Day After Thanksgiving
After running some errands in the morning, I ended up over at the Arclight Cinemas
to see an afternoon show of "DeRailed" starring Jennifer Aniston and Clive Owen.
The Arclight was very crowded the day after Thanksgiving. As I guess most movie theatres are.
I love to people-watch. But basically all I saw were people rushing to get to their movie on time.
All sorts of people. Dressed up people. Dressed down people.
I went to buy my ticket. "DeRailed" had an asterisk next to its name on the marquee.
Meaning it was a Members Movie, and I got a discount.
The ticket taker said "That will be $14".
I said "Wait, its a members movie - isn't there a discount?"
"Oh, yeah, I rung it up wrong." and he called for his supervisor.
There was some kind of form they would want me sign.
All for only a $1 price difference.
There was a huge line behind me.
So I said "If its only $1, forget about it. My movie is about to start anyway."
And I took off.
Gee - if they are over-charging everyone who saw the movie around a dollar, someone ends up making a pretty good profit on that.
I did end up with enough points on my Arclight card, to get a free concession stand item.
If you have their card, after a certain number of movie tickets you have a certain number of points, and you get a free concession stand item.
Or you can skip the free munchies, and just keep racking up the points until you get enough to get a free movie.
These are the big benefits to having that membership card. It makes the $14 dollar ticket price, worth it.
As for "DeRailed" - I don't know. It was really full of suspense. And the movie kept me interested throughout.
But it is a movie about thieves who make someone a victim.
And after being victimized by having my car broken into, I just was not into it.
The movie really left me with a yucky feeling.
Like filth.
Usually I loved suspense. But I was not in a good head-space for this.
Maybe I better swear off crime dramas for a few more weeks.
until I get over my automobile break-in. Until I am in a better place in my head.
Jennifer Aniston was really good in tho. She really plays the "bad girl" well. I liked seeing her play a serious character for once, instead of her comic "Friends" Rachel character.
As I left, I noticed that the Arclight did have a really nice display of celebrity photos in their upper lobby area.
So it was off to Whole Foods to do some grocery shopping.
I was out of bread and dishwashing liquid. Then I picked up some veggies to make a vegetable and rice soup. I splurged on a cornish game hen with cranberry stuffing - it was pricey, but to pretty to pass up.
Gee, there was no one in the parking lot today. Of course, its the day after Thanksgiving.
Going home, unloading my groceries and play with Cinnamon the Cat for a bit.
