Sat behind me at the cinema was a mother and two teenage girls having a conversation amongst themselves (with mostly Mother talking) and kicking the back of the seats.
Mother goes for a pee. The kids aren’t talking but at least one of them was still kicking the seats. I ask them “Please stop kicking the back of my chair” They do, all good.
Mother comes back, conversation resumes. I ask Mother “can you please shut up”. She gives a half hearted fake apology.
Daughter then tells Mother I spoke to her.
“Did you speak to my child?”
“Yes I did, I asked her to stop kicking the back of my chair.”
“But that’s ridiculous, my chair is the one behind yours…”
“Well someone behind me was kicking the chairs, I felt it and asked them to stop.”
“My god, are you that sensitive?”
“Apparently so.”
“Oh well make sure you don’t get too scared watching the scary movie.”
Conversation between them didn’t end I just couldn’t be bothered arguing further.
Movie ends, I think “I’m going to get an earful off this woman” so leave as soon as the credits start to roll.
As I’m leaving I hear Mother come out and say “excuse me”. I’m assuming she meant me, she was speaking to a girl behind the counter. I start to walk away. I then hear Mother say that a man abused her 14 year old daughter in there.
Counter-girl rightly had a horrified look on her face because of the liberal use of the word “abused”. I walk over and said “that would be me” and explain what I said to Daughter. Counter-girl then calls over her manager.
I let Mother speak to Manager and then explain my side.
Manager says something like “this is just a cinema” clearly can’t be bothered with this and I don’t blame him.
Mother asks if there’s CCTV in the screen, Manager says no. Then Mother walks away calling me a “bully” and a “horrible man”. I leave also.
So, AMITA?
No. Fuck movie theaters. Film is dead and has been dead for decades. Draft house has the balls to kick out talkers. They’re cool. Every other theater that thinks “this is just a cinema” and all they care about is underpaying teenagers and squeezing profit out of you with popcorn and sugar water – those places can get fucked and eat shit.
Throwing in a “film is dead” along with that is really odd. I agree with almost everything else but film is very much alive
Used to be the average American world go to the movie theater like once a week or at least once a month.
Et was in theaters for a year and four months.
Deadpool is doing good, but not a year and four months good. That type of stuff doesn’t happen anymore. Your living room is so much nicer and less crowded and a thousand times more comfortable than a theater.
Someone will always be making movies because of the prestige of it, but eventually movies will be about as popular as the actual live theater. They’re still making plays, but Hamilton is the last play that broke into the main stream, and that was 2015.