I went to see Lord of the rings recently. The movie kicked ass, but everything up till that point was complete bullshit. Lets break my experience down:
Download win98 FullArriving there was fine, not much to worry about but parking and what side of the damn theatre to park on so that I won't have to walk a long way. On that note, what is really annoying is when they have several showings of the same movie, but they put them scattered around the theatre, so their's no true, determined side. Its pure luck, and more time I have to deal with stupid people who don't know how to walk fast and in tighter groups.
Getting the ticket was OK ... if you bought it like I did online.
One of the worst parts of the whole expirience was actually waiting in line for the theatre to be cleaned for our arrival. In our neat little lines, penned in by those weird seatbelt/post gettogethers, we stood around, nothing to do but nervously talk about 'safe' discussions. Or, if you were alone like I felt, nothing to do but try and lose yourself in some music from your ipod or cd player, or try and stare down the freaky little rugrat that stared up at you, half its left hand stuffed into its drooling little mouth. Or worse yet, managing to get into a conversation with a complete stranger who's obviously had one-too-many drinks for the night and manage to make bodily contact. Time couldn't have moved slower, and worse yet, if you weren't there early, you'd never get any good seats, so you HAD to wait around in the pen-like situation, scowling away people's urgent desire to make light conversation. I hated it with so much passion I think it radiated off me.
Finally, I was in the theatre, I managed to get one of the seats that are alone, next to the area where gymps sit. This time around I don't have to worry about accidentally letting your leg touch another's, or having someone in front who cares that you put you're legs up on the top of their chair. It should have been OK, but the shit that was playing on the screen ruined everything. Advertizments. Advertizements or little "did you know?" facts that I could care less for. "It took two hours to put on the makeup for the cat in the hat!" "500 gallons of paint were used in painting the houses of a street in the Cat in the Hat!" "it took Michael Meyers 3 hours to take a shit and wipe his ass in the stupid suit he agreed to wear" WHO FUCKING CARES!? oh ... theres that fat woman who laughs at every little thing that pops up on the screen, or the little kids who actually liked the piece-of-shit movie. There's always people like that. Easily amused, cheap-thrillers who have half an education and some weird idea that people actually care about what cheapass little facts they know. Its people like this who make such stupid things for the movie theatre. Its people like that who think of the idea to "Hey! Lets make a shitty movie based off a children's book with our loads of money, over-advertize it when its not making half as much as it took to make the movie, and pay-off reviewers to put in a good word on it!"
I saw a poster for the upcoming "Garfield" movie. Have they no shame or creativity?! Can't they make a movie about something cool like a kickass alien who kills off an entire crew with acidic blood?! NO! They have to resort to CHILDRENS BOOKS to make their obscene amounts of money! The Grinch was crap. I saw about 1/4 of that before shutting the TV off and going to play a good computer game like Carmageddon to get my mind off of the stupid shit. I'm sick and tired of movie makers ruining everything that I held dear in my childhood; the Grinch, The Cat-In-The-Hat, Garfield ... all I can hope for is Calvin & Hobbes to stay pure at this point in time. Garfield... GARFIELD?! How the fuck are you supposed to make an interesting movie about a cat who sleeps, eats, kicks his owner's dog, and makes fun of his owner? Where the fuck is the plot development? Oh thats right, this is just going to be some stupid movie to entice and trick the masses to come see. Whats worse, is that even though I try and get away from the shit so my memories stay clean and crisp, they always have to shove it right back into my face in the form of "did you know" pre-movie slides. They slaughtered the Grinch, I'm sure they slaughtered the cat-in-the-hat, and I'll bet they're going to slaughter garfield, oh and the're making a movie on 'The Polar Express...' Torture.