so today i went to see ironman the new movie based on the marvel comic book series...
my wife and I met up with a friend of ours infront of the threater, i got the tickets for my wife and I, and my friend purchased a ticket for himself and two of his friend, for fear that the movie might get sold out, because the previous showing had.

A hour before the show they ticket man lets us into the theater, we decide since its going to be packed we will sit at the back, so we don't get kicked etc... we pick 5 seats right in the middle in the last row. we are sitting there waiting as the theater begins to fill. It starting to really get crowded in the theater about 15 mins before the movie starts. A rather obese couple starts walking to the top row were we are sitting, before they start down our isle my friend says these seats are reserved holding the two tickets in his hand. the couple says we don't care we are sitting here anyways. My friend says are you serious, they said yes i said wow some people are rude, the row infront of us had plenty of empty seats. my friend says i'll be right back... as he leaves to go talk to a manager, as he returns with a manager, the manager tells the couple that we have tickets for two seats and that they will have to move, the couple refuses to move, they said that last week they had come to see a movie and they were holding seats for their kids that had not arrived and they had to give up the two seats they were holding, the manager explained that if they had tickets for their kids it would have been fine but they didn't they hadn't already baught the tickets in advance, the couple still refuses to move... the manager says one way or another your going to move, they refuse agian, he said we have a uniformed police officer outside if you don't move i will have to have him escort you out. at this point they decide to leave, as they are leaving the guy turns to me friend and flips him the bird. I laughed and said WOW thats mature what are you 40? grow up. and the majority of the people sitting around us began to clap and cheer as the couple left.

we were not rude to the couple we just told them the seats were reserved, had they explained their situation it wouldn't have been an issue but to be as rude as they were and saying we don't care we will sit were we want... that just wasn't happening.

to be honest when my friend left i seriously thought that the manager would say well the seats are not numbered and your only promised A seat in the theater, but to my surprise it went as detailed above. which i agreed with but somehow i just didn't think it would go like it did.

anyone else ever experience a similar situation?

and here in Knoxville it seems as though the trips to the theater are getting worse and worse... if you sit in the back, you see cell phone screens through the entire movie, if you sit up front, your consistently being kicked by the person behind you. the lack of respect for the individual is just blown out the window. no matter how many times they say silence your cellphone or turn your cellphone off or no cellphones allowed someone always forgets or someone always disregards everyone else and answers it anyhow or text messages or whatever. would it be to much for a theater to put a signal killer in theaters... they aren't that expensive, sure it wouldn't keep someone from opening there phone but without a signal you can't send or receive calls so this would lessen the chance of someone using their phone. i'm not one to run to a usher or manager every time something like this happens it would just be nice if everyone help a common courtesy to just not do these things. i've resorted to going to theaters that are off the beaten path or out of town or in areas that are not so crowded even shittier theaters just to see a movie in peace.

sorry had to vent... so hows your movie theater experience?

Well I've never had anything that bad happen to me. The theatre is my favourite place to go so if anybody compromises that experience then I get a little annoyed.

Now, up until recently, I lived in a small town so I'd go to a movie a week after it started usually and there wouldn't be many people there so I didn't deal with a lot. But yeah, people who don't shut up, like, the ones that keep talking to their friends the whole time, or that cell phone thing would annoy me. An audience can really make the experience better or worse. If you're watching a comedy, everybody laughing really helps the movie, but then you got the people who don't care about anybody else.

I know that where I used to live, there weren't a lot of people who understood Grindhouse when I went to see it. Me and my friend were cracking up right from the first fake trailer (HOBO with a SHOTGUN!) but the few people in the theatre never laughed. Still enjoyed the experience but it could have been better with the help of the rest of the people watching it with us.

But yeah, that couple you talked about piss me off. Some people.

ya i understood grindhouse... but i never got to see it in theaters my wife thought it was a stupid idea and refused to go see it with me.

That's a shame because really it was one of the best theatre experiences. I mean, it's good on dvd but the big screen, the 3+ hours, fake trailers... it was MADE for theatres.

i know, i think i might see if my friend still has his projection screen and we can hook it up int he basement and watch it lol.

I went to see a movie and half way through it there was a firedrill so we had to stand outside for half an hour

i really don't watch movies now either by theaters or dvd.

Last year my daughter and I went to the indoor theater. It was just dinner and then a relaxing movie. My husband was sick this particular evening so I asked my daughter if she would like to take her dad's place with me with a very enjoyable evening out. We enetered the theater and sat down about midway. A young couple probably in their early 20's were 2 rolls directly behind us. All of a sudden a big,wet waded up spit ball hit my daughter right smack on the right side of her neck. We both simply yurned around to see what was going on directly behind us. The young man said to me that he was sorry that he was aimimg for the young lady in front of us. I told him that really it was very rude and inconsiderate to do such a thing. He said to me that he was just joking around so I felt we were really getting nowhere so at this point and time I just turned around and tried to focus on the movie with my daughter. It wasn't even 5 minutes and he kicked the bottom of my movie seat so hard that it almost threw me out of my seat. I bit my tongue and said nothing but when he called me a faggot bitch(which I never heard the term put together) and said to me move down or I will knock you down a seat or two you are blocking my view and remember we had been sitting there for almost 30 minutes at this point and time. I turned to him and said - - If you say another word to me I will go and get the attendent in which his response was - - Go get him bitch. So I finally did and he and his date was escorted out of the theater. This was not something I enjoyed doing for they paid also to get in but they were so disrespectful and rude not only to my daughter and I but to others around us who were having to listen to his nasty fowl lanuage.

sucks that the movie theater experience is coming to be such a horrible place to try and attempt to enjoy a movie.

No, i've never experienced people like that. Funny story though. A 40 year old giving you the finger, thinking he's so cool. Must've been funny to watch.