But Mum, I've done a wee! and other tales

[MoonCat]

10,000 Maniacs.
At a drive-in.

It must have been a re-release because my mom remembered seeing it before and did one of these and made my dad drive us outta there (we'd already seen the first movie of a double feature anyway).

Still makes me queasy to remember it, even though the effects were fairly amateurish.

[CorneliaMarieRocks]

I had nightmares for a few years after seeing.... Bambi. Remember the forest fire? Yeah, nightmares about my house burning down, well into my teens. Bambi. Sheesh.

I got ya beat Pax..for the longest time (we're talking YEARS here folks) I couldn't watch the scene in Cocoon where Brian Dennehy's character opens the cocoon & the alien inside is dying

how's that for lame

[wolfie]

Sorry you had to go through that, Legacy. It would've served those old grumps right if you couldn't find the wet seat and they came in and sat down in it.

Cue the elderly SC complaining about the wet seat, and the manager-with-a-spine addressing him in a snarkyboojumy] manner:

MWS: Don't BS me. I know that geezers frequently lose bladder control, and now you're trying to blame a customer from a previous showing for your own "accident".

[Lace Neil Singer]

[mommy mode] I didn't even take my son to see a movie until he was about seven or eight. Little kids cannot sit still and focus for 90 minutes to 3 hours, are often scared of the dark and generally don't realize they need to use the bathroom until they're ready to burst. Besides, most movies today have frightening or too-intense scenes and are much too loud for little ears.

Mums and dads of little kids, if you want to see a movie, get a babysitter or go when the kid is in school. It's just not a very good idea to take a small child to the movies, even if they're usually well-behaved. [/mommy mode]

I'd agree with that; I still remember the time I went to see Fellowship Of The Ring and some moron had taken his small kidlets to see it. Yes, cuz a movie lasting around three hours, with lots of scary bits included, is the perfect movie to take little kids to go see. The kids talked thru the movie, but I didn't have to go and get them tossed out along with their idiot father, cuz when the Nazgul appeared onscreen they screamed in terror and idiot dad had to take them out, himself.

Back on topic, I guess I'm a rarity. I always bring my rubbish out with me and chuck it in the bin. It would never occur to me to throw stuff on the floor. But I've seen people just chuck their half empty popcorn bucket on the floor cuz, and I've actually heard people saying this, "Oh, the ushers will clean that up". Maybe they will, but it's the other customers who'll suffer cuz they can't go and sit down cuz the mess in the cinema is still being cleaned up. And anyone who leaves a biohazard in the cinema ought to have their face rubbed in it.

[Legacy_of_Torment]

I'd agree with that; I still remember the time I went to see Fellowship Of The Ring and some moron had taken his small kidlets to see it. Yes, cuz a movie lasting around three hours, with lots of scary bits included, is the perfect movie to take little kids to go see. The kids talked thru the movie, but I didn't have to go and get them tossed out along with their idiot father, cuz when the Nazgul appeared onscreen they screamed in terror and idiot dad had to take them out, himself.

Back on topic, I guess I'm a rarity. I always bring my rubbish out with me and chuck it in the bin. It would never occur to me to throw stuff on the floor. But I've seen people just chuck their half empty popcorn bucket on the floor cuz, and I've actually heard people saying this, "Oh, the ushers will clean that up". Maybe they will, but it's the other customers who'll suffer cuz they can't go and sit down cuz the mess in the cinema is still being cleaned up. And anyone who leaves a biohazard in the cinema ought to have their face rubbed in it.

Not wishing to be too forward but I love customers like you. I can't stand it when I hear people saying the usher will clean that up. It's actually an ushers job to seat people, not clean up after pigs. I actually had a guy say he left all his trash under his seat so as not to put ushers out of a job!

I also remember warning parents who were taking small children to see The fellowship of the ring that it really wasn't suitable. And did they listen? Pah! Listen to the lowly minimum wage slave, what do they know?

And yes, every single time the Nazgul appeared, there were tears and screaming kids, probably with fully loaded pants.
Oh, and me with that "I told you so" smirk on my face as they left the building.

[vikingchyk]

I'd agree with that; I still remember the time I went to see Fellowship Of The Ring and some moron had taken his small kidlets to see it. Yes, cuz a movie lasting around three hours, with lots of scary bits included, is the perfect movie to take little kids to go see. The kids talked thru the movie, but I didn't have to go and get them tossed out along with their idiot father, cuz when the Nazgul appeared onscreen they screamed in terror and idiot dad had to take them out, himself.

{Just in case : LotR spoilers ahead. C'mon, who hasn't seen it?? {that wants to} }

Someone did that when I saw the same movie, too, only with a better (?) result. Big raging orc battle, and the good guys are surrounded, Boromir about to snuff it, the soundtrack goes dead silent, you could hear a pin drop in the theater... I swear, everyone was holding their breath... and then an earnest little voice a few rows in front of me says "Oh no! " loud enough for the entire theater to hear, but not yelling.

And the entire audience starts to laugh. Ha ha ha, Boromir is dead!

{I'm guessing the kid was five, maybe six}

[eltf177]

For me, the original NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, initial release. I still have a phobia about being around graveyards.

And I can thank Stephen King's THE MIST for my not being comfortable around spiders anymore...

[siead_lietrathua]

I recall going to an R-rated movie many years ago, and ending up seated two rows behind a group of about ten teeny-boppers...er, 13-14ish girls, escorted by a lone parental-type figure >_<

bwaha. you reminded me of something.
we went to go see See No Evil when it first came out. figured it'd be a decent, cheesy gorefest. pack of teen boys sneak into the theater while it's running that "go buy popcorn" pre-reel, and ask the dude infront of us to pleease say he's their uncle and they're with him. Dude agrees, much to the hubby's distain.
usher comes in not a minute later, walks right to the kids, and sees them sitting with a guy old enough to be their da. usher says to him "oh, are these kids with you?"
old dude goes "huh? never seen 'em before in my life."

the whole pack gets dragged out, and we proceed to applaud the guy. was really funny. (especially since the hubby's solution to interrupting-movie teens is to holler at them to shut up in his best serial-killer tone)