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i love movies
I love to go to movies at the movie theater. As far as I’m concerned, being absorbed in a movie is the perfect way to spend an afternoon or evening. Hubby and I do this as often as we can. We’ve become old and settled in our relationship I guess ~ either that or we’re both cheap dates!
Finding a movie we’re willing to see, much less want to see has become a major challenge over the past 15 years or so. It’s very difficult to find a movie that does not contain some sort of offensive material these days (by offensive I mean sex, drugs, violence, language ~ that sort of thing). Hubby and I are very picky about which movies we see.
Yesterday we went to see Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. When the original Pirates of the Caribbean came out, I didn’t think I would like it, but I went with Hubby and the boys just to be agreeable. I ended up having to admit that I loved it. We went to the theater 3 times to watch that movie. When it came out on DVD we bought it, and we’ve probably watched it 7 or 8 times since then. So the whole family was pretty excited about the sequel coming out.
(Don’t worry if you haven’t seen the movie yet ~ I’m not going to spoil anything for you.)
The boys and I went to see Dead Man’s Chest Friday afternoon ~ the first showing of the movie in our little town’s theater. We got there early because we knew there would be a line for tickets. We loaded up on popcorn and sodas, then found decent seats in the theater. Now, our local theater may be dinky in the world of high~tech theaters, but it definitely has some things going for it. First of all, it’s small, which means there’s decent customer service, and the manager is always around should you need something (like when the sound is too low in Cars and you can’t hear the movie over all the little kids in the packed theater, or when the movie just up and quits in the middle of a pivotal sceen). Secondly, their candy is still fresh. Since it’s a small theater, they don’t have huge reserves of candy sitting in a storeroom getting stale. Thirdly, they have a Frozen Coke machine. Mmmmm, Frozen Coke! When I buy the big combo ~ a large popcorn and two large drinks~ they will fill up my large drink cup with frozen Coke (another advantage of a small~town theater, they’re willing to do stuff like that for you!) And we get refills on the popcorn or drinks if we desire to have them. But the best part about going to a movie in our little local theater is: the popcorn is always fresh. They don’t have a huge amount of it sitting around for days like some theaters do. Nope. They pop it fresh whenever they need it. Every time I go into our local theater, the popcorn maching is cheerily popping away. And what good would going to the movies be if you had to eat stale popcorn?
Movie theater popcorn is the food of the gods (it’s just an expression). I don’t care if the “butter” they’re putting on my popcorn is some sort of bad-for-me imitation butter-flavored grease. It tastes GOOD, and that’s why I order it. Hubby and I always share a large popcorn because ~ and this is why I say I’m a cheap date ~ I don’t see any sense in wasting money on dinner in a restaurant when I can fill up on wonderful, warm, freshly popped, dripping in butter, yummy popcorn. And now I can throw in a frozen Coke? Pure heaven. It makes standing in line worth the trouble.
I can’t think of anything I would like to do more on an ordinary “date night” than go to a movie theater for an entertaining movie, fresh popcorn and a frozen Coke. I can wear sweats and a tee-shirt, I can even go without make~up if I want to, and I don’t have to worry about whether I’m appropriately dressed or not (ask any woman who has fibromyalgia and she’ll tell you the looser the clothing the better, and wearing make~up is torture). And even if the movie we see is a dud, I can still say I had a great time on our date because I was with Hubby and we got popcorn!
The boys and I enjoyed Dead Man’s Chest, so Hubby and I went to see it together yesterday. It’s one of those movies that I have to watch at least 2, maybe 3 times before I catch everything. It moves at such a quick pace, I don’t have time to absorb all of it. I enjoyed it more the second time than I did the first, mainly because I was able to understand a lot more of it. Hubby and I are discussing going again sometime this week. He’s home on leave this week, so we’ll go on at least one date.
So, now you know my secret. I am a cheap date; it’s really not too difficult to show me a good time. Just pick a decent movie and a theater that has good popcorn. Even better if you can throw in a frozen Coke. If I need to come back to see the movie again because I liked it and I didn’t quite catch all of it the first time, I consider it an added bonus. Then again, even if I do catch all of the movie the first time, who’s to say I can’t go back and see it again? It means more sales for the movie theater ~ keeping our local small businesses in business is very important ~ and it means more popcorn and frozen Coke for me. What more could I ask for?!
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