Loud teenage girls talking during movie refuse to be quiet: 'Where has cinema etiquette gone?'

A showing at your local movie theater has never included more chatterboxes! 

These days, when you go to a movie in the theater, you're 100% guaranteed to see people texting or playing on their phones during the movie. "But wait, don't you mean 99%?" No. No I don't. It is every movie now, every single showing. People are so deep into their screens that many of them literally don't even look up from their phones to actually watch the movie! 

Sometimes I peek and see what these people are typing. After all, if I have to be blinded by their phone screen during the movie I paid for, I want to see what's so interesting that it's taking up their attention span. One time during a really funny movie, a guy was sitting with a group of his friends, and while everyone else was hooting and hollering, he was messaging a girl about how he was in the movie. It was just deeply uncool — everyone around him was engrossed in the movie, and he was just texting about the movie as if he had watched even a second of it. I was genuinely watching for this guy to lift his head up and look at the film for even a second, and it never happened. Wow.

Theater etiquette is going through some growing pains I think. After a few years of being cooped up inside all the time, people were eager to get back out there, but many of them had a crippling addiction to their phone. And for many people, being out in public still means talking to their friend group as if they're in their own home — loudly, and with no regard for anyone else who might be in the vicinity. I mean, teens have always been rowdy in movie theaters. Kids throwing popcorn and yelling has probably been an issue since theaters were invented. But this person got reverse-scolded for trying to silence a group of kiddos, and it's rather infuriating. 

Now, this is not my problem to fix. As a mere Fail Blogger, there's obviously nothing I can do about problematic movie theater behavior except call attention to it (and yap about it on TikTok!). But I do hope for a day when theater etiquette returns to a silent, pitch-black theater environment (hey, a guy can hope!). 

Up next, check out this wild story of a person who actually won an iPad via a claw machine! Too bad it got stuck inside… read the update to see what happened next!

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