I have a feeling I just watched a brilliant, powerful movie. I'd know that for sure if I could've understood the dialog.
Just one of those movies where the sfx are loud but the dialog is buried.
FUCK!!!!!!!
FUCK MUTHERFUCKING FUCK!!!!
WHEN are they gonna give me some kind of closed caption option in the theaters. It doesn't have to be on the screen. Gimme special glasses or something. Put the captions up on the back wall in reverse and gimme a mirror I can hook to the chair in front of me.
I missed over half the dialog. That's not a complete experience. I've been blue-balled by that mutherfucking theater and my fucking hearing.
You know what it was? They show it on two screens with alternating times. A big screen w/ good sound, and a shitty little one down the hall. We got the shitty one.
I'm gonna have to go back and catch it again in the bigger one. Or, even worse, wait six months for the DVD so I can get my fucking captions.
Fuckers. Once again I feel like a cripple in the parking lot looking at a restaurant with no ramp. The fuck am I supposed to do? Not go to movies anymore?
Anyway, you can read the reviews and go see it and it's great. I'll get the full effect later.
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Well, that totally sucks! Sorry you had such a bad time. I rarely go to see films in theatres because it's too loud and the seats are hell, but I was going to try this one because I love Christian Bale. It never occurred to me that your tinnitus would mess with that kind of stuff. Total drag!
Thanks. Yeah, my seat was broken too. And the right arm rest felt greasy.
The movie going experience really hasn't improved, ever. It used to be grand theaters, like opera houses, and they'd show one movie and it was spectacular. Ever since the advent of the multiplex, it's been downhill from there.
People are barely going now.
The popcorn was very good, but I don't even wanna think about how expensive it was. Or what's actually in the "butter-flavored topping".
Ick, I never liked that butter-flavored ooze on the popcorn. I noticed at one of the multiplexes I've gone to in the past still had the popcorn machine - but they filled it from large bags, they didn't pop it in house. Last time I went, I ordered a hot pretzel, and they didn't take it from the tasty looking display, they grabbed one out of the freezer and nuked it. I wanted to fling it back at the bored gum-popper who was doing it, but figger it wasn't her fault she was brought up in a plastic, disposable world. She has no idea these things she's doing are mere representations of how things used to be done.
Heh, I'm getting old, aren't I? "In my day..."
Well, in my day we had a beautiful, old theater, that was so much of a theater it was a THEATRE. The Tivoli. I saw the first Star Wars there, Raiders of the Lost Ark, I remember crying at the end of E.T. there.
Multiplexes suck. The experience doesn't get any better and they just keep charging more and more for everything.
On the other hand, http://www.multiplexcomic.com just keeps getting better.
Sorry, I forget how to put a link in the comments.
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