The Boogeyman & Teenage Brats

[kybearfuzz]

After a grueling day of file organization again, I met up with Aaron and Eric for dinner, shopping, and a movie. We went to The Rave in West Chester, which was packed to the hilt. Apparently, everyone else had the same idea.

We bought tickets to see the 8 PM showing of The Boogeyman. The theater was packed with gaggles of teenagers, young teenagers. They talked through the previews, laughed during the opening credits, text messaged during the opening, and screamed at everything that popped up on the screen. None of us could enjoy the movie, even after I shushed the talking brats behind us. We got up and left after the first ten minutes.

The theater was good enough to exchange the tickets for the 9:35 PM showing. The crowd seemed a bit older, but there were still the talkers, the text-messagers, and the screamers. They screamed at everything but the end credits. The ushers did come in a few times, but overall it wasn't as bad as the 8 o'clock crew. Maybe I sound old, but when did kids stop watching the movies and start socializing in them? Why pay the money if your only goal is to text message the person sitting one row back? I'm stymied.

As for the movie itself, it had some really great moments, some that made me jump (cue screaming teenage girls), but the ending left me hanging, wanting a bit more of an explanation. Overall, I was pleased, one of the better scary movies that have been released of late.

I almost wished the Boogeyman was real, and he went around abducting rude teenagers in movie theaters. Ah well, we can't have everything, there would be too many to take all at once, but it would be fun to watch.

Comments

Bad idea..

[brian-c-boston.livejournal.com]

Always a bad idea these days to hit a movie on the opening weekend. Never a good experience.

I like weekday nights a couple weeks in.. usually only people interested in seeing the movie.

[rockyjohn.livejournal.com]

I have noticed this. Kids don't just go to a movie to watch it. They make it an huge event.

They won't go alone, they have to go in huge groups. And we are not talking about 3-5 people...we are talking like 10-15. And all of them want to sit next to each other, all of them have cell phones and all of them want to talk throughout the movie. It's rude, annoying and it the closest I ever get to bitch slapping someone into the ground.

The Smiling Angel of Death

[anziulewicz.livejournal.com]

I've seen people, young and old, text-messaging during the movie. NOT just during the commercials or the trailers, but in the middle of the FEATURE. It is an offense worthy of the death penalty. Each usher needs to carry a garotte.

[cincycub.livejournal.com]

Yikes, that is pretty bad. It *was* nice of the theater to exchange the tickets, but you'd think they would keep a better rein on things. Some theaters I've been to will keep an usher up at the front throughout most of the film.

Screaming teenage girls...

[daxcub.livejournal.com]

Now are you trying to say that you had a bunch of screaming teenage girls in the theatre or are you skirting around the fact that perhaps you were screaming like a teenage girl? ;)

Re: Bad idea..

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

Well, I've been to the movies on opening weekends before and it was never this bad before. I rarely go to this theater and I'm not particularly thinking about going back to it. I've been to other theaters in my area on opening nights and never encountered such idiocy before.

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

The really sad part is how much money these brats are wasting. At $8 or $9 a seat, a gang of 10-15 easily blows over a $100, not that it's their money, it's mom and dad's.

Movie theaters are becoming teenage day care centers. And I think cell phones should be outlawed in the theaters.

Re: The Smiling Angel of Death

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

Chuck, I like how you think! Bring out the wire hangers!

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised that they didn't have an usher full time in the theater after we complained about the 8 o'clock show. During the one we actually go to see, I did see an usher at one end and a policeman at the other. Sadly, they weren't there the whole time.

Re: Screaming teenage girls...

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

LOL.. I'll have you know that I've not screamed like a teenager girl for years! It involved dirty clothes from college, an open wall in my folks' laundry room, and an oppossum named Petunia. I'll explain that someday.

[jprtoronto.livejournal.com]

The Mooogagoogleplexes are the daycare centers for the youth. It's a pretty big thing here for Mom and Dad to drop off their kids and come back 4 hours later to pick them up wiht enough money for the games and the movie. So they think it's their own personal playground.

I truly think, while these mongoplexes have great screens and sounds, the added attraction of games and neon lights have sort of discouraged people from taking it as a serious event.

It's like they are the new Drive In Movie centers that the kids had in the 60's and 70's. Where you went and never really watched the movie but hung out with your friends and tried to make out.

Yeah seeing a movie not on opening weekend is usually best or the really late shows in obscure theaters that are not mondoplexes...

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

Oh I can totally agree with you there! Of course, if I had these kids as my own, I'd want to dump them off for a few hours too. Man, are they annoying!!!

Going to that theater was the greatest ad for birth control you could ever hope for!

[bookish-cub.livejournal.com]

I hardly ever go to the movies anymore, and that is exactly why.

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

LOL.. I wonder if I embarrass my friends when we go to the movies. Unlike some people, I will tell folks to shut up in a theater.

You should go, in spite of them. I'll be hanged if I'll let those brats prevent my enjoying a movie. ;)

[bookish-cub.livejournal.com]

I do the same thing, and my friends usually find it unsettling. The way I see it, though, is that I didn't spend my $7.50 or whatever to listen to a bunch of idiots talking for two hours. Lucky for me, though, I tend to favor films that don't draw that element.