Knowing - Personal Addendum

So as you've hopefully read i went to see Knowing Friday night. I'll have to watch the film again due to the seething rage that coursed through me for about half the film due to some jackasses sitting behind me in the theater. This was apparently social time and not shut the fuck up and pay attention to the 20 yard screen in the front of the auditorium time for them. As if it weren't bad enough that the verbal mating ritual were occurring 4 feet to my right throughout the film, at one point when the female half went to the bathroom and cool guy got up and walked to the front of the theater to talk to another friend in the audience.

On top of this there was older movie lady who sucked all her soda out of her cup and thought that by constantly shaking the cup more liquid would appear. Every five minutes or so*ka-chunk ka-chunk* of her giving the cup a vigorous shake and then sucking on the straw. Now i was in Picayune, MS at the cheapest theatre I've found in years so all of this should have been no surprise to me. I had a vision at one point of throwing my full twenty ounce bottle of Coke at the folks on the left and then taking ice lady's cup and throwing it in the trash (she was older so physical violence toward her would have made me feel terrible).

The sad thing is, it has now become an expected occurrence at the theater for me. Unless it's a Friday night at the Slidell Grand movie theater where they have their watchdog Woodruff. I'll take this time to shout out to Woodruff because he has made my movie going experiences more pleasant. His no-nonsense and honest approach in telling people to shut the hell up and don't text during the movie is refreshing, and the fact that he enforces it is doubly so. He does it with a style and honesty that is also light, giving us his honest opinions on the new films we are all going to see. So awesome job Woodruff and Slidell Grand theatre, I wish more theaters would take your approach to ensuring that i didn't just spend 10 bucks on a movie to learn all the latest high school gossip.