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Heyang: When the lights go off in a cinema, five types of cinema monsters could be raising their ugly heads. How should we deal with them, or maybe are you one of them? Well, let’s go through this list.
Ryan: Yeah, first of all, it’s the monsters being not the one you see on the screen, but the ones coming into your movie theater either being the eater, and this is someone who just seems to manage to eat and drink coke as loud as a train going by your house if you live on the train tracks. So this, yeah you know, with this one being said, people eat popcorn and drink soda. You know I’m a little more lenient on this one.
Heyang: Yeah I was gonna say, with popcorn, like you guys eat it all the time Americans, generalization.
Ryan: Yeah, we do. It is very like culture thing to eat with your mouth closed though in the US. So I think it’s a little less loud when you do so that way?
Hongling: Yes, I think the eater is just like the smell and the sound and everything, if you lower it down a little bit, it will be fine. But when you do it, yeah, it’s not.
Heyang: The crunch crunch crunch really is very very annoying. Oh!
Ryan: Yeah, there’s couple of others we will get to them, but I just want to jump to the ones that I think are, I just wanna beat (go ahead). These are the phone flashers and the chatter box. And guys, you know what, I’m gonna level with you. In the US, like if you bring out your phone, and you start talking in a movie, someone might physically attack you. Like it is considered really rude, someone will yell like some really rude stuff to you. Almost inevitably, in the movie theater the personnel will kick you out. Like it’s just not a place where you do that. You are messing up everybody’s experience that they paid the same amount as you did. And you know, I completely agree with that. I think that’s the right way to handle it. Because these people drive me insane.
Heyang: With these phone flashers, I think the worst type are the ones that are on the phone talking, these people should be kicked out! But there’s also the less bad ones, but you are bad (yeah you are still bad). That is just wechatting all the way or checking all kinds of stuff and (obnoxious). Yes that screen, it is so bright in the dark, and that could be so annoying.
Ryan: Know that you are doing that everybody else dislikes you very much, so don’t do it.
Heyang: Yeah it reminds me in the subway when now some people are playing games without the ear phones, and it’s so loud and playing stuff (like) videos that is also so loud. I think I mean it’s time to take the social etiquette to the next level and say: that is not ok you know.
Ryan: I mean I get that, at the same time, I’m a little more lenient with the subway. But like places like the library, or like the movie theater, there’s just like a code of conduct. Just be quiet, and stop drawing attention away from the movies, so what is that being on your phone and having a conversation and seeing the light of your phone, it just takes away from the movie, pulls me out of it you know.
Hongling: All the monsters we refer to, it’s that the people that they don't care about others, they just think about themselves and live in their own world, which bring us the last two types: the critics and the chatterbox, which means they talk in the cinema a lot, maybe out loud. Either they are chatting about the movie, or they are just criticizing about what they are seeing. That’s none of it, it’s acceptable.
Heyang: And also the late comer.
Ryan: Yeah, well the late comer does bug me. I mean like show up on time, whatever maybe you got stuck in the traffic. Um, the critic, as long as you are not doing that during the film, I don't mind critics snubs, I can ignore them, just fine when they are not distracting me from a movie. But, if they are doing it during a movie, oh, pursue!
Heyang: Yeah and there’s once that me as a very calm pacifist person (so nice and sweet), yes and a lady as I am, like I just said. Well I’m not really that a lot of the times. But on the other day, when I encountered the late comer, the critic, the phone flasher and the eater, so four out of five combined in one. Yes, I brought up all of my courage, and said “could you please put a sock in it, we are trying to watch a movie here Mr.” And the guy pretty much almost was on the verge of hitting me. Yes that happened the other day, and I think those are the situations when you wonder how could people be so uncivilized and not caring for others at all. And now was the time for the very first time in my life I think, I wish I was a macho man with a heavy fist.
Ryan: And I wish I was there because of that behavior is unacceptable. First of all, he did what he shouldn’t be doing. Second of all, the guy like threatening a girl, a woman in just my code of conduct, how I was raised, everything’s wrong with that, and I think it’s just really a coward thing to do on his part.
Heyang: Yeah so those bad monsters do exist, but guess what, there were some good Samaritans I suppose (hooray!), who kind of helped out. And basically the strangers around me were sort of hushing the guy and saying that: if you don’t wanna see this, and you should leave. So for a moment, my heart was warmed by all those strangers in a Beijing cinema. And I think with all that support I got from the strangers. That it pretty much shows we are seeing that people’s social etiquette is kind of on the improve.
Ryan: So be like those people, not like the monsters.
Heyang: Yes, don’t be these five types of monsters.
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