Movie Theater Suck

[dalesys]

A huge tyrannosaurus ate our lawyer...

Whatever happened to professional courtesy?

[Mr Hero]

Does it make me a bad person that I wasn't sorry when the lawyer was eaten sitting on a toilet?

A huge tyrannosaurus ate our lawyer. Well, I suppose that proves they're really not all bad.

[jedimaster91]

The original Jurassic Park traumatized many a kid back in the day.

Heck, my mother spent most of that movie hiding in the bathroom at the theater because she doesn't like jump scares. At all. Even to this day, she will not watch any of the Jurassic movies. I remember being around 8 or 10 or so the first time she let us watch it on video. But we weren't allowed to see the 'raptor scene in the kitchen. That is until she went out of town one weekend and Papa Jedi let us watch it. In his defense, he didn't know about that rule because we didn't tell him. Though Li'l Bro would have been around 4 at the time and Papa Jedi should have known better; despite Li'l Bro being the biggest dino enthusiast of all of us. He used to school the PTA ladies about dinosaurs and was able to pronounce the names correctly at a very young age. He was totally adorable. Wonder what happened there..... But anyway, yeah, I think we all had nightmares after that.

Mr Jedi and I went to see Inside Out last week and loved it. The kids in the showing were pretty well behaved. The family next to us talked through all the previews but at least they shut up when the movie started.

[bbbr]

I took my 12 and 14 yr old nephews to a manatee showing Jurassic World this weekend (their mom had absolutely zero interest in going with them). Not a bad movie but we wound up a few rows behind an extended family with a couple of 6-7 year olds. The little ones spent the 2nd half of the movie screaming as the dinos did their thing.

Still not as bad as seeing the 5 and 7 year old traipse in for a 10pm showing of "South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut" and then run amok for the entire showing. The mother was a customer at my old grocery store and was well known for her questionable parenting skills in herding those monsters around.

[otakuneko]

I remember being traumatized by how farking cold it was in the theater when I went to go see the first Jurassic Park.

Other than that it was awesome.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Probably the same ones who bring kids that age (or younger) to Hannibal. I kid you not!!

Ugh. I remember when that movie came out. I was still working at a movie theater at that time. We started cracking down on underage moviegoers in R-rated films. Heavily enforcing the "1 ID per ticket" rule. I don't think we had any parents trying to take five-year-olds into Hannibal, but it wouldn't have surprised me.

[taxguykarl]

Seriously, who brings a 5 year old to opening night of a Juraesic Park movie? Really?!

Probably the same ones who bring kids that age (or younger) to Hannibal. I kid you not!!

[Ironclad Alibi]

Does it make me a bad person that I wasn't sorry when the lawyer was eaten sitting on a toilet?

If any one was upset at that scene, I couldn't hear it over the uproar of laughter in the theater.

[Sapphire Silk]

When Jurassic Park first came out I told people it wouldn't be scary if they cheered for the dinosaurs.

Does it make me a bad person that I wasn't sorry when the lawyer was eaten sitting on a toilet?

[Ironclad Alibi]

When Jurassic Park first came out I told people it wouldn't be scary if they cheered for the dinosaurs.

[EvilEmpryss]

I can understand midnight showing of a highly-anticipated geek movie like The Avengers or something...but a cartoon aimed at five-year-olds? And I know that SpongeBob has a loyal adult following as well, but still...can't people wait another twelve hours and see it when they're not bleary-eyed and half-asleep?

Some families are shift workers so the whole family shifts over to a completely screwed up schedule (at least to the rest of humanity). I saw it a lot in the military.

Others might assume that if it's a later showing, the kids will be tired and sleep, or there won't be so many people that might be bothered. I can imagine a number of perfectly reasonable ways people might think it's a good idea. The problem is in the execution of the idea. If your kid is being a brat, you need to leave immediately.

I used to take each my kids to movies when they were little babies because I was breast feeding. I would hold off feeding them until the previews started, then shove them under the blanket to get to it. They'd eat and then fall right to sleep in the warm darkness under the blanket and against my skin. I was able to go to movies that I otherwise would have missed. Still, there was once or twice when an upset tummy meant they weren't going to go to sleep, and I spent the time in the lobby instead of the theater while Hubby and friends finished the movie. I would ask if I could get a raincheck for a different showing (I usually got one mostly, I think, because I showed the management that I wasn't being a jerk to the rest of the theater), and then Hubby owed me a night out to go see it myself while he stayed home with the baby. Worked like a charm.

[Monterey Jack]

Seriously, who brings a 5 year old to opening night of a Juraesic Park movie?

Self-centered assholes.

[Pizza Reverend]

When I saw Jurassic World, 8 PM opening night to a bustling full theater, I had the misfortune of being seated in front of of a kid who couldn't have been more than 5. And he was obnoxious- every time anything happened he'd ask what was going on, and he was constantly asking what words meant. I feared what would happen when the dinosaurs started eating people - and he started laughing when people were getting chomped. Kids got issues.

But it was almost worth it, when Chris Pratt kissed the girl, and he yelled out at the top of his little lungs, "EEWWWWWWWW THATS GROSS!"


Seriously, who brings a 5 year old to opening night of a Juraesic Park movie? Really?!

[Monterey Jack]

I was one such traumatized child. Must have been about 7 when it came out, and I have no idea if I saw it in the theater or at home. Freaking Velociraptor, am I right?

Hell, I was nineteen when it came about (or just about to turn nineteen), and it made me jump several times...I can't imagine having seen it under the age of ten.

[Sapphire Silk]

I was around 15 when it came out, and loved it. My son has asked to see it but I say no for another couple years or so; he is almost 6, and I've heard many people who saw it as kids say it terrified them. He has a VERY active imagination, so...

I seriously want to kick people in the throat who bring babies and small children to movies. If I am paying $10 a person, and got a babysitter for my two, I don't want to deal with other people's little kids at a movie aimed at older kids or adults. I can tolerate at a Pixar movie but not a regular movie.

There were a number of small children that the showing in question. Several were noisy.

I can remember when the Evil Princess was about 2 years old (3 maybe?) Dinosaur came out. She loved it, but the T rex scared her to death. She would insist on watching it every time I came over, and would bury her face in my shoulder whenever T rex showed up . . . then be delighted with the rest of the movie.

She texted me to tell me how wonderful Jurassic World was. I went to see it with EE and the Evil Overlord last night, and I was hiding my face during half the scary bits.

Talk about role reversal