Theater of fools…
I went to see The Skeleton Key last night. It was a pretty decent movie. The more unfortunate thing was the theater I attended the movie in.
The Marcus Oakdale cinema is now on my list of worst movie theaters ever. They have just built this “Ultra Screen” at their theater. It is large, but no bigger than the large theater in the Carmike Cinemas. The thing that really got me about it was they were charging 50 cents more PER TICKET to see a show on the ultra screen. How frickin’ ridiculous is that? It only gets better from there. I went up to the conssesions counter to buy a soda. They were having a heck of a time getting some credit cards to work. The guy in front of me was telling the girl behind the counter to keep running it. It wasn’t working. After about four or five tries, he gave up and walked away, sanse pop. I ordered my beverage. This is the response I got. “Can I use the cup from that guy? It had the same pop in it…” I said yes because I had waited in line for awhile just to get my soda. It wasn’t turned upside down on the counter or anything. “Good,” she says “I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with it.” “How about throw it away!!” I raised my voice at her. She didn’t get it. I took my pop and walked into the theater. Nice place, smelled like new. REALLY smelled like new. Almost too much like new. We took our seats and immediately wanted to leave. The seats were high backed stadium style seats, but the backs were VERY stiff. They didn’t recline right. So you really had to push on them to get them to recline or be forced to sit in a posture freak position. I scrunched down and wedged my legs behind the vacant seat in fron of me and tried to get comfy. Once the movie started, I was a bit more happy. The picture and sound were quite good. Too bad the rest of the experience soured me into ever coming back to the theater.
DON’T go to this theater. I can recommend others that are close by that are much better. You know they are just trying to recoup some of there loss at building the theater. Why can’t businesses just wait until they can afford something to build it? I hate corporations sometimes…
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“Why can’t businesses just wait until they can afford something to build it?”
Same thing can be said for regular people, though. “I just got a raise. Let’s buy a car.” “I can’t afford these holiday presents. I’ll just put them on the ol’ credit card.” I guess bad habits in life carry over as bad habits in business.