Talking in theaters. Seriously, I get up and start yelling at these people until they shut up or leave. Sometimes I'll just get up and go tell the manager he's going to have to deal with it, or give me some free tickets to come back.

Talking during the movie whether it's at the theater or at home. At home I tend to pause it until the talker has finished.

Oh this is a big one for me....

People who touch the discs on DVD/Blu-Rays. If you don't know how to handle it properly...don't touch it! Seriously, I don't want any damn smudges on my discs.

Chair kickers are horrid people too.. or those people that have to shove their feet up on your chair as a prop thus nudging you every time you move.

See, that's why I do my best to make sure I have a good solid bubble of NO ONE around me in the theater. I'd lose it and probably end up getting kicked out of the theater is someone started kicking my seat.

These are benefits of going to the matinee.

Forgot to mention the people that get up and down during the movie and climb all over you to get in and out. If you can't get your affairs in order and your food before the movie..don't get it until the movie's over.

This has already been mentioned but I'll say it again. I HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE TALK IN THE THEATER. Specifically when they are talking back to the movie. I went to a screening the other night and the woman in front of me was responding to the movie very loudly about every 3 - 5 minutes.

I'm going to play devil's advocate here and say I don't mind when people talk during the movie, as long as they're whispering quietly and it refers to the actual film. It's actually really cool when they do that, cause then it really feels like the audience is excited. What I hate is people using cell phones...that light is REALLY distracting in a dark theater.

There's a theater in Alabama I used to go to when I lived further south, and my biggest pet peeve is when the sound was extremely off or it was off centered from the screen...or better yet words didn't seem to match lips. Then because you decide to go to the last showing - there is NO one in the theater to fix anything. Needless to say, I stopped going there

When the projector isn't angled right, or it's slightly off. I've been to several theaters where the top (or bottom) of the movie image is being projected onto the wall of the theater, because it wasn't centered on the screen correctly.

Obnoxious Teenagers...generally because they can't shut off their yaps or their cell phones.

@ Jarod,

Yeah I totally agree with you there. It's actually a big reason why I don't even bother going to the theaters on Friday nights anymore. Teenagers are all over the place then! When I went to the midnight showing of Pirates 4, teens were the only other people in the audience and I was miserable....Then the movie played and I was more miserable

I'm like the only teen (well...sort of a teen) who doesn't talk during the movie. I talked during Pirates 4 but only because 1) their were very few people in there and they were nowhere near me and 2) the dude I was talking to, a few years my junior, kept freaking out about my "that's what she said" jokes (which worked particulary well with "Why can't we meet without you pointing something at me?"). And we also argued, during the movie, about why he thought Penelope Cruz wasn't hot.

but I do hate when people talk during the movie. I've heard people on the phone during the movie, TELLING THE PERSON THEY'RE TALKING TO WHAT IS HAPPENING! that's why I almost always go to early morning matinees. when I went and saw Thor, I believe it was in like it's third week, I went to like a 10:30 showing, and the only other people their were a middle-aged couple who seemed to enjoy the film.

one time, I was in a theater and before the film started, these teenage guys were riding a wheelchair down the walkway and crashing into the wall, just barely missing the screen. needless to say, the manager was not thrilled.