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Sneaking... the wrong ways to do it

"Don't worry, we'll just sneak in."

I heard that so many times this weekend.

And I've figured out something.

People aren't good at sneaking around.

As I've mentioned before, my theatre is pretty harsh on the MPAA ratings policies.. and everyone that tries to get around them ends up being as inconspicuous as my buddy on the left here. Here's some of the things I noticed people doing as they were trying to sneak in, as well as some other random observations I noticed this weekend.

• Buying a ticket to a movie they obviously didn't want to see. Like a group of 16 year old males buying tickets to The Nanny Diaries. Um.. I don't think so.
• Wandering around the lobby, peering over edges and around corners to make sure that no one will check when they try to sneak by. Umm.. I've seen you at least 4 times now. And I remember your face. You're not getting in.
• "Oops, I must've bought a ticket to the wrong movie, I wanted this one. I am old enough to see it." That's just bad.
• My parents said it was ok. ::hands me cell phone:: "Hi ma'am, you said your son could see this movie? That's great, now just come here and watch it with him and I'll let him in. :-)"
• Trying to get MY STAFF to get you FREE PASSES to a rated R movie 5 minutes AFTER I've turned you down. Hey buddy, you just ruined my staff member's free pass privileges. How do you feel now? I feel like a jerk doing it, but it had to be done. Sometimes I don't understand why they do it... free movies are such a good perk.. why risk losing it?

Now onto the random observations. You all remember my bootlegging post, right? Of course you do, you hang onto every word I write! ;-) Well today I was just sitting at the Customer Service counter, doing a bit of paperwork when I noticed a girl waving around a video camera walking into a theatre. Uhhh... is she serious? was the first thought in my mind. She came out a minute later to head to the bathroom. On her way back I stopped her and asked if that was a video camera she had on her. She said "yep!" I told her that she couldn't have it in the theatre.. so she gave it to her mom.. who first wanted me to hold it for them, (I said no, can't be responsible for that.) then brought it to the car, saying that it was just a school project.

WHAT KIND OF SCHOOL ASKS YOU TO FILM INSIDE A MOVIE THEATRE?!?!!

Last I checked, schools were trying to keep kids OUT of trouble.

Another woman called about a lost cell phone.. which turned out to be an iPhone. Only she realized it 5 hours after her movie got over. HOW do you drop a $600 phone and NOT realize it? Maybe it is too sleek and small for its own good. lol.

People can't read times very well. I had a guest mistake a 10:05 AM show for a 10:05 PM. I guess its not THAT bad, but when your times read 10:05 3:15 8:20 and its 10 PM.. why would you think its 10:05 PM? Unless we have a 3:15 AM I didn't know about, in which case I closed up shop WAY too early and need to head back now!

Well that's all for now. I'm tired. Looks like my last post wasn't too popular. I guess people don't like trying to get free things as much as I had hoped. Oh well, that spike I got from Stumbleupon was nice.. I was kinda hoping for the same from Digg! Happy Labor Day Folks!

Wouldn't you go to the movies if...

She was the ticket taker? No.. we don't have too much time on our hands. What are you talking about? We needed a ticket taker! You don't want to be greeted on your way in? Of course you do. We got some nice looks out of it. :-)

But of course, she doesn't quite match the look. You can't have someone coming in to work wearing that! She's gotta look more professional. More movie theatre professional that is. Hmm.. how are we gonna do this? It was kinda tough, but we managed to do it. Before I get to that though....

Thanks to Adsense Tracker for the boost in traffic I got yesterday. I guess Stumbleupon is a pretty good source of traffic. I wonder if it is better than Digg. I don't know. Regardless I just had to take one look and bam, my hits were way up once I got stumbled. Maybe I will help stumble some people too! Has anyone used it before? If you like something you see here, Stumble It! I've even made it easy with tags near the bottom of my post! Right near the comments! Cmon! :-P

Anway, back to what we were doing. We had to make her fit the image that we're trying to give here at the theatre. What do you think? That uniform looks great on her! I actually had a few people who thought she was real.. lol.

Unfortunately, I didn't get to watch any of the movies last night. I heard that Halloween is pretty F'd up, and from what I saw of Death Sentence, it looks really good. It was really loud when I was in there. I really wish I had a chance to see them, but its a long weekend so I'll be sure to post updates as I see them.

Well, that's it for now, more after work tonight! See you at the movies! :-)

WEEKLY UPDATE: At The Movies!

Don't you ever want to wring the neck of someone who comes up to you at work and berates you for no reason? Imagine getting the same thing from a kid who is a good 5 years younger than you. Have you ever gone to the movies and seen this here poster on the right? I'm sure you have at some point, and if you haven't you have now! :-)

I wish people would follow it! I posted in a recent blog entry about the Rated R policy. Chaseblogger agrees with me.Well today at work I had to deal with it again, this time while selling tickets. Most memorable moment was when a girl who I had just rejected for tickets (she had no ID) to Superbad. She comes back out with an ID, one that is clearly not hers, and asks to exchange her ticket. I told her that it wasn't her ID and that she wouldn't get a ticket. I could tell she was getting mad, so I decided to quiz her.

"What is your birthday?" I asked. "April 15th!" is what she basically screamed in my face. I hesitated a second, then calmly said "Well, that's not what it says on YOUR id." The next word out of her mouth was a four letter word that will not be repeated here. Needless to say I had embarrassed her thoroughly, and took great pleasure in doing so. People in line were yelling at her to stop wasting time and trying to sneak in. It made me feel a little good about myself haha.

She proceeded to call her friends out and say that she got busted, to put it shortly. She then made it a point to tell me she would be visiting another local theatre, because they don't check IDs there. Fine with me, I wouldn't want her kind at my theatre anyway. I did notice something yesterday when I was watching Superbad myself. The crowd was very well behaved, and people were enjoying themselves. I think this is because my theatre does such a good job with enforcement of the policy. We didn't have any immature 15 and 16 year olds in there causing disturbances. People were there for the movie, not to think they were cool by sneaking in.

Think about it.. have you been to a theatre where they didn't ID? At my previous one we didn't really do all that much, and I noticed the crowds were much rowdier. Not that I mind a rowdy crowd when it comes to a movie like Superbad, but it was really pleasant yesterday and I enjoyed myself.

Point of the story is, I don't like being harassed by someone who is much younger than me and doesn't know the rules. I was their age once and I understand how they feel to a point, but if you're gonna be a little brat and I'm right, then I will embarrass you, and in this case it was in front of at least 30 other people.

Another plus, my theatre has gone back to fall hours, so we closed early today. And I am still up late. Some things never change.

This weekend was good for movies. As mentioned before, there is something during the credits of Superbad that is worth watching, I didn't get to see any of The Invasion though, so I don't know anything about the credits for that one. Any of you go this weekend?

I'm off to catch up on some of your blogs!

Review: Superbad is Super Good

I finally got to see a movie on the weekend it opened! And it was GREAT. I do have to say that I did sneak in my own food, but mainly because my theatre does not sell Sno Caps or Iced Lattes. And those were really good. Anyway, saw Superbad in the biggest theatre of my building. There was a decent crowd on hand, about 200 I'd say, so I knew that the experience would be good. Can't complain about the crowd, they stayed pretty quiet except when they were uproariously laughing (which was quite a bit!)

On to the movie itself. The previews had hyped it up a lot. I was actually expecting it to be along the lines of some of my previous favorite comedies, such as Wedding Crashers, Dodgeball and 40-year old Virgin . All great films by the way. Superbad had me laughing right from the start. All of the raunchiness and things you would expect from a rated R comedy. From McLovin to Fogel, it was pure comedic genius. The duo from this movie actually reminded me of the duo from Harold and Kumar go to White Castle. Something was pretty much always going on, causing a laugh or a groan from the audience.

The best part, as usual, was the crowd reactions to all the humor, and especially that of the girl's. She's had a thing with laughing at asian jokes (seeing as I'm asian) and this did not disappoint her in the least. For those of you who love to stay for the credits, there are some extremely interesting images for the first half of them. Nothing after that though, so feel free to leave when those are gone!

This movie is highly recommended. Get off your butts and into the theatres. You won't be disappointed!

My sister just started a blog. Intermission at Home. Way to copy me sis.

I've been thinking about getting my own domain name. Any of you thought to do that? I heard that it's better that way, but seeing as how this blog is pretty low on the money making for now, I'm going to hold off. However, I think I do have an idea for the contest I'm gonna run. Probably gonna be some movie trivia, so for those of you trivia buffs, get ready! I've got some pretty good movie paraphernalia to give away so keep an eye out for that soon!