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People Take Movies Way Too Seriously
Long, but there's a CN at the bottom.
So please know that this is not meant to take away from the tragedy in Colorado for the same movie this experience took place because of. It would have been ridiculous no matter what.
H, brother and I went to see The Dark Knight Rises Saturday evening at 8:30 in IMAX (it was amazing, but I digress). The theater we went to has a different process to make things easier for premiere weekends of big movies. Normally you go up the single escalator on the right hand side and they take your ticket there. For these special weekends, they reverse the escalators so that there's a ticket taker on the bottom of the left hand side escaltors and you go up there after you wait in special lines. They have lines on the lower escalator level for each show time, marked appropriately but only two at a time due to space restraints. I promise this is important information.
SO we got there around 7pm to try and get a good seat. We ask the ticket taker where the line for the 8:30 IMAX showing is and he tells us there isn't one yet and to get in line with the 7:30 IMAX people. So clearly, that is what we do.
These other patrons start their own line next to the 7:30 IMAX line, declaring it to be the 8:30 IMAX line. Our line starts moving. We get up to the front and we stop to let the other 7:30 people pass us by, as per directions from the employee. Jerks over in the self-declared IMAX line start yelling at us, saying we cut in line blah blah blah. We tell them we only did what the employee asked of us and they continue to be extremely rude. I'm getting a little heated but before I do anything, I go and ask the employee we spoke with about where to go for clarification. Guess what, I was right. He told everyone to get in the 7:30 line and they didn't listen.
I go back to them and tell them this information that they refuse to believe (poor employee was stuck at the ticket taker booth and couldn't move from it) or come with me to speak to him about. They kept saying they'd wait until an employee came down to tell us all they were right and then we'd be farther back in line. Right...
We let it go. They continue to be extremely rude so we get a little miffed again. They wanted us to "own up" to something I'm not sure of (y'know, besides we can follow directions and they can't). I go back up to the employee and he tells me to go upstairs to get someone to come down and take care of it. I do, they're very sorry, someone will be down, blah blah blah.
No one comes down. I go back in line and the 4 people who were most vocal about us "cutting" have now moved themselves to the front of the line. OH NO WE ARE ONLY 4-7 IN LINE FOR A HUGE THEATER, WE ARE NEVER GOING TO GET A GOOD SEAT. /sarcasm
They continue to be jerks so I go up to the employee again, apologize for bothering him but I won't be treated this way, and he asks me to go upstairs again, making sure someone comes down with me. Turns out I go up there only to have to come back down to talk to an employee in a Robin costume. This is when I start to laugh inside and pray that he will come over, in is ROBIN costume and put these jerks in their place. Well he doesn't, but what he does is almost better. He tells me to have us all go up right now and be the first in the theater after they clear it out.
So we get our awesome seats and sit down. The group of four come into the theater about 5-10 minutes later and the one says "Oh look, they're here". Obviously none of us say anything to them because IT IS JUST A FREAKING MOVIE GET OVER YOURSELF.
Talking about it later, I decided that I should have found out if they have a soul or not by asking them if they realized people died the day prior in a theater for this very same movie. If that hadn't shut them up, who knew what would. I'm mostly kidding with that part.
Oh and when H and I went to see the Hunger Games on premiere weekend, the same thing happened to us except we were the ones in the wrong line. Guess what we did? Got in the back of the line realizing we were wrong. AMAZING HOW THAT WORKS.
CN: Jerks in the movie theater line created their own line against the employees instructions, told us we (who followed directions) cut in line, and were jerks to us for a solid hour. The 4 most prominient jerks cut us in line (big whoop) and still wouldn't shut up. Talking to employees resulted in us going up WAY before anyone else, being the first in the theater for 5-10 minutes. If you just read this, read the parragraph above this too.
Re: People Take Movies Way Too Seriously
I know, right? This is pretty much an exact conversation we "overheard" aka they were talking loud enough for us to hear on purpose.
Random friend of theirs: Wow, what time did you get here to be the first in line?
Rude people: Well we got here at 6:30 but they didn't. They just cut in front of everyone.
My Brother: Seriously? Can we just stop this?
Apparently it was agreed upon by H and brother that if they said something personal about me while I was off getting things taken care of, I'd be bailing them both out of jail that night. Thankfully they didn't go that low.
Doesnt it make you wonder how they were raised?
Yes. 1,000 times yes.
People make me sick sometimes. It's just a movie. Congrats that you were there at 6:30. You should've just followed the instructions and maybe you would be in the front of the line butt-face. Sheesh.
Idiocy is rampant!
First Look
Wow, people seriously suck. So many people today are like those idiots - it's enough to make me want to be a hermit sometimes. Gah! Why are people so mean?
It just makes me wonder what people get out of being angry and rude and hateful. It gets you nowhere. It doesn't (or shouldn't, anyway) make you happier. It makes you look stupid. I could go on. It's just never, ever worth it.
Again, people suck.
Geesh talk about entitlement. I seriously weep for the future of humanity in this country.
Sorry you had to go through that Midge.
Teachery Blog
Can I ask how old these people were? They sound about 12. I give you props for not going off on them, I don't know if I could control myself around such idiocy. Stupid people are my pet peeve.
My Blog
Sadly, they were our age or older I'm guessing. I'm 26, H is 27 and my brother is 24.