A few movie rants..

[draggar]

My wife and I saw Avatar at an 11AM show. Luckily, it wasn't crowded and we were the first ones there so we got our choice of seats.

Close to when the movie started (the theater was not packed in fact, no one was in the first third of the theater) a group of people come up to us and tell us we need to move over so they could all sit together (there were empty seats on both sides of us).

Um, we were here early enough to get the seats we wanted so why should we give them up especially when there are plenty of other seats available? I said no, we had gotten there early enough so we could get good seats and were not about to give them up because someone else wants them (plus -the row two rows in front of us was completely empty).

Of course, they went all EW "they all need to sit together", "they need those seats" etc. we point to the rows in front of us that are empty and they said they didn't want to sit there.

We didn't budge.

Of course, they got the management who asked us to move and again we said no. We explained that the theater was empty when we got there so why would we have to give up our seats.

We were told that we should make room for larger groups (um, what?) so I pointed out the empty rows near the front, which of course the group declined.

Again, they insisted that we move and I finally had enough. I told them that if they made us move we would demand a full refund of the tickets plus the better business bureau along with the ADA would hear about it because they made me and my handicapped wife move because someone else wanted our seats. It was their choice.

Of course the management then turned to the other group and told them that they had to sit somewhere else.

Who do these people think they are? Just because you have a group and someone else got to the seats you wanted (because they planned ahead) means you can just push them out of the way? Remind me to try that next time I am at an amusement park. Hey, I want to go on the ride at 3:00 so I feel I can push everyone in line back.

As for the end of the movie - if you buy soda popcorn, snacks, whatever, PICK UP YOUR F***ING TRASH. The floor is NOT the trash bin and they have plenty of them in the hallways. Do you just throw your cans and wrappers when you're one with them on the floor at home? I don't think so - why the the movie theater any different??

[bhskittykatt]

We saw a movie once where our group were the only people in the theatre the whole time. As we left, we gathered up all the trash in the empty popcorn tub and Hubby tossed it in the trash. The person cleaning up after the movie was all

"You threw it away! In the trash! You didn't even leave it on top of the can, but actually IN the trash can!!" (The holes on the lids are too small for the tubs to fit through easily, so many people just leave them sitting on the lids.) "You, sir, are a rare breed!"

Hubby replied with "Don't worry. I'm sure we dropped some popcorn there for you to sweep up!"

I felt sorry for the girl. That she was so elated to see us pick up after ourselves speaks to the volumes of SCs who don't.

[kibbles]

Management actually had the nerve to even ask you to move???!! It is not your fault you got there early to get the seats you wanted, why would management have the gall to ask anyone such a thing?

I was amazed at the nerve of the group saying you "had" to move; but, for management to get on the dummy bandwagon, that's just unbelievable.

[Sableonblonde]

That takes a lot of nerve...wow. I love how people go around thinking the world belongs to them, and everyone else should get out of their way. I don't even know how I would react if some other patrons came up to me in a theater and told me to move because they wanted my seat. I would either be so shocked that I WOULD move, or be too shocked TO move.

I would never think of throwing or leaving my trash on the floor, but I have gone to movies (and also baseball games) with people who have snapped at me for throwing my garbage in the trash can, by saying it is the employees' job to clean the trash off the floor, and they in fact PREFER you leave your garbage on the floor. Um... I'm not an animal, or a pig, I'm housetrained...I'm not going to go ANYWHERE and leave my trash on the floor. I am going to find a trash bin, thanks.

Just like I was in a Target a few weeks ago...probably the week before Christmas. It was a couple of hours before closing time, and I stopped at the snack bar to get a drink. I was actually really embarrassed and horrified to be a part of the human race. The seating area of the snack bar was freaking trashed...food spilled everywhere, garbage left everywhere. Like, how can there be so many people in the world who think it's acceptable to just walk away and leave their shit everywhere like animals? Although I also have to comment that both garbage cans were overflowing, so you literally couldn't get anything else into the garbage cans...so that is partly the store's fault. Still, I would have carried with garbage with me until I did find a trash can rather than just leave it somewhere.

[EvilEmpryss]

If it doesn't start at home then it starts in school. My son's classroom is always trashed at the end of the day. Paper bits, pencils, crayons, and bits of unidentifiable stuff is strewn everywhere. When I picked him up early one day I insisted that he clean his area before leaving. His teacher looked at me like I'd grown a second head.

"But the janitor takes care of that."

No, the janitor empties garbage cans and vacuums and sweeps. The janitor should not have to spend thirty minutes picking up things that ought to have been put in some kid's desk.

[TheSHAD0W]

You should contact corporate, I bet they'll have that spineless idiot out on his ass in no time.

[mikoyan29]

What the heck? Just because they have a gang, you're supposed to move? Screw that.


As for the trash, I always pick up my trash after a movie or sporting event. But then I was taught to leave only my tracks.

[dbuzman]

draggar, please contact corporate of the theater chain. Even though in the end you didn't have to move, the management should never have tried to make you move.

[fireheart]

draggar....you rock.

The manager and the people were a douche...if you're a big group and you want seats, GET IN EARLY!!!!

[ReadyToRetire]

I could sort of understand if the theater was crowded and that row was the only one that could accommodate the group. But seeing as how there were other rows available, but they just didn't want to sit there. Obviously you didn't want to sit there either and you got there early enough to get what you wanted, yet the manager sided with the group? Unbelievable.

[aurelemsrealm]

I normally try to be the best behaved customer I can be because I know what it's like dealing with SC's, but I think I would have raised a big stink with that manager over bothering me with that other group. I probably would have even gone so far as to complain on the other group if they so much as made the slightest peep or distraction during the movie after the stunt they pulled.

[Geek King]

I could sort of understand if the theater was crowded and that row was the only one that could accommodate the group. But seeing as how there were other rows available, but they just didn't want to sit there.

Um, why? Having a large group does not automatically mean you get to sit together. If it was that important, they could have made arrangements with the theatre to rope off enough space for that. I've seen it done, and had no problem sitting elsewhere myself. If they didn't do that, then they need to deal with sitting apart for the duration of the movie. Hell, I've walked into a theatre with a group before and had to split up myself. It happens, and you deal with it like grown ups. Getting the manager to try to make someone move is a kiddie-move. I almost expect someone stomped their feet and held their breath until they turned blue.

[aurelemsrealm]

I almost expect someone stomped their feet and held their breath until they turned blue.

That would fail to elicit my sympathy, for sure. If anything, I'd probably laugh at them for being so foolish as to believe that I'm some kind of bleeding heart. I never did understand the point of tantrums like that. I'd love to see someone hold their breath until they turned blue because I woudn't give in to whatever demand. I guarantee they'd either give up or pass out first.

[Schmoopie3928]

We saw a movie once where our group were the only people in the theatre the whole time. As we left, we gathered up all the trash in the empty popcorn tub and Hubby tossed it in the trash. The person cleaning up after the movie was all

"You threw it away! In the trash! You didn't even leave it on top of the can, but actually IN the trash can!!" (The holes on the lids are too small for the tubs to fit through easily, so many people just leave them sitting on the lids.) "You, sir, are a rare breed!"

Hubby replied with "Don't worry. I'm sure we dropped some popcorn there for you to sweep up!"

I felt sorry for the girl. That she was so elated to see us pick up after ourselves speaks to the volumes of SCs who don't.

I saw Inglorious Basterds (frickin AWESOME!!!) a while back and I heard the following conversation in the bathroom afterwards between some Very special Teen Girls (VST)

VST1: What did you think of the movie?
VST2: I slept through half and puked through half. I thought it was gross and boring.
VST1: You puked?!?!
VST3: Yeah. It was gross. If you go back to her seat you can see the cup full of puke.

Me:

VST1: Ew. Well what did you think about it?
VST3: I thought it was boring. It was too much reading.
VST1: Yeah, that's what my boyfriend thought too.

Now nevermind the fact I want to weep for the future because some teenagers think a movie is boring because god forbid they have to read subtitles, but to leave a cup of vomit at your seat for someone else to clean up?? I was so disgusted I waited in the stall until they left so I wouldn't rip them a new one.

[Brojekk]

It took a threat about the BBB before the manager finally did what he should have done in the first place? He has no business being a manager. I would definitly contact the movie theaters corporate and or BBB anyways and get this manager thrown out on his keester.