good, i was starting to think i am getting too old for this crowd!!! On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Cary Preston <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. Nine probably owes me two more movies. > >> > >> -- > >> > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > >> "The Unique Geek" group. > >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> [email protected]<theuniquegeek%[email protected]> > . > >> For more options, visit this group at > >> http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > >> "The Unique Geek" group. > >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> [email protected]<theuniquegeek%[email protected]> > . > >> For more options, visit this group at > >> http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. > >> > >> > > > > -- > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "The Unique Geek" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<theuniquegeek%[email protected]> > . > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Unique Geek" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<theuniquegeek%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. 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