Movie Theatre Monsters

I thought I would vent on here about two incidents, mine and my friend's.

This actually happened a few years ago, and I regret not going to the manager. I saw the midnight showing of Silent Hill at the Downtown Disney theatre in Orlando, Florida. Silent Hill is a movie based on a game in the horror genre. Mind you, there's scary sounds and imagery. Moo of the year brought a 3 year old. The brat screamed for the first 10 minutes of the film until me, and another patron finally sarted screaming put the brat to bed. The person left with them to the crowd applauding, all during this film.

Then the Moo brings the brat back, and at the final big scene.. yep, you know it. The screaming starts again. I was livid.

I was talking to a friend, and his situation is a little different. He went to see a film, but the child was mentally disabled he said. So in every single scene the child would scream inaudible words and point about every 5 minutes throughout the entire film.

I am strongly against bringing brats in the movie theatre. I understand the mentally disabled child wasn't aware of his or her surroundings to understand, but the caretaker should have known better. People pay money to see these movies, and interruption like this is inexcusable.

The first woman came back? I don't understand why she would leave for the majority of the film just to return to see the last scene when it probably wouldn't make any sense to her out of context. She should have just gone home, she already wasted her own money by bringing a screaming brat to the theater. Why would you pay to see a movie when you know there's a possibility that you'll have to take a break or just leave when the kid starts freaking out? Pay for a sitter instead and go by yourself if you really need to see a movie.

This is why I don't go to movie theatres anymore. Between the brats and the cell phones, and the clueless adult fucks blatting during the movie, I have had it.

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This is why I don't go to movie theatres anymore. Between the brats and the cell phones, and the clueless adult fucks blatting during the movie, I have had it.

Don't forget the bed bugs. I think I'm now permanently devoted to Netflix & Pay per view on cable

I saw one of the Harry Potter movies a couple years ago. Though they are family movies, they are not for little, little kids. Some of the stuff on there could be scary to a very young child. When Voldemort came on screen, a little girl that couldn't have been more than 5 sitting in front of me started freaking out, and I can't blame her. Her parents should have made sure the movie was appropriate for small children, which it wasn't.

The most "memorable" time at a theater for me was when i was in college. Me and a group of friends went to watch the remake of Star Wars. Sitting in front of us was a boy and girl maybe 10 years old (At the most). They were making out within 5 minutes of the movie starting. By the half-way point they had reached all the bases and were heading for a home run. The only thing that stopped the kiddie sex show was when the girl tried to sit in the boys lap (or mount him, not sure) and kicked the gentleman in front of them in the head.

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The most "memorable" time at a theater for me was when i was in college. Me and a group of friends went to watch the remake of Star Wars. Sitting in front of us was a boy and girl maybe 10 years old (At the most). They were making out within 5 minutes of the movie starting. By the half-way point they had reached all the bases and were heading for a home run. The only thing that stopped the kiddie sex show was when the girl tried to sit in the boys lap (or mount him, not sure) and kicked the gentleman in front of them in the head.

OMFG! I have never seen that, but then I haven't been to a movie theatre (walk in) since 2002. At the drive in though, the little bastards NEVER stay in their cars, but wander around getting in the way and making noise. Back in the late 80's , during my "Magenta" days, some stupid bitch brought TWO KYDS, probably 8-10, to The Rocky Horror Picture Show!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was a midnight showing too with under the table drinking and God knows what all else going on. The little bastards were in costume too as Brad and Janet.

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The little bastards were in costume too as Brad and Janet.

Bet the pedophile dressed as Rocky busted a nut that night.

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I walk the path of life to my own rhythm, my own beat-if you don't like it, step off and find your own damn song!

The Star Wars reference reminded me - I saw them all on their original runs (I'm sure quite a few others did too!). For the first, I wasn't more than six years old, but I managed to shut up and watch the friggin movie, as did at least a hundred other kids around me. If we hadn't, we would have been dragged out to the lobby by our very annoyed PNBs.

I was very nicely surprised seeing a matinee of Lord of the Rings in 2001 (Fellowship). The theatre was pretty packed, and right before the movie started, a woman with three kids appearing range from 5-10 sat down in front of us. Shit, I thought, they'll be squealing and yakking for two hours.

They didn't make a peep, just watched in fascination. After a minute or two, I forgot they were there. How it should be, right?

who the fuck in their right mind would bring their kid or any kid at all to see Silent Hill!? Harry potter is one thing, but Silent Hill? I can barely play the game in the middle of the day with the lights on!

I remember when Godfather III came out and we were really looking forward to seeing it. So of course the theater was full of people and their brats, making all kinds of noise. We went to the manager and complained, so he gave us our money back, and free passes to use in the future. I refuse to sit through a movie with noisy brats.

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Add a 9 or ten-year-old girl brought by her Duh to a retrospective theatre showing "Little Big Man" to the list of inappropriate movies for children stories. She started screaming when Sunshine was being hunted down by men on horseback. Holy shit, that poor kid. I should have said something to the father, but I was much younger then.

In my opinion, if the movie is rated R, children should not be allowed! Even if they are accompanied by an adult. When I see little 5 year olds in an R rated movie it makes me uncomfortable, even if they are being quiet. I feel bad for them and I want to smack the breeder for bringing them to something that isn't appropriate. Especially when there are porn like sex scenes or super violent gory scenes. I want to cover their eyes and ears. The idiot breeders think it doesn't matter what you expose them to but it does. Just like when a parent screams at the other parent and abuses them. It leaves emotional scars. Believe me, I know.

Funny isn't it? I don't have kids yet I have the commonsense to know that they shouldn't be watching stuff like that.

(Sorry for that rambling comment.)

"R"
Restricted, Under 17 Requires Accompanying Parent Or Adult Guardian

In the opinion of the Rating Board, this film definitely contains some adult material. Parents are strongly urged to find out more about this film before they allow their children to accompany them.
An R-rated film may include hard language, or tough violence, or nudity within sensual scenes, or drug abuse or other elements, or a combination of some of the above, so that parents are counseled, in advance, to take this advisory rating very seriously. Parents must find out more about an R-rated movie before they allow their teenagers to view it. I have seen PLENTY of young kyds in these types of movies


"NC-17"
No One 17 And Under Admitted

This rating declares that the Rating Board believes that this is a film that most parents will consider patently too adult for their youngsters under 17. No children will be admitted. NC-17 does not necessarily mean "obscene or pornographic" in the oft-accepted or legal meaning of those words. The Board does not and cannot mark films with those words. These are legal terms and for courts to decide. The reasons for the application of an NC-17 rating can be violence or sex or aberrational behavior or drug abuse or any other elements which, when present, most parents would consider too strong and therefore off-limits for viewing by their children I wonder how many kyds are allowed to watch these at home?




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NC-17_rated_films

This has a list of NC-17 rated movies. What I find interesting is that the rating doesn't seem to hurt the movies at the box office and many of them report really high sales/rentals in the DVD market too. WHY would a parent allow their kids to watch movies like the "Saw" series? An older teen I can see, but a 10 year old? Plain old R ratings and many of the "PG-13" ones do NOT need to be seen by kids in elementary school.IMO.

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I don't hate your kids, I HATE YOU!

Breeders, young brats, and snot-nosed teens are why I haven't been to the cinemas in almost 10 years. Nothing but a waste of time and money thanks to them. :cen

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"R"
Restricted, Under 17 Requires Accompanying Parent Or Adult Guardian

In the opinion of the Rating Board, this film definitely contains some adult material. Parents are strongly urged to find out more about this film before they allow their children to accompany them.
An R-rated film may include hard language, or tough violence, or nudity within sensual scenes, or drug abuse or other elements, or a combination of some of the above, so that parents are counseled, in advance, to take this advisory rating very seriously. Parents must find out more about an R-rated movie before they allow their teenagers to view it.

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I do believe that the rating system is broken, because it is based upon the arbitrary standards of some people who have certain ideas about morality. Although we laughed at that fanatical Christian who was finding all sorts of 'evil' stuff in every movie under the sun, I do think that a more objective system would be appropriate. I'm not talking about the kind of detail that nut went into, but perhaps along a series of 'adult' themes, such as rude language, nudity, sex, and violence, a movie could be marked on a scale of 1-5. (To this they should perhaps also add 'complicated plot' as small children generally aren't capable of following complicated plots. With most Hollywood movies this wouldn't be an issue, however.) The reason I suggest this is because different parents have different ideas as to what is appropriate for their children to see. I know that my parents were unhappy with movies featuring violence, but didn't think it was problematic if there was nudity, and in fact found it wrong that movies with violence would be rated lower than movies with nudity. Of course they would not have taken me to an R-rated movie, but it could be that if the rating system doesn't reflect the values of the parents, they are more inclined to disregard it.

This is probably far too detailed of an analysis for most parents who bring their children to R-rated movies, as no doubt the majority of them are just thinking that they want to see that movie, and they don't want to pay for a babysitter, therefore they will bring the child to the movie. However, we live in a society where parents are allowed to make decisions related to the well-being of their offspring (even though some of them are clearly not qualified to do so), and so it isn't the business of the movie theatre to step in and prevent them from bringing the children on moralistic grounds. Perhaps they should instead do it on the grounds that the children's noise will upset the other patrons.

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kidlesskim
"R"
Restricted, Under 17 Requires Accompanying Parent Or Adult Guardian

In the opinion of the Rating Board, this film definitely contains some adult material. Parents are strongly urged to find out more about this film before they allow their children to accompany them.
An R-rated film may include hard language, or tough violence, or nudity within sensual scenes, or drug abuse or other elements, or a combination of some of the above, so that parents are counseled, in advance, to take this advisory rating very seriously. Parents must find out more about an R-rated movie before they allow their teenagers to view it.

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I do believe that the rating system is broken, because it is based upon the arbitrary standards of some people who have certain ideas about morality. Although we laughed at that fanatical Christian who was finding all sorts of 'evil' stuff in every movie under the sun, I do think that a more objective system would be appropriate. I'm not talking about the kind of detail that nut went into, but perhaps along a series of 'adult' themes, such as rude language, nudity, sex, and violence, a movie could be marked on a scale of 1-5. (To this they should perhaps also add 'complicated plot' as small children generally aren't capable of following complicated plots. With most Hollywood movies this wouldn't be an issue, however.) The reason I suggest this is because different parents have different ideas as to what is appropriate for their children to see. I know that my parents were unhappy with movies featuring violence, but didn't think it was problematic if there was nudity, and in fact found it wrong that movies with violence would be rated lower than movies with nudity. Of course they would not have taken me to an R-rated movie, but it could be that if the rating system doesn't reflect the values of the parents, they are more inclined to disregard it.

They should adopt the same kind of rating system that is used by TV and video games, that not only give the rating by tell why it got that rating. 17 V,DU,BN. (Not for people under 17. Violence, Drug Use, Brief Nudity).

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I walk the path of life to my own rhythm, my own beat-if you don't like it, step off and find your own damn song!