Like so many others I like to go out to the movies on occasion. I really like the drive-in theater, but those are just about extinct. Certainly not one anywhere near where I live. So I’m limited to going to the standard indoor theater with teenagers making lots of noise and unknown substances sticking to my shoes. In this case, Dickinson Theatres[1].
In a rare moment of aligned schedules my wife and I decided to go to the movies and see Hancock[2]. The first shock came with the $7.50 ticket price, we were up to $15 before even getting inside. Oh well, move on to the concession stand. For me going to the movies without getting popcorn is just wrong, and popcorn necessitates a drink - so we spend another ten bucks on a bucket of cold soggy popcorn and a watered down drink.
Considering we were already seven minutes late, I expected the previews to be nearing completion and the “Feature Presentation” to be starting soon. No such luck, the previews had not even started yet. We were presented with about fifteen minutes of ScreenVision[3], which is basically a bunch of advertisements thinly veiled as some sort of entertaining preshow. Our tickets were for the 7:10pm showing of Hancock and it’s now about 7:30pm when the host of ScreenVision thanks us for watching (like we had a choice) and announces that we will now have a few words from our sponsors before the coming attractions and then the feature presentation. Continue reading ‘Malagent’s trip to the movie theater’
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