Sunday, November 26, 2006
Turkey, turkey, turkey
Is there no end to this bird?
Fifteen pounds, eight diners at the holiday table. You do the math.
My Sweetie and I enjoyed leftovers for the third night in a row. The sisters-in-law and their men have returned to the left coast, and the boy and his true love are back up in the mountains. We're here with the cranberry sauce.
And with Denzel Washington, too. Saw him at the new suburban shopping plaza multiplex in 'Deja Vu'. I liked it up to the end. Sweetie felt likewise. But Junior explained to us that the ending was actually valid, if we just thought about it. After some contemplation, I decided he was correct. So the flick is solid genre entertainment from start to finish.
But the movies experience may be changing for us, but soon. The theatre was OK -- an AMC with 20 screens, endless concession tables with a few options, comfy seats. But the price is now $7.50 for a matinee. The concessions feature only soda, popcorn and nachos -- along with endless candy, but we don't care about that stuff. The medium soda was $4.00 -- it was perhaps 20 to 24 oz. A medium popcorn was another $4.00 -- it may have been the size of a couple of home-popped bags. Nachos were $5.00 and looked to be smaller than a store-size bag of Doritos.
The thought of paying $15 for tickets and $8-$9 for snacks and drinks -- assuming we split one of each -- makes the risk significant for many couples. For families, this is an astonishing cost.
We're already in the Netflix audience and our cable package has HBO and its replicants, making it easier to decide when our $23 is better spent elsewhere.
So Denzel wasn't just good today, he and the film were worth the money.
No small comment there.
Fifteen pounds, eight diners at the holiday table. You do the math.
My Sweetie and I enjoyed leftovers for the third night in a row. The sisters-in-law and their men have returned to the left coast, and the boy and his true love are back up in the mountains. We're here with the cranberry sauce.
And with Denzel Washington, too. Saw him at the new suburban shopping plaza multiplex in 'Deja Vu'. I liked it up to the end. Sweetie felt likewise. But Junior explained to us that the ending was actually valid, if we just thought about it. After some contemplation, I decided he was correct. So the flick is solid genre entertainment from start to finish.
But the movies experience may be changing for us, but soon. The theatre was OK -- an AMC with 20 screens, endless concession tables with a few options, comfy seats. But the price is now $7.50 for a matinee. The concessions feature only soda, popcorn and nachos -- along with endless candy, but we don't care about that stuff. The medium soda was $4.00 -- it was perhaps 20 to 24 oz. A medium popcorn was another $4.00 -- it may have been the size of a couple of home-popped bags. Nachos were $5.00 and looked to be smaller than a store-size bag of Doritos.
The thought of paying $15 for tickets and $8-$9 for snacks and drinks -- assuming we split one of each -- makes the risk significant for many couples. For families, this is an astonishing cost.
We're already in the Netflix audience and our cable package has HBO and its replicants, making it easier to decide when our $23 is better spent elsewhere.
So Denzel wasn't just good today, he and the film were worth the money.
No small comment there.
# posted by notsosmartguy @ 6:37 PM 
