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Oct. 20th, 2006 11:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rmThe thing I didn't talk about last night in my Marie Antoinette post is the horrors of free screenings!
Sitting outside beforehand a woman comes up to me and asks if I have a guest with me, and since I say no asks if she can be mine. She's older, probably about sixty and I see no reason to refuse -- she's polite and clean and I know how eager I was to see the film, and so I'm happy to help her see it as well.
You can already see where I am going with this: I was wrong. In the hour plus we waited online together she complained constantly and was often rude. She went on and on about all the other free screenings she had been too, savaged The Prestige in a way that made it clear she simply was incapable of accepting any film told in a non-linear fashion and then, after an offhand remark about the SAG/WGA screenings, tried to pump me for info so she could go along that line to get people to invite her in with them. _THAT_ annoys me. I pay for that membership, and it's a perk of being in SAG (which I also pay for quite dearly). The theatre is always dead silent during films and people stay for the credits. None of this yelling and booing and exploding potato chip bag bullshit. I would _never_ take someone I didn't know into the DGA theatre; I take a guest whose company I enjoy or I go alone. I'm all for the free, and I'm a big ol' complainer, but the thought of this woman making her retirement about being outraged by free movies and berating the staff of the theatres screening them for not letting her in at the precisely the moment she wants (this happened repeatedly, she called staff members lazy and stupid as they tried to manage the line outside) just made me NUTS.
Luckily I didn't sit with her.
Ugh ugh ugh.
Sitting outside beforehand a woman comes up to me and asks if I have a guest with me, and since I say no asks if she can be mine. She's older, probably about sixty and I see no reason to refuse -- she's polite and clean and I know how eager I was to see the film, and so I'm happy to help her see it as well.
You can already see where I am going with this: I was wrong. In the hour plus we waited online together she complained constantly and was often rude. She went on and on about all the other free screenings she had been too, savaged The Prestige in a way that made it clear she simply was incapable of accepting any film told in a non-linear fashion and then, after an offhand remark about the SAG/WGA screenings, tried to pump me for info so she could go along that line to get people to invite her in with them. _THAT_ annoys me. I pay for that membership, and it's a perk of being in SAG (which I also pay for quite dearly). The theatre is always dead silent during films and people stay for the credits. None of this yelling and booing and exploding potato chip bag bullshit. I would _never_ take someone I didn't know into the DGA theatre; I take a guest whose company I enjoy or I go alone. I'm all for the free, and I'm a big ol' complainer, but the thought of this woman making her retirement about being outraged by free movies and berating the staff of the theatres screening them for not letting her in at the precisely the moment she wants (this happened repeatedly, she called staff members lazy and stupid as they tried to manage the line outside) just made me NUTS.
Luckily I didn't sit with her.
Ugh ugh ugh.
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Date: 2006-10-20 04:00 pm (UTC)I was lucky enough to be able to go to a free screening for a movie (that I am completely blanking out on right now), but for me personally, it was about the experience. The movie itself didn't make a big impact on me, I think I decided that it was crap at the end (which is probably why I don't remember what it was, lol), but it was free, and who was I to complain? I was unlucky enough to sit next to somebody who could have been the twin of that lady. He was rude, noisy and just generally annoying all through the movie. And he complained about the free, which sort of boggles the mind. If you're not paying for it, I don't know that you should be allowed to be that obnoxious. It's not a life threatening issue, last I checked.
But yes, just popped in here to say that I completely identify, and that that behaviour continually boggles my mind, especially since you were gracious enough to let her be your guest.