I CAN'T SEE ANYTHING!

[Kim Brody]

Today was a nice calm day at the cinema... So I thought...
I got two late comers for a movie and I thought it would be fine. I give them their tickets and they go off to the cinema to find their seats. Although, one of the guys came back saying that its pitch black in the cinema. That's what happens when movies start... lights turn off....
Anyway, I grab a torch and go into the cinema to lead them to some empty seats. As I walk in I hear the other guy yelling "IT'S SO DARK!! I CAN'T SEE ANYTHING!!" Jesus, dude shut up people are trying to watch the movie!!! I lead them to a seat trying my hardest not to disturb people. These guys expect me to just walk in front of everyone and basically point them to empty seats. Nope, I just shine my torch on an empty aisle but for some reason they wanted to ruin people's day and walk in front of everyone. Someone made a comment "You should of gotten here earlier when the lights were on!" I like that lady.

[MoonCat]

People like that are one of the reasons I want to get to the theater early. Even though I generally hate sitting through the stupid commercials and the way-too-loud trailers for movies you couldn't pay me to watch.

[AccountingDrone]

We only go to one of the fancy upscale places with assigned seats and food and drink, and sit in the all the way back row. I can just manage to crutch my way in but really can't handle stairs or the sideways walking to shuffle into the middle of a row. And I really hate having people behind me! As long as we are not hitting something really popular, or at least not right after it opens, it is usually fairly sparsley populated as most people are cheap and don't want to make it a dinner date.

[Monterey Jack]

Nothing I hate more than "late arrivers" at the movies. Then again, I always linger in the hallway and never enter until the trailers and other pre-show bullshit is over...

[Trixie]

I went to see the second Matrix movie by myself on a Wednesday afternoon figuring the theater would be fairly empty and of course it was. I settle down with my popcorn and wait for the movie to start. It was well into the previews when these two dingleberries come walking in and sit right behind me. There were rows and rows of where they could sit but no. They chatted during the whole movie and one of them got up to use the bathroom and then asked what happened while they were gone. I mean it wasn't like it was simple to explain (besides that fact that the story was confusing enough to sit through the whole thing). Then at the end it comes up "To be continued..." they start making all these "Aww, man" kind of noises. As soon as the credits came up I left the theater, I usually like to wait to the very end when the theater lights come back up but those two clowns messed up my day.

No, I didn't say anything because I'm chicken like that at least I was back then now it might be a different story.

[Evannah]

Oh no they did not. Seriously? Some people are so just so bloody self-absorbed and don't care that other people have gotten there early, paid and are trying to watch a movie that THEY are disrupting. I love that lady. I'd have said something too. The first time I actually spoke out against rudeness was when I was around 12 years old. We were waiting in a queue for a small, family roller-coaster. A woman with two snotty daughters just pushed through the line and got right in front. I could remember the woman saying that they shouldn't have to wait in a queue and told her daughters they were special. My brother got mad and he was younger than me. My mum was fuming too. I told the snotty woman and her bratty children off, calling them rude, that people were waiting their turn and it wasn't fair. My mum got a mouthful of abuse and was told that she needs to take better control of her brats.

I can remember it all, 16 years later!

[dalesys]

... My mum got a mouthful of abuse and was told that she needs to take better control of her brats...

Thereby demonstrating, that in her (the woman) mind, "Stink don't shit."

[Lace Neil Singer]

One cinema near me doesn't allow people to go into a viewing once the film has started. Apparently, the staff always end up dealing with whiny brats who turn up twenty minutes after the start of the movie who can't grasp this small fact. I feel sorry for them.

[Evannah]

Thereby demonstrating, that in her (the woman) mind, "Stink don't shit."

Yep! My thoughts exactly.

[Monterey Jack]

One cinema near me doesn't allow people to go into a viewing once the film has started. Apparently, the staff always end up dealing with whiny brats who turn up twenty minutes after the start of the movie who can't grasp this small fact. I feel sorry for them.

I don't. If you really want to see a movie, you won't arrive twenty minutes frigging late.

[RealUnimportant]

I don't. If you really want to see a movie, you won't arrive twenty minutes frigging late.

I think they're referring to the staff, not the drag-ass sucktomers.

[Monterey Jack]

I think they're referring to the staff, not the drag-ass sucktomers.

Ah...that would make more sense.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I think they're referring to the staff, not the drag-ass sucktomers.

Yes, I am cuz I know from bitter experience how annoying it is to have to listen to an SC whine about a problem which is their own damn fault.

As for the cinema SCs, serves them right.