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Showing posts with label Theater. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Theater. Show all posts

Saturday, August 11, 2018

Input & Aspirin...


This article is about research into the use of daily, low-dose aspirin to aid in preventing the spread of HIV.  I don't understand all the in's & out's.  It concerns inflammation & aspirin's ability to lower that condition.  Interesting read.

We saw Christopher Robin yesterday & it was great.  I'm glad we were able to see this is in the theater.  If we'd listened to the critics, we may not  have.   I use the word, critic, loosely.  These weren't people providing proper critical analysis of a piece.  No, they were mostly whiny, self-aggrandizing, narrow-minded brats.  That assessment of them is me being kind.  The reviews were awful.  I hate Yelp & other similar services.  It made these people's already gargantuan sense of self worth grow to a planetary size.  Their ego's & conceit know no bounds.

We waited & saw people, everyday folk, not alleged critics, were loving the movie.  I'm glad we ignored them.  The point is, even though others' input can be nice or even helpful, the decision is yours & you have to accept the consequences.  This movie was wonderful.  We had a good outing.  If we'd listened, we wouldn't have went.  That would've been because we placed stock in the word of strangers & their soap-box, fist-waving, ideology based blasting of a film.  

Your choices are yours.  Make sure you're making them for you.

Cya...

Sunday, May 29, 2011

Irritation...




My roomie & me decided to go see the movie Thor today.  We had read the reviews & opted not to see it in 3D.  It'd been a few months since I had been to a theater.  We wanted to get out of the house & just have a fun day.  Going to a movie sounded like a reasonably good idea.

Oh what little we knew.  In February when I went by myself, I paid $8 for the non-matinee ticket & $4 for my drink.  I thought $12 was expensive, but it had been a while since we had gone out anywhere, so what the hell?  Right? Hah!  Let's take a look at those prices, shall we?




Two matinee tickets came to:   $12



Theater special for two large drinks & popcorn cost:  $18




Gas over to the theater in Fort Smith, AR cost:  $10

That comes to a total of:


Now, if I had gotten candy at the theater for the both of us, it would've tacked on $10 more.  That would've been a total of $50.   I would've been another $6 if the movie had been in 3D. I pay around $19 a month for Netflix & can see all the movies the mail can get or that I watch on streaming.  

It's hard to enjoy a movie when you feel like you just got gouged.  There is no movie out there worth paying $20 + to see.  I realize that the gas cost isn't the theater's fault, but still we all have to pay gas to get to theater, so I think it should be taken into consideration.  

Oh well, Thor was an OK movie & this was a lesson learned.  A sad lesson, I used to love going to the theater, but I can't afford to pay that much to see a movie.  Good-bye theater, it was nice knowing you.  Now it's just Netflix & me.




Hope you had a good holiday weekend.