I went and saw Real Steel this past Friday with my mom. We went to see it in D-Box of course, as has been our monthly tradition (seeing D-Box movies that is). If you want to read my review CLICK HERE. It’s interesting how people don’t seem to grasp the idea of D-Box and feel as though they should be allowed to just take whatever seat they want in the theater still. They wouldn’t act that way at a concert, but in the theater it’s apparently totally fine.

Let me explain. When you go see a D-Box movie there are usually two, sometimes three rows of seats that are reserved for paying patrons. You pay an extra fee, get a primo seat, and your seat happens to move with the movie like you’re on your own personal Star Tours. It’s pretty awesome actually (sometimes anyway). When you buy your ticket they ask you what seats you want and those are YOUR SEATS. The seats don’t move unless they’re activated by paying for them. All the seats say RESERVED on them in big letters right on the head rest. That doesn’t seem to matter to a lot of people either.

While my mother was out getting snacks and I was just chilling, texting and such, a group of guys grabbed several d-box seats in the back. I instantly knew by how psyched they were that they were “open” that they had NO CLUE how it worked. Suddenly a group who just purchased those seats comes in and they need to get an employee to explain that these seats are reserved… it was awkward.

The same thing happens once more directly behind us as two guys are asked to move because they’re in the seats of a pair of older men. Right before the movie is about to start, a father and son sit down at the end of our row in two more of the d-box seats. Two young brothers, not much older than 10 ask the man if he has a ticket to sit there, not thinking that some one would just grab a seat, but rather that there just MIGHT BE a mix up. The man says “yeah I got these seats.” This guy was trying to punk two, pre-teenage boys out of the seats they paid TWICE what he paid for them. I had to actually get involved and say “HEY! These kids paid extra for these seats and you need to move!”

The guy looks at me, and his son tries to move down one into the seat next to me, and the father snaps at him telling him to move. The father and son happen to move to the seats directly in front of my mother and I and that’s when things went from awkward to disgusting.

I’m an affectionate guy. I hug my family, friends, give high fives all around and I’m generally just not at odds with being close to some one… but I would NEVER be comfortable acting the way these two acted during the movie… It was so touchy feely, so uncomfortable and the kid got so upset at one point by it that he got up and left the theater…

Yeah I honestly think I saw a child molester out on a date with his young, teenage boyfriend. How do you confront something like that? Before I even got the chance, they got up and left, almost before the credits were rolling. Was it to avoid confrontation with me because I had to yell at him earlier, did they just want to beat the rush out of the theater, or was it more? I don’t know.

This guy had his hands all over this kid during the movie, tickling him and pulling him close, putting the arm rest up and wrapping his arm around him… he couldn’t NOT be close. At one point the boy put his legs over the man’s lap and kind of cuddled with him there liket that. This just doesn’t seem like the kind of thing a father and son do.

 

Maybe I’m wrong, and believe me I hope I am, but I don’t know what to think, and it’s been bothering me for two days now.

 

Beyond that… if he is his son, they are just touchy feely in a way that’s weird to me, then fine. BUT he needs to teach his kid some fucking manners for when being in a theater. PUT YOUR FUCKING PHONES AWAY! Whatever you have to say, tweet or talk about can wait 90 minutes until the god damn movie is over. Don’t want to be disconnected? Then go home and wait for the movie to be on video. I’m sick and tired of people texting during movies. That shit is DISTRACTING.