Actually, make that talking at full voice in the dark. Prepare for a minor venting session.
This afternoon, Elise, Jeff, Lacie and I went to the matinee of Wall-E (which was a pretty good movie, but not up to par with Pixar's other films as for me). It was nice to see a Pixar movie in a theater again, since it's been since The Incredibles for me, I think, but then there was the surrounding audience. The movie would have been a lot more enjoyable if the every action weren't being narrated before-hand by the kid in the row behind us. He announced to his dad everything that was going to happen before it did (I imagine he read it in a book or something), which wouldn't have been SO annoying except for the fact that he was hardly whispering. In fact, he was even talking above full voice (so as to make sure he was heard over the noise of the movie) and sometimes even repeating himself to make doubly sure dad heard. Elise has even lower tolerance for things such as this, and we considered moving to a different spot, but we were lucky to find four seat together as it was. I know it's a family/kids movie, and I know we went to a Saturday matinee, but seriously, is it unreasonable to expect the guy to tell his kid that he's not watching TV at home, he's watching a movie in a public theater and you can't talk like you do at home? Crying babies are one thing, I can totally handle that generally, I mean, they are infants, but this kid was at least nine. Maybe I'm overreacting and if it were my kid things would be different? But his dad just sat there and nodded "mm-hmm" at everything his boy had to say, and then fell asleep near the end. I cast a few meaningful looks at them, and Elise even gestured for him to shush his child, but eventually he did stop. I think it's because the book he read only covered the first half of the story, so his area of expertise had run out.
Anyway, it was eventually okay, but the moral of the story is to avoid Saturday matinees of family movies unless you want to risk having a play-by-play account of the plot before it happens.
Drew. That kid was annoying. "Hey I know that one robots name, and his, but I dont know his....wait! I think its .....no no....ohhh.... wait no, I dont remember any of the other robots names....but those ones are cool...they do this....and that....and this one could probably do this but I'm not exactly sure...". Not exactly the dialoge, but pretty close, and just as annoying. Poor Elise sitting by that other kid talking to her about everything also. Next time we will go when all those kiddies are asleep. :)
ReplyDeleteSo obnoxious. Never see a movie here. It's worse. All the adults talk as loud as they want, and that is loud. They answer their cell phones, throw popcorn, you name it. I've been enraged at some movies. We only go to the ones we REALLY want to see. It's just not worth it.
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ReplyDeleteWhen we went to see Two Towers, there was this guy and his idiot girlfriend sitting to the side and behind us. He would say "Now this is going to happen," and it would, and she'd say "How did you know that?" and he'd say that he saw the movie with his other girlfriend that morning (because she was an idiot and didn't know that LOTR is a series of books!). Finally I leaned towards them and whispered very loudly "Will you please SHUT UP!". It got quiet for a second and then she whispered, "I think they want us to be quiet." No kidding!
We also saw Wall-e yesterday at a matinee, and our audience was really good. The show was very cute, and not filled with propaganda like it could have been (just a subtle hint to take care of things). My cousin's husband missed most of the movie because his 1-year old was cranky and the dad took him out. The dad could have stood in the entry way and watched, but some idiot lady had her kids LAYING on the floor there! People have no sense of courtesy anymore, and they wonder why things are going the way they are in the world.
Not to mention little Stephen sitting next to me, who was no older than 2, telling me about all the things he recognized in the film (leaves, sky, wall-e, etc.) but that kid was cute. The kid behind us was just annoying. To the max. Parents need to teach their kids some manners.
ReplyDeletePeople are the worst. I get an excited kid, but what's wrong with his parents? People think they're alone on the planet. We also saw WallE and there was a 2 year old screaming WALLE WALLE every 15 seconds. We watched his moms sit there ignoring him.
ReplyDeleteAside from rediculous tunnel visioned mormons, the movie was cute enough....that is, if you like multi million dollar vehicles of propaganda. Can't we go to movies to be entertained anymore...or do we HAVE to be preached to?
Ugh! That's horrible! I at least told my kids to whisper when they were asking what was going on. Also, I saw at least 5 infants Jane's age, and none of them made a peep! So, either we got really lucky with our matinee, or we were just the loudest.
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