I went to see Watchmen yesterday.
I remember reading the graphic novel, and I sat down at the bookstore and read it again this past week.
I thought that the movie I was really good. I enjoyed it.
But the movie theater pissed me off.
Okay, so seven and a half bucks for a matinee. I can understand the price of admission there.
I got out my ATM card and...
There's no Bank Of America terminal there anymore. Now it's Fandango with a $3.00 fee.
Grrrrrrrr... I put the movie on the credit card. Let them get hit for the transaction fee.
Six ticket forms, one of which is the ticket, and the rest offers for Miniscule Popcorn and a tally of my worthless "points." I'm ripping up cardstock like a cokehead going through scratchoff tickets.
But thirteen bucks for the diet Coke and the popcorn? And half the popcorn at the bottom had black cores?
They'd also replaced all the static menuboards with a whole slew of HDTV displays with a bunch of semi-animated loops of their combo "deals" that surprisingly lacked prices.
The few boards with the prices were too small for me to read easily. And that's saying a lot, since I can read off projected hostnames from a service monitor display forty feet across a call center.
Oh. Hell. No.
This bullshit ends now.
The Mrs. decided a while back that the math didn't make sense for us to go to movies anymore... you got a better deal getting the DVD and enjoying it at home.
Still, there was "You gotta see it in the theater" movies, and it made sense all the way through Iron Man and Batman 2.2.
Those, we have on DVD. And they're great at home. And, with as many times as we've watched them, a bargain compared to the theater.
I was thinking of seeing Grand Torino this weekend, but I'm going to wait for the DVD.
Fuck the theater. You're circling the bowl and swimming as hard as you can for the drain.
Comments (2)
I've been avoiding the chain theaters for several years now. I'll go to one of the drafthouse/movie grill places if there's a flick I really want to see. Prices for food/booze are about what you'd pay at a TGI Chili-Gans, and with the 18+ age policy, there's no hordes of teenyboppers giggling throughout the movie.
Bit tough finding one on a Metro route, though... I suppose you could take the 131 to the new theater @ Town & Country, there should be a stop a couple of blocks away.
Posted by El Capitan | March 9, 2009 12:53 AM
Posted on March 9, 2009 00:53
Same here. Ten bucks (maybe 15) for a DVD which we can watch over and over or at least 15 bucks to hope the movie doesn't suck, OR no one has a cellphone they answer in the middle, OR no one brings their chatty kids, OR no one decides to scream out advise to the screen.
In other words... 15 bucks for a movie, 33 cents for each bullet I plug into the people who ruin it for me.
Posted by Houston | March 9, 2009 12:54 PM
Posted on March 9, 2009 12:54