![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
The important thing to keep in mind about enjoying a movie you know (or suspect) will be bad is...
...you really need to be in a good mood going in. If you're in a sour mood, all the flaws will be magnified and the good cheese turns rancid. And make no mistake...10,000 B.C. has all the signs of an epic piece of cheese, total botfodder, can't get RiffTrax made fast enough.
Y'see, my plan was as follows. If I could wrap up things at work by 2:30, I'd go to the 3:00 PM showing that Yahoo Movies assured me was scheduled. The local theater usually doesn't open that early on Fridays, but makes exceptions for movies that look like they'll attract lots of college student dollars, so it seemed plausible. The second showing was listed at 4:15, mildly inconvenient for me since it'd mean dinner being a bit late, so I was glad for the 3:00 showing.
2:30 rolls around, and while I'm a touch annoyed by some work-related stuff, I decide my mood is still good enough to go see some mammoth cheese. I pull into the nearly empty parking lot at 2:45, but I just figure I beat the rush of students getting out of 1:30 classes and having to drop off their crap at home before hitting the theater, not to mention people planning on arriving at 3:10 to miss all the ads (and when I passed the theater again at 3:10, there were indeed college students trying to get in).
No such luck. Sign on the door says the box office doesn't open until 3:30, and the listings on the outside wall have 4:15 as the first showing.
And that pretty much does it for my mood. If this had been a movie I was actually anticipating for positive reasons, I would have shrugged and found ways to kill an hour or so, then come back. But this was a borderline entertainment choice to start with, and now it will be permanently linked in my mind to this bit of theater management asshattery. It doesn't take a lot to not want to go see a bad movie, and now I'm simple not going to see it in the theater. If I later hear it's better than expected, I may get the DVD (which would let me skip any turgid crap trying to pretend to be a plot and just watch the mammoth vs. pyramid action), but the theater's not getting my money for this one. Feh. It's not like boycotting the theater in general is an option even if I was far more annoyed at this screwup, it's the only one in town (and the next nearest one 25 miles away has only 4 screens), but this time they lose my money.
...you really need to be in a good mood going in. If you're in a sour mood, all the flaws will be magnified and the good cheese turns rancid. And make no mistake...10,000 B.C. has all the signs of an epic piece of cheese, total botfodder, can't get RiffTrax made fast enough.
Y'see, my plan was as follows. If I could wrap up things at work by 2:30, I'd go to the 3:00 PM showing that Yahoo Movies assured me was scheduled. The local theater usually doesn't open that early on Fridays, but makes exceptions for movies that look like they'll attract lots of college student dollars, so it seemed plausible. The second showing was listed at 4:15, mildly inconvenient for me since it'd mean dinner being a bit late, so I was glad for the 3:00 showing.
2:30 rolls around, and while I'm a touch annoyed by some work-related stuff, I decide my mood is still good enough to go see some mammoth cheese. I pull into the nearly empty parking lot at 2:45, but I just figure I beat the rush of students getting out of 1:30 classes and having to drop off their crap at home before hitting the theater, not to mention people planning on arriving at 3:10 to miss all the ads (and when I passed the theater again at 3:10, there were indeed college students trying to get in).
No such luck. Sign on the door says the box office doesn't open until 3:30, and the listings on the outside wall have 4:15 as the first showing.
And that pretty much does it for my mood. If this had been a movie I was actually anticipating for positive reasons, I would have shrugged and found ways to kill an hour or so, then come back. But this was a borderline entertainment choice to start with, and now it will be permanently linked in my mind to this bit of theater management asshattery. It doesn't take a lot to not want to go see a bad movie, and now I'm simple not going to see it in the theater. If I later hear it's better than expected, I may get the DVD (which would let me skip any turgid crap trying to pretend to be a plot and just watch the mammoth vs. pyramid action), but the theater's not getting my money for this one. Feh. It's not like boycotting the theater in general is an option even if I was far more annoyed at this screwup, it's the only one in town (and the next nearest one 25 miles away has only 4 screens), but this time they lose my money.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
From:
no subject
It cannot be riffed soon enough.