Sadly, no- I'm considerably older than that (and I've got a few years on you, too). Just used 15 years as a random figure.
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Jason Service <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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