Comments on: The Incredible Hulk

By: Alpha-Girl

Alpha-Girl — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:22:02 +0000

I will see it – eventually – but, probably not until after we’ve moved.

I do the same thing with drinks at the movies for the same reason! I won’t drink anything for hours ahead of time, and then in the movie, when I feel myself about to shrivel from dehydration, then and only then will I take a teeny sip of something. Usually John has the world’s largest soda.

By: TrinityVixen

TrinityVixen — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:39:56 +0000

Oh man, fun times at the theater or what? This is better than that time they almost kicked me out of a movie I’d paid for because I left my ticket stub back with my jacket when I got up to use the bathroom. I’m now so paranoid about not having it that I won’t even go to the movies without pockets, lest I have nowhere to put the ticket. (Not that it matters; frequently, I’m holding onto it just to make sure it’s there.)

But I join you in the rant about movie outings and rar-rar-rar we’re old! I have to, like, plan my day around seeing movies. I’m so far uptown from most theaters, that I need extra, extra time to get there for new movies so I get a decent seat. I spend as much time getting there and waiting on the line as I do in the theater. I can’t drink anything about three hours ahead of the movie because I’m not paying TWELVE FREAKING DOLLARS (I LOVE NEW YORK) for a movie and having to miss any of it to pee.

And yet? I love movies so much, I’m still going to see one just about every weekend in summer. My only success stories this far have been that I saw The Incredible Hulk for $1.50 and got great seats 20 minutes from show time for Get Smart.

(And if you’ve not SEEN The Incredible Hulk, how are you going to review it!? Or…are you?)

By: Teresa

Teresa — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:15:56 +0000

Oh my GOD!! I would’ve been SO annoyed.

SO annoyed.

By: Nancy

Nancy — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:05:21 +0000

I’ve done that myself. In fact I ended up seeing Midnight Run instead of whatever I went in to see because I went into the wrong theater.

I hated that movie…

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:55:05 +0000

Oh, poor Alpha-Girl. I’m sorry you had such a bad time.

I, too, have started to abhor the corporate theater experience. Even though I know they make almost nothing on the ticket sales themselves (because the profit goes to the studios), I still don’t like paying two or three times as much at the concession stand as I would picking up the same candy and drinks at the drugstore down the street. Plus, there’s all the people who, as Shepherd Book would say, are going to the Special Hell. Why in the world do they go to the movies and then talk through the whole darn thing? Or even worse, talk on their cell phones? Grr.

Huh. Apparently I’m not just a grammar nazi and a continuity geek, I’m also the etiquette police. Now get off my lawn.

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