For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for August 21, 2011

Aah- Saturday matinees. Cartoons, serials, and features plus candy and popcorn for a buck or so, and tons of fun with the “guys”! (Okay, that was a few years ago.)

I would have joined in on their fun. Never grow old john abrams. Never grow old.

Any Disney pic makes me do this. So does Rocky Horror, but that’s on the other end of my reality.

@Aaron, it depends on the movie and how much I paid for it. At today’s ticket prices, I want a decent movie experience even if it is a kids movie. But if it’s at the dollar theater, okay fine, have fun. If they want to go wild, then stay at home.

These kids better not act that way at a film I’m watching!

Susan, I haven’t seen an usher at a movie theater in about 40 years (or more). At the very most someone complains to the manager who then speaks to the kids, but at a matinee like this, all of the kids were acting out, so who’s going to complain?

Please people. Bluskies is right. This is a kid’s matinee – do you see any geezers in the audience. In my day, pop corn came in a box you could flatten and sail across the theater. Of course, there was the time someone (one of the older guys) tossed a cherry bomb on the stage and kinda scorched the curtain. . . .

Michael’s comment reminds me more of a couple of dates I had at the old drive-in movie.

Goodrich Quality 16, in Ann Arbor, used to show a free kid movie on selected Saturday mornings (they may still), and it was pretty much like the mayhem depicted. The kids had a great time.

Some discipline is definitely in order here!

A lot of movies I’ve seen recently would be more tolerable with Tom Servo and Crow T riffing on them with me.

Boy you hit it right on the head. I haven;t been to a movie house in 20 years or so, Sound too loud, rude people. Wait till it comes on video.

Crazy kids….I’ve seen children more mature than that.

My mom could remember going to Saturday matinees in Glasgow more than 50 years ago and she said that half the time you couldn’t even hear the movie, for all the kids were screaming and yelling and fighting and carrying on. This was considered normal!! The first time she saw a children’t movie in Canada (circa 1979) she couldn’t believe that she saw everyone just sitting quietly watching the screen!! Michael’s pretty tame by comparison!!

I agree- drivein movies are where you don’t remember what it was, and I go to many kid’s movies now with my younger grand kids because I’m a toon freak and US does not do adult movies that I want to see.