10/18/2002 Archived Entry: "Movies"

My buddies and I used to go see a TON of movies. When we were in high school, we'd to to the local Loews 8 or Point Nasa 6 and see at least one movie a week during the school year, and during the summer we'd sometimes see four or five a week.

I just don't go see movies anymore.

Massurah is spearheading an effort to go out to see a movie all together--our first since One Hour Photo--and I find myself completely unenthusiastic about any of the choices presented. This, coming from an ex-movie junkie. How the mighty have fallen. I probably haven't seen more than ten movies in the theatre this year, if even that many.

Coincidentally, this lack of theatre-going started up around the same time I got a DVD player. It's a billion times nicer to sit on my comfortable couch, eating my own (relatively) cheap junk food, and watch a movie in the privacy of my apartment, rather than have to go brave the crowds, stand in line for forty-five minutes for a decent seat, sit through commercials and previews, and then have to deal for two hours with some asshole's crying child to your left, three cheese-dicks with laser pointers, six teenagers yelling and throwing popcorn in front of you, twelve jerk-offs talking on their cell phones, and a whole motherfucking CLAN of Mexicans sitting behind you, proving a running translation and commentary track en Espanol.

No thanks. Not for me. I deal with inconsiderate pigs all day long at work. I don't want to do it on my time away from work. I'll rent the DVD, thanks.

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