economy, where some of us are really struggling to pay for bills (and my BF is having to help me out because I've just lost my job ) there are some people doing well enough that they can waste so much money eh?
The rest of the film was completely undisturbed, my friend enjoyed it immensely, but my BF is conflicted...as a massive geek and film-lover, he's not sure whats more offensive; talking through the Avengers, or walking out on the Avengers?
But in seriousness, I'm considering complaining to management. I don't believe my complaints were taken seriously, the woman was spotted almost instantly upon her entrance to the screening and I highly doubt she was going to do more than just sit there. To be fair to her as well, she should have had support from other staff as well. And my friend used to work at this same cinema and she said that (according to the policy) upon hearing that the morons were using their phones in the screen, they should have come straight in, in case they were using it to record the film :/
(No spoilers, don't worry, but yes, he does say that).
Suck from other customers and from employees also.
So after a very bad weekend, my boyfriend decided to treat myself and our best friend to seeing Age of Ultron. BF and I had already seen it, but our friend had not, and BF has a Cineworld Unlimited Card- so for a flat rate that he pays monthly, he gets to go to the cinema whenever he likes. As our friend and I were both broke, he very kindly paid for both of our tickets. Ok, so he didn't have to pay for his own, but it did mean he paid the best part of £20.
So we get into our screen, get settled in, and during the last few trailers (which as a real movie buff, BF anticipates almost as much as the film) a group of young men, I would say early 20s, all come in. At least 5 of them I think. They sat on the same row (back row) from us, a few seats along, and are having an extremely noisy conversation (over a bloody Mad Max trailer, to give an idea of their loudness). As they sit down, one of them takes out his phone and makes a call. BF and I exchange looks- oh well, at least its only the trailers right? Some people like to get all their annoying talking out in the trailers...
Any of you who have seen Age of Ultron knows that it gets stuck in straight away, but after a couple of minutes of watching the Avengers being awesome, I realised they had started talking again. Loudly. Not the odd mutter or comment, but a full blown fucking conversation. They clearly had no idea what was going on in the movie because they were laughing over dialogue but not laughing over the hilarious and witty one-liners that got everyone else laughing. Seriously, you'd think they'd sat down in the fucking Wetherspoons down the road instead of a cinema.
I very loudly hissed a SSSSSHH! to which one of them made a mocking "meemeemee!" noise but for a couple of minutes they were quiet. But only for a couple more. I turned to my BF and whispered "I'm giving them 10 more minutes and then I'm going to get someone." Last time I had something like this happen was admittedly in a Vue cinema, not a Cineworld, but I assumed that the procedure Vue told me would still be the same- they told me to come and get them to deal with disruptive patrons.
I didn't even give them 2 more minutes from that because they got even louder. I was very tempted to go over and give them all a solid beating (I was wearing steel-plated boots <.< ) but I cracked my fists, got up, and left the screening.
Enter employee suck.
I step out, and look around. No one. I step out into the lobby, and I see one small, round young woman leaning on a counter. I said "Excuse me, there are some boys in screen 6 who are being disruptive."
"Oh, in what way?"
"Talking very loudly over the film, using their phones, they clearly aren't even paying attention because they're not even laughing at the funny bits. They are just having a full blown conversation, using their phones and being really loud. They're on the back row a couple of seats from us and they are being very rude and disruptive, and I'd like them to be removed."
She started to fob me off straight away. "Oh well I'm going to be doing the rounds in a minute and if they're doing anything I'll sort it out."
"And if I have to come back out again? My boyfriend paid a lot of money for us to watch this film and its being spoiled. I've even asked them to be quiet myself."
"Well, as I say, I'll be doing the rounds, I'll be wearing black so they won't see me. If they're still being a bit noisy I'll do something about it."
She had the demeanour of someone who clearly had NO intention of doing anything. I ended up repeating myself a little, and I hope I didn't seem sucky myself, but I've been told this is what you do when someone is being so disruptive at the cinema. She was small and clearly meek in manner, I had my doubts as to how she would be able to "do something about it" when she seemed very lacking in, um, authority, even if she felt so inclined to try to assert it.
Anyway, I return to my seat where the little fuckwads were still nattering away. BF told me that while I was gone, one of them had dropped something on the floor so he obviously had to take his phone's torch and used it to look for it. The dumpy staff member did indeed turn up, but the little twats clocked why she was there (so much for "they won't see me") and hushed up! Typical!
But then a few minutes later, they dumped their snacks on the floor and just walked out on their own accord!
Nice to know that in this fragile economy, where some of us are really struggling to pay for bills (and my BF is having to help me out because I've just lost my job ) there are some people doing well enough that they can waste so much money eh?
The rest of the film was completely undisturbed, my friend enjoyed it immensely, but my BF is conflicted...as a massive geek and film-lover, he's not sure whats more offensive; talking through the Avengers, or walking out on the Avengers?
But in seriousness, I'm considering complaining to management. I don't believe my complaints were taken seriously, the woman was spotted almost instantly upon her entrance to the screening and I highly doubt she was going to do more than just sit there. To be fair to her as well, she should have had support from other staff as well. And my friend used to work at this same cinema and she said that (according to the policy) upon hearing that the morons were using their phones in the screen, they should have come straight in, in case they were using it to record the film :/
I just don't understand that mindset. You're paying $10 or so each to go to a movie, then you spend the time ignoring the movie so you can talk to your friends?! Go to a public park, they're free, you can talk all you want and you won't have anyone shushing you! 
One of the women actually started punching the air during the Iron Man/Hulk fight, and I was thinking, "What are you, six?!" I can understand getting swept up by a great movie, but seriously...keep it to yourself.
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