number6
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So my girl and I decided to make a night of it. We've been planning to see Cloverfield since I saw the trailer in the theatre last year and with the Star Trek teaser trailer, of course we had to see Cloverfield on opening night.
Everything went wrong.
We decided to go to Uno's for dinner. The service sucked and we almost missed the film it took so long to get served and to get our food.
I had passes that I got as a x-me$$ gift. The showing at the National Amusements Cinema was at 9:40 and the listing on the light board listed it as "Cloverfield-DH" I asked the clerk what that stood for. Apparently they have a special cinema where (for a nominal additional fee) you get to sit in reserved leather bucket seats and have the concessions served to you by the staff instead of standing in line.
The only seats they had left were the shittiest seats in the cinema and there weren't even two good seats next to each other. I wasn't about to pay extra to sit in shitty seats so instead of going to the showing we planned, we had to wait another 45 minutes for the next one.
Now this cinema complex actually has a coctail bar for the "adults" if you can believe that. So we decided to go and have a coctail and try to relax. Not only did we have to wait to get seated (the hostess had gone to find menues) we waited over 20 minutes for our drinks. The hostess said that there was some kind of "kitchen emergency" and that's why our drinks were taking so long (the bar is nowhere near the kitchen). So we waited another 5 minutes and the server comes up and says "OMG you haven't gotten your drinks yet, I'm wicked sooooory I will go find out.." and then I basically said that we waited a while and had to go or we'd miss the film.
Then we stood in line for Popcorn and Sno-caps ( a must for every filmgoer).
Now usually the kids behind the counter ( and I do mean kids..like 15-16 years old) have two operating speeds: slow and reverse.
Tonight they worked at one speed: retarded.
The girl who took our popcorn order asked us three times what we wanted and it just wasn't registering behind that vague blank stare. Oy. So we got in the cinema and everyone is saving seats. We finally found a pair of seats and sat down....munching nervously on our popcorn/nonpareil tasty treat waiting for the soda ads to finish and the previews to commence!! We saw some pretty cool trailers including one for Iron Man. Robert Downey Jr. as a super hero was as bizarre to me as the experience of our evening thus far, but it was still cool to hear him zipping through the air to the strains of Black Sabbath's signature tune!! The the lights go down and Cloverfield begins.
WTF?? No Trek Trailer to be found. I was crestfallen, dumbfounded, flabbergaster, flummoxed, and some other obscure adjective to describe my befuddled confusion.
Now don't get me wrong.
I was STOKED to see Cloverfield. I had been looking forward to it and it was Freeeeeekin Awesome!!1!!!!!!!!@#!@2111!!
But I can't sit through that film again. Not without a fistful of dramammine.
Does anyone know what other film the new trailer can also be seen??
Has anyone else gotten as big time boned as we just did???
FYI. If you do decide to go see this film and you're in my neck of the woods,
DO NOT GO TO REVERE. I think there is something seriously wrong with the drinking water there.
Everything went wrong.
We decided to go to Uno's for dinner. The service sucked and we almost missed the film it took so long to get served and to get our food.
I had passes that I got as a x-me$$ gift. The showing at the National Amusements Cinema was at 9:40 and the listing on the light board listed it as "Cloverfield-DH" I asked the clerk what that stood for. Apparently they have a special cinema where (for a nominal additional fee) you get to sit in reserved leather bucket seats and have the concessions served to you by the staff instead of standing in line.
The only seats they had left were the shittiest seats in the cinema and there weren't even two good seats next to each other. I wasn't about to pay extra to sit in shitty seats so instead of going to the showing we planned, we had to wait another 45 minutes for the next one.
Now this cinema complex actually has a coctail bar for the "adults" if you can believe that. So we decided to go and have a coctail and try to relax. Not only did we have to wait to get seated (the hostess had gone to find menues) we waited over 20 minutes for our drinks. The hostess said that there was some kind of "kitchen emergency" and that's why our drinks were taking so long (the bar is nowhere near the kitchen). So we waited another 5 minutes and the server comes up and says "OMG you haven't gotten your drinks yet, I'm wicked sooooory I will go find out.." and then I basically said that we waited a while and had to go or we'd miss the film.
Then we stood in line for Popcorn and Sno-caps ( a must for every filmgoer).
Now usually the kids behind the counter ( and I do mean kids..like 15-16 years old) have two operating speeds: slow and reverse.
Tonight they worked at one speed: retarded.
The girl who took our popcorn order asked us three times what we wanted and it just wasn't registering behind that vague blank stare. Oy. So we got in the cinema and everyone is saving seats. We finally found a pair of seats and sat down....munching nervously on our popcorn/nonpareil tasty treat waiting for the soda ads to finish and the previews to commence!! We saw some pretty cool trailers including one for Iron Man. Robert Downey Jr. as a super hero was as bizarre to me as the experience of our evening thus far, but it was still cool to hear him zipping through the air to the strains of Black Sabbath's signature tune!! The the lights go down and Cloverfield begins.
WTF?? No Trek Trailer to be found. I was crestfallen, dumbfounded, flabbergaster, flummoxed, and some other obscure adjective to describe my befuddled confusion.
Now don't get me wrong.
I was STOKED to see Cloverfield. I had been looking forward to it and it was Freeeeeekin Awesome!!1!!!!!!!!@#!@2111!!
But I can't sit through that film again. Not without a fistful of dramammine.
Does anyone know what other film the new trailer can also be seen??
Has anyone else gotten as big time boned as we just did???
FYI. If you do decide to go see this film and you're in my neck of the woods,
DO NOT GO TO REVERE. I think there is something seriously wrong with the drinking water there.
