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HatefulDan t1_ja4di4k wrote

Reply to comment by macrob25 in Man the Bowtie is really speed running shutting down at this point. by fannypax

Well, teenagers are also more likely to engage in theater hopping, which means the potential to end up in someone’s reserve seats, which can lead to conflict. Because they are also unsupervised, and understandably bored—they are more likely to engage in mischievousness and to disrupt the movie going experience of other paying customers. Which can also lead to conflict.

I’m pretty sure the straw broke the camel’s back. And the left shoe dropped. Anyway, any movie worth seeing is best seen on an off night

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fusion260 t1_ja4oyom wrote

Worked at a theater for my first major job from 15.5-21. Teenagers were the worst.

They’d get into fights, harass other customers and run, talk loudly during the movies, walk in and out of theaters calling out for their friends, light up the theater with their phones and pagers (late 90s), turn on the cleaning lights in other theaters that were still playing movies as they left, pull fire alarms, steal shit, wreck the bathrooms by TPing stalls and flooding toilets, and theater hop all the time, air-kick cardboard displays/standees.

Regal wasn’t going to do anything about it in the late 90s/early 00s. I absolutely loathed seeing parents drop them off at the front of the theater and leave.

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