2008 Woodie Awards
Not So Much
Megan Manley
Issue date: 8/29/06 Section: Detour
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Just a warning, what you are about to read is only my opinion.
Everyone has things in life that drive them crazy and this week I have chosen to gripe about the movies. Now I am not necessarily talking about how they are made or who is in them, but really about the movie going experience itself.
First off, the simple fact that going to a movie costs about as much as two meals at Chipotle or any other college-friendly inexpensive dining establishment is just not right. Even more annoying is that the food within the theatre has now become almost half as expensive as the way overpriced ticket…but it is all worth it, right? Wait, not so much. Even if you are okay with the higher prices of films, there are other things that could ruin the ambiance of your movie such as sticky floors, odd smells, and even fellow human-beings.
One thing that I can never seem to escape is the movie talkers. You know, the ones that have to comment on each and every thing that happens in the movie, all the way into the credits. These movie talkers are also usually the insane movie laughers, the ones whose laughs just seem to last a little too long, are too high pitched, and always occurs at the kinda really not that funny moments in the movie. So, you movie talkers and laughers, you know who you are, you get a big NOT SO MUCH.
If the prices and the people are not bad enough, there are the movies themselves. Movies today are just ridiculously long. Seriously, when you buy your ticket it should say: "warning you are paying nine dollars to waste three and a half hours on a movie that won't really have an ending, which will then require you to pay an additional $9 to see the sequel that is horribly worse than the first film."
On one hand I can understand the films that plan on having sequels and can't really end a movie that isn't quite over, but then there are movies that will never have a sequel, because they weren't really that good to begin with, and simply end out of the blue. Not only do the random endings to these films not fit but they are just bad. Movies like this leave the audience thinking that the production company simply ran out of money and, well, ended the movie the best way they could with eight minutes of shooting time left. So these non-ended movies and their makers, they get a not so much. But you know it is all the price you pay for good entertainmen-nope, wait…not so much. As always, this is only my opinion.
Everyone has things in life that drive them crazy and this week I have chosen to gripe about the movies. Now I am not necessarily talking about how they are made or who is in them, but really about the movie going experience itself.
First off, the simple fact that going to a movie costs about as much as two meals at Chipotle or any other college-friendly inexpensive dining establishment is just not right. Even more annoying is that the food within the theatre has now become almost half as expensive as the way overpriced ticket…but it is all worth it, right? Wait, not so much. Even if you are okay with the higher prices of films, there are other things that could ruin the ambiance of your movie such as sticky floors, odd smells, and even fellow human-beings.
One thing that I can never seem to escape is the movie talkers. You know, the ones that have to comment on each and every thing that happens in the movie, all the way into the credits. These movie talkers are also usually the insane movie laughers, the ones whose laughs just seem to last a little too long, are too high pitched, and always occurs at the kinda really not that funny moments in the movie. So, you movie talkers and laughers, you know who you are, you get a big NOT SO MUCH.
If the prices and the people are not bad enough, there are the movies themselves. Movies today are just ridiculously long. Seriously, when you buy your ticket it should say: "warning you are paying nine dollars to waste three and a half hours on a movie that won't really have an ending, which will then require you to pay an additional $9 to see the sequel that is horribly worse than the first film."
On one hand I can understand the films that plan on having sequels and can't really end a movie that isn't quite over, but then there are movies that will never have a sequel, because they weren't really that good to begin with, and simply end out of the blue. Not only do the random endings to these films not fit but they are just bad. Movies like this leave the audience thinking that the production company simply ran out of money and, well, ended the movie the best way they could with eight minutes of shooting time left. So these non-ended movies and their makers, they get a not so much. But you know it is all the price you pay for good entertainmen-nope, wait…not so much. As always, this is only my opinion.