RANT: Pieved off...
OKay...I'm pieved, annoyed and frustrated...
It's called the curse of being a parent and trying to see a movie.
I want to see the new Star Trek. This requires getting a baby sitter. Usually means my mother-in-law who lives nearly an hour away.
3/4 of the time I try to see a movie, it fails to happen. By the time we drive out, get out the friggin door. We've missed it...or some other stupid thing happens. Like the ladies stopping to go shopping before hand.
Now, to my wife, it's not big deal. She couldn't care less about watching it on the big screen. But to me, watching a geek film on a 20" screen with a pair of cheap computer speakers does not convey the movie.
The problem is that I want to see Star Trek on a good quality big screen. I'd have loved to see it on IMAX. But it was only on IMAX for 2 weeks. Okay, there is one showing down in Baltimore at 11:45pm.
What is it being replaced with? Night at the Museum 2. Okay, I saw the first one. I enjoyed it. But it's not what I want to see on IMAX.
And let's not even talk about CA$H. Star Trek was breaking records on IMAX.
So I want to see it on a digital theater as my next choice. Okay, so first off...how the do you find one without calling every single crappy theatre in the area?
So between babysitter issues, theatre issues...I'll probably not even get to see Star Trek. Regardless of the fact that we have like 6 movie tickets.
And makes me just want to take a $1,000 from our much needed savings and blow it on a 40" flat screen.
And do we even get into the !@#$% idiocy of MPAA and film companies. Somehow, all the movie companies think we want to see movies from May to July (you know, when it's warm out and we can actually do other things).
So what happens....we have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING BUT TRASH from February until May, then all the good movies, followed by trash from the end of August until December.
Then they gripe and moan how they're not making the money they want.
***
Yes, I'm having a cruddy day. Sorry...from a really depressing dream to a day that hasn't gotten much better. To conflicts with time, and what not...that the things I was looking forward to doing this weekend will probably not pan out.
The fact that I don't get out of this house. I have no friends nearby to say "Hey...you want to go see such and such movie."
It just grates on me...
It's called the curse of being a parent and trying to see a movie.
I want to see the new Star Trek. This requires getting a baby sitter. Usually means my mother-in-law who lives nearly an hour away.
3/4 of the time I try to see a movie, it fails to happen. By the time we drive out, get out the friggin door. We've missed it...or some other stupid thing happens. Like the ladies stopping to go shopping before hand.
Now, to my wife, it's not big deal. She couldn't care less about watching it on the big screen. But to me, watching a geek film on a 20" screen with a pair of cheap computer speakers does not convey the movie.
The problem is that I want to see Star Trek on a good quality big screen. I'd have loved to see it on IMAX. But it was only on IMAX for 2 weeks. Okay, there is one showing down in Baltimore at 11:45pm.
What is it being replaced with? Night at the Museum 2. Okay, I saw the first one. I enjoyed it. But it's not what I want to see on IMAX.
And let's not even talk about CA$H. Star Trek was breaking records on IMAX.
So I want to see it on a digital theater as my next choice. Okay, so first off...how the do you find one without calling every single crappy theatre in the area?
So between babysitter issues, theatre issues...I'll probably not even get to see Star Trek. Regardless of the fact that we have like 6 movie tickets.
And makes me just want to take a $1,000 from our much needed savings and blow it on a 40" flat screen.
And do we even get into the !@#$% idiocy of MPAA and film companies. Somehow, all the movie companies think we want to see movies from May to July (you know, when it's warm out and we can actually do other things).
So what happens....we have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING BUT TRASH from February until May, then all the good movies, followed by trash from the end of August until December.
Then they gripe and moan how they're not making the money they want.
***
Yes, I'm having a cruddy day. Sorry...from a really depressing dream to a day that hasn't gotten much better. To conflicts with time, and what not...that the things I was looking forward to doing this weekend will probably not pan out.
The fact that I don't get out of this house. I have no friends nearby to say "Hey...you want to go see such and such movie."
It just grates on me...