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Edited on Sun Jun-19-05 07:43 PM by LynneSin
I was visiting my family yesterday and I told my nephew I'd go take him to see Star Wars. We ended up at this little tiny movie theater in Hershey PA in what I believe to be the tiniest screening room (I think 50 tops could fit in there).
Right before the previews start, some lady comes walking in with 3 kids who all look to be under the age of 6 including a toddler. Now mind you, this is the 7pm viewing on a Saturday night and it's bad enough the 5 year old behind me is kicking up a storm on my seat (I moved to the other side of my nephew to get away from it but we still had to say something to the father and he did get her to stop).
Anyhow, so the lady with the 3 kids comes into the theater and she's piled up with more goodies then you can imagine. The movie wasn't even 10 minutes gone when one of her kids just starts screaming. Not crying screaming but just screaming like you'd hear kids on a playground scream. Mom basically ignores this kid until someone else in the theater finally told her to "PLEASE SHUT UP YOUR KID!!"
Fortunately 5 minutes later she, the kids, and the $50 worth of junk from the concession stand (which at theater prices isn't alot) left the movie permamently.
I feel bad that these young parents can't find baby-sitters for their kids, but here's my advice. If you really want to see the latest, greatest movies out there, do us all a favor - take your kid to the matinee. At a Saturday matinee I expect most theaters including the hard-core R-rated movies, to be filled with kids. This is why I rarely go to matinees - that's kid's time at the movies. But on a Saturday night, go to your local Blockbuster and rent a damn movie. That way if one of your kids is bored 5 minutes into the movie they aren't screaming their heads off annoying the rest of us.
Irony though is that my nephew, who is absolutely adorable, went to his first movie with me when he was 5 years old (It was back when Lucas re-released the original Star Wars Triology). I was taking his older brother and I was hesitant to take him too. But I told him that if he didn't behave that I would not be able to take him to future movies until he was older. That kid sat quietly through the movie and the only noise he made was to ask me to read the open monologue in Star Wars (which I whispered real quietly to him).
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