
SHHHHH!!!
By Paul Wein
I just got out of the Kings Plaza Movie Theater and was going to write a review of the movie I just saw – Alien vs. Predator, but I can’t – because my fellow moviegoers wouldn’t shut the hell up.
Right now, my blood is boiling and my mood is anything but happy, which is what I hoped for after seeing a movie I have been waiting for since Summer of last year. But although I did actually sit through the entire 87 minute film – I didn’t see it – thanks to the “people” that occupied the theater along with me who chose to be rude, inconsiderate animals instead of decent human beings.
From a girl who walked into the theater in the middle of the movie – and in the middle of a very long phone conversation, to a group of obnoxious teenagers who were apparently under the impression that they were alone in the movie theater – two to guys behind me whose voices seemed to increase in volume in conjunction with the level of my anger – I got so infuriated that I actually screamed, “SHUT UP!” in the crowded theater at the top of my lungs in the middle of the movie, which did nothing but make everyone laugh – and talk even louder.
Maybe its me, but when I go to a movie theater and pay close to ten bucks to see a film on “the big screen” – I want to enjoy the movie I came to see in silence. I also realize that dozens of other people came to the same place for the same reason. So out of respect for my fellow patrons – I keep my mouth shut during a movie – but I guess I am the only one with common courtesy who goes to the Kings Plaza Movie Theater.
At one point, I almost walked out of the movie because instead of getting entertained, I was getting infuriated. As much as I wanted to see this movie, there was no point in sitting there and seeing the film on screen – but hearing nothing but laughing, screaming and cackling. But despite the fact that I wanted to get up and leave, I stayed until the end only to leave with absolutely no recollection of a movie I have been obsessed with since I first heard about it back in 2003.
I would like to thank the kind and courteous “people” who completely ruined my Alien vs. Predator experience. I would also like to thank Loews Theaters for “properly” training their employees who stood silently in the back of the theater while everyone was talking loudly instead of ejecting those who refused to stay silent during the showing of the film. The ironic thing is that when I sat down, I noticed a small child sitting next to me and immediately worried that he wouldn’t stay quiet during the movie – and he turned out to be the quietest one in the theater.
As for the film, the only thing I remember was that the Predators needed humans to act as hosts in order to breed the Aliens. If they ever need more hosts – I would be happy to recommend a whole theater full.