1. On the way to dinner, we drove past a store whose sign proclaimed them to be Caldera Spas.
Yes, I so want my hot-tubbing experience to be reminiscent of sitting in the cone of an active volcano.
2. Five years ago, I got so mad at my favorite Italian restaurant for removing the chicken parmigiana from their menu that I actually wrote them a letter of complaint. And then I moved out of state, and didn't go there again.
Today, we went there again. And the chicken parmigiana was back on the menu.
I feel like I made a difference! Not much of one. But hey, we must take our moments of empowerment where we find them, right?
3. Monsters Inc. is a very, very cool movie.
4. They showed us a preview for Episode II before it. Even though I suspect that Episode II will be on a par with Episode I quality-wise, this in no way stopped me from gaping at the trailer slackjawed and going "Oooooooooooh" like a fanboy. I don't care if it sucks. I'm going to see it. Ooooooooooooh.
5. I get the feeling that I'm really, really, really going to hate the movie 'Shallow Hal'. Even though it does star one of the members of Tenacious D, whom I love. Either that, or it will surprise me by not being a movie about fat-bashing. Guess we'll see.
6. They're rereleasing 'ET' onto the big screen this spring, with new footage and remastered this and digitally enhanced that. I got all excited. I remember going to see that movie when I was nine; my dad took me to see it. I even remember how my mother hadn't wanted him to take me to see it, because she thought it was a horror movie like Alien. I remember having a great time and loving the movie to pieces.
And then they mentioned that the rerelease was to celebrate the movie's twentieth anniversary.
FUCK, I'm old.
7. The movie theater was absolutely, totally deserted. The entire time we were there, I saw exactly one other person, the quiet guy who sold us our tickets at the concession stand. The brightly painted and neon-lit theater, meant to hold hundreds of people, held... three.
I walked down that huge, long, deserted green-and-purple hallway with the striped doors and the creepily echoing noises and the flickering neon light and thought to myself: my god, I'm in a survival horror game. I found myself checking the walls for fire extinguishers and axes and shotguns and stuff, so that I could take out the zombies when they lurched out.
No dice, though. If I had been set upon by zombies, I would have had to beat them to death with a child's booster seat. Plus I was there with my boyfriend, which means that he would have automatically been the hero and I would have been the girlfriend who gets tragically ripped to death in the opening act in order to inspire him to heroism. Just my luck!
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Hehe, yeah, empty movie theaters are quite creepy. I went during the day once, and there was only one other person in the place. They were playing 50s love songs too.
Well, then you can put up your feet if ya sitting at the back. ^^;
Posted by Quezzie @ 11/07/2001 03:00 AM EST
re: Point 6
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Shit, me too. You know, though, E.T. holds the title of "Only Movie to Make My Father Cry In Public." Not that he'd admit it. No.. we were passing him the napkins to... be polite, that's it. And he has no idea why they came back damp.
Posted by Wren @ 11/07/2001 06:48 AM EST
Yet another agreement on the zombie potential of empty movie theaters. When will people learn to design against the contingency of the omnipresent threat of the undead!
*looks at what he just wrote*
I've been awake for too bloody long. Good night, boys and girls, I'm going to sleep.
Posted by Nathan @ 11/07/2001 10:19 AM EST
I well remember taking Mooncalf to see ET when she was nine. I remember stopping at the popcorn counter to pick up some paper napkins just in case. I has to pass one to her when with great relief she sobbed, "he's alive." At this point any father would dissolve into tears to see his offspring so emotionally involved. I assure you, it is one of the great memories of watching Mooncalf grow up.
Posted by Father Moon @ 11/07/2001 11:40 AM EST
An empty movie theater? As in "no screaming children/rude teenagers/just plain noisy bastards making it impossible to enjoy a show" movie theater? Amazing! I didn't think such a thing was possible. :)
P.S. Any love I had for E.T. was thrown to the winds after I played that miserable Atari 2600 game!
Posted by Ghituslinger @ 11/07/2001 03:21 PM EST
I heard about the rE.T. (short for re-release of E.T.) some time ago and it never occured to me they'd have a trialer for that. Someone at work told me about it after they also saw Monsters Inc. I remember buying the video when it either first came out, or like, a re-release or something. It was a looonng time ago when I was a kid, but when the movie was theatrically released, I was but a wee infant, I think. So it was most likely a re-release.
Hey Moon, I am excited about Episode II!! I'll geek it up with ya! LOL!! And if you liked the short teaser trailer, a LONGER version is going to play with Harry Potter!! I just read the first book and am reading the second and I'm pretty hyped about it! I have not see nthe teaser because I have not seen Monsters Inc, but I'll see HP and see the extended trailer. ^_'
I have been to a couple of deserted movies, relatively anyway, before. Princess Mononoke had hardly any people in it when I saw it, and the cheapy theaters are usually pretty empty. I don't know why; they're pretty good theaters. They don't have stadium seating usually, which I know we are all probably used to by now, but so what? One time some friends and I saw a bad movie, Blank Check I think it was (I have no idea how we ended up seeing tha...), and because there were so few people there, we played MST 3K on the movie!! LOL!! Aah....memories.
Posted by Wolf @ 11/07/2001 07:53 PM EST
You never know, Moon. Boyfriend's death at the teeth of zombies may have spurred *you* to heroism. Give thoze brain-eating, blank-staring bastards one for me.
Posted by Duo Maxwell @ 11/08/2001 05:51 PM EST
