What are your pet peeves?

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

I realize this is a gold standard complaint, voiced many times before by many, many people, but I'm going to be peeved here anyway.

People who talk in movies. Bad. And, everyone pretty much (unless they're the ones talking during the movie) that it's bad.

But it also grates my cheese when people talk during the previews.

I don't mind gasps of giddy anticipation. I don't mind, "Oh, I was really hoping to see this!" I don't. In that way, I talk during the previews, too. Shared excitement gets my approval.

But people who carry on their unrelated conversations irritate the crap out of me. The trailers are, as far as I'm concerned, part of the movie going experience. Very likely, they'll be the best thing about the movie I've paid to see.

When the lights go down, zip it!