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Human bean juice.
Mar. 9th, 2009 06:51 amSo yesterday we had tickets for the 3:30 IMAX showing of Watchmen. We'd pre-ordered them via Fandango, paid the four dollar service charge on top of the $12.50-a-pop tickets, then shelled out three bucks apiece for bottles of water.
Then we got into the theater and found that there were not two empty seats together anywhere, except in the very back left corner, and in the ten-feet-from-the-four-story-high-screen front row. We went to a manager to get our money back, except she'd only exchange our tickets for another showing. She also acted like we were being ridiculous for asking if we could bring our bottled water back in instead of paying another six dollars for five cents' worth of water, although she did say we could. So we wound up sitting around doing basically nothing for an hour and a half, then went back to the theater at 6 so we could damn well not have the same thing happen again. We sat in line and mecha read an issue of Rolling Stone and we talked about how Ray Kurzweil is insane. Eventually, three and a half hours of our afternoon more or less wasted, we sat down to see Watchmen.
Worth it.
I will admit total defeat. I hadn't thought it could be done, but you know what? They did it. They turned the Great Unfilmable Book into a wonderful movie. And now I want to see it again.
But instead, I'm goin' to work.
Then we got into the theater and found that there were not two empty seats together anywhere, except in the very back left corner, and in the ten-feet-from-the-four-story-high-screen front row. We went to a manager to get our money back, except she'd only exchange our tickets for another showing. She also acted like we were being ridiculous for asking if we could bring our bottled water back in instead of paying another six dollars for five cents' worth of water, although she did say we could. So we wound up sitting around doing basically nothing for an hour and a half, then went back to the theater at 6 so we could damn well not have the same thing happen again. We sat in line and mecha read an issue of Rolling Stone and we talked about how Ray Kurzweil is insane. Eventually, three and a half hours of our afternoon more or less wasted, we sat down to see Watchmen.
Worth it.
I will admit total defeat. I hadn't thought it could be done, but you know what? They did it. They turned the Great Unfilmable Book into a wonderful movie. And now I want to see it again.
But instead, I'm goin' to work.
