Nice note about people who love to race out of movies and the recent Lord of the Rings film

You know those people who can't wait to stand up at the exact moment they sense a movie is over, and put on their coats and race out of the theater, blocking the end titles and credit cookies for the rest of us? The movie drove them nuts.
- Roger Ebert

Bring to mind a lot of stupid behaviour in movie theaters that seems to serve no purpose other than to annoy those of us who are there to watch movies.

• Showing up very late (despite the 20 minute buffer of ads and trailers) so you can walk in front of the screen during early scenes.


• After showing up late, then sitting down and waiting 30 seconds, getting up multiple times to go to the bathroom and/or get sodas.


• Coming to a film when you have a problem moving air through your nasal passages without a hideous whistle every five seconds


• In the new, stadium style theaters, running down the stairs making sure to bring your foot down as hard and as loudly as possible.


• Aside from the obvious leaving your cellphone on, nothing is more distracting than seeing someone's cell phone display as they struggle to figure out how to turn it off. Hint - do it before the lights come down.


• For those over the age of 5 - constantly asking your seatmate - who also hasn't seen the film - what happens next, instead of waiting and watching it. In fact I am in such need of your commentary could you possible record it and burn it on CD's so all of us can enjoy your insights like "wow, he's really dead now" when we watch DVD's at home.


• For those under the age of 9 - turn and ask your parents why they brought you to this complicated R rated movie that you can't possibly comprehend

Ask yourself if you would do any of these things if you were going to see a play - no? Then go see the latest Adam Sandler film next door, and leave the movies to the rest of us to enjoy.