December 17, 2005

  • Last night Christy and I went on a date. Our goal was to leave the house at around 3:30PM-get up to Mission Valley where Kathy (the trumpet player at our church--well, OK, one of the many trumpet players--but the GIRL trumpet player...) would give me a haircut. THEN go over and catch two movies, YES TWO movies-'cause Christy and I are movie FREAKS. Probably me more than her, but for us both it is definitely a place to escape into another world...movies...

    a quick side note: we don't ever rent movies, ever. Never, ever ever. I just actually threw away my Blockbuster card because it was taking up valuable space in my back pocket. I know, weird, huh? We go see any movies we want to see at the theater. We are one of the few who take advantage of the movie-going experience. And let me tell you, it's really getting to become a worse and worse experience every time. There's too many idiots talking and checking their cell phones in the middle of the movie. No I don't want to see your flip phone from 50 feet away while King Kong is mashing in a dinosaur's head. It's distracting. STOP it. and STOP TALKING! ARGH!
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    This has been another special edition of Daniel Yelling at the World. Now back to our regular bloggramming...
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    Yeah, so we never rent movies. We see them at the theater. SO back to the original story...we saw King Kong (which gets two thumbs up for me, despite it's length, which I don't really mind, actually). I had WAY too much movie food. We got a large popcorn and a drink for Christy, plus I got a milkduds and a water. That was around $16 (for the food, not including admission). BUT since it was dinnertime in the middle of the movie, I was still a little hungry. So I got us each a pretzel in the middle of the movie, and myself another milkduds. Milkduds are my new favorite candy, although no person should eat that many in ANY one movie...even if it's a long one...by that time I was REALLY full and had spent a good $25 total at the concession stand. AND by the end of the movie (at 8PM) we were both really tired so we just went home. And that was OK with me because the other movie was going to be a girly movie anyways...
    But I love my wife so much! She went to see King Kong with me and didn't go to her movie, even though we had bought the tickets online already. It's ok, we'll go soon, and we got the tickets refunded no problem.

    Side Note: I now have 302 MovieWatcher points in my account. I get 2 for every ticket I buy, and you can't get more than 4 points in a day, so add up how many movies I went to see in the last 3 years...and it's staggering...THIS is why we never rent movies...which is cool, 'cause renting movies is SOOOOO expensive!!!

Comments (7)

  • You're mean. Nobody said you had to read it.

    I've got like 96 points on my moviewatcher card. But please stop advertising the movie watcher card, because then my friends will get them and I won't be able to say "do you want me to buy your ticket and you just give me the cash?" in order to get their points. Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

  • Nice to know the movie was good...we are going some time next week...at least that's the plan! =)

  • you really just said ..."cause renting movies is expensive."  stop talking.  you're done.

  • It's all too expensive... we just... watch whatever's on USA or TNT... whoo hoo

  • it I go to the movies with my husband it's usually the 10 pm show and i can never stay awake when it's that late, dark and i'm sitting for that long.

    so i usually actually see movies when i take my kids, cause it's always by the 4 pm showing (usually earlier if possible 'cause if it's 4 or later, my youngest one (8) usually falls asleep.  And we eat first but i can always eat popcorn. 

    milk duds are great but they can pull caps off your teeth if you have them...or so can chewy pralines.  i also love malt balls (sort of like a milk dud but crunchy?)

    i want to see kong, but i want to see Narnia first...and i wouldn't mind seeing Harry Potter again....

    maybe walk the line, cause unlike YOU i do like country music.  see ya manana

  • Yeah, renting a movie for 5 days costs almost as much as the average drink at Starbuck's. Frivolous spending- a waste of money. Going to the theatre is much more economical- the way you scrimp on concessions, it'll only cost about as much as 2 measly steak & lobster dinners at Outback- a paltry sum, really.

    You are ridiculous.

    Movie theatres should use that cell-signal blocking whatever that some businesses have, so that people CAN'T use their phones unless they go outside. I've had a few bad experiences with people having loud, belly-laugh-type conversations in the middle of a movie. (stands next to Daniel to help yelling at the world)

  • I love going to the movie myself.  In fact, I love it more than renting movies.  My husband, on the other hand, likes renting movies.  Unless, of course, I'm footing the movie bill which includes the popcorn.  Thumbs up for those that still love going out to the movies.

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