Rant: Let’s Go to the Movies!
Last night Lori and I went to go see Constantine, a movie based on the DC/Vertigo comic Hellblazer. I haven’t read the comic, but from what I’ve read the movie deviated from it quite a bit and missed the mark. I personally wasn’t too impressed with the movie. Keanu had more wooden acting and the plot was very contrived. That, and I couldn’t really suspend my disbelieve with all the mangling of theology that was going on. The effects were cool, though.
It was also hard to enjoy the movie with what inevitably happened in the theater…
Keep in mind that Constantine is an R-Rated movie with lots of scary, demonic imagery and violence. But the lady sitting behind us brought her little boy who looked to be 3 or 4 years old! I knew we were in for a fun time, especially with the mother talking all through the previews to her friend sitting next to her.
The first scene of the movie the boy blurted out, “This is scary!!” and the lady just kind of laughed! If the poor kid was scared by that, I knew we were in for a long movie.
At about that time, her cell-phone rang. For a long time. The lady didn’t even try to silence the ringer. Then she had the gall to answer the phone and start talking! I shot her the evil eye as did some other people around me, and she finally left the theater with her phone call. Halfway through the movie it rang again, but this time she didn’t answer it; she just let it ring until the person on the other end hung up.
It felt like the scene in Scary Movie in the theater. If someone had gored that lady, the audience would have just cheered him on.
Why are people so inconsiderate? Why do people insist on dragging their kids to movies they really shouldn’t be seeing and laugh at their fear? I paid $7.50 to sit through that crap and it wasn’t fun.
Grr..
February 22nd, 2005 at 10:37 am
Even though it deviated from the comic which does take from your expectations I was able to see it without the destractions you experienced and I thought it was a good movie. Some people did though bring younger kids to the movie which I thought was a little inappropriate. The movie itself while fiction deals with some very advanced philisophical topics that kids just dont need to be exposed to. People think that since their kids dont know anything about these topics it doesn’t matter but kids remember and when they are exposed in a discussion enviorment it will affect their perception of the topic but anyway… just my 1.54467 cents.