Movies

 

Got out to the movies twice this week.

First one was Better Man, that biopic about Robbie Williams. I like a lot of his songs, but it's not like I've been a rabid fan.

Movie's very good. A little bit long, but very well done. Kind of sad that it's bombing at the box office. We were literally the only people in the theater for it.

Then, I've heard good things about Den of Thieves, and the second movie was out so over the weekend Saturday night I finally showed my kid JC's The Thing and then we watched the first DOT. It's not bad. Well directed and slick, but with some pretty hard-to-believe stuff.

Then Sunday we went to the movies.

Second movie is a little more of that, but the franchise more less turns into a more-believable Fast and the Furious. Entertaining, with a pretty tense heist scene. Both movies are over the 2 hr 15 minute mark though, so I feel like they could have trimmed some of the fat.

Only issue was that about ten minutes into the movie, some dickhead in our row gets a phone call and answers it. He says something--we're in the Dolby theater so it's hard to hear him, but my brother and I both turned to look.

It didn't last long. We didn't say anything.

An hour in, he takes another call. My brother yells at the guy, "Take your fucking phone calls outside the theater!"

The guy gets up and goes outside. I think we're both thinking that'll be it.

He come back in, sits down, and starts texting shit. My brother's like "Hey, asshole, put your phone away!" The guy looks bewildered. 

Both me and my brother get up and head out. The guy's like "Sorry, sorry" as we go by, and I say "You're lucky I don't make you eat that fucking phone." 

We tell the movie theater people. They're like, what row? We're sorry, we'll go talk to him. As we're all going back to the auditorium, the man comes out with his coat on.

"Sorry, sorry," he says.

"We told you to put the phone away," my brother says.

"I said I was sorry," the guy says. He looks middle eastern but speaks with no accent.

"I don't give a shit, you fucking asshole," my brother says.

"Sorry" he says again.

"Fuck off," my brother says, and we go into the auditorium. The fucking asshole leaves, without the movie theater people ever having to say anything.

This is the first problem we've ever had at this movie theater. Seems like the asshole are showing up everywhere now.