Idiotic audiences I've just gotten back from my vacation in Washington where I finally saw A History of Violence. I'm officially counting my self as a member of the "fuck the theater and wait for video" club. This was the last straw.

A History of Violence was, as some of you may have guessed, violent. It was not 'funny' in its violence, at least the majority of it. However, my audience could not help but burst into laughter every time something violent happened. The same thing happened when I saw War of the Worlds, and when Anikan pulled his lightsabre on children in ROTS. These are only three examples, but there are more.

Why can't people take serious and emotionally negative violence? Is the majority of the movie going public so emotionally fragile and maladjusted that they have to break into nervous laughter anytime their sensibilities are challenged? It's sad when I can't depend on an audience to be mature enough to handle the movie they've come to watch, and it has official made me sick.

Yeah, sometimes it's OK to laugh at the absuditiy of violence in film, for instance Land of the Dead had some genuinely funny moments of gory excess.

I also hate the snide, loud-ass comments some jerk-offs have to make when the credits role. IF you didn't like A History of Violence, feel free to express it to people you know, but the strangers in the audience don't need to hear about it. I can't wait for the day when movies aren't judged by their theatrical grosses anymore so I won't have to attend the theater in support of a film ever again.

I had popcorn thrown at me when I was about 16. Only the bratty 12 year old girls who were throwing it kept trying to flirt with me and my friend.

What's worse is mobile phones!

I pay good money to hear a f*cken ring tone and half a conversation? Bah, humbug!

Quote: Why can't people take serious and emotionally negative violence? Is the majority of the movie going public so emotionally fragile and maladjusted that they have to break into nervous laughter anytime their sensibilities are challenged? It's sad when I can't depend on an audience to be mature enough to handle the movie they've come to watch, and it has official made me sick.

Maybe filmmakers have actually forgotten how to film emotionally negative violence.  The Anakin scene you point out was unintentionally funny for a lot of people because it wasn't well done.

Adrian, the Anakin scene was a bad example that I used because I assumed everyone here would know what I was talking about.

I think War of the Worlds is a better example, as I think most of us can agree that Speilberg filmmed a little girl seeing bodies floating down a river quite effectively. I love dark humor as much, if not more so than the next guy, I just don't get why people won't let themselves be effected by real, serious, dark imagery. I honestly see it as weakness.

It doesn't take much for some idiot to ruin your film.  But it has to be said the communal experience of cinema can be a great thing.  I remember the audiences bursting into applause in Attack of The Clones when Yoda pulled his lightsaber and started leaping around like a green arsed fly or when Michael Keaton first rasped "I'm Batman"

Teenage girls are worse than the BNP

I don't even want to get into my teenage girls at Matrix Reloaded story. Thank God for that pissed off little man in front of them, or I may have been typing this from a jail cell.