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A Night At the Moives

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Normally I hate going to the movies in the evening, because that is when all the people are there. Usually when I go to the theater it is the first showing of the day, when there is no one there. But my sister doesn't have time to go the movies anymore, except for when she comes up to visit so whenever she is here she always wants to go the movies, so we ended going to an evening show of 2012, and being a Saturday on top of that, it was really bad.

One of the things though that I thought was pretty cool, that they never do during the early showings, is before the movie started one of the ushers walked in and made an announcement that cell phones had to be turned off, and were not permitted to remain on from this point and than he hung around in the theater for a while to make sure no one had their cell phones out.

Though of course once the movie had started, and with people who came in later, well you cannot control what the idiots will do. So after the movie began there were at least a couple who were on their phones, or had their phones out during the film.

And I do not know what it was about the movie, but it seemed like all through the movie there were people constantly up and down back in forth, than there were these girls sitting in front of us in the chairs where the handicapped seating was they came in late and just sat down in the nearest seats. There were like three or four of them, and the way the seats were, there were two seats near the aisle and than open space, and two more seats, and they were sharing popcorn so throughout the movie, they would have to get up out of their seats to pass the popcorn back and forth across the cap between their chairs. At one point they dropped the bag of popcorn, and the girl actually began to put the popcorn back into the bag and they continued to eat it.
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  1. DanielBenoit's Avatar
    Oh that popcorn thing is just nasty. I hate it when people do that at a movie I like (e.g. when I went to go see Inland Empire people were making all kinds of noise and yelling out things like "I don't get it" so that got really annoying, what do you expect at a David Lynch film?) but I don't mind it when it's at a movie I dislike (e.g. When I was at the tortuous expereince of Transformers 2 I was one of the ones playing games on his cell-phone). Either way, I usually hate it when people are like that, unless it's at a movie I really really dislike.
  2. Dark Muse's Avatar
    I have had some interesting movie experinces to say the least.
  3. NickAdams's Avatar
    First showings are usually tolerable, but ever once in a while .

    I never understood making a trip to a theater and paying for a ticket only to talk on the phone, snack or whatever.

    I'm surprised that it occurred at an Inland Empire screening ("I don't get it" I hate it that most movie goers demand a story, plot, etc from a visual medium; it's like being disappointed at a Jackson Pollack exhibit, because there aren't portraits).