Is EVERYBODY wrong in the post ? POST : First of all the title could condemn me already (shout out to my pun lovers) but to give context back in December I was on vacation, visiting my wife for exodus after being away for a few months at NAS Pensacola. 

We had pre bought tickets and reserved seats that morning for a 4pm showing of the new aquaman movie. We had no hiccups getting there, getting our tickets, snacks, and our reserved seats. The real issue should up with the people who reserved the seats next to ours, specifically a father and son. 

The movie starts playing and about 10 minutes in the son, who is sitting adjacent to my right starts opening a extra large bar of Hershey cookies and creme. Which wasnt too loud and obviously no problem. The issue was the kid starts smacking his lips like no other, I mean nauseatingly obnoxiously loud. After about 5 minutes of self deliberation on how much I actually cared to focus on the movie I decided I paid for my ticket and it would be fair I get to enjoy it so I turned to the kid(looks between the age of like 16-17) and me being 22 didn't personally find it that strange to make a statement to him; and I said "Hey brother would you mind not chewing with your mouth open I'm having a hard time focusing on the movie." The kid says sure and sorry, I didnt want him to think I was trying to be rude and said "ya not trying to be rude, I really appreciate it."

I turn to continue the movie, kinda glad that went so smoothly until about 30 seconds after that little conversation the kids father stretches over his son and says to me, "dont tell my son what to do, he has braces and it's not his fault". I comment back something of the sort like I wasnt trying to be rude but hes really making it hard to enjoy the movie and the guy insists on saying it's not his sons fault and I shouldnt have said anything to his kid and if I had I problem to take it up with him. I think that's so dumb though. His kid was apparently 14 and cant handle a simple keep it down request at the movies? The kid seems visibly uneasy and asked his dad to let it go and at this point i give up on this arguement anyway because the boy stopped chewing loud, problem solved and I wanna watch the movie. Although it did irritate me that I had to have an arguement with this guy over what I thought was his sons lack of manners.

Fast forward to the end of the movie, I had been stewing on this guys reaction but being nonconfrontational as I am I didnt care to carry on his BS so I waited until his whole family got up and started to walk from their chairs, at that moment I figured I would start getting the leg rest down and my stuff together. As I'm doing this, mind you still sitting, the father comes up to me and restates close to word for word what he had earlier, "dont talk to my kid, he has braces and he cant help that." I said back, "I think it's pretty fair I ask him not to chew so loudly, how was i suppose to know he had braces and i dont understand how that stops someone from chewing quietly. I asked your son very kindly if he would stop and he said sure and it was done, I wasnt rude and the fact you wanna come up to me after the movie after you've ushered your family away to make a scene of this is ridiculous." He again restates what he has said and then suggests that we take this outside and this really astonished me that this man decides he wants to fight me in the parking lot over this. I decline, I say I'm in the air force and was raised and taught not to be about that kind of crap. 

I did however say something of the sorts(cant remember cus I was kinda frustrated at this) that he can fuck right off and get out of my face, pointed to the door and said to get the fuck away from me. At this point my voice was raised and my wife was really just begging me to stop. He insisted on arguing but I just kept saying leave me the f alone, I dont care fuck off old man as he would try to keep arguing but with my wife being uneasy I really just wanted him to go away. So each time head try to speak with me I'd just loudly say to get the hell out of my face and leave.

He eventually left but not without saying the same damn thing he had said like 10 times as he walked out the door and into the lobby presumably out til the lot idk I didnt see him after that, I left the theater pretty quick myself.

So am AITA? My wife believes we both were being assholes but does thinking the father started it and there wasnt anything wrong with me asking the kid to not chew loud. But I thinking if this guy wouldn't leave me alone when I tried to drop it, yelling at him to leave was the best and least assholish thing I could do, rather than fight him.


So tl;dr: I made a 40 something man mad at the movies cus I politely asked his son to not chew so loud. AITA for going off/blowing up on said father after he decides to egg me on, get in my face, threaten me and repeating himself?