I received a random text from the long lost days of when I would hit up movie prescreenings. I was invited to see Seven Days in Utopia. So Monday, August 29th, I ventured up to Seattle and who should accompany me but my handy-dandy brotherfromanothermother Damon! (Insert picture of us looking very important and yet waiting in a line...)
We drove up Seattle to see the film. It was rather exhilarating waiting in line, forced to talk to a woman who brought a chair to wait in line (Damon and I used our legs) about her daughter who is apparently very pretty and recently graduated from somewhere... Anyhow, I enjoyed the part where I showed them a text message which was my admittance into a free movie. So fun. My review on the movie: Maybe it was the directing, maybe it was the acting, maybe it was the fact that the movie didn't let you know how the culminating moment turned out aka the final putt to win the Texas Open!! Don't worry. They leave you this gem to "continue the journey":
Except that we went to the blasted site and it tells us, "For the answer and to continue the journey, please return here after the opening of Seven Days in Utopia, Sept. 2nd." Gee. Thanks. I have nothing against Christian/religious films unless they are less than par (like the golf term? huh? huh?) and released nationwide. My vote? Miss it. But if it's ever on TV, use your DVR and watch it when you're catching up on your ironing.
But wait. There's more!
Basking in our disappointment, we decided to use the facilities the movie theatre so generously provided. We then decided to pop into an open theatre to catch some previews seeing as none are provided at a prescreening. We were also debating whether or not to go see Planet of the Apes (which I had already seen and thoroughly enjoyed, thus willing to see it again) when the movie we were seated in began...
FANTASTIC!! The Help was nothing short of amazing. Truly remarkable. We both were extremely pleased and I really did enjoy it to the fullest. It made me feel and it was witty and clever and made me want to read the book it was based on which happens to be sitting on my nightstand right now. I give it two very enthusiastic thumbs up. It is not a typical "chick flick." In fact, I don't think I'd categorize it as a chick flick at all. Real men will love this movie and love the women who love this movie.
To top off the night, I couldn't find my parking garage ticket. When I went to the cashier to see if he could work with me on it. Yeah, no. He in his lovely Indian way told me it would be $26. I tried talking to him a couple of times but each time... "Twenty-six dollar." We tried going back up to the theatre but given the hour it was locked and there was no one in sight. So then we ventured into the garage with the hopes of procuring a new ticket that we could then pay for through the auto-pay machine thus avoiding our Indian friend but still paying for our parking. Unfortunately, Damon and I were not able to fool the sensors into believing we were a vehicle. But then Damon found an abandoned ticket. At this point we were exhausted so we decided to just try using it driving the car through the gate to see if it would let us out. What happens next?
Go to www.didtheyhavetopaytwentysixdollar.com.
Totally playing. There were two cars ahead of us and both were having issues with the machine at the gate. When we approached, we put the ticket in fearing it would say, "Yeah right, sucker. Go back upstairs and pay $26 even though you should only have to pay $6." But it just said, "Unreadable. Try again." So we tried and tried until the attendant came over, radioed up to our Indian friend, and let us on our merry way.
Prescreening of a kind of lame movie:
$0
Seeing a really awesome movie:
$0
Getting out of the parking garage at no cost:
PRICELESS
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