Ok, so I go to California for a business trip a few weeks ago. I had to go a day early because if I booked the flight the day of the meeting I would've been an hour late. So I book my flight, the cheapest one of the day (by a few hundred dollars mind you), and it lands 8:30 am Pacific Time. Well, I get to California, and I realize I have a complete day I need to burn through---somehow, I don't think the local Holiday Inn that I'm staying in will suffice!
After a long fight with my ego, I decide I have absolutely nothing to do and no one to see. I decided to do what I vowed never to do....yep, I went to a movie, in the theatres.....alone!
Turns out, going to the movie alone situation wasn't near as bad as I had once thought; however, there were plenty of things I noticed and not particularly fond of about going to the movies.....and people in general. I'll share a few:
First off. Here I am sitting in the theatre waiting for the movie to start. I'm watching the static screen advertisements scroll by, thinking about how hokey the advertisements really are, then reading the "fun facts" about "X actor/acctess", listening the to the idiots in the audience try to answer them! When finally, the lights dim, and the trailers start. Why do people generally like the trailers? I suppose it's because the movie might end up being crap, but the trailers at the beginning are always exciting.
Anyway, here I am getting myself ready to watch the trailers, and...what....? More commercials? Aren't we already saturated on a daily basis by a plethora of commercials? We can't even watch streaming video on websites, without watching commercials. We have advertisements lining the borders of every webpage, we have browsers underlining every "keyword" with a link,and now our movies are infected; technically, isn't that what a trailer is anyway....when's it gonna stop!?!? Well, it's not going to stop...no not until they can somehow figure out how to transmit advertisements in our dreams! Who are "they" anyway, well, you don't wanna know!
Back to the topic at hand. I come across a
vile advertisement, it never fails to get a couple of chuckles...but I for one have a problem with it. The commercial, I am confident most of you have seen, includes a mother giving the phone to her little boy while in bed so that Daddy can say goodnight...or something like that....then Martin Scorsese comes in and interrupts the 'scene', starts telling everyone how they need to act and feel, all the while everyone is looking clueless with that ever so present "what the hell is this old guy doing in my house" look, that one comes across rarely on a day to day basis.
Awkward music chimes in and in simple white text is says: "We won't interrupt your phone calls.”
Followed by: “Please don't interrupt our movies.” Ahahahaha, isn't it so funny...shutup!
Well excuse me Mr. Scorsese, who the eff do you think you are? I hate to be the one to break it to you, but, last I checked, I am paying to watch your movies. I'll tell you what, when you decide to start paying for my cell phone bill, you can then start interrupting my calls.
And you, yes you AT&T. Did you finally start feeling bad about the enormous epidemic you've thrown onto this nation, this world? Where everyone has a cell phone and you can't get anything done without it. Where it is impossible to get through a movie without someone's cell phone going off (worse yet, someone answering it). Even if they don't answer it, they end up opening the retina blinding screen so they can text their BFF Jill where they're at; Yippee, now you can count on text central going on every two minutes for the remainder of the movie. If it isn't the inevitable brain tumours we will all acquire, it is definitely an overwhelming feeling of claustrophobia, a world of instant access and 100% accountability of your whereabouts...but that's another rant!
The lost slide.
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