Good Movie Manners Cost Nothing

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I can kind of sympathize with the people bringing their kids to the South Park movie and then being shocked to find out it's seriously vulgar. Really, if they'd never seen South Park on t.v. and just saw a poster for a cartoon movie, I can see how they'd think it was a kid's movie. And then be astonished at the sewer humor and have to hustle their kids out.

But really, as far as movie manners, I think the people "cat-calling" at the parents bringing their kids back out of the movie are the ones with no movie decorum. I mean, what's the point of that? The parents are already horrified that they picked out the wrong movie, and the kids are treated to a bunch of cretins hooting at them...?

I recall years ago I saw a movie in the theatres that was pretty violent (more violent than I'd expected -- I didn't like it) and I saw a father taking his young daugher out of the theatre pretty early in. But I don't recall anyone in the audience "cat-calling" at them. Come on, you make a mistake, back away and that's that -- you don't need strangers mocking you for your mistake.

[Neurochick]

I can kind of sympathize with the people bringing their kids to the South Park movie and then being shocked to find out it's seriously vulgar. Really, if they'd never seen South Park on t.v. and just saw a poster for a cartoon movie, I can see how they'd think it was a kid's movie. And then be astonished at the sewer humor and have to hustle their kids out.

But the movie was rated R. When you walked in the theater it said RATING R; plus they were even checking driver's licenses, making sure no one under 18 got in by themselves. If that's not hint enough for you, I don't know. Also it was on the news and on the movie review shows. I don't read the newspapers but even I knew the movie was rated R.

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Oh, I forgot about the rating tip-off. Good point.

[ratscabies]

When I was about 12 years old, the neighborhood theatre had a Halloween film festival. It ran some Dracula/Frankenstein themed cartoons, maybe a three stoges meet the mummy kind of thing, and the features were a Mothra movie (the one with the singing Japanese girls riding around on Mothra's neck) and some vampire movie that was set in the early 70's, and HAD to be produced by Playboy, because I vividly remember a dinner scene with topless women galore. My friends and I were there on our own, but the kids who were there with their parents were herded out right quick. I've been trying to find this movie for 10 years. You wouldn't believe the awful movies I've watched in disappointment.

Years later, my drummer married a woman who had worked at the other theatre in town owned by the same guy. When I told the story to her, she got bug eyed and shrieked, "I remember that weekend. I ran to the office and asked Ted [the owner] if he had screened the movie before he played it, and he went pale!"

So I am remembering it right. The search continues....

[Shalamar]

I must confess, I'm secretly loving the fact that adults have found to their dismay that the R-rated South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut isn't suitable for children - considering, y'know, the basic theme of the movie.

[Peggy Lane]

Mar 26, 2009 18:04:19 GMT -4 ratscabies said:

When I was about 12 years old, the neighborhood theatre had a Halloween film festival. It ran some Dracula/Frankenstein themed cartoons, maybe a three stoges meet the mummy kind of thing, and the features were a Mothra movie (the one with the singing Japanese girls riding around on Mothra's neck) and some vampire movie that was set in the early 70's, and HAD to be produced by Playboy, because I vividly remember a dinner scene with topless women galore. My friends and I were there on our own, but the kids who were there with their parents were herded out right quick. I've been trying to find this movie for 10 years. You wouldn't believe the awful movies I've watched in disappointment.

Years later, my drummer married a woman who had worked at the other theatre in town owned by the same guy. When I told the story to her, she got bug eyed and shrieked, "I remember that weekend. I ran to the office and asked Ted [the owner] if he had screened the movie before he played it, and he went pale!"

So I am remembering it right. The search continues....

Okay, this is KILLING me because I think I've seen this too! My brother and I went on a horror movie binge in the early nineties, and I was horrified when we rented this because he had never seen topless women before. There was also some sort of weird vampire-y orgy, right?

I thought that Dan Curtis was involved but nothing on his imbd pages matches up. I'm wondering if it didn't have some other Dark Shadows tie, though, and that's why I was convinced Dan Curtis was involved.

[satellite]

Mar 26, 2009 18:04:19 GMT -4 ratscabies said:

some vampire movie that was set in the early 70's, and HAD to be produced by Playboy, because I vividly remember a dinner scene with topless women galore. My friends and I were there on our own, but the kids who were there with their parents were herded out right quick. I've been trying to find this movie for 10 years. You wouldn't believe the awful movies I've watched in disappointment.

Years later, my drummer married a woman who had worked at the other theatre in town owned by the same guy. When I told the story to her, she got bug eyed and shrieked, "I remember that weekend. I ran to the office and asked Ted [the owner] if he had screened the movie before he played it, and he went pale!"

So I am remembering it right. The search continues....

Was it Vampiros lesbos?

Back in the mid to late 90s some small club in NYC had a Vampyros Lesbos night every week where they screened the movie and had go-go dancers in cages. I remember this distinctly because my best friend and I had one of those huge drunken fights about nothing afterwards yelling at each in other Penn Station at like 4 a.m.

[SweetOblivion]

So what do you do when the people being rude at the movie are the people you came with?

Last night I saw the new Harry Potter movie with my friend, her new boyfriend and her 13-year-old daughter (a fan of the books). These are people who, when we're watching a dvd at home, are as quiet as mice. In a theater apparently all bets are off. Talking all during the movie. The daughter, when she wasn't texting her friends, would let me know when something was about to happen by sliding down in her seat and exclaiming "Not this part! I HATE this part!". This was immediately followed by a stream of "No no no no no no no nooooooo!" *text text text*

Then the boyfriend, a muggle, would ask my friend a question about the Potterverse, and she would go into lengthy detail about whatever. I thought I was going to lose a friendship last night because I was pissed off, but they all just looked at me like I was a pesky talking envelope and went about their business.

*sigh*

Here's an appropriate passage from David Sedaris' Me Talk Pretty One Day. Enjoy!

I've never considered myself an across-the-board apologist for the French, but there's a lot to be said for an entire population that never, under any circumstances, talks during the picture. I've sat through Saturday-night slasher movies with audiences of teenagers and even then nobody has said a word. I can't remember the last time I've enjoyed silence in an American theater. It's easy to believe that our audiences spend the day saying nothing, actually saving their voices for the moment the picture begins. At an average New York screen I once tapped the shoulder of the man in front of me, interrupting his spot review to ask if he planned on talking through the entire movie."Well....yeah. What about it?" He said with no trace of shame or apology. It was as if I'd asked if he planned to circulate his blood or draw air into his lungs. "Gee, why wouldn't I?" I moved away from the critic and found myself sitting beside a clarivoyant who loudly predicted the fates of the various characters seen moving their lips up on the screen. Next came an elderly couple constantly convinced they were missing something. A stranger would knock on the door, and they'd ask, "Who's he?" I wanted to assure them that all their questions would be answered in due time, but I don't believe in talking during movies, so I moved again, hoping I might be lucky enough to find a seat between two people who had either fallen asleep or died.

[Deleted]

I went to see Harry Potter last night, and it was a lot of fun, the cinema was full, there was a lot of excitement. I went with my sister and her boyfriend, and both of them were annoyed that there were so many people - especially kids - there, but I loved that there were so many people who were just so psyched about the movie. Having said that, there were three girls in the row behind me who carried on a conversation throughout the whole movie that had nothing to do with it. Why would anyone pay full price for a movie ticket plus snacks, only to talk through the movie? Why? It was so distracting during the quiet bits.

[thelivingmonolith]

My sister and I went to the midnight showing opening night. It was a lot of fun and we actually dressed up complete with glasses, scars, and witches hats. A group of people my age (23) talked constantly during the movie. At one point, the girl said she hadn't read all the Twilight books yet (don't ask me why this convo was going during Harry Potter) and one of her friends proceeded to recap all the books. This would've been fine except I haven't read them all yet. Thanks guy! And he also told what happened in the 7th Harry Potter which I just started reading. I was ready to use the Avada Kevadra on him.