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kybearfuzzWell, a handful of us moviebears went to see "The Nun" tonight as planned. The movie is not terrible, but it's not overly great either. It was fun, with some decent scares.
What annoyed the $#!+ out of me was this one woman and three kids behind us who did everything to disrupt the movie. The kids took turns running and stomping down the steps and back up again several times during the flick. Then the one girl would stage whisper to the older girl, who seemed to be too young to be the mom of these brats. Then one of the boys kept trying to creep out the girl who replied "Stop it" to him repeatedly. I tried shushing them, but it fell on the deafest of ears. They were not so loud to disrupt the whole theater when they spoke, but those of us closest to them.
I should have gotten up to get the ushers, but then I have to miss part of the movie myself. Ideally, I should have done that, but it's been my experience that they will behave while the usher arrives, only to resume after the usher leaves.
When the movie was over, I loudly proclaims that some people shouldn't come the movies when they don't know how to behave. Normally, I get a look from them, but I got nothing, so when we exited the theater, I just told them flat out that they ruined the movie for us. I literally told them that if you don't know how to behave in a movie to stay home.
When we got to the front of the theater I went up to the customer service counter and loudly complained. When the woman with the three kids, I literally pointed straight at them and told the service rep that it was that group "right there!" I'm not above public shaming.
The group tried not to make eye contact. I told the rep that I realize it was pointless at this point, but begged the obvious teenager to send more ushers around. As we were leaving, a manager showed up, and I swear she was probably 21, who gave me and the one guy who stuck around free passes.
It doesn't make up for the experience, but I don't know what else I can do.
What annoyed the $#!+ out of me was this one woman and three kids behind us who did everything to disrupt the movie. The kids took turns running and stomping down the steps and back up again several times during the flick. Then the one girl would stage whisper to the older girl, who seemed to be too young to be the mom of these brats. Then one of the boys kept trying to creep out the girl who replied "Stop it" to him repeatedly. I tried shushing them, but it fell on the deafest of ears. They were not so loud to disrupt the whole theater when they spoke, but those of us closest to them.
I should have gotten up to get the ushers, but then I have to miss part of the movie myself. Ideally, I should have done that, but it's been my experience that they will behave while the usher arrives, only to resume after the usher leaves.
When the movie was over, I loudly proclaims that some people shouldn't come the movies when they don't know how to behave. Normally, I get a look from them, but I got nothing, so when we exited the theater, I just told them flat out that they ruined the movie for us. I literally told them that if you don't know how to behave in a movie to stay home.
When we got to the front of the theater I went up to the customer service counter and loudly complained. When the woman with the three kids, I literally pointed straight at them and told the service rep that it was that group "right there!" I'm not above public shaming.
The group tried not to make eye contact. I told the rep that I realize it was pointless at this point, but begged the obvious teenager to send more ushers around. As we were leaving, a manager showed up, and I swear she was probably 21, who gave me and the one guy who stuck around free passes.
It doesn't make up for the experience, but I don't know what else I can do.
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Date: 2018-09-16 03:09 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2018-09-17 02:52 pm (UTC)And boo to bad movie behavior. When we were at the nun, the teenage girls behind me drove me crazy. They repeated everything, it drove me nuts, if there was a funny line of some sort they repeated it. If there was a scary moment, "omg, that hall is scary" came out of their mouths. grrrrr
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Date: 2018-09-18 11:47 pm (UTC)I'm not even sure if I can remember having an usher talk to anyone about being noisy on the few occasions I remember having an usher in the movie.