Movie Night

Okay, so now I work at a movie theater. I went to orientation on Sunday. I’m going to be working with people who are 10-15 years younger than I am… Which on the whole, is something I had not really thought about before orientation. They went through their schpeel about the whole place and the manager giving the tour was pretty cool. He’s very laid back and seems to drop the f-bomb like it was candy. Apparently “fuck” is his favorite noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, and all around word salt. However he manages to keep it from customers somehow.

The tour went over the concession stand which I’m not too thrilled about. You see, when I worked there 8-10 years ago we didn’t have to upsell anything to people. Now we have to suggest larger items. I understand the reasons behind it. For those that don’t know. Ticket sales basically go to pay for renting the film in which you are about to see. The money you spend on popcorn and soda goes to pay for people like me to serve you the popcorn and clean up after your sorry asses. Oh, and please pick up your shit. I mean come on… if you are going to sneak burger king into the theater, at least take the bag of garbage out with you on your way out.

So now I get to look forward to the opening of Star Wars, not to see the movie, but the mass of people leaving crap all over the floors for me to sweep up.

Speaking of movies… we went and saw a movie last night. HHGTTG. It wasn’t a half bad film. Now I’ve only gotten to chapter 22 of the book so far and some of the things in the book are different from the film. I like the way that Arthur and Ford get off Earth a little better in the book than in the film… the conversation between the foreman and Ford was great and the way he got him to lay down in front of the dozer was classic. However they didn’t play it that way for the film… which I guess is fine. The one thing that bothered me about the movie was the premise for them to go get a gun. This gun was a funny concept, however it was totally useless to bring in someone like John Malkovich to play such a stupid role. It seemed the only reason why they went to talk to Humma Kavula(to which you have to yell it when you say it, if you haven't seen the film... umm nevermind) was so that he could chop off Z’s second head and third arm, both of which were hidden most of the time anyway. They then found the gun for Humma Kavula and they just sort of ended the film before they went and gave it to him. I kinda wanted to see why Humma Kavula would want it.

Other than those two things I found the film to be quite funny. Willow got to play another “tiny” role… Alan Rickman as damned funny as the voice of Marvin. It was just pure nonsensical fun. I liked it… the sets were pretty good, although the Heart of Gold was not how I thought it would look. All in all a good film.

I used to have a scale that I’d use when I worked in the movie theater when I was a teen… I’d put this in the Matinee category.

I’ve since revised it a bit…

0) God’s Must be Crazy – Named for the worst film on the planet. It should be shown to inmates instead of putting them in solitary.

1) TBS when you’re bored – If you had nothing to do on a Tuesday Night and nothing else is on besides WWE.

2) Encore on a Friday Night – If you happen to be stuck at home and you want to watch something that will keep you interested

3) HBO – I’d “pay” to see this movie before it went to Encore

4) Cheap Theater – I’d pay to see this on the big screen, however I wouldn’t pay much

5) Dusk prices – They used to have dusk prices at theaters where if you saw the 6:00 show it was cheaper than the Matinee price

6) Matinee – I would go see this, but I wouldn’t pay full price for it. A pretty good film but not THAT good.

7) Full Price – In other words…”Worth the Price of Admission”

8) Opening day – I would stand in line for 2 hours while waiting to get into this film

9) Star Wars – Meaning the original Trilogy, before Lucas made Greedo shoot first, or what I mistakenly did for Episode I. That is I would stand in line for 6 hours waiting for this film to start. Or rather hope that Joe’s mom would take the day off of work and hold a spot in line for us and wait 12 or more hours for us. Then have us almost get in a fight with some geeks and have me put money down on Joe’s mom to take the geek down.

10) Fan boy – I would own every piece of movie memorabilia from this film. I already own the video game and the sound track from it and I quote lines from it on a daily basis. I have a pre-order for the DVD even though it just appeared on Amazon. If they had a convention I would probably attend.

So there’s my scale I will be using from now on. Hope you all enjoy some of my movie reviews. I’ll try and not spoil most of them for you… but then again, if it sucks as bad as “The gods must be crazy” I’ll tell you everything to make you avoid the film and hopefully prevent “The gods must be crazy II” version of the film from ever coming out.