How Disruptive Behavior Impacts The Movie Theater Experience

I love going to the movies. Even in 2025, with all the on-demand options you can access from your home, I love going to the movies.

Watching a film at the theater is the best viewing experience. Even though you're comfortable at home watching the lame live-action remake of Lilo & Stitch on your 40-inch television, you're missing out on maximum viewing pleasure by skipping the theater.

I hope people attend more movies, especially at the Roxy Theater. It's an awesome ma & pa business that we shouldn't take for granted. Nowadays, most theaters have been overtaken by AMC, Cinemark, or other big conglomerates.

Support the Rox!

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That being said, there are those who want to ruin your theater-going experience...

Please be quiet when at the movies

I went to the Roxy to watch Spirited Away. It was a good movie that I had meant to watch for years. I enjoyed it, but what I didn't enjoy were the two women behind me who talked for far too much of the movie.

They were whispering back and forth about the movie and their observations. I really can't believe people are that inconsiderate.

If you ask your friend a question about the movie once or twice, ok fine. I can live with that, but these two were yapping for a lot of the movie.

That is so unbelievably rude.

Did people forget how to behave in a movie theater post-COVID? When has talking in a quiet theater ever been ok?

It absolutely, positively, 100% drives me up the wall.

Get your thoughts out during the previews. During the movie, I need you to zip it.

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Last year, I had a rant about people bringing their loud babies to the movie theaters, too.

Anyways, support your local theaters, but do so respectfully, would you?

Here's Oscar-winning director Sean Baker to back me up.