Monday, July 21, 2008

going batty.

last monday, after a particularly disturbing/distressful/crazy afternoon i commented to missy that it was the apocalypse. and although the world didn't end, nor was our entire week entirely doom-filled, something pretty apocalyptic did occur: we went to a movie theater. twice.

as you may recall me commenting in the past, we NEVER go to the movies. why, i don't know. we like watching them. we just don't like having to get our acts together to go watch them on someone else's timetable, i suppose. in any event, during our jam-packed week of world-ending insanity, we somehow managed to get to the movie theater more times than we had up until this point in 2008. (an amazing feat, although sadly only 50% of the movies we saw* deserved to be viewed during such a monumental week.)

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so being the cineplex neophyte that i am, i was pretty clueless when it came to how things go these days at the concession stand. we pump our own butter?? i can order snack combinations? there are pretzel bites?! missy's boyfriend had the pleasure of explaining it all to me while on line - i imagine we resembled a gender-reversed mork & mindy episode - although i tuned him out once i discovered that the calorie count was listed next to each snack item. now, i understand that there are some sort of laws being passed about this and i've seen it already in some fast food chains, but come on! going to the movies is supposed to be some form of escapism - why the hell would i want to know that there are 3 billion** calories in my large soda? isn't it already pretty obvious that you're eating something fattening when the bucket of popcorn you're holding is bigger than a toddler? who didn't realize that the amount of calories you can consume in a movie theater is your weekly allotment of them?

sheesh. way to take the fun out of everything, health dept.



*since we know how much you all love guessing games, we'll leave it up you to guess which two we saw.

hints: the first was the WORST MOVIE WE'VE EVER SEEN. EVER! AND WE THINK ALL THE GIRLS WHO TOLD US HOW GREAT IT WAS ARE TOTALLY NUTS. AND WE'RE SO GLAD WE ALREADY BOYCOTT THE REPEATS OF THE SERIES AS WE WILL NOW NEVER AGAIN WATCH ANYTHING THAT HAS TO DO WITH IT. the second, falling on the opposite end of our approval scale from the aforementioned big screen travesty, was that little film that just opened this weekend about a man in a bat costume. maybe you've heard of it?


**figures may not be accurate.





4 comments:

Tim said...

Ooo, I want to see one of those movies. Here's a clue as to which one: it's not about four aging drag queens in nice shoes.

(my bitchiest comment EVAH?)

inthemiddle said...

sex in the gotham city?

P H said...

i saw Batman last night -- it made me feel 15 again. sweet movie.

missyandchrissy said...

tim - EVAH!(but it was warranted..)

itm - ha, yes! my fave part was when the joker appeared in the nightclub and frightened carrie so much she almost dropped her cosmo.

ph - indeed!