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Photo – Snowstorm UA Union Square

by Derek on January 23rd, 2005
Photo – Snowstorm UA Union Square

I don’t understand why weather.com had to change the layout of their front page. The first annoyance was when I got to the front page and suddenly all the temperatures were in Celsius! I couldn’t find how to change it to Fahrenheit, and after a while it finally changed back. Though now they don’t have the five day forecast on the front page. Now they have the current weather, tonight’s weather and the weather for tomorrow, what gives? I liked it before so that I could tell if it was going to be a nice or crappy week in terms of the weather. This freak snowstorm certainly wouldn’t have caught me by surprise like it did.

I woke up last morning and the weather was normal, later on it started snowing a bit. All I thought was “Oh it’s snowing, I didn’t realize it was going to snow today.” Later on in the day I realized it had reached full on blizzard mode and had stayed there for a very long time. By the time I got out of the movie I saw there must’ve been five or so inches on the ground. The snow also very efficiently ruined my evening plans which had already been pushed back a week and will not be pushed onto next weekend, grrrr.


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Children With Cancer Donation Can

by Derek on January 5th, 2005
Children With Cancer Donation Can

If I may be permitted an ironic statement, I think those cans at movie theaters for donations to fight children’s cancer are evil. Obviously it’s a good idea from their standpoint, because a lot of people would rather put in a few cents rather than be forced to admit they don’t want to pitch in to fight children’s cancer. I usually don’t because of how blatantly manipulative it is, plus if I were giving at that moment it wouldn’t be for the right reasons.

Though you gotta think they really have to be making a lot of money off of guys trying to make a good impression when they’re on a date with girl they really like. I was talking about this to a friend when we were at the movies, and I had a corollary to that situation. I said that if I chose not to donate and the girl didn’t disapprove for the reasons I just discussed, that would be a very good sign that it could be a person I’d be interested in. Will the irony never end?


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Are Under $10 Movie Tickets Legal?

by Derek on December 31st, 2004
Are Under $10 Movie Tickets Legal?

Why am I only learning about this now? I got off work ridiculously early today so a friend and myself decided to go to see “The Incredibles” which she hadn’t seen yet and I was seeing for the second time. We went to the Loews on 34th street whose general admission is $8.99??? I say again, why am I only learning about this now? I remember Loews being the bastard theater that was raising its prices to $10.50 oh so many years ago. How is this one theater operating in this strange blackhole? Is that portion of the block legally another state or something?

Well, in our craziness after we got out of “The Incredibles” we decided to go see “Ocean’s 12″ right afterwards. It was good and fun, but I definitely like the first one better. The first one had its share of twists and turns but I think the editing and structure of this one made it less exciting in a number of ways. There were some very choice moments that were really funny. It would’ve been perfect if not for the two old ladies behind us HAVING A CONVERSATION DURING THE MOVIE!! What the hell?? I hate it when old people comment on the movie as it’s happening. Brad Pitt shows up on screen one says “Is that Brad Pitt?” Geez. Why go to a movie to talk to a friend of yours? People really suck sometimes.


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The 20 Part 2

by Derek on September 3rd, 2004
The 20 Part 2

I want to meet the narrator of “THE 20!!!” I wonder if he rolls his eyes when he hears himself saying that stuff in the theater. Though any eye rolling is probably offset by the fact he made thousands of dollars from just what one session. Those guys make a killing.

There must’ve been nothing very interesting about that concert if they need to tout it as “never-before-seen.”


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Movie Theater Fahrenheit 911 Line

by Derek on June 28th, 2004
Movie Theater Fahrenheit 911 Line

Not too much to say about this one, just that it really happened. I was at the AMC Empire theater in Times Square and the line ended up being hugely long. Thank god for the fools who go to the movies and sit in the way back. I was able to get the seats that I usually get close to the front. My favorite is when there are two sections of seats, and the front row of the back section usually has a railing you can put your feet on.


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What Else Do You Use 14 Screens For?

by Derek on June 11th, 2004
What Else Do You Use 14 Screens For?

It’s pretty absurd when you go to a movie theater with 14 screens and they’re only playing four or five movies. Though at the same time, I guess it’s a good thing when you live in a big city like New York because otherwise you wouldn’t have the showtimes that are only half an hour apart from each other. When I lived in the suburbs though, I remember the first time I saw that a movie was playing on multiple screens within the same theater. Of course then that brings up the issue of “which one is the big screen?” There used to be a theater in Boston I’d go to and sometimes movies would be in the big screen and other would be on the crap screen.

I imagine this would create even more problems for people who work at movie theaters because then you get people like me asking which showtime is the biggest screen. This isn’t usually such an issue at the theaters I go to since I like to go early on in the movie’s release. So unless it’s a movie like Shaolin Soccer, the chances are good that the screen is going to be big.

One thing that irks me though is that at the Regal Entertainment theater (to this day I still refer to the theater as the UA theater) their digital projection screen is one of their smaller ones. To a certain degree this makes sense since it’s not often movies come out with digital projection, but on the other hand you’re getting a better screening format but not showing it off. That’s why I go to the AMC theater in Times Square for digital projection.


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Troy

by Derek on May 17th, 2004
Troy

You can’t make this stuff up. This is one of my favorite movie stories. Troy is a movie I regret seeing myself to a certain degree in that it was so bad. But it wasn’t bad enough to be entirely beyond redemption. Rather, it was that perfect kind of bad that just opens it to heckling while you’re with a bunch of friends at a party. I would laugh and chuckle here and there because some of the dialogue is just ridiculous, especially when said by Orlando Bloom.

But nothing, NOTHING will top the audience reaction for when the Trojans come out of the Trojan horse. No joke, at least a few people around me made audible reactions of surprise when they saw this. And I thought I grew up in a hole.


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Women’s Restroom at a Movie Theater

by Derek on March 22nd, 2004
Women’s Restroom at a Movie Theater

I was at a movie theater waiting for a friend who was using the bathroom, then I looked over at how many other guys there were waiting for either girlfriends or female friends to come out. I started laughing. I think my favorite part of this strip are the guys holding purses.


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The 20

by Derek on March 10th, 2004
The 20

I hate “The 20!!!” which plays at the Regal theaters because it touts itself as something that people might actually want to see. The especially dumb thing is that there are commercial breaks for it when clearly the entire thing is just advertising. It’s also dumb that they tell us what’s coming up next because usually when you say that you’re watching something on TV and they want to hold your attention so you don’t change the channel. But clearly the audience for this is in a theater they’re not going to be leaving anytime soon. The final insult is how they say that if you missed any of it you should come to the theater earlier. I really really hope that there isn’t anyone out there who comes to the movie theater early so they can watch “The 20.”


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The Passion of the Christ

by Derek on February 27th, 2004
The Passion of the Christ

I went to see “The Passion of the Christ” and there was someone behind me whispering this. They actually thought that maybe the movie would be partially subtitled. If you’re a real movie buff you know that when a trailer shows no speech except a person laughing or screaming that the movie is in a foreign language. But I have to pull myself out sometimes to realize that not everyone understands that or reads up on movies to the degree that they know everything about it before they see it.

For a number of reasons I really didn’t like “The Passion of the Christ.” Firstly I’m not religious in the slightest so it did nothing for me on that level. From a pure storytelling point of view I didn’t care because I was in no way made to care for Christ as a character except for the natural feeling of sympathy you get when someone good is beaten to a bloody pulp. Plus the shot of his resurrection which seems to unintentionally set it up for a sequel entitled “The Revenge of the Christ.”


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