Chad's list of movies to see and why

[Tyler]

Chad sent this to me in confidence. I haven't asked him if I could post it, nor proofread it for content or accuracy.
(the comments in parenthesis are mine, made as I read it)

Sept. 16th:
Lord of War: Nicholas Cage is an arms dealer. Looks pretty good.
Cry_Wolf: Teenage slasher flick. Kids invent story and it becomes real. Very meh.
Venom: Teenage horror movie. Killer possessed by 13 evil souls chases teenagers in LA swamp. Better than wolf but meh.
Sept. 23rd:
Flightplan: Jodi Foster loses her daughter during a flight, or does she. Looks kind of interesting.
Corpse Bride: Tim Burton claymation film. A scared groom accidently marries a corpse. Want to see.
Sept. 30th:
Serenity: Joss Whedon Firefly movie.
A History of Violence: Viggo Mortensen is a small town cafe owner who kill a couple of robbers and starts to remember his past, which involves lots of gunplay.
Mirrormask: A circus performer enters a fantasy world. Written by Neil Gaiman.
Oct. 7th:
Curse of the Wererabbit: A Wallace and Gromit film.
Two For the Money: Matthew McConaughey is a former QB who makes his living telling people which sports teams to bet on. Kind of want to see it.
Oct. 14th:
The Fog: John Carpenter remake. Zombie pirate ghosts that kill, hidden in a fog bank. Will see.
Domino: Keira Knightley as a hot bisexual bounty hunter. Yeah.
Oct. 21st:
Doom: The Rock. Guns. Mars. Zombie demons.
Stay: A therapist tries to prevent a guy from killing himself and starts to see weird supernatural shit.
Oct. 28th:
Saw II: Jigsaw is back.
Legend of Zorro: The Mask of Zorro, now with child. By god, the kid better not fuck this movie up.
(heroes cannot be married or the kids fuck the movie up)
Nov. 4th:
Jarhead: Black Hawk Down, set during Desert Storm and starring Jake Gyllenhaal.
Nov. 11th:
Zathura: Jumanji with a space board game. A movie you can take Nick to.
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang: A murder mystery with Val Kilmer as a private eye.
Nov. 18th:
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: So...Harry Potter and a goblet of some kind.
Walk the Line: Johnny Cash biopic. We are damn well seeing this one.
(I have no interest in seeing this movie)
Wolf Creek: An Aussie slasher flick. At least the teenagers will have accents.
Nov. 23rd:
The Ice Harvest: John Cusack robs stuff on Christmas eve. Suppossed to be a dark comedy.
Dec. 2nd:
Aeon Flux: It looks good damn you.
(The mtv on the screen makes me think this will suck)
Dec. 9th:
Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: Opening day baby, wooo!
Dec. 14th:
King Kong: Opening day baby, wooo!(redux)
Dec. 23rd:
Munich: Eric Bana, yes Hector, is a Mossad agent investigating the deaths of members of the 1973 Israeli Olympic team.
(Eric Bana is the Hulk)
Jan. 6th:
Slither: Small town. Alien plague. Zombies and Mutants. Hell yeah.
Grandma's House: A video game tester has to move in with his grandma. Hilarity ensues.
Jan. 13th:
The New World: A historical movie about Jamestown directed by a guy who is also doing a Che biopic. I think it will be good.
Jan. 20th:
Underworld:Evolutions: The sequel to Underworld.
Feast: Bar patrons locked in a bar face off against monsters. Henry Rollins is in this so we have to see it just for that.
Jan. 27th:
Annapolis: A young man realizes his dream of going to the Naval academy. Ehhh. Only reason to see it is it is directed by Justin Lin.
Feb. 3rd:
Tristan and Isolde: An English knight and an Irish princess fall in love. Sword fighting. Horses.

[rickus]

If I've counted correctly that's 32 movies. At a cost of $8.50 (which is more than double what it was when I worked in a movie theater) that equals about $272.00. At a (conservative) estimate of 2 hours per film, you'll spend almost 3 days in a darkened theater.

Sixty four hours you will never get back.

$272.00 dollars given willingly to massive corporate machines that have little or no interest in the tragic human conditions that exist not only in other countries but our own.

OK. I'll end my attempt at a guilt trip there. And inform you that it's possible to buy ticket from AMC for $5.50 a piece. You have to buy 50 at a time but even then the price is $275.00 Not that much different from the $272.00 that you'll end up spending in the long run buying your tickets piece meal.
But you'll have an additional 18 movie tickets for practically the same price.

Here's AMC's Package Ticket Plan:

www.amctheaters.com/ticketpackages/index.html

[Tyler]

Chad and I have a longstanding tradition of waiting until there are two or more movies on that we want to see and theater-hopping to see them.
That puts the cost per hour of entertainment at $2.12 per hour.
We generally go to Quail Springs Mall for this since it's the most conducive to hopping.
I've heard rumor of them building a new mall complete with movie theater in Norman, and if so that might cause us to alter our plans. Until then, I'll start posting under the 'outings' section when we plan to go if people want to join us.

[Jeff]

Did I ever tell you about the time I got caught theatre hopping? I was on a date, trying to impress with my disregard for the rules. Instead, I was verbally assaulted by someone who smelled like popcorn.

[tenzingcory]

Well if we didn't watch movies.. we might actually have to care about other countries and even possibly our own..

Lets all thank Noam (rickus) Chomsky for his insightful commentary..

[luceph]

What Tyler said.

[Jeff]

This will sound hollow, but there are lots of things that I hope you don't forget about yourself: Your sense of history, your evenhanded way of reasoning about the things that matter, and your aesthetic sense, just to name a few. You are way cool, Chad. If the world were populated with people as deep and as compassionate as you are, I am sure there would be less fighting and dying and more appreciation of things like friendship and philosophy.

[rickus]

Wow. I feel very small and ashamed. Chad, I only mentioned the list of hours in darkness as a backdrop for introducing the topic of discounted tickets. Honestly I would spend at least as much time in a movie theater if not more, were it not for Katie's and my economic constraints. While Katie and I were separated in Boise, I saw at least 6 movies a week. And they weren't discounted. I know and understand that need for distraction. My earlier post was not a condemnation from the heart for your activities but was, as is usual a failed attempt at being clever from the hip.

[Thanin]

Huh? I think I missed something.

[rick]

Rather than put up a new post to reply to Jeff & I, Chad changed the post we were reacting to.