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Reaper · People

Sarah and I went to the cinema last week to see 30 Days of Nights, we got ourselves in the theatre, sat down and made ourselves comfortable. Ten minutes into the film two guys (Stripy hoodie and fluffy hood as they'll be known) and a young woman (white hoodie) wander in and sit two rows behind us.
The two guys then preceed to talk loudly and belch loudly and after ten minutes I turn around and ask them politely to keep the noise down, they didn't seem to understand such words and carried on being annoying for a short while and then quietened down.
So we're thinking ok they've shut up, end of story, then sporadically they do the same thing and then we hear the click of a lighter. As soon as Sarah smelt smoke she disappeared outside, seeing this Stripey Hoodie and White Hoodie move to the right side of the cinema, leaving fluffy hood where he was. Sarah returns (having told the cinema staff that the three shitebags were smoking and drinking beer) and a few minutes the manager appears and after a few minutes of standing at the bottom of the theatre walks to the top and escorts fluffy hoodie out. Stripey hoodie follows him and returns a few minutes later as he walks behind us (this is the best bit) he declares us to be 'F***in' snobby c***s'. A minute the manager reappears and escorts stripey and white hoodie out.

What the hell is wrong with people?! For a start you're not allowed to smoke in public areas, particularly not a cinema. And you spent the entire runtime of the film being little shits and ruining it for everyone else but then they're the ones with the problem?! Peoples attitudes (especially in the cinema) are really starting to get me at the moment, not only do people have no courtesy or respect for others, but when someone pulls them up on it they lash out verbally or physically. There are various other stories with similar situations that I know of and others must have them.

WTF is wrong with people?!

Guest

Kids are brought up to believe that "They have RIGHTS" and are entitled to protect those rights.

Unfortunatly, it was forgotten to point out that everyone else also has rights that they are fully entitled to as well.

Combine that with the "American Blame Game" ie I must be able to sue someone, it can not be my fault, and this is what you get...

Oh, there is also the fact that morons are allowed to breed with other morons creating uber morons. Very Happy

kingmouse

Though you have to give them some credit, it takes real effort to make 30 Days of Night a less pleasant experience than it already is. Wink

norsefire1

i do know what you mean reaper, i had to deal with the same kind of thing when i went to see saw 3, for me the whole issue has nothing to do with "kids haveing rights" or the "american blame game" (whatever that means Razz

) its bigger then that, its the way we treat the flicks, we should treat the cinema as a art form not as a pop media, if it was more akin to a theater or gallery these little hoodie fools would not even walk into the local flicks, just to add i think its a staff policy thing as well. could this be elitism, yes, yes it could. why is refusal to enter not enforced before these miscreants buy a tickit

CatFang

Have you ever been to the cinema in the USA?

Everyone acts like that as far as I can tell.

Reaper

I've not been to a cinema is the US as yet though I think I might avoid it. I've thought for a long time that the big cinemas need to have an attendent sitting in, as they did many years ago. But that would cost more so they'll never do it.

Longshot

I think it depends on what cinema you go to, wherever in the world you are.

Ive been to the cinema in America and had no problem at all, but this was a relatively small one that youd need to drive to get to. Ive been to big my local cinema megaplex and because its so big they make sure there are no troublemakers and then there arent any.

The problem is the mid size cinemas in the centre or near towns, they need the revenue, as it is well established that cinema numbers are dwindeling. So they let anyone in, sort it out later, they made the best part of £20 off those kids and they didnt even need to show the film.

CatFang

It's getting less and less worth going to the cinema (maybe I am just getting old Very Happy

) I think.

Unless it's something I am really desperate to see right away, or there is something special like an Imax version I find we are tending to wait and buy or rent the DVD.

Often the DVD comes out in America a matter of weeks after (or even before in the case of Hellboy and Grindhouse) it has been in the cinema here.

Added to that there is no cinema round us for less than £12 and a DVD probably costs about £15 for as many views as we want, usually with extra and no anti-social kids it's a bit of a no brainer.

God I do sound old.

The Rascal King · Re: People

CatFang

There was a case recently where someone was shot and killed in a London club for asking 3 men to put out their cigarettes.

You probably already heard of it. What I wonder is what those men think about what they did now. Did they really think it was worth a man's life and their liberty to smoke somewhere they weren't supposed to?

Horrifying.

Reaper

People are sick ahem, it really annoys me. Heard about some guy getting beaten to the floor on a bus because he stood up for some young mother against two youths.... No tried to help. The two youths need a kicking and then so do most of the passengers!

Kikari

Thats harsh Sad

Reaper

I'm harsh or what happened?

Xeall

the story is harsh fool! yeah mr t......he'd sort out these problems

i have to deal with the scum of canterbury every day, work in a second hand shop and your everyones bitch in their eyes. they wanna sell stuff and god forbid you should say no! i had to argue with someone as to why i didn't want to buy blatently stolen goods. The arguement ended with them threatening violence and then realising i'm bigger than them and not afraid.

the worst one is that greg fellow with the dyed hair, if i was a shop owner i would ban him.... Very Happy

The Rascal King

Haha.

I was going home tonight, after going to the Kebab shop. I was walking away, and as I walked past some couple, the fella goes "What the fuck you looking at?", after I was like a meter past him. What a fucking cock. The worst was his whore going "Oh, leave it out". Which blatantly made him think that him not starting on me was an act of mercy.

I know he was just pissy that his idiot football team lost. I'm fucking glad, it means everyone can hopefully get over it for the next 4 years, at least.

Reaper

Should walked over to him, stuff the kebab in his face, headbutted him and stamped on his knee..... he wouldn't do it again.

waffle

Every waking day, the idea of becoming a vigilante becomes more and more desirable.

I used to have an idea about setting up a company that provided bouncers for cinemas. Each screening would have one bouncer placed strategically, ready to shut people up or eject them if they started acting up. I reckon it'd get loads of support from punters.

Reaper

Where do I sign up?

The Rascal King

Xeall

i know a few......i don't fancy the scars. 3 life threatening knife wounds, no thanks. unless someone wants to be my micro and set me up with fun toys to help. Then i'm so in no matter what the cost

Kikari

Robin The Boy Wonder

It does seem to be getting a lot worse, doesn' it...?

I work for a local bus company and I'm seeing an ever increasing number of assaults on drivers (and passengers, although not as much to be perfectly honest). More often than not, it's always down to Shite Head 1 not having a valid bus pass and then Shite Head 2 giving the odd verbal. And then there are the times it all gets out of hand and the driver will find him/herself on the receiving end of a blow of some kind.

There was a case recently where two young men continually gave our driver verbal throughout the route until the end of the journey. They threatened his life, gave him racial abuse... and, at the end of the journey, when they saw a Police Officer, they claimed it was the other way round! The driver was then fined.

Fortunately, we have CCTV... and while there's no sound, it's ridiculously clear who the aggressors are... and it's not our driver!

Some areas are worse than others and there are some areas where there are no problems at all, but there does seem to be an ever increasing number of young jumped up thugs who seem to think they can do what they want when they want and no one's gonna stop them.

Personally, and I sound pathetically old for saying this and oh so terribly cliched, I blame the parents. Not 100% but, more often than not in my experience, it does seem to be that way.

Reaper

People recount these stories and others make comments about going vigilante to which some of you agree and no one blinks an eye..... but when I say it I get called Pro Massacre Boy?! Not that I'm complaining... Very Happy

Robin The Boy Wonder

Yeah... but you're the one with a picture of The Punisher as your avatar... Confused

I do think we are too soft, as a nation, on young offenders. This is where I would nomrallt ytopygft vtan esaa ybut I have Eliot trying to help me type right now.

SDop you aVZXEECCCCC WHAT i mean about young offenders?cvv

Reaper

*goes to find the baseball bat*

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