<p>Okay…so as a father’s day gift to Bullet and I went to the movies (it is a big deal in our house…I only go @1x a yr)</p>
<p>I now realize why I hate to go…people have become so inconsiderate…if it isn’t someone answering their cell phone it is a child talking non-stop.</p>
<p>When did it become that my rights didn’t matter? When did it become acceptable for people to be so rude. </p>
<p>Granted we saw a mattinee for the Hulk, but the parent with a 3-4 yr old, never said once to his child SHUSH! Nor did he even say be quiet or even acknowledge the child. </p>
<p>UGGGHHH! Last yr when Knocked up came out we saw at night and I remember the same thing happening and was in awe that someone would even bring a child. With the cost of tickets, popcorn and soda, it would be cheaper to hire a babysitter. When my kids were little we would never have thought of bringing them unless it was a Disney pic, now you see parents with newborns in carseats at any and every movie!</p>
<p>Well I guess I have another year reprieve and I’ll catch the movies I want to see in the quiet of my own home</p>
<p>Once there was this situation behind me, and I finally turned around and said “You know, if you can’t control your child you really shouldn’t bring them places.”</p>
<p>The woman gave me the evil eye. I gave it right back. She finally got up and left. The rest of the theatre APPLAUDED. XD</p>
<p>Oh well. I guess I’ll just have to get used the fact that Pima is just not a “movie theater-experience” person, which I am. </p>
<p>However, there is a silver lining here: I will use today’s experience for further ammunition to convince her to allow me to build a home theater room in the new house! “Look, Pima. No crying kids to annoy you in here!” Now if I can only convince her to go with the 96" projection screen and 12 speaker system!</p>
<p>I haven’t been to the “show” in over a decade, maybe 2. Just won’t put up with the audience behavior. Became a safety concern. And anyway, I’m sure my photo is still on the ticket office wall with a big red slash through it. ;)</p>
<p>I don’t go to movies because some tall person always sits in front of me and makes me unable to see. The last adult movie I saw was Interview with the Vampire starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. After that, I saw one Harry Potter movie (I think the second) and then we went to see the last Batman, but after the over-indulgence-in-popcorn-vomiting-all-over-the-lobby debacle, we won’t be going back.</p>
<p>Showing my age now…my parents never took us to a movie until we were @10-11, except for the drive-in…My folks would load us up in the car in our pjs and go and see a movie…I am all for that…maybe movie theatres that are mega multi-plexes, should have two starting at the same time for blockbusters like the Hulk…1 that allows little ones and one that allows only kids that are 10 and over. This way if you decide to go into the theatre with the little kids you are entering at your own risk…Kind of like driving on the Jersey Tpke Truck lane. The other benefit is there are less taller people so the kids don’t have to sit on their knees to see around an adults head!</p>
<p>To really show my age…am I the only one that remembers an usher collecting your ticket as you entered the actual theatre, not as they do now. </p>
<p>In the end of the day Bullet and I spent $70 for 6 of us, including popcorn for me to sit there cringing with the little kid talking in my left ear! Hisgrace…don’t worry the women you talked to at your last movie was probably the same one I gave an evil eye when she brought her 3 yr old to Knocked Up for an 8:00 show…I must admit I thought that movie was absolutely vulgar and wanted to leave within 15 min…but I did get a chuckle out of the 3 yrs old ??? Mommie what are they doing? Why is she sick?</p>
<p>Just out of curiosity for anyone who has gone through the stares and people in front of you turning back, why? Same with parents bringing a 3 yr old to an 8 showing, by the time you get home it is 10…why don’t you pay for the sitter? I know that might read as a smart a** comment, but I need to comprehend it. The first time I took my kids to an 8 showing was when my oldest was 9, youngest was 5 and it was for Toy Story. Heck, my 14 yr old has yet to ever see an R movie even at home, my 16 yr old just saw her 1st at home…R means no one under 18 unless accompanied.</p>
<p>I hope you are very young, because it will be a long wait! Bullet had our last bsmt with a home theatre system…2 floors up and the doors were still vibrating! Luckily our new home is in an equestrian neighborhood on 10 acres, since we won’t be having any horses, I promised him he could build a man outhouse instead of the cave…this way he is out of my earshot… Also works for when the Giants play or when UMD Terps play…I keep telling him the coaches can’t hear him when he screams at the tv, he still doesn’t believe me. I do wonder what the neighbors will do when their horses start neighing!</p>
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<p>Have to ask…you, your kid, or a stranger…or was it the hear someone vomit and the automtaic reflex caused everyone to vomit?</p>
<p>BTW I remember when Tom Cruise did that movie and how he looked when Oprah interviewed him(all of the long hair)…alot different than when he jumped on the couch</p>
<p>I don’t go to movies all that often (4-5 times a year), but we have been going more often since my hubby’s new job gives free movie tickets for all kinds of things (donating blood, volunteering, etc).</p>
<p>I have been to plenty of movies where kids and/or adults are talking or being disruptive. I don’t mind if it is during the previews/before show stuff – no problem – but as soon as the show starts, it better be quiet in the theater. If someone (kid or adult) starts talking, I leave the theater and find an usher/attendant/manager, etc and ask them to deal with it. Let me tell you, having a theater person come in and tell someone to quiet down or leave gets everyone to shut-up. I figure I don’t have the authority to kick someone out of the theater – but the management does.</p>
<p>I do the same thing if the picture is fuzzy or scratched, the volume is too loud or too soft, etc. At $8.50/person I think I can expect a good experience.</p>
<p>I don’t complain at the dollar movie – I figure that is why I am paying just a dollar (actually $2 now).</p>
<p>cur – funny you should mention safety. We went to a movie in downtown Denver (Ironman) when the strobe light started flashing (the one on the fire alarm). The movie kept playing, the sound continued, the lights did not come up, no noise for the fire alarm, etc. the only thing was that the strobe light kept flashing – but it wasn’t that bothersome. 30 minutes later (yes – 30, I timed it) a movie person comes in and frantically says “the theaters have all been evacuated, there has been a fire, please leave ASAP!”</p>
<p>Ended up a false alarm – but maybe that was good, since if had been real we would probably have been incinerated while watching Ironman. I just assumed that if the fire alarm was actually going off, there would be an audible alarm/the movie would stop/the lights would come up/etc. I mean – what is the point of the barely noticeable strobe light? So that the fire alarm won’t interrupt our movie watching experience?</p>
<p>The theater was totally unprepared for a fire alarm – and it was total chaos for hours afterwards. They ended up refunding double our original ticket price plus gave everyone 2 free tickets. We never did get to see the end of Ironman – but I am assuming he saves the world and gets the girl.</p>
<p>Really! Wow! Will you let him put in all the equipment in the man outhouse? If so, that sounds like a good compromise.</p>
<p>The vomiting thing was my son. Hubby wouldn’t listen to me and let him eat a lot of popcorn, which he isn’t used to. we were in the farthest theater and he barfed the whole way out to the car.</p>
<p>zoos, the man-cabana is already in the planning stages. Combo cabana for the pool, with a bar inside covered patio / kitchen on the outside. Home theater will be in the back room. Storage shed will be behind. Like I said, planning stages (and I would love to start the man-cabana wish-list thread!). First part of the plan: robbing the bank or hitting the lottery, which ever comes first. With what I’m planning, I’ll probably have to do both…</p>
<p>And oh yeah! The home theater will have built in ejector seats for anyone (regardless of age) who doesn’t know how to stay quiet during a movie. Make me miss a critical play for the Terps or the Giants, the ejector seat will include a small-nuclear device! :)</p>
<p>Thank you for this post! It has not been a pleasurable experience at the movies for us either. One of the last times we attended a movie, a woman was stretched out with her legs on the seat in front. You would have thought I had insulted her terribly when I politely said “excuse me” just to get to a seat! Not to mention the sticky floors, etc. I have totally lost all interest in going to the movies! Give me at home movies any day~!!</p>
<p>H and I won’t go to the “multiplex” type of movie theater any more. Every once in a while we go to the old-fashioned refurbished theater with the huge, high, ornate ceiling to see the movies that came out long ago elsewhere. On Saturday nights, a guy plays the pipe organ before the show, and it’s so much fun! A majority of the audience is old, fuddy-duddies like us, so there isn’t too much noise. I am short, and if someone tall sits in front of me, there are usually non-blocked seats nearby.</p>
<p>To top it off, it is 10 minutes from our house and only a few bucks.</p>
<p>I went to see the SATC movie last week and there was a woman in the row in front of me who had taken off her shoes and put her feet up on the back of the seat in front of her. I thought that was inappropriate, especially since I could smell her feet from where I was. Actually, I would’ve been grossed out even if the feet were clean - I think shoes should stay on in public! It would’ve been worse for the people in the row in front of her but no one commented.</p>
<p>My pet peeve at the movies: candy wrapper crinklers! Although last time even they were beaten out by the big lout who arrived 15 minutes late, ignored the vast assortment of empty seats all around, and plopped himself down right in front of my small-for-her-age 4th grader.</p>
<p>Husband had a similar situation last year. He took same D. on a weekday to one of the animated movies she’d been waiting to see. Theater completely empty. A woman and her son ignored the entire rest of the theater and sat down directly in front of the two of them. She turned around and informed H: “he likes to sit in the middle.” Nice example to set.</p>
<p>^^^ you made me laugh! B/C even at our new theater they were too cheap to put in the seats with cup holders!</p>
<p>How about when you enter the theater for the next movie and your feet stick to the floor b/c in the last movie someone dropped it and it has now dried to become a lovely sticky mess :)</p>
And anyway, I’m sure my photo is still on the ticket office wall with a big red slash through it. ;)</p>