before i get to the avatar review, i need to tell you about what preceded the opening credits. melissa and i show up half an hour early, to find a pre-line of about 30 of folks waiting to get into the theater. we take our seats and watch as the seats fill up over the next half hour. craig is running late, so we decide to send melissa on a mission to secure his ticket, while i secure our seats. a few minutes after she leaves, 2 young women coming down the aisle have their eye on our seats. i head them off and let them know that these seats are spoken for. they back off, and return a few second later to let me know that i am not allowed to hold seats. i let them know that in fact, i am not "holding seats," and that my seat partners are simply in the restroom. they dont back down, and neither do i. i tell them that i have been sitting there for half an hour, and that insist that my sister just went to the restroom and my brother was at the concession stand. we get to the point where the girls are saying that they will move when "they" come and tell them to. i say fine (melissa and craig are walking up the stairs) "they" are right there, and they will tell them to get out of our seats. melissa engages, and things get heated. apparently they are waiting for someone else to tell them to leave. i suggest that melissa go find a manager. she goes and gets someone, the previews have started. the woman in the seat on my other side now engages and proceeds to let these young women know that she doesn't know me, and she doesn't know them, but that they should be ashamed of themselves, and that i am right because i have been sitting there next to her for half an hour, and that they are SOOOoo rude. gulp. the kid melissa brings back has a uniform, but no obvious authority, so the girls refuse to get out of the seats until the employee finds them two replacement seats together. he comes back and lets them know he found two other seats in the back, and escorts them to their new shitty seats. roll the opening credits.
