Rated R for Retarded

So Spencer said he was going to blog about this, but I have yet to see it posted. So i will go ahead and do a post about it.

A few weeks ago I went to I Love You Man with a group of friends. It is a very good/funny movie, and I strongly recommend it. I'm even going to go far enough to say it is one of the funniest movies I've seen in a long time (which isn't saying much considering I haven't seen many funny movies in a while). But anyway, coming back to the story, one of the people in this group happened to be a 16 year old. We'll just call him..... Sam. And this is a R rated flick. So he just bought a ticket to another movie, then slipped in with us when it was time for us to go in. Well obviously someone noticed that Sam was with us, but had a ticket to a different movie. So they added the two up and came to the realization that he was planning on sneaking in....Genius!

So about a half hour into the movie, two people, one of which was a manager, came up to us and asked to see our ticket. The first four of us all showed her our tickets with no problem, but Sam had no ticket to this movie to show her. So he said that he threw his ticket away, but then she asked for his ID. She saw he was sixteen and he told her that his mom bought him a ticket, and she said that was impossible since she would have had to come in with him. Well as you can probably guess, this led to him getting kicked out, and they forced him to go to the movie that he bought a ticket to. Well Spencer would have none of this and promptly got up to go fetch him. To my surprise, in ten minutes I saw them both reappear, but this time Sam wearing a different shirt. Spencer sat in our section, and Sam went a few rows up from us to remain out of sight. Or so he thought. In about five minutes the same lady came back and made a beeline for him. I don't know how they saw him. I wouldn't have. But somehow psychic psycho lady knew and she escorted him out of the whole theater this time. Sam later texted us saying he was leaving because she had called the cops on him. THE COPS.

This pissed me, and didn't really make sense to me for a few reasons. The first was that while this lady was busy kicking out my sixteen year old friend, she was leaning over a six year old watching the same movie. This just doesn't make much sense to me. I mean this kid is hearing stuff WAY to inappropriate for him, but it's okay for him to watch? Yet Sam who understands all of this stuff and is not being harmed in any way by watching at, needs to be kicked out and have the cops called on him? What also pisses me off is... Why do they care? He's a few months away from being seventeen, so what danger does he cause this theater? Especially this one. I mean I can see some other theaters doing this, but for Wehrenberg to do it is just hypocritical. I mean for a theater who has employees and managers that do drugs while working, it's a little pathetic that they care that much and would go far enough to call the cops on him. So they can do very illegal acts while on the job, but can't turn the other way for a sixteen year old who is just slightly breaking the rules? Hmmmmmm.............