03 September 2004

Go downtown, catch the early movie

I've always wanted to be in the situation where I was the only person in the theatre for the movie. That or just me and the people I'm with. I've come very, very close a few times in the past, where it's been my group of a few people, then one or two other small groups, or four individuals or so. When it's a couple other like-minded groups, then it's basically like being alone because they're heckling the movie as well. But there's something about being alone, you're not even overlapping heckling. Right now I'm in the theatre for King Arthur (look on LemonFrosted for my thoughts on the movie) and I'm the only one here. There's still a while before the movie starts, so there's a chance that someone else might come in, but part of the reason why I picked King Arthur is because I suspected that it would be pretty dang close to empty, especially for the noon show, which are primarily attended by families with small children and birthday parties. All this kind of junk I learned from working at a movie theatre for two years. If anyone does come in, I can bet nickels to dimes they'll be a group of three 15 year old boys trying to eek the last drops out of their summer vacation before school starts next week.
Oh, there we go, two fifteen year old boys. Off by a count of one.
I guess I should cover all bases and mention that the other, more rare, attendees at these movies is the "dirty middle-aged guy with no where to go" and the even less common are the people like me who'll go to just about any movie just because it's playing. Probably the only restriction that I'll put on that is any movie where the theatre is going to be filled with small children, or if The Prinz would fit seamlessly into the male lead.
Wow, unprecedented, a middle aged couple just came in, together. I'm going to guess that they didn't want to go to the same movie as the kids were going to, so they sent them in and then picked a movie they could see that would be ending around the same time.
Another group of four teenage boys.
A second drifting middle-aged man (one slipped in and sat at the very back earlier)
The theatre is now playing Michael Jackson's Billy Jean. Right on. It's all about pre-Dangerous MJ. I will honestly say in public that I wish I could dance like MJ. I try. Napoleon Dynamite just made me want to learn how to dance all the more.
Aw crap, things are starting to fill up. Not bad kind of full, but there's actually people here now. I don't know if I'm going to be able to get away with having my laptop open during the movie. Maybe next week, once school is back in, I'll be able to pull this off on a Wednesday, or Thursday. Still, the audience is over 50% teenage boys. The only females are the one in the middle-aged couple and a late-thirties woman sitting alone down the row from me. Oh, she's the vanguard for a group. And a senior couple just came in. One of the things that I found really, really odd was that one of the largest demographics attending The General's Daughter were senior women. I'm not sure what it was. The subject matter (rape, murder, more rape) wasn't exactly what I thought of as grandmother fare.
I wonder what will happen if I do just keep working on my laptop as the movie plays. Lights are dimming,

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