for my moviegoing public -- Van Helsing

This past week mooselet came to visit me, and sort of on the spur of the moment we decided to see Van Helsing.

( ::there may be spoilers:: )

That being said, I have to rant about the stupidity of trying to see a movie in a public theater yet again. I blame myself. Summer means school is out, which means bored kids going to see movies. And naturally three of the worst of them had to sit right next to me. Three teenage boys, who had clearly seen the movie at least once already (I know because they couldn't resist saying the lines before the actors did), with their feet propped up on the seat backs, giggling and talking during the boring parts (where, unfortunately, what little plot explanation there was occurred), waving their cell phones around like flashlights (I finally snapped when the kid immediately beside me did this repeatedly right into my eyes), getting up not once but twice for snacks, each time gone for 10-15 minutes at a time...how much did they really want to see this movie again? Ahhh, I remember those long summer days when my friends and I had nothing better to do than blow $20 to go to a movie we'd already seen just to see how much we could piss off everyone else. No, wait...when I was a kid I had a lot more manners and respect. I swear the little ones at Shrek were better behaved. I spent the second half of the movie fantasizing about suddenly punching the kid next to me in the nose (the one that never stopped fidgeting and dancing in his seat once during the entire movie), just one quick jab. He wouldn't expect it, and I suspect his reaction would be priceless. I entertained thoughts about complaining about them and getting them kicked out, except I didn't want to miss any of the movie; but I was missing so much anyway it really wouldn't have made a difference. So I guess it was a blessing in disguise that the movie wasn't terribly deep and had lots of loud action scenes to drown out these morons.

I fucking hate kids.

-=Lainey=-