I'm not sure I'm mentally prepared to go read this whole thread, but I have clicked through to some of the links Katie provided. The one about the 'reformed serial rapist' is the most .. well, interesting and enlightening seem like entirely too positive words to use, but there it is.

I think there was an article about it on Jez or Gawker when the movie came out. Apparently her natural speaking voice, which is a bit high pitched, didn't fit the 'badass' image. So it got redubbed.

Sure, she was pretty good. Probably not 'carry a movie not specifically built around her strong points' good. Apparently they overdubbed her voice in that too.

I like her and all, but she doesn't have the acting chops to carry a part like Catwoman.

Yep, yep. Vampires have been around in world cultures for a very long time — some of them didn't even drink blood — and they've evolved and changed as they were needed. I have a whole rant I usually go on about that, but mostly I just thought it funny that the OP specifically mentioned 'walking in sunlight' in…

It was my first date with my now-husband, so it's sort of burned into my memory.

Dracula could walk in sunlight. Not all vampires are killed by it.

That's 'Mad Love' with Drew Barrymore. New boyfriend is enchanted with her wild and freespirited ways and runs off with her, only to discover her parents weren't mean assholes trying to keep them apart, she's mentally ill. She has a breakdown while they're on the road and tries to kill herself, he has to return her to…

Its only an auditory and sensory assault if they're misbehaving. And that's the thing. A sleeping baby isn't going to affect your movie going experience at all. If they're behaving themselves, like anyone else in the theater, they're just another member of the audience.

I responded to someone else with this question, but maybe you didn't see it. I don't particularly care if people want to drink a beer while they watch a movie, but in my experience people who have drawn my attention to them sneaking beer in tended to be already blasted, and just continued to get more drunk and…

I'm sort of hesitant to overreach here since its been a long time since my abnormal psych classes, but one of the things that I found fascinating at the time was the assertion that one of the things that happens during military training is the systematic and constant breakdown of certain social mores — one of which is…

Well, you probably want to stay away from @rocosca then, unless you want to end up part of her beauty routine.

So you're not agreeing that movies get disrupted all the time? Really?

Suburban major city here — 3d movies are 15, Imax is 25, a regular ticket is 12.50.

Bingo.

You can't really predict how that person in your aisle is going to act either. I didn't pay 12.50 to have someone text through a movie either, even if it only took 30 seconds.

I worked at AMC chains through high school and college, mostly for the free movie benefits, so I'm totes aware of what it's like on the working man's side.

I don't know. Is someone asking you to move so they can go to the bathroom an appropriate amount of disruption? Is someone opening their candy ok? What about dropping their popcorn all over the place? Even without babies or small children, movies aren't serene spaces where everyone behaves well, everyone stays in…

I'm sure I've been at a lot of movies where people snuck beer in and I didn't realize it. That's sort of the point — if you're doing something to attract that much attention, maybe you're being disruptive.

My grandmother was a movie talker. And my mom has developed the habit. "What's going on? What did she just say? Why is that man there?"