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Oh, I have one that hasn't been mentioned, and a new version of that one from a couple of weeks ago.
Cell phones have been mentioned. In addition to the talking, I hate those bright screens opening in my field of vision as someone checks a call or text message. If you can't shut off your phone for the duration of the movie, don't go.
The newest version is the earpiece with the bright blue light on in that blinked constantly the whole movie. Well, except for when the whole thing lit up like a Christmas tree, with a dozen red and blue lights blinking rapidly. Ugh.
Inappropriate laughter and cheering at violence. The worst I've seen was a couple of years back at Baby Boy. At one point in the movie, a character has two others lie down on a sidewalk and executes them by shooting them in the back. It was in context meant to be horrifying and wake up the protagonist to the true nature of his friends. When it happened, half the theater erupted in laughter and cheers, and there were several shouts of "Yeah" and other expressions of agreement, as if it were something to cheer.
At another point a man is trying to rape a woman and the audience was shouting encouragement.
I've witnessed laughter and cheers at wildly inappropriate times and in response to horrific violence more than a few times since then.
And my last complaint is boys trying to impress their dates at horror movies by scaring them, or otherwise acting the "bad boy." The most egregious example being during a screening of The Skeleton Key, just after the climactic moment, just before the big reveal, yells "You done got smacked!" This following frequent cracks during tense moments followed by laughter from the four women with him.
Be quiet, don't use any device that makes intrusive noise or light. Surely that isn't hard to understand.
We do most of our movie watching at home.
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