Movie theater fail.

[superhotelworker]

My friend and I went to Shrek 3D today. (11.45 for that and a drink. >.<). Halfway through the movie, it stops. One guy in the back made a joke and we laughed, thinking it wouldn't take long to notice. After a few minutes, a guy and myself got up, both agreeing we'd try to find someone who might be able to fix the situation.

I found a worker in the hall just past the door, and asked if they knew the movie had stopped. Following conversation is what happened:
M: Me
W: Worker

Me: Hi, I'm not sure why, but our movie stopped.
W: Oh. Um..
Me: I don't know if you know how to fix it, and if you do, that'd be cool. But if not, do you know how I should go talk to?
W: Are you saying I wouldn't know how to fix it.
M: *Did I say that? No.. I said If you don't.. duh*. No, I'm not. I just wondered if you or anyone else could fix the situation is all. There's quite a few kids in there and I know they'd like to finish the movie.
W: Don't be a rude bitch. I'll fix the movie.

And he stomps off. I wrote his name on my hand (I literally always have a pen on me) and went back into the movie. We finished the movie, I found the manager, and politely explained what had happened. He was nice, said he'd handle it. I noticed the guy I came out with when the movie had paused was in the hallway by the manager, and while waiting for my friend, heard him say the same story to the manager about the guy when he'd caught him down the hallway before realizing I'd talked to him too!

Seriously. I was polite and wasn't really mad. Stuff malfunctions, even on the best of days. I just wish I hadn't been called a name.

[Mr Hero]

And even IF you were a SC, the employee still has no right to call you a bitch.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Exactly that; namecalling like that means the employee is completely in the wrong.

[bainsidhe]

Oh HELL no. I'm not confrontational by nature, but I dislike being called a bitch with a passion. A manager should've been sicced on this jerk immediately instead of after the movie. From your story, you were in no way rude or deserving of attitude let alone name-calling. And even if you were being difficult, resorting to name-calling by an employee is very unprofessional.

I may get flamed for this, but this is a circumstance where I'd want my money back. How are you supposed to enjoy a movie when 1) It's interrupted halfway and 2) You'll sit there stewing over being called the b-word. That employee needs fired, there is no excuse for that.

[LillFilly]

Wow, completely uncalled for! That employee needs to be disciplined; I would do a follow-up with the manager to make sure it happens.

[trunks2k]

There's no way in hell I would have waited for the movie to have finished before complaining to a manager.

[superhotelworker]

I only waited because I didn't know if there was on duty (Usually You can see them right by the doors, that's where the officie is.). And I can't really stew about being called a bitch, I get called it all the time at my own job. It's one of the words I let roll off menow.

[smileyeagle1021]

I get called it all the time at my own job. It's one of the words I let roll off menow.

that in no way means you should have to tolerate it off the clock.

[Brojekk]

that in no way means you should have to tolerate it off the clock.

Should not be tolerated on the clock either.

[infinitemonkies]

this is a circumstance where I'd want my money back. How are you supposed to enjoy a movie when 1) It's interrupted halfway ...

This is part of why, despite being a huge movie fan, I almost never go to the theater anymore.

A couple years ago, I took a date to the movies, and behind us in the packed theater sat 2 kids of about 14 or 15, who had evidently seen the film several times before and apparently hated it. For 40 minutes they talked over and made fun of the movie, and they were so loud I couldn't hear a damned thing of what was being said in the film. 3 separate times the ushers came to tell them to be quiet, (and never once asked to see their tickets.) After 40 minutes of this it became clear the ushers were either unwilling or not allowed to do anything more, my date and I decided to leave. The manager told me he wouldn't give me a refund because the movie had been going for more than half an hour. I asked him why he wouldn't kick out the kids instead and he said "The ushers have the situation under control" Yeah. the last time the usher warned the kids they laughed at him and threw popcorn at him. He retreated, sans dignity & authority.
I never went back to that theater again.

When XXX with Vin Diesel came out, across the theater was a large pack of tweeny prosti-tots, who spent the whole time yelling the graphic, explicit and in some cases fascinatingly educational sexual acts they'd like to do with him. At the same time, whenever a female character would perform the pg version of some of those acts, they's scream, hiss and boo about what a slut and skank she was. The theater didn't do anything about them.
That was the last time I ever went to the only movie theater in my hometown.

When I saw Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the film had already been out for about 4 months. I think I saw the second last screening of it. There was a total of 7 people in the theater. It was the first time I'd ever seen a message come up before the film asking the audience to turn off their cell phones. A woman in her mid-twenties a few rows ahead of me, upon seeing this, proceeded to pull out her cell phone and spent the next 45 minutes making about 80 calls telling people "I'm at the movies, don't call me for the next couple hours."
She then spent the next 2 hours complaining that the movie was subtitled, while her friend made a valiant but painfully unsuccessful attempt to read the subtitles out loud.



The other part of why I rarely go to the theater is that for the price of a ticket, I can wait until a week after the dvd is released, and buy a used copy of it. Then I can watch it as many times as I want, whenever I want, I can pause, rewind, and have a beer or 12 while I'm watching. For the price of taking a family of 4 to see a movie and get snacks, you could buy the dvd, buy the dvd player, and order pizza.

But 'internet piracy' is why theater sales are declining, as shown by the giant amount of money Avatar lost when no one would pay to see it.
(Okay, that last part is pure fratching, I'll remove it if anyone asks me to)

[smileyeagle1021]

Infinitemonkeys, that is why I like the IMAX theater... it is priced expensive enough that the annoying teens can't afford to go to it.
For everything else I tend to wait for it to go to the dollar theater (that's now $1.50... gotta love inflation to see it... I figure that worst case scenario, I'm out $3 for me and my BF... that's roughly the same cost as renting from blockbuster (not that I'd use that dump) and I still get the theater experience.

[PepperElf]

this is why i like going to the theatre as early as possible. like when i went to see Splice - i hit the 1:50 showing. I think there were about 6 people there. nice and quiet. I wrote fanfic in a notebook while I waited for the movie to start.


as for "bitch"
I am one at times, but .. because i'm a bitch, i determine who can and cannot call me one.

[Android Kaeli]

The managers at the movie theater closest to me knows that if any of their employees ever said something like that to me, they would be out of more then just one customer's business. Hell, the employees themselves know that, I have only had one problem with an employee there in the five years this theater has been there and it was half my fault anyways.

I don't to the movies much myself, either, unless there's a movie that I really want to see. When I do I try to get the early bird, since it's a dollar and a quarter cheaper then the normal rates.

[Arcade Man D]

Oh HELL no. I'm not confrontational by nature, but I dislike being called a bitch with a passion. A manager should've been sicced on this jerk immediately instead of after the movie.

I think the OP waited until after the movie so they could watch the rest, you know.

[trailerparkmedic]

A couple years ago, I took a date to the movies, and behind us in the packed theater sat 2 kids of about 14 or 15

And that's why I will drive past several movie theaters and pay to drive on a toll road to go to a movie theater that doesn't allow children under 6 or unaccompanied minors.

Honestly, the pretty good food and the beer they serve are just added perks, not the main reason I go. Why, yes, I am spoiled.