Saturday, March 21, 2009

Here's Johnny!

My favorite theatre is Collins Road Theatre. It’s a six-plex theatre that features second-run titles and popcorn you can put your own butter on. They don’t play any commercials at the beginning of the movie and they have silly little contests at the start of the movie where they give away free popcorn. Every weekend, they play cult movies at midnight like The Warriors, Blade Runner, or some other awesome movie.
One of the weird things they have is in the lobby. The picture your looking at is a painting of Jack Nicholson in The Shining. Notice the huge and abundant teeth that the artist has given him. There are other painting there too, and they are equally disturbing and just as poorly executed. Not that I could do any better, but you get the idea. You should see the rendition of Rocky.
We’re kidless during this spring break, so that means the wife and I get to act like a couple again. We decided to go to the movies and I checked out a few of the showtimes. I noticed Frost/Nixon and Revolutionary Road were playing and decided that the wife would probably want to see the latter more than a docudrama on Dick Nixon. I was cool with that; I saw Kate Winslet in The Reader a few months ago and I heard good things about her performance in Revolutionary Road. Evidently, I must have gotten the showtimes confused because we went to the theatre, got the tickets, and were directed to our movie room. We open the door and-fuck-darkness and the movie had already started. We find a few open seats and quietly sit down. We’re trying to figure out what’s happening and after ten minutes of this the credits begin to roll. We had effectively caught the ending of our movie before it even began.
We had to go back out to the lobby until are showtime began seating, forcing me to look at the horrific teeth of Jack “Torrance” Nicholson.

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