This may be one of the best lead-ups to a review I've ever read. On Dec 31 2009, 6:41 am, [email protected] wrote: > Went to see Avatar on Christmas with another couple. In the car, the girls > admitted neither one really wanted to see it. Who are these girls? So...we > settled on Sherlock Holmes. That's why we don't buy tickets in advance! So, > got to the theater. Packed! Everything sold out but Nine. Nine was beyond > terrible. A true stinker from the Kingdom of Malodoria. Made not seeing > Avatar worse than not seeing Avatar. It exists only to punish. > > The other dude and I pledged to return to see Avatar. It worked out that we > went tonight. Failed to buy tickets in advance, since Wednesday night and > who goes to the movies on Wed.? Apparently, the answer is everyone. Packed > again! Sold out in Imax, Sold out in 3D, sold out in standard (which we had > no intention of seeing). > > We decided to buy tickets for tomorrow in advance, but since the line was > huge we decided to use one of the machines. I like the machines anyway. > They work! > > This is Seattle, however, and they just got the telephone poles out here, so > despite the dominance of Microsoft, folks don't know how to use machines. > Only two people in line ahead of us, but they were, like, reading the > instructions and unsure if it was touchscreen technology and how to select > their movie or how to do anything really. They were looking at the movie > titles and using their Iphone to read reviews of the movie. With a line > behind them. Where were they raised? The world isn't your facebook. You > can't just block other people. > > So...without getting too Brooklyn on them, I made enough snorts and stamps to > let them know there was a world beyond the selection screen, one even more > finely and delicately rendered than the 3-D images of James Cameron's epic, > one real enough to touch and feel and shame you into make a fucking decision. > So, they chose and they left, and when I walked up to the machine...their > tickets came out. And they were for tonight. > > It seems they were, in fact, collecting their tickets after having bought > them in advance, they had never done it before, and they took the receipt and > not the tickets. So, by the time I pieced this together they were long gone, > and since the tickets were for a showing in two hours, they weren't in the > lobby being told they didn't have tickets. They were off at a juke joint or > a soda shoppe or connecting antennae in the parking garage. > > So...we sort of looked for them, but sort of took the tickets, grabbed a > five-dollar footlong, ate a five-dollar footlong and saw the movie on their > dime. I swear we looked for them, but you know, in Seattle everyone wears > black hoodies. So...Avatar...in 3-D....for freeeeee! > > It was pretty immersive and enjoyable. I liked the hell out of it. Thought > it was like John Carter meets Adam Strange and then some. It was pretty and > fun. Not as Ferngully as some of the haters have said. Maybe it could have > been sexier? Cameron doesn't do that, though. Unless you count the drawing > scene in Titanic or the headphones scene in Terminator. So, liked it, but > seeing it for freeeeee probably made me like it even more. It made up for > paying for Nine. Nine probably owes me two more movies.
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