Movie Mayhem

Mystical Roo and I like our films and will try and get to the cinema when possible for the full movie experience.  Recently we (and no doubt other cinema goers) have been suffering at the hands of the dreaded teenagers.  Not all teenagers.  Just the dreaded ones.  The evil ones who seem to go to the cinema for no other reason than to annoy the rest of us.  They tend to lurk in groups, a mixture of boys and girls and can usually be spotted towards the centre of the auditorium.  I honestly don't know why these people buy tickets when all they do is talk through the film whilst getting up and down, walking back and forth through the aisles and generally making a nuisance of themselves.  Tickets aren't exactly cheap so why would you spend your hard earned pocket money (ha!) just to talk through a film when you could have done that outside and away from the rest of us.  The trouble is it seems that there is very little that can be done.  You could politely ask them to be quiet but no doubt not get a response.  Shouting abuse results in louder abuse being thrown back in your direction, sometimes accompanied by popcorn or possibly a shoe.  There are no attendants to whom you can turn and when you do go and speak to a member of staff they turn out to be teenagers too.  Not necessarily dreaded teenagers but teenagers who aren't going to do much about their rowdy peers.  Most of the time we'll grudgingly put up with the noise but we have walked out before and gotten our money back.  There are some films that require a certain element of quiet for you to be able to fully appreciate the atmosphere it's trying to create.  And I'm a bit deaf anyway so I can't be doing with background noise.  We've actually started watching films based on who we think might be in the audience.  Then, if we decide it's one that may attract the dreaded teenagers we try and plan a time when they'll hopefully all be tucked up in bed.  Or terrorising old ladies in the street.  Who knows.  We went to watch Toy Story 3 the other night and were apprehensive about watching a "kids film", for fear or screaming children running amok.  In fact the kids put the teenagers to shame and were all really well behaved.  It just goes to show that you don't have to be a child to be childish.