A trip to the cinema

Until last week, I had not been to the cinema in over five years. And I might as well  had not bothered going.

I watched Batman V Superman. Two of the biggest and most iconic fictional characters in one movie! Going against each other as the title may suggest. How exciting for us comic book fans and also for the millions of people who have jumped onto the comic book bandwagon all of a sudden as it seems to have become part of some kind of fashion that is currently going on. I wrote on my last post how Marvel were ruining comic book characters by creating such awful, pathetic, horrid disgraceful movies. Well, it looks like DC are doing the same with this pathetic dire excuse of a film.

But I am not here to review the movie itself.  It's each to their own. If you like bad acting, no plot-just a lot of awful sub plots, silly characterisation, a script that seemed like it was written by dimwits, and if all you're interested in is special effects and an explosion and nonsensical poo then by all means go and watch this movie. Otherwise, if  you have a brain then don't bother.

I am actually here to write the cinema experience. And how terrible and strange that was too.

First of all, I booked tickets through a very convenient cinema website. You could even choose your seats from the ones that were available! Again, more excitement that was unbearably difficult to contain.

So you could choose to be in "regular" seats. This cost quite a bit I noticed. But they were "regular". So what are the next ones? IMAX! What exactly is IMAX? I was not too sure. The tickets for IMAX were more pricey. I had heard of it and a quick explanation given to me made me choose to actually go for the IMAX tickets...But...wait...there was more. There was 3D IMAX SUPER EXTRAVAGANZA. Now this meant that you could watch the movie and enjoy it in the most amazing way possible-even more pricey of course. Another quick explanation and the fact that there were 3D glasses that I could borrow to experience this made me not choose the 3D IMAX SUPER EXTRAVAGANZA but just the IMAX. As I had not been to the cinema in such a long time, I figured I might as well go a bit crazy but not too crazy. Still insane prices for cinema tickets but what the hell.

I like nachos, I really like nachos and jalapeños. On the day of the cinema I wanted to get these. When I got to the cinema and looked at the prices, I was shocked...but it was OK For the price of an hour and a half of work at a minimum wage job, you MUST get A TON of nachos that would last until well after the movie was over. But what I received was a small amount of triangles on a small tray with a small amount of jalapeños that seemed...pointless. I went large too. This was supposed to be large...an hour and a half of working minimum wage and I got...this...with a post mix drink...no wonder people are so depressed.

But put all that to one side-IT WAS MOVIE TIME. A few trailers into it and then a whisper in my ear "put your glasses on". But I don't wear glasses? Oh! The 3D glasses. This was my first time. It was really odd, looking around and seeing everybody take their out the glasses and put them on. They all looked like complete brain washed zombies. and I was about to become one too. I put the glasses on.

It did not feel right and at first I did not notice any difference and kept glancing over the rim of them and back through them to see if there was any difference. There was! The leaves actually looked like they were falling out of the screen and into the auditorium! It looked like you could reach out and pat the horses bottom! The fireballs looked like they were going to come out of the screen and burn us!

After fifteen minutes, the excitement of the glasses had worn off, just like the excitement of the film, just like the excitement of the whole evening.

The main problem was that even if the movie was a good, even if it was exciting and had me hooked and made me enjoy myself, I still do not think that would have saved the evening. I could not believe how silly the whole thing was. From the overpriced tickets, to the overpriced food, to the over brain washed zombies...I do not encourage illegal activity, but it is no surprise that a lot of people are downloading/streaming movies. These people probably cannot afford to go. And there is no guarantee the movie would be good! The only guarantee is that you will get overcharged and to think how much money these movies make! How much money these actors make is actually quite disgusting and disturbing to think that we are paying for them to live the high life whilst we do not even get enough nachos. Not enough entertainment. Not enough anything for what we pay.