Movie Theatre Experience (WAS Sulking)

[Barb]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., CollectiveSIAS at a... wrote:
 
> I am lucky to live near a movie theatre that has a day care 
> service in it More should offer it 

Are you kidding?  I feel even more like I live in the third world 
since theatres here are constantly full of small children.  Where on 
earth are you?  Utopia?  I also felt like this when Chris Dickson 
talked about sending email from a public phone.  I'm not expecting 
to see that in Philadelphia any time soon.

My theatre experience yesterday wasn't too bad.  I was worried that 
I would be hungry since it's so long and lunch time would have come 
and gone by the time it was over, but none of the food at the 
concession particularly appealed to me except for chocolate-covered 
raisins (which are at least marginally healthy).  When the movie was 
over I was surprised to see that I still had most of the box of 
raisins; I was so wrapped up in the movie I forgot to eat most of 
the time!  (What I did eat I think was consumed during the trailers.)
The only problem with rude audience members was a person sitting two 
rows back who hadn't turned off his phone.  This wouldn't have been 
so bad if his phone didn't play the "Sailors' Hornpipe" when it 
rang.  Grrrrr.

Today was a nightmare as far as getting to the theatre.  The bus we 
were trying to catch is supposed to run every 30 mins and we waited 
45 mins for it, with no luck.  We were waiting in front of the Art 
Museum; we gave up and went around behind the museum, where there 
are always cabs, and we wound up paying $13 (including the tip) to 
be driven to the theatre where I'd bought the tickets online.  We 
were there quickly, at least, and only ten minutes later than we 
would have been had we caught the bus (if it had been on time).  If 
I hadn't already bought tickets for a specific show, we might have 
considered waiting longer for the bus or taking a different one, but 
we didn't want to risk forfeiting nonrefundable tickets.

The line for seating quickly stretched across the lobby and out the 
door.  They didn't leave much time for seating.  The movie time was 
12:30 and they didn't let us into the auditorium until then; it was 
already dark and they had started showing trailers.  I only had to 
leave once, to take my daughter to the bathroom during the Mirror of 
Erised sequence.  We literally ran as fast as we could, there and 
back, and all she missed was Ron looking in the mirror.  Still, I'm 
glad I saw it already so I KNEW that was what we missed.

I'm going to try not to give into temptation during the week and go 
see it again when I'm supposed to be doing homework or preparing for 
Thanksgiving.  We're seeing it again next Friday.  I'll just read 
reviews on the movie list to tide me over until then...

--Barb