Let me just say this: I love the movies. Seriously.
Here’s why:
- Anything is possible, “You will believe a man can fly!” And we did.
- Sharing the whole big-screen experience with a room full of strangers rocks – most of the time.
- Popcorn rules! Period.
However, this isn’t The Book of Awesome, so let’s get to the terrible things that surround the summer movie experience, shall we?
- The lines… that… never… end! Lines for tickets, concessions, lines for everything it seems!
- Crazy concession prices. Yes, they’re the same all-year round, but when you seem to spend extra cash in the summer $50 for food really hurts!
- Chatty Cathys! Sure, I know you’re filled with summertime energy, but just shut it for two hours, okay? You want to yak your head off? Do it back at the hospital, you nut jobs!
- That one fat guy who eats like Godzilla devouring Tokyo!
- Crazed, giggly teen girls! They’re a subsection of the Chatty Cathys and a truly annoying one at that!
And you know what else really sucks about the movies these days? The near-extinction of the old time movie house. I miss the character surrounding these places, don’t you?
Multiplexes just can’t compete….
But I’m showing my age, so its time to go. Until we meet again, try to stay cool okay?
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I hate to tell you… I really don’t know what you are talking about in this post!!! My mother dragged me last summer to the theatre to see I think it was the last Harry Potter, and I spent the whole movie crying from the 3D glasses. Well, my eyes watered so badly that it looked like I was weeping.
And before that??? I cannot even remember the last movie I saw. Never been a big movie or concert go-er!!! I prefer to watch them at home and make a huge movie night out of it in jammies and big fuzzy slippers and oodles of pillows. Surprisingly, the men in my life when I do this, really enjoy it!!!!
I imagine they do…
Thanks for the input, Woman!
That is why we watch most movies from the comfort of our sofa!
Please pass the popcorn Hook!
Consider it passed, Susie!
>I miss the character surrounding these places, don’t you?
- Totally!
>Multiplexes just can’t compete….
- Word.
Slick and shiny, but no soul.
>But I’m showing my age,
- AKA sharing your experience.
And here are two of my Daily Five (Laughs per Day)
>Do it back at the hospital, you nut jobs!
- The hospital? Why the hospital? The poor, strung out hospital staff get out there to temporarily escape the mayhem on the inside.
>That one fat guy who eats like Godzilla devouring Tokyo!
- You said the eff word, Hook!
Toodle pip!
Kate
A pleasure as always, Kate… Thanks!
As funny as ever… (i’m in no mood to respond properly, but wanted to let you know I was here and enjoyed as per usual!!) Happy summer spending, or not.
Thanks, Jennifer!
Chatty Cathy’s – brilliant!
I have flashes of brilliance.. at times!
That’s why I usually wait to see a movie until a few weeks after, and I see it in the middle of the day. Less crowd problems. Can’t avoid the concession problem, though. Alas.
Concession prices are nuts! The attendants should wear masks!
And why the outrageous surcharge for 3D movies when you don’t even get to keep the glasses (why would you?).?
I forgot the 3D prices.. Thanks!
Concession prices are totally outrageous. When we go to the movies we eat before we go. AND we normally shove a couple of bottles of water in my wife’s purse on the off-chance that we get thirsty.
Brilliant!
It has gotten ridiculous that the concession stand costs more than the movie tickets. I’m going back to smuggling my food in. My friend teased me once because I brought a tuna fish sandwich. Ha! She ended up eating half of it.
Hilarious!
Oh God how true this one is! Every time I take my son out to the movies I’m looking at at least 50 bucks and the hope that those few creeps with the cellphones won’t be texting during the movie. And ohhh yesss – how I do miss the old theatres with there distinct character. Now those were the days ….
They sure were! Thanks for mentioning cellphones… Another one I missed!
Love this piece. I too am a movie and theater lover. I love and miss the little movie theater houses that used to exist before MEGA PLEXES became [not only cool, but] the norm.
The personal customer-relationship/hospitality-thing is sorely missed by me most.
The Chatty Cathy’s still exist, but the popcorn is over processed, (repopped or something). lol!
I still go.
Until I build my own small movie house, with the Engineer projector tech that lives in the upper room of the theater who is hands-on-responsible for running the reeled shows smoothly, conveying that small town feel — I won’t complain about the commercial houses that facilitate a place for me to watch the current block busters.
Thank you so much for sharing the topic and the priceless pics.
I’m still HOOK’ed.
I feel the same… About you!