Saw a Movie.

I had a nice weekend, hanging out with friends and going to see 'American Gangster'. At 2hr35min., it's not what I would call a fast-paced film, but it didn't seem overly long. What was slightly unusual though, were the people sitting behind our group. A grandmother, mother and daughter were right behind us, at the 10:15 show of an R-rated movie. The daughter was only 5 or 6 and was quite unhappy about the arrangement. She was crying and complaining that she wanted to go home and that she didn't like this 'show', but the mother (and I use that term loosely) told her to be quiet, close her eyes and go to sleep. The mother and grandmother then proceeded to talk quite audibly through the first two-thirds of the movie, before I'd had enough and got up and crouched at the seats behind us (they were sitting on the aisle), to ask them to kindly keep it down. "Loud??? We're not being loud!", she replied... loudly. Then in an odd bit of theatre, we had a five second stare-off, where I gave her my best stone face and didn't back down from my request. She turned away irritated and relayed my request to the grandmother, who being the classy lady that she is, started to curse, at which point I went back to my seat. You would think after all that, the talking might continue, but they quieted down after the grandmother had exhausted her rather extensive supply of curse words.