Raven, thanks for the story and i, like Shag, call BS on the whole 'We looked for them' line, you may have looked to make sure they were long gone...
Carey, you said: "If I had been 12, this would have been the greatest movie I'd ever seen. Unfortunately, I have seen a few movies in the past 15 years so..." are you just 27? Am i actually a decade older than you...fuck, i feel old. On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Holly Elliott <[email protected]> wrote: > Ravenface is quite the entertaining writer. :-) > > Holly > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] > On Behalf Of Erika > Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 2:55 PM > To: The Unique Geek > Subject: [The Unique Geek] Re: An Avatar Tale (No Spoilers) > > 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. 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