| Date watched | September 28 |
|---|---|
| Show Time | 3:55pm |
| Theater | Gucci |
| Theater Number | 7 |
| Pizza | Yes |
| Tickets | At Box Office |
| Letterboxd Rating | **** (4) |
| Crew | Me, Coach T, Science Bro |
We’ve gone to the movies as a group for around three years or something now. Seen some amazing heart warming films and some abosolute garbage. Even the worst of the worst is still a good time. The core people who go most of the time are Me, Coach T, and Science Bro while our friend MeHoneyBear used to be the one always getting us to go do something together. Additional folks who show up from time to time include Nurse Vegas and her man,Purple Oil Esquire, Dr Nasty, or a few others.
Its not quite 90 degrees and the sun is bright out. The kind of bright that threatens you with a migrane if you don’t play nice. I was chugging my clean cause uncarbonated yerba mate tea and praying that Honda’s lane departure assist didn’t let me down. Before doing my best to teleport to Gucci today Science Bro texted in that he was in the area earlier for something else and so he had arrived already. With the current time and temperature it’s not the end of the world and since he smokes he’ll be fine. Going to need to hustle though. There’s a wonderful altered reality you enter when going to a familiar place with loud music playing. The android tablet powered dash entertainment console thing beeps and interrupts Gucci Mane to let me know Coach T has pulled in. Time to cut through the neighborhood. I can see the battle ground of I35 in the distance while the side road I am in is filling up with vehicles. The uniformity of the suburbs makes the traffic look almost like ammunition to be fired down the narrow barrel of the “express way”. Thanks to construction it is neither express nor really even the right way. I merge to the highway abruptly and just as fast exit. Swanging around the speed bumps I get my sun screen up and it’s 3:53pm. We made it!
Brief hellos and its time to grab tickets. The theater number 7 this time so no real Row B. Oh yeah the crew is made of a bunch of BBoys we like row B alot of the time. Given the choice we were Row A today. The door squeak is a cry of pain or relief who is to say but it isn’t a neutral noise and a cold sigh of air conditioning brings us to the lobby. Eyes dart quickly, how long are the lines, how big is the line to get through the one ticket checker person, is the place crazy busy, and most important is there hot Pizza? Short, not bad, only on the far side, and yes. Today is a good day. We usually come early in the day so for the first year or more maybe I never got to have a pizza so now I relish them. Pizza, Icee, small popcorn rewards ,yes thank you. Hot dogs familiar friends with Coach T, and the Diet C for Science Bro he loves chemicals.
I went in blind to Megalopolis. All I knew was that Francis Ford Coppola wrote it and he sold his wine farm to make. He should have just drank the wine to be honest.
There are real pros to write reviews this is all about the sparkle experience sparkle. Row A provided a nice lean and the screen lighting was bright enough to eat by even during some darker scenes. My Icee lasted through the whole movie and 0 napkins or naps were used. There were some scenes with bright flashing lights and the threat of a migrane earlier had me closing my eyes or looking off to the side.
So why 4 stars? To be honest I should go down to 3 but who knows if I will. The story was told in a unique way with beautiful sets, costumes, and special effects. The sound design and everything techinically about this movie was magnificent.
Its close to bedtime so I think maybe thats why this post ran out of gas. I’ll try again tomorrow because on Sunday I watched Will & Harper.