Worst Movie Experience EVER

Christmas weekend Valerie and I decided to take our daughters to see New Moon, which they'd both been begging to go see. We went to a 4pm showing at a nearby mall. Ideally we were thinking that this movie has been out for awhile and it's not a peak time we'd have no problems! Man were we wrong!!!



We arrived just in time for the previews to begin. When we tried to find seats we got stuck in the second to front row. In most of the newer theaters this would not be a problem because the seats/screens are situated so that you can see just fine from anywhere. In THIS theater it meant sitting all the way back in your seat with your head resting on the back and then still looking up as high as possible. Oh and did I mention that if there were two people on screen you'd have to turn your head to see the other half of the screen? Not cool. Well, this we could've lived with, but add in the rest and not so pretty. After awhile I actually considered attempting to get my money back because it was not fun.


The people behind us brought a baby - now it was a pretty well behaved baby with only a few whimpers or coos here and there but the parents were downright annoying. Talking to the baby in a normal tone of voice, saying things like "aww... do you want to have a conversation? I think she wants to talk to us, etc." In a theater, in a normal tone. What the heck?! THEN the dad or someone in their group had a nose that whistled when he breathed. So for the first 5 minutes of the movie that was ALL I heard. At that point Valerie and I were still kind of laughing. A bit further into the movie the toddler in their group was attempting to get candy out of a wrapper - for atleast two minutes. All we heard was crinkle, crinkle, crinkle, smash, crinkle. Did the parents help? Nope... they just went on talking to the baby or whistling while they breathed. Finally people started turning around and staring at which point the kid got the candy out and the crinkling stopped.



About 30 minutes into the movie the baby started getting fussy so they popped a binky in and we had relative quiet again (still nose whistling and some baby chatter, but mostly quiet) but apparently a binky was not enough and mom, or aunt, or grandma (it was a big group) decided to start patting the baby's bum in hopes to put it to sleep. So for about 20 minutes all I hear is pat pat pat pat pat pat pat pat pat pat pat pat pat pat pat... until I thought I was going to scream.



By this point Valerie and I are getting annoyed and even Kelsey who has had the back of her seat kicked more than once. Eventually the movie ended and I think we ran out of the theater. I did seriously consider giving that family a piece of my mind but decided to keep my mouth shut. There were more of them than of us and I didn't want to teach Kelsey those things. ;) Needless to say, Valerie and I both agreed NO MORE MOVIES EVER. Why go to a theater when I can buy the movie and watch it at home, on my couch, with a blanket and a pause button? I've since decided that I'll probably go to a movie again but I doubt it will ever be at that theater. That one needs a major overhaul.