Wednesday, May 9, 2012

movie etiquette

Normally, we wait until something at the movie theater has been out long enough to be released to the dollar theater before we go see it.  Usually, when we do, there is ten people in the theater and we feel like we're getting a private viewing. However, last night we went to see Avengers... and all I'm gonna say is WOW! This is awesome. The movie is so awesome. 

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I will say that sadly though, my experience stunk. (and that is putting it lightly).  Jamie and I went to the movies with my in laws. We had a nice drive, we got our popcorn, we found seats. We sat Chuck, Sandy, Jamie, me.  On my other side, there was an empty seat and then another woman. She. Was. Horrible. Besides her ridiculous need to check her phone and text someone every four minutes, she was so rude and verbally disgusting.  Every time something crazy happened on screen, she followed it with a "F that" or "D this" or "that B is ___" ugh. I was so annoyed. I was so distracted and frustrated at the verbal garbage she was using. It wasn't whispered and it was non-stop. I kept huffing. I cleared my throat. I think I annoyed Jamie actually and felt badly for that. About 2/3 through the movie, I just truly could NOT take anymore of her filthy mouth and walked myself down to the seat empty on Chuck's other side. I wanted to mouth off to her, and it took a lot of clamping my jaws shut to not to. But what good would that have done? None. So I'm glad I was able to show restraint there. But my word. I mean seriously... I just don't go out into "the real world" all that much.  I'm usually at church or with "church friends"... I don't hear that kind of language anywhere. I have very few friends that I talk with who curse. And those that do know I don't like it.  WHY do we as a people insist on polluting our mouths?  It is so nasty. The girl was pretty too. That, to me, was tragic. She was really, a pretty gal, but she could not keep her beauty in my eye past the filth in her mouth.

I was raised going to theater often. And I don't mean the movies, I mean real live theater.  Theater etiquette was that you turned your cell phone off, you stayed in your seat, you didn't chew loudly or rustle candy wrappers, you clapped where appropriate, you never used foul language...  I can't even get over the amount of cell phones that lit up last night in the theater: people checking the time, texting, playing on the internet.  So distracting, so rude. What can't possibly wait for two hours while you watch a new movie that you have to be so rude to those around you? If it can't wait, don't go to the theater. WHAT is up with today's society? I tell you the rudeness of the population as a whole is beyond annoying and basically frightening. WHO is teaching people to become people these days? It sure seems like no one is. No one is teaching manners or etiquette or politeness.  ....My 5-year-old will hold the door open for me and say "Ladies first." Wow is that a dying sentence.

All that said, I can't wait to watch Avengers again when it comes out in the dollar theater perhaps, without the distraction of such rudeness next to me.

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