Movie manners.

So, I take my wife to a local movie establishment to see the new monster movie, The Wolfman. We were having so much fun that night, to be more exact, things went swimmingly. Like most movies we show up early in order to reap the benefits of the an ancient system of organization…the “line”. Any who, we finally get through the theater doors. My first thought is that this place doesn’t have much seating; my second thought is, “Oh there’s two seats in the middle!”. As i approach the row, I kindly tell a women excuse me, as I try to make my way to a seat. Immediately I was denied passage to the promised land. The lady whom I had treated so nicely a few moments ago had revealed herself to be the real monster. This lady was trying to tell me that her and this other women are saving 12 seats. Unimpressed by the lady’s attempt to command the seating arrangements, I kindly made my way to the middle of the row they said was “reserved”. This action by me really opened the flood gates to the situation, because as they were trying to instruct me to move, the rest of the theater was telling them that that can’t try to save a whole row. Even though I sort of instigated the situation, I wasn’t the one who the ladies wanted to argue with. Soon after the start of the complaints an usher was trying to take command of the situation, and he told the women exactly what I had heard at another theater, and that is that, a ticket holder can only save one seat. So if the dirty dozen wanted to have all of their seats taken care of they would have needed 6 ticket holders present, since they did not I was free to sit where ever I wanted. But, for some reason this explanation was not good enough for this rag tag duo, so the manager was brought in at this point. When the manager arrives he didn’t do anything, and he was obviously under some sort of influence. His speech was slurred and I don’t think he could walk too straight of a line. In the end we got the seats that we deserved and they got the heck out and asked for a refund. As for the movie i think they did a great job at making a suspenseful feature that may keep some guessing, but for those who are tuned in the the symbolism and dialogue you may quickly guess the ending. The cinematic effects were spot on. I honestly enjoyed the dark and gloomy sets, and the accents were not bad. However, I was mad that Benicio’s character didn’t have a English accent at all, but they quickly explain this with a few lines of dialogue…phew! All in all I would like to give this movie a 3.5 out of 5, but more importantly I hope people start learning how to act at the movies…especially the managers that work there.

Tagged as: Dirty Dozen, Few Moments, First Thought, Flood Gates, Heck, Manners, Monster Movie, New Movie, Rag Tag, Second Thought, Theater Doors, Ticket Holder, Ticket Holders, Usher, Wolfman