Monday, March 13, 2006

You usually get what you pay for when it's free

This weekend, Margaret and I went to a free preview of "Failure to Launch" and our sights had been set deliberately low, since one of the reviews said "Failure to Entertain." After seeing Matthew McConnahey in "Sahara," we thought this couldn't be any worse. While that's true, it was still a totally predictable string of inplausible scenarios that had us spraining our eye muscles from rolling them so much. For all those Matthew McConnahey fans out there who are dying to see the movie, I'd recommend you wait until it comes out on video, so then you can just watch it while its muted.

Speaking of movies, one time our family went to the movies and, joy of joys, the balcony was open! Normally they never opened it, and to this day I don't know why--probably something to do with people smuggling cats into the theatre and throwing them onto unsuspecting theatre-goers below, but that's just a theory. Anyway we all thought that was the be-all end-all to get to be up there watching a movie--it was quite a thrill to be sitting so far back from the screen that it was reduced in our field of vision to the same size as our tv--that's why it was worth the $3.50 (yes faithful Internets, I can remember when movies only cost THREE DOLLARS!) Unfortunately someone who smelled like they hadn't showered in weeks was also excited about the open balcony because he was sitting right next to us. We were trying to cover our noses and just concentrate on the movie, but that was nigh impossible. Finally, my little brother, who was 6 or 7 at the time, leaned over to us and said, "This guy's got HBO!" We looked at each other and thought what is he TALKING about? How would Jayson know if this guy's got cable tv or not. After a second, he continued, "you know, Horrible Body Odor!" We about died trying not to laugh--it finally got bad enough that we moved to another part of the balcony.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

remember the time mom smuggled a bunch of hamburgers into the theatre in her huge purse and the people from the mental institution were there and could smell our burgers and were sniffing around to see where they were?