it's not that I'm old; those kids really are disrespectful

Saw a late showing of The Ring 2 the other night. Small theater, packed, mixed crowd. But the back two rows were almost exclusively teenagers, I'd say high school age. My son's age.

They were noisy during the commercials and trailers, but I expect that. When the film starts, I expect you keep it down. But these kids were just disrespectful little jerks. Another phrase comes to mind but I'm trying to keep that stuff to a minimum here. After about the fourth outburst, the management was called in, and then the pay-per-cops, and they made routine visits for the remainder of the film. In the final act, someone actually lit up a cigarette, and by that I don't mean cigarette. Strangely, this all made the experience far more interesting than if I had been able to focus solely on the film, which was weak to say the least.

You know, I don't really care if you're young and wild and free and want to act stupid and loud and assholic. Just maybe go about it in theater 17, 19 or 23, where Miss Congeniality 2, Hitch and Guess Who are playing.

I can wait to see those on DVD.