Good Movie Manners Cost Nothing

[incognito]

Anybody ever see that one Judge Judy episode where Judy took a bad moviegoer to task? The Bad Moviegoer was the plaintiff, and he was suing a woman for throwing her drink on him at the theater, requiring medical treatment for his eyes. What happened was that The Bad Moviegoer had arrived late with a friend - just as the opening credits were rolling - and he and his friend proceeded to talk to each other about nothing in particular. The woman asked him to stop, only to be told, "We're not even talking that loudly, bitch," (or something along those lines) so she got up to leave. But before she left she threw her drink on him.

Anyway, Judy found in favor of the plaintiff, but still proceeded to rip him a new one for his behavior. I think the clip is still on youtube. So awesome.

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Dude! That's almost exactly what happened to me when I saw The Losers. Good thing I aimed for their feet.

[incognito]

Heh, found the youtube link to the Judge Judy ep in question. The defendant's gestures and facial expressions when she's describing the part where she dumped the soda on the guy's head are gold.

[happymeal]

Aug 11, 2010 20:41:26 GMT -4 incognito said:

Heh, found the youtube link to the Judge Judy ep in question. The defendant's gestures and facial expressions when she's describing the part where she dumped the soda on the guy's head are gold.

Thanks for finding that! After your post, I spent about an hour trying to find it and couldn't because I totally remembered that.

I love JJ!

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My boyfriend and I went to see Machete last night, at about 8:30. We settle in, and almost immediately I realize that the people behind me have brought their toddler. Which, in the first place, what the fuck? It's MACHETE. So I judged them, but you know, whatever. But then their kid gets out of its seat (sorry, it was dark and I couldn't discern gender), grabs the back of my chair and starts rocking it back and forth. So I turned around and gave them an "Are you fucking kidding me?" look, and then - but only then - the mom leaned forward and made the kid sit back down. This happened about twice more, and then for the rest of the time the kid was scuffling around in the aisle and wailing whenever there were loud noises onscreen (basically the whole movie). The parents would just shush the kid in a really distracted, halfhearted way, clearly not wanting to tear their attention away from the screen and miss any of the movie.

I also saw another couple with a young kid, and some people with THREE little girls who all looked around five or six years old. These girls also left during the film and went to the concession counter and back without an adult. They were quiet, but I don't think I'd be comfortable letting a kid that age go wander the theater alone - this was one of those giant multiplexes in the downtown area. I'd be worried about one that tiny getting snatched or just lost, personally. And also, again, it's Machete, a movie whose entire purpose is to be a hugely violent gorefest. This is not a family film, people!

There was just a post in the Current Events thread about a restaurant that's requiring parents to take screaming children out of the restaurant until they stop screaming. I'd like to see the same thing for movie theaters. Or really, I'd just like a rule that says no children under 12 or so are allowed in rated-R films, period, with or without a parent. Allowing fifteen-year-olds in can be obnoxious, but they're at least theoretically capable of behaving themselves. But grade-schoolers and toddlers are too young, there is no point in them being there, and all they do is disrupt. If you desperately want to expose your kindergartner to exploding heads, ripped-out intestines and Lindsay Lohan's tits, you can wait for DVD and do it in the privacy of your own home, and have your little darling's screams all to yourself. /getoffmylawn

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That is ghastly, Marching Penguin. Once again, I must ask the question, "WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE!"

[Malle Babbe]

I had a similar horrified reaction when seeing little kids toddling about at a showing of "Watchmen" when it was in theaters. Yes, it has superheroes; NO, it is NOT for kids... for reasons that have nothing to do with a certain glowing blue wang...

[mrsbowling2]

My husband and I got on a horror flick kick around the time the new TX Chainsaw Massacre came out. We saw that, and whatever Saw was playing and a few other gory, violent, bloody scary ass movies in a span of 6 months or so. And every damn time there were people with babies and toddlers. Blew our minds. Even the audio on those is enough to scar an infant for life, you'd think. We were even at 9:30 showings sometimes. These were Hard R's, too, not medium thrillers rated PG-13.

[Binky]

If you are sitting in the front row at the movies, or in the row that becomes first because no one is sitting in front of you...

The ENTIRE theater can watch you text through the movie, and someday, someone's going to hurt you.

[Carolinian]

When I saw Black Hawk Down at the cheap theater a woman was there with two small children (maybe 6 and 8). I couldn't handle the movie and had to sit there with my hands over my eyes, crying. I gave the manager a piece of my mind afterwards. What was he thinking, letting such little kids in to see that film?