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Let me tell ya a little story

Posted by Troy (A) on January 7, 2004 at 08:36:06

In Reply to: Film Forum? Hell, posted by tinear on January 7, 2004 at 07:04:31:

My wife and I used to go to the movies once a week, maybe more.

A couple of years ago, we went to go see the first Harry Potter movie. It was friday and she got off work a little early so we were able to catch the 4:30 discount show. It was a cold mid-December day and the hall was virtually empty, maybe 6 people total. We plopped down right in the sweet spot commenting that it would be nice if they turned the heaters on at least.

We sat through this far too long and not terribly interesting childrens film. My wife never got warm even with my arm around her and her coat draped over her. As we stood to leave, a grimace crossed her face. She touched the back of her right thigh . . . "what's this? . . . it's wet?" She turned around and I saw that the right thigh of her jeans was shiny. No wonder she never got warm. After touching it, she smelled her fingers to see if it was Coke or coffee or what. To her horror, it was pee. From her hip to her knee, it was soaked through. She sat in it for 3 hours . . .

Some kid had peed on the seat during the afternoon matinee. 3 hour movie, exciting and scary (for a little kid) climax combined with those 55 Gallon sodas they sell, it's inevitable stuff like this happens.

Well, in the 25+ years I've known her, I've never seen her more pissed off than when we were driving home with her pants around her ankles. She was just insane with outrage. She can laugh about it now (sorta) but she vented her spleen at the corporate offices of the theater chain (Century) the next day and received about $60 worth of free passes.

This episode (and a flurry of cell phone jabberers and blown speakers, broken seats and farters at about the same time) gave us the impetous to buy a big screen HD HT system. We still go to the movies, but it's much less often now.

I have every intention of seeing those 2 movies, but will watch them from the warm and dry sofa at home.

Saw "Confidence" last night. Highly entertaining quadruple-cross grifter movie. Colorfully shot and directed by James Foley (GlennGarry, At Close Range) and populated by entertaining overactors (Dustin Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Rachel Weisz, Ed Burns, Andy Garcia) spouting hardboiled dialoge. A very entertaining 2003 film.

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