At the movies: A rude idiot rant...

[karmaleafbarer]

Today Dave and I decided we'd take a break from worrying about our bills and go out to a movie for a change. We get to the theater with the intention of seeing Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, but upon seeing all the kids lined up outside the theater, we decided to see something else because we wanted to see a movie where people wouldn't be making a lot of noise and we could concentrate on the actual show.

We decided to go see The Ring again instead since we both liked it last time we saw it, but we had to sit up front with a bunch of noisy teens behind us who screamed every time they felt it was applicable. So we thought "Second time's a charm, let's see it again now that its not new anymore and the theater won't be crowded this time."

So we go and sit down about ten minutes before the movie starts up, we get comfortable, and as soon as the previews start playing, in comes Billy The Hick and his Trailer Trash Find Of The Week.

"Hyuck! Hey honey! Here's a couple of good spots!"

*Plop! Plop!*

Right behind us.

Now that's all well and good....I don't mind people sitting behind me. What I DO mind, however, are inconsiderate (AND STUPID) clods. They initiated the fact that they were of this nature by Billy The Hick kicking the back row of seats and rattling Dave's and my teeth before ultimately sticking his feet up on the seatbacks in front of him, dangling his sneakers about five inches from my face.

Still fine, I can ignore this. THEN they start talking. Loudly. And they won't shut up, even once the movie starts. Dave and I are steadily growing angrier as this progresses....and their conversation slowly slides backward on the intellect scale. I didn't know whether to burst out laughing or break down weeping when Trailer Girl asks loudly "WUTS A CONUNDRUM??" when the kid says it in the movie to which Billy replies "I dunno, they should have explained wut it was. How dumb."

Dave decides to try an indirect tactic to shut them up....next time I lean in to whisper something to him, he loudly says "SHH!!!!" so that it will look like he's saying it to me, but its really for the morons' benefit behind us. And they DO shush...for a whopping 2 minutes and then they're back at it.

The movie continues and so does the drivel behind us. As the climax of the movie begins, Billy and Trailer Girl are loudly talking and laughing now about something that has nothing to do with the movie. I don't know what it was because, god darn it, I was trying to watch the movie I paid $7.50 to see and not listening to them.

Finally, Dave's had enough and twists around in his seat and looking directly at both of them says "SHUT. THE HELL. UP." Is this met with silence? Is it met with even a grain of shame that maybe they were ruining the movie experience for others with all their needless noise? Oh hell no....not on your life.

Instead, Trailer Girl and Billy The Hick start trying to (loudly, of course) pick a fight with Dave as he turns back around and ignores them. But, to their credit, once the cries of "YOU WANNA SAY THAT AGAIN BOY??? WANNA SAY IT TO MAH FACE???" stop, the two morons DO shut up for the last 10 minutes of the movie.

As the credits roll, they linger for a minute, hoping we'll be eager to get up and leave so they can have more words with us, likely. In the end, the fact that there was nothing but words in the credits and no pretty pictures seemed to bother them enough to make them leave (Dave and I have kind of a quirk....we always stay during the credits to cheer for the Grip....because nobody cheers for the Grip and he deserves SOME credit).

Why do morons have such a strong sense of entitlement? I mean we see them on Neopets demanding free stuff and the movie experience was a perfect example of how they think their actions should be acceptable no matter who they're inconveniencing.

On another note, why do the people who've chosen to forego an education think we should have to idiot-ify everything for them? These are the same gits who raised such a stink at the theaters when "Life Is Beautiful" came out because (god forbid) it was subtitled and was in another language all the way through it. So much did they complain that the video version was dubbed in English. "OH NO!! I DUN WANNA HAVE TO *READ*!!! THIS MOVIE IS EEBIL!!!"

*sighs* okay...sorry....I needed to get that out o.o;;

[Patjade]

Funny... I think that pair (or one of their clones) inhabit almost EVERY theater I've ever been in.

I think they keep them in a closet in the projection room, to unleash should the ambient noise level ever get to the point where one can really watch, listen, and enjoy the movie.

[hippiesoul]

I get those idiots, too... What about when they start kicking your seat? Oh gosh, next time, someone does that, I'm sure to turnm around and slap them on the face... Karma, you and your husband are my idols, for keeping quite calm. If it was me, my temper would have won...

[izzywizard]

I've walked out of movies and complained to the management when dealing with people like that- at the very least I want my money back if some yahoos decided they are going to ruin a movie for me.

My fiance is now scared to take me to the movies because of my low tolerance for stupidity.

When I say the second Harry Potter movie the others where quite enough, though there was some kid who would'nt shut up next to us - his mother had to take him outside a few times, which was nice of her.

[calvinseviltwin]

Conclusion": People are assholes.

Karma that musta really sucked. I've never had that problem before (lucky me) but I feel really bad for you. Wasn't there a different seat in the theatre though?

[karmaleafbarer]

Yeah there were other seats, but we were there first and why should WE have to move? And even if we had changed seats so these idiots could continue slathering their moron excretions all over the theater, we'd still be able to hear them. They were loud. And I mean LOUD. Their voices were like echoing off of the walls and they were talking like they were in the middle of Yankee-darn-Stadium ><;;

[calvinseviltwin]

Ah. Ewww Yankess stink... literally/ PHEW

[starhamster]

Know what you mean, Karma. My problem is usually a lot of screaming little kids who kick the back of my chair incessantly - happened to me the first time I saw Episode I, though usually it happens at the Omni - and when you get kicked out of your chair in the Omni theater, you get dizzy fast because the room's slanted so steeply. But we did have a lovely run-in with some cousins of that Hick family when we went to see K-19 with a family friend - we were all ready to strangle them by the time the movie was over.

[Killix]

*sigh* I must congratulate you and Dave, Karma. I would've been at the end of my teather...I wouln't've been able to sit there and not turn around and scream at the top of my lungs "SHUT THE HELL UP!!!!!! IM TRYING TO WATCH THE *&^#*%# MOVIE!!!!!"

Once when me and my little borther went to see...uhh..one of the Pokemon movies (yes, Pokemon) and there were these little kids behind us...one was kicking my seat the whole time...the other kept talking and naming the characters wrong (eg: Lapras appears on the screen and the kid says: "THATS LUGIA")
and the kid beside me kept telling his mom what was gonna happen next "Yeah, Ash get's Charizard and rides him down the mountain blah blahblah" which made me mad...

One of my friends told me that when they went to see..uhh...some movie, some kid that was beside her kept reaching into her popcorn bag and stealing popcorn! and when she told the kid to stop, the kid yelled "NOOOO!!!" and slapped her arm. So near the end of the movie, she dumped the rest of the popcorn on the kid's lap...*laughs*

aaand not too long ago when my family and I went to see "Signs" the woman beside me almost wacked me in the face with her hand as a very predictible scene happened (the arm grabs the kid through the grate thing) yeesh...it wasn't even THAT startling...yet, people were screaming...

[Kiddo]

I *snivles* have a confession to make. I have been a rude idiot before.

We got carded when going to see "Black Hawk Down". Blair was the only person who wasn't 17 yet. So, of course, we weren't about to leave her out. But, the jerk at the counter wouldn't let any of us have tickets since we didn't want to leave Blair out. So Tina figures out the Brittney Spears movie started at the same time, and we all get tickets to that stupid thing.

Rachel Keiper is tearing tickets stubs. For reference, she hates me and my friends. So she subtly hints that she'll get us all thrown out of the theater if we ditch and go to Black Hawk Down. lady dog.

We walk into the theater right at the part when you find out Brittany is the valevictiorian. It was downhill from there. Rachel (the friend Rachel) sits down and her chair arm falls off. Hysterical laughter. Then she starts predicting the movie plot as it goes, and gets everything right. More laughter. We just sat there and made fun of the entire thing. The middle school girls in front of us are ready to leap over the seats and kill us all. At the end of the movie, Rachel cannot contain herself and waves her hands concert style. We had to drag her out of there because we couldn't keep from laughing.

So we return home after that abysmal movie and decide to watch Gladiator to make up for it. I ask Rachel to come upstairs and help me bring down the beanbag chairs. She forgets about the one step in the hallway and falls down the stairs, rolling the entire way. It was hiliarious, but not surprising. She's fallen on every step in my house now, second floor, basement, porch, back porch, and garage. It's a ritual of hers, that and breaking theater chairs. I don't remember a time we've been to the movies without her sitting in a broken chair.

Anyways, hate me if you will, but I have trouble remaining serious at movies...

[poy222]

That happens to me too Karma. More than once

This summer, I went to see the third austin powers movie, and there was this guy next to us who laughed his head off at every single moment in the movie. Of course, it's normal to laugh at a movie like that. But this guy was yelling foul language and swearing really loud while he was laughing like a maniac.

I liked the movie A Beautiful Life:)

Another time, I was a play: The Nutcracker. There was this guy sitting behind me who must have had a cold or something because he coughed every 2 minutes. And he didn't cover his mouth when he did. So I felt like blowing up when I felt like he was coughing on me without covering his mouth. I was really tinkled off.

I've had much experience with kicks in back of my chair too.

[calvinseviltwin]

That's why I sit in the back.. when i was on cructhes I got the handicap seating.

I don't go to movies often either (DVD!) so I'm lucky

[Gryphon]

Kiddo, you had every right. Especially if they were middle school kids, the naive morons...

Yes, I do realize I just insulted myself.

Go Karma and (checks name XP) Dave! Imbeciles like that just ask for being yelled at... And they WANT to pick a fight with your husband, Karma? -.- What moron picks a fight that they don't need?

And about how old were those people? Because it would be pretty incorrect if they were younger than you two to have called Dave 'boy'. Kind of laughable.

I envy that kind of patience. I don't have an ounce of it. Either that or I shut my mouth, refuse to speak, and slowly begin to get so tinkled off that you have to chain me to a chair to keep me from strangling someone. Anyway, here's a little story of mine.

My former friend was one of those rude idiots... I went to see... Argh, I forget what, with her, and she talked and giggled through the whole thing. (NOW I remember, it was LOTR, then I went and saw it again with another friend of mine) Then she kept sighing dramatically everytime Legolas was in a scene, and I know it was only because everyone seems to think Orlando Bloom is "hot". I told her to shut up several times, but she never did. (she does this often, she is such a bloody follower... She went to the Britney Spears movie and has a Britney Spears poster in her room but she just said "my friend picked it out" and "it was the only poster I had" just so that I'll think she's cool. **NOTE:** Sane people do not like little clones of themselves following them around and being obsessed with them.)

Anyway, she kept asking me these dumb questions ("What's going on?" "If you'd stop sighing like an idiot and blabbering, maybe you'd notice." *pout*).

In other situations, like when there was (argh, I should remember the title...) a Vietnam War movie on TV that my parents were watching while we ate pizza in the dining room (my living room and dining room are connected), a Vietnamese girl was raped by an American soldier, and she yelled, "WHAT HAPPENED?" I kicked her so hard, I hope she bruised. Then when my parents asked questions to each other, she butted in and answered and asked her own half-wit questions. I wanted to throw the immature, impolite, idiotic little brat out the window.

Then, another of my friends used to blabber in movies, but after I told her to be quiet twice, she shut her mouth and watched... But she kept stealing my Raisonnets (is that how you spell it? I forget... I haven't had them in a while). -.-'

*whipes forehead* Whew, no more ranting for me... *rants some more*

[Linnen Malfoy]

I've been rather lucky and has never had to be in a theater with movie-wrecking idiots (thank god).

However, I DO always sit infront of kids and behind drunk people on plans...

Random, but it's still pretty annoying...;;

[Princess Ember Mononoke]

Well. . . erm. . . I don't know how to say this, Meowth, but if you're going to a Pokemon movie you kind of have to expect little kids like that to be there. . .