The Ichi
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Post by The Ichi on Jun 2, 2008 11:18:03 GMT -5
No offense to any Americans here, but I've never understood the whole "It's an R-Rated movie, you must be age 18 or over, yet kids can still see it if they're with a parent" rule. In the UK, if a movie's an 18, it means absoulutely no-one under that age can see it. Inviting little Timmy to see Hostel part 2 is just ASKING for trouble.
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Post by Goldenbane on Jun 2, 2008 11:28:42 GMT -5
Ugh, the worst experience I ever had was in the Hulk. First, the movie sucked big time...that was bad enough...but I'd also had a big fight with my brother before hand...so that didn't help matters. Finally, some damn kid kept opening and closing and opening and closing and opening the damn theatre door (located in the back of the theatre) and letting all the light in to help ruin things further.
That's happened on more than one occation...folks going to the restroom and the door being opened like maybe 3 times during the whole movie is easily ignorable. 68 times, though pisses me off big time...get your f***ing popcorn BEFORE you go into the movie...sit down...and shut the hell up!
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Post by amsiraK on Jun 2, 2008 12:31:37 GMT -5
No offense to any Americans here, but I've never understood the whole "It's an R-Rated movie, you must be age 18 or over, yet kids can still see it if they're with a parent" rule. In the UK, if a movie's an 18, it means absoulutely no-one under that age can see it. Inviting little Timmy to see Hostel part 2 is just ASKING for trouble. Most of the time, you're NOT supposed to bring kids to R-rated movies. It's supposed to be "No one under 17 without a parent or guardian", which means that my mom could get me into Aliens when I was a teenager. But I was a teenager. I could handle that. It's not supposed to be "Oh, it's OK if I bring my 5 year old to see 'SAW' because I'm his mom and I say he can and besides, I want to see it'. It's not a catch-all. As a parent, you're still supposed to use your head as something for more than a convenient place to hang earrings.
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Post by Long A, Short A on Jun 2, 2008 15:03:03 GMT -5
Someone took a lil kid into Juno - I don't know what possessed them, but we had an usher throw them out when the kid wouldn't quit crying. The same thing happened when I saw Juno with my cousin, almost. Whoever took the baby out of the theater didn't go past the doorway, so we still heard the baby. BTW this is the same theater where a random woman asked us to watch her kids.
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Post by acressl on Jun 2, 2008 15:08:02 GMT -5
If you have kids, you've got to deal with them. This means they'll be needing to accompany you to some places that might be a bad idea but when you take your infant into Bloodslashers 9: The Re-reckoning or something and they blow their top you're an idiot. Especially if you think you're still going to watch the film.
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Post by acressl on Jun 2, 2008 15:11:26 GMT -5
Also, has anyone ever seen a movie goer hustle when this situation arises and get the offending kid out with precision? I so mark for that. Best I've seen is two wahs.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Jun 2, 2008 15:31:37 GMT -5
My worse movie theater experience to date was the Simpsons Movie, and it wound up being my personal last straw for the (overrated) Esquire Theater .I had some bad memories with them in the past, but I listened to a few friends that said "oh it wasn't that horrible when I went, I guess they've made improvements!"
Now granted, it's an aesthetically pleasing building (it's a constantly-renovated theater from the 1930's), but apparently they need to get some more ushers, because all throughout the movie I had this inconsiderate family walking back and forth, just yammering on about nothing, talking on the cell phone ("Hello? Yeah, we at the movie! Huh? No, we went to see that Simpsons s***!") the kids repeating everything they heard in the TV ads, none of them honoring the rest of the audience's request to shut the hell up and sit down, and the kid behind me going "UUUGGGHH! OOOOOOOO!" when the two cops started kissing. The only reason I didn't walk out was because they fortunately had to leave early.
So I guess the moral of the story is: Never listen to your friends.
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Post by Rorschach on Jun 2, 2008 15:42:43 GMT -5
No offense to any Americans here, but I've never understood the whole "It's an R-Rated movie, you must be age 18 or over, yet kids can still see it if they're with a parent" rule. In the UK, if a movie's an 18, it means absolutely no-one under that age can see it. Inviting little Timmy to see Hostel part 2 is just ASKING for trouble. Most of the time, you're NOT supposed to bring kids to R-rated movies. It's supposed to be "No one under 17 without a parent or guardian", which means that my mom could get me into Aliens when I was a teenager. But I was a teenager. I could handle that. It's not supposed to be "Oh, it's OK if I bring my 5 year old to see 'SAW' because I'm his mom and I say he can and besides, I want to see it'. It's not a catch-all. As a parent, you're still supposed to use your head as something for more than a convenient place to hang earrings. QFT.....too damn bad that consideration is a dead concept. Most parents are like, "Well, I paid money to get in here JUST like you did, so I'm not leaving, even IF my little hell-spawns are distracting you and EVERYONE else. " I advocate theaters hiring ushers again, though there was a theater employee on these boards once when this subject came up, who told me that was a cost prohibitive thing. I've had to LOUDLY complain to management about noisy teens who weren't even f***ing WATCHING the movie they were in (they were TXTing on their phones, and talking like it was the school cafeteria) and beyond that, the movie was WE OWN THE NIGHT, a very R rated type of flick that these kids had no business in anyway. After THREE (!) times of me going out of the theater and bitching VERY stridently, the kids were removed, and it turns out, their tickets that "mommy and daddy" had purchased weren't even FOR that movie! They were for something else ENTIRELY.....stupid little BASTARDS. I've had so damn many BAD experiences at theaters, I tend to ONLY go when I know kids are in school (Me having Wednesday and Thursday off helps with this) or at the end of a movie's theatrical run. I have a list, though, of rules all theater patrons should abide by.....maybe you'll agree with them: 1) Unless the movie is G, or PG, PLEASE leave your tiny tots at home. You notice that I don't have any kids, right? Well, I didn't pay $10 for this movie ticket in order to babysit or scold YOURS. You had them, YOU deal with the inconveniences that they bring into your life. You want to see DAWN OF THE DEAD? Fine, but hire a babysitter for Junior there. He has no need to be at the theater at that age....in fact, leave him home or with a sitter until he's old enough to sit still and be quiet for two straight hours. 2) This is a MOVIE theater.....NOT a public phone booth. Turn the f***ING cell, pager, beeper or whatever off as soon as you come in the doors. I have no need or desire to have my experience interrupted by your BLARING ringtone of Lil Ganja and Tha Hip Hop Hoes singing "Money, Weed, Bitches and Hennesey". Unless you're an EMT or firefighter, you'll be ok with your phone off for two hours. 3) The characters on the screen? THEY CAN'T f***ING HEAR YOU! So QUIT screaming at the dumb slut who just ran the wrong way to get away from the machete toting killer. Your dumb, loud ass is not going to save her.....you're just going to annoy the hell out of everyone else. SIT STILL, SHUT THE f*** UP, AND ENJOY THE CARNAGE. If YOU cannot do this, then please, wait for the DVD so that you can scream like a moron at your TV screen, in the privacy of your own home. 4)If you have a cold, or chronic cough.....please, have a little consideration for other movie goers, and go outside to hark up your phlegm-wad. It's a little bit rude for you to sit there, barking like a seal, and obscuring the audio on the screen. I know that some folks have things like emphysema, and cough loudly once in a while....and hey, that's cool. But if it's so bad that you can't go twenty minutes without a coughing fit....maybe you should stay home, out of consideration for others. 5)And lastly, PLEASE, PLEASE.....as a courtesy to the folks who really don't get paid beans to clean up after our messy asses.....PLEASE take your trash out with you when you go. I mean, hell, there's a garbage can not two feet from you when you walk out the door. You can carry your load of garbage THAT far. Dropping shit on the floor, or kicking it under the seats is just plain RUDE, and there really IS no excuse for being that damned lazy. /Rant
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Post by BHB on Jun 2, 2008 15:43:13 GMT -5
I've never experienced it in the UK. Is it just a US thing?
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Post by Rorschach on Jun 2, 2008 15:50:29 GMT -5
I've never experienced it in the UK. Is it just a US thing? I doubt it....it's probably just WORSE here, since America is the home of the "obnoxious, entitled, jackass" it would seem. Which gets me to thinking.....which country, by and large, has the best and worst mannered citizens? I think Americans are pretty much stereotyped as fat, loud and obnoxious. And as far as theater behavior goes, the last two are dead on, from what I've seen.
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Post by ddd84 on Jun 2, 2008 16:03:55 GMT -5
No offense to any Americans here, but I've never understood the whole "It's an R-Rated movie, you must be age 18 or over, yet kids can still see it if they're with a parent" rule. In the UK, if a movie's an 18, it means absoulutely no-one under that age can see it. Inviting little Timmy to see Hostel part 2 is just ASKING for trouble. Most of the time, you're NOT supposed to bring kids to R-rated movies. It's supposed to be "No one under 17 without a parent or guardian", which means that my mom could get me into Aliens when I was a teenager. But I was a teenager. I could handle that. It's not supposed to be "Oh, it's OK if I bring my 5 year old to see 'SAW' because I'm his mom and I say he can and besides, I want to see it'. It's not a catch-all. As a parent, you're still supposed to use your head as something for more than a convenient place to hang earrings. These are the same parents that buy Grand Theft Auto for little seven-year-old Johnny, so you're asking too much of them.
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Post by darthalexander on Jun 2, 2008 16:06:27 GMT -5
Most of the time, you're NOT supposed to bring kids to R-rated movies. It's supposed to be "No one under 17 without a parent or guardian", which means that my mom could get me into Aliens when I was a teenager. But I was a teenager. I could handle that. It's not supposed to be "Oh, it's OK if I bring my 5 year old to see 'SAW' because I'm his mom and I say he can and besides, I want to see it'. It's not a catch-all. As a parent, you're still supposed to use your head as something for more than a convenient place to hang earrings. These are the same parents that buy Grand Theft Auto for little seven-year-old Johnny, so you're asking too much of them. I'll see you that and raise: Not only are those the same people who will buy GTA for their kids, these are the same idiots who will then turn around and "blame society" for ruining kids, their kids, etc etc etc....instead of their crappy parenting.
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Post by Bullhead on Jun 2, 2008 16:09:00 GMT -5
The only thing worse than kids talking in a movie theater are the parents who don't care and get offended when you say something about it. A little girl sitting behind me talked through most of Iron Man. It was the most annoying whenever subtitles would pop up. "What does that say?.......what does that say?" and on and on. And the guy read them to her as if they were home and not in a public theater where people paid to see a movie, not go to school. After she asked "What does that say?" for the 100th time, I turned and said "It says 'Learn to read'.". The guy was quite upset but luckily the couple sitting next to me were just as mad as I was and we continued to rag on them for the rest of the movie every time the little wench opened her mouth. We even made fun of them as they were leaving.
I hate kids.
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Post by Shy Guy on Jun 2, 2008 16:18:23 GMT -5
Pirates of the Carribean 3 the day it came out in theaters, a guy right next to me would scream out when a twist happened.He was probably right around 18. When Orlando Bloom's character was stabbed by Davey Jones, he let out a huge "OH MY GOD, WHAT THE HECK, etc, etc". I turned to him and as calm as I could "Dude.....shut up." Nearly three hours of that wasn't fun, at least I'm somewhat good at dealing with stupid crap so I wasn't completely driven up a wall. And the funny thin was that there was a group of young kids in front of us who were well behaved, minus going to the bathroom constantly, which is understandable for a group of kids like that. when i saw POTC3, the kid behind me kicked me in the back of the head. i turned around and said to his parents "can you do something about your kid, he just kicked me." they did nothing. my friend got slapped by him in the back of the head as well. and he talked during the whole movie.
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Post by Big Daddy Bad Booking on Jun 2, 2008 16:19:42 GMT -5
For my 15th birthday (2004), my sis (was known as Eeriebagel on these forums) decided to treat me to Spiderman 2. What we didn't know that there was a bunch of kids (ages 4-7 I would believe) there having a part three rows in front of us (we were in the back). Talk about kids who behaved like crap. Screaming and even cursing during the movie (one kid said the f-bomb during the kiss scene), and when I think of the movie now, I think of those bastards. DAMMIT! I remember more about Dukes of Hazzard than I do Spiderman 2, and thats sad .
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Post by Rockhound on Jun 2, 2008 16:32:39 GMT -5
It isn't just little kids. For some reason teenagers think that spending $10 for a movie gives them the right to act like total asshats much to the chagrin of the rest of the movie goers. I throughly believe that the decline in movie tickets is directly related to bad theater behavior....well...that and just bad movies but for me, it's one of the reasons why I don't go to movies all that often.
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Post by Rorschach on Jun 2, 2008 16:36:04 GMT -5
It isn't just little kids. For some reason teenagers think that spending $10 for a movie gives them the right to act like total asshats much to the chagrin of the rest of the movie goers. I throughly believe that the decline in movie tickets is directly related to bad theater behavior....well...that and just bad movies but for me, it's one of the reasons why I don't go to movies all that often. *Applauds* I honestly believe this. I am NOT going to keep paying upwards of $20 (snacks and drinks included) to have a shitty evening in an unpleasant environment. Not when I can enjoy the same movie a few months later at the same price, in the peace and quiet of my own place. If theaters want more business, then they need to be places you WANT to go. PERIOD.
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Post by MiLo Duck on Jun 2, 2008 16:37:53 GMT -5
I hate to admit this, but I get really confrontational with people who "mess" with my movie going experience.
I just don't think people should passivelly allow people to think certain kinds of behavior is socially acceptable and that public humiliation is the natural deterent.
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Post by NIXON on Jun 2, 2008 16:49:03 GMT -5
A few years back, I went to see the Exorcist when it was re released and the entire theater was packed with children. Not teens mind you, but children ranging in age from 3 to 10. What do you suppose passes through a child's mind when they see a girl penetrating herself with a crucifix and saying "Let Jesus smurf you"? I have a theory though. See, every single one of those kids was mexican. I mean ALL of them, and they were ALL with their parents, so the only thing I can figure is that catholics use The Exorcist to scare the crap outta their kids.
Other times kids ruined movies for me were when a couple brought a baby that couldn't have been more than 6 weeks old to the opening night 11pm showing of Alien vs. Predator, and the couple who brought their infant to see an 10pm showing of the Mist. That one was funny though, cause this real bitchy blonde stood up after 10 minutes of crying and screamed "CAN PLEASE TAKE YOUR smurfING BABY HOME!?" Good times.
See, this bugs me more than most things, because I am a parent. A single parent in fact, And yet I have never once taken my daughter to a non kids movie. I realize sometimes you just cant find a sitter, but for christs sake, is it really so important that you torture your child and the audience by bringing them to a film for adults? The turn around rate from theater to dvd is what, like 2 months now? Just smurfing wait and watch it at home, jerks.
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Jun 2, 2008 17:39:04 GMT -5
It isn't just little kids. For some reason teenagers think that spending $10 for a movie gives them the right to act like total asshats much to the chagrin of the rest of the movie goers. I throughly believe that the decline in movie tickets is directly related to bad theater behavior....well...that and just bad movies but for me, it's one of the reasons why I don't go to movies all that often. Pre-f***ing-cisely. That's the reason I go to matinees. There's not as many kids or people there, and the people that are there want to watch the movie.
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