"A Pirates life for me..."

Welcome back movie fans,

So I finally went and saw Spider-Man 3 a couple weeks ago and all I can say is I'm glad I didn't have to pay to see it. I wasn't impressed. It was so CORNY! The best part of the whole thing was when the character of Sand Man first stands up. That was some amazing computer-animation work. And seeing James Franco come out of a chamber wearing nothing but black trunks. He is one fine human being.

I can't imagine taking your kid to this. The whole love-triangle thing got lame fast, not to mention it took up a majority of the movie.

The only thing you can do to enjoy this flop is go with a bunch of obnoxious or sarcastic friends and mock it out. That's what we did.

Shrek was also a disappointment at our theatre. It made things busier but not what I'd call a blockbuster by any means. At least where I work anyway. Where are all these big numbers happening? And from what I heard the movie itself wasn't very good.

This weekend Pirates of the Caribbean opens and all I can hope for is plenty of scenes with Cap'N Jack on the screen. And rain. LOTS of rain. If it rains, they will come.

I can't end this blog post without my usual bitching. Last weekend our theatre started a fund-raising drive. So EVERY customer who comes to the window we have to ask them if they want to donate a dollar. Yea, EVERY one. Let me apologize now to you all because I don't like doing this shit anymore than you do, but we're both going to have to tolerate it for the next 7 weeks.

"Yo ho, yo ho...a pirates life for me!"

Don't bother trying

I'll have to think of an award to give out to the genuises I have to deal with at the theatre.

Maybe even have a show at the end of the summer....because as the number of customers increases, so does the likely-hood of encountering another example of extreme idiocy.



Here's one of the front-runner so far:

People who come in and say that their friend bought them a ticket but they're already in the movie.

Trust me folks, no theatre manager, employee or security guard with a BRAIN in their head is gunna fall for that one. We may be kind and customer friendly but we know that fine line of being taken advantage of. A couple folks tried to pull that crap last weekend until our security guard whose also a police officer came walking up armed w/his gun and sporting a pair of handcuffs and a bottle of pepper spray all on his belt. Suddenly the guy seemed just fine with buying a ticket.

Now, let's talk about Spider-Man 3.
I understand it made BIG money this past weekend. I'm curious as to where. We had 7 of our 18 theatre rooms running it and none of them were even CLOSE to being at full capacity. Infact, originally we, the employees, were told that we couldn't see it for free until the 13th but that was moved up to the 7th. Yeah, 3 days after it opened.



Shrek the Third opens a week from Friday so maybe THAT will be our big draw.
Personally, I wasn't a fan of Shrek 2. It took me three times watching it to get through the whole thing without falling asleep. Hopefully this one will be more to par with the first one. (which was hilARIOUS)
That remains to be seen....

GO SABRES!!!