Lacey, Anna and I saw this on Saturday night. I thought it was fantastic, certainly hard-R, but immensely worth the money and time. Best movie of the year. There is a more interesting review and discussion of it on thecedarroom.org (Josh Gibbs' blog - I disagree with much of it, but it's still more interesting). Summary: acting, directing, script, action, all of it top notch. But I wanted to tell an interesting story about our trip to the theater, not the movie itself. I will post the exchange as I remember it. To set it up, it was not that crowded, but several people in the middle of the theater, kind of staggered. It ended up being pretty full once the movie started. And it wasn't stadium seating. Anna was first into the row, then Lacey, then me. We sit down...
Man behind me: "Excuse me..." (he makes a big deal of moving his legs a bit because of the small decrease in leg room)
Me: "Yes?"
Silence for about a minute or so
Man (under his breath but loud enough for me to hear): "Out of all the seats in the entire theater, you had to sit right there."
Me: "These are empty seats!"
Anna: "Do I need to move down 1?"
Me: "I don't want you to not be able to see over the guy in the row in front of us or anything..."
Man (smacking of jerk-ness): "Kinda like me??"
Me: "Look, we can sit anywhere we want to!"
Man (still a jerk): "Exactly"
Me (really pissed now): "Do you have a freaking problem? These are empty freaking seats!"
We move down one
Wife of Man: "I guess I'LL move, since you're being an ASS!"
Me: "Oh yeah, I'M the ass."
I have been to probably a thousand movies in my lifetime, and never had anything like that happen to me. It's a good thing I've grown up a bit over the last five years and that Anna was there, or there might have been a rumble. I'm not that big, but I can get feisty when I'm pissed. Oh, it still makes me mad even writing about it.
Posted by jmmelton at October 9, 2006 11:34 AM | TrackBackThere is no way that could be any funnier than the way I just invisioned that whole scene. I am still laughing.... oh, there are tears in my eyes......... I can't stop. Help!
Posted by: Jeniliz at October 9, 2006 11:11 PMIt does sound kind of funny "nice reenactment babe", but when in the moment it was very awkward. I've had numerous people sit right in front of me in movies and it's never even crossed my mind to say something, it’s just something you expect especially on opening weekend. What annoyed me most was that we offered to move down one and the lady still referred to Josh as being an ass. Not only that but these people looked old enough to be my parents, talk about lowering yourself to age of a teenage punk!
Posted by: Lacey at October 10, 2006 09:25 AMWhat a jerk!
Posted by: emily at October 13, 2006 10:18 AM