RiverDave
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Went and saw it last night..
1st let me say this is the 1st movie we have been to in Havasu and what a different experience. When I say different experience we pulled up and at first I thought the movie theater was closed. LOL We walk up to the window for the 9:00 showing of "Lincoln." This movie has a lot of buzz and excitement surrounding it.. Spielberg, one of America's most beloved presidents during the most trying time this nation has ever faced. Gonna be awesome.. This guy made ET!
We make it to the window, and tell her two for Lincoln. The nice young lady hands us the tickets, and then shoots a call out "Two for Lincoln." Being that we were the only two standing there, I wasn't quite sure what to make of that. Maybe talking to the guy that tears the tickets? No guy tearing any tickets.. We walk in the door, and the same young lady is standing at the concession stand, as we are walking by she says "Don't you want your free popcorn?" Sure.. Although we are stuffed from just leaving Javalina Cantina, and then heading over to Chili's for a drink before the movie.
You see tonight is Date night.. and we don't get date night. We have an infant and a toddler. Yesterday Stacy's mom came into town from Vegas though for a day or two, so we got to go out. Both of us are amped. Nice little bite to eat.. A quick drink at Chili's in the memory of Trevor (Chili's is where he held down home court for years), and a movie.
We go into the hallway and the Lincoln sign is on the right hand side of the marque so we hang a right and get about half way down the hall before a nice young man says "Excuse me, if you are going to Lincoln you need to go this way." How would he know we are going to see Lincoln you ask? Because again we are the only two in the building.. We enter the theater and you guessed it.. It's just me and Stacy. We pick our seats right in the middle, and actually the whole experience was kind of cool. Like having your own personal kick ass home theater system for 16 bucks for a couple hours.. As we sit down I notice there is a dude up in the projector room, he flips the switch and the movie starts.. (No joke).. LOL I look back again and he's gone.
About half way through the movie I had to go use the bathroom, and I left Stacy in there by herself.. She said "Hurry up, I don't like being in here alone." Strangely as I was walking to the bathroom, I kind of had this vision in my head of walking back in there to find her dead, and me explaining to the cops that I was in the bathroom I swear to god.. and then wondering what the F I was gonna do with two kids and no mom etc.. Fuck that Lanza kid for planting this kind of weird evil shit into all of our daily lives. Kind of made a decision in that moment that Stacy is getting a purse gun to carry with her at all times now, which will be another thread in itself.
So onto the movie itself..
Let me save you the price of admission. It sucked donkey balls, actually that would be giving it too much credit. You ever have that teacher in highschool that spoke in a monotone voice, and it would just put you to sleep? This whole movie was like that.. You have to literally FIGHT to stay awake in it. Point in fact if it wasn't for the hand job towards the end of the movie I would've walked out. Talk about a long movie too.. 2 1/2 hours of just dredging on and on and on.. During the points I was awake, all it did was give me a distaste for one of America's greatest presidents. Basically they are saying the 13th amendment was signed through corruption and bribery and lies and would have never passed. The 13th amendment is what made Slavery illegal for those of you scratching your heads.
So if your wanting to take a nap for the price of a ticket.. See this one.
If you want to learn a little about US History, you could watch this one.. Although (and I can't believe I'm saying this) I think the History Channel could have made this movie light years better and more entertaining then Spielberg did.
RD
1st let me say this is the 1st movie we have been to in Havasu and what a different experience. When I say different experience we pulled up and at first I thought the movie theater was closed. LOL We walk up to the window for the 9:00 showing of "Lincoln." This movie has a lot of buzz and excitement surrounding it.. Spielberg, one of America's most beloved presidents during the most trying time this nation has ever faced. Gonna be awesome.. This guy made ET!
We make it to the window, and tell her two for Lincoln. The nice young lady hands us the tickets, and then shoots a call out "Two for Lincoln." Being that we were the only two standing there, I wasn't quite sure what to make of that. Maybe talking to the guy that tears the tickets? No guy tearing any tickets.. We walk in the door, and the same young lady is standing at the concession stand, as we are walking by she says "Don't you want your free popcorn?" Sure.. Although we are stuffed from just leaving Javalina Cantina, and then heading over to Chili's for a drink before the movie.
You see tonight is Date night.. and we don't get date night. We have an infant and a toddler. Yesterday Stacy's mom came into town from Vegas though for a day or two, so we got to go out. Both of us are amped. Nice little bite to eat.. A quick drink at Chili's in the memory of Trevor (Chili's is where he held down home court for years), and a movie.
We go into the hallway and the Lincoln sign is on the right hand side of the marque so we hang a right and get about half way down the hall before a nice young man says "Excuse me, if you are going to Lincoln you need to go this way." How would he know we are going to see Lincoln you ask? Because again we are the only two in the building.. We enter the theater and you guessed it.. It's just me and Stacy. We pick our seats right in the middle, and actually the whole experience was kind of cool. Like having your own personal kick ass home theater system for 16 bucks for a couple hours.. As we sit down I notice there is a dude up in the projector room, he flips the switch and the movie starts.. (No joke).. LOL I look back again and he's gone.
About half way through the movie I had to go use the bathroom, and I left Stacy in there by herself.. She said "Hurry up, I don't like being in here alone." Strangely as I was walking to the bathroom, I kind of had this vision in my head of walking back in there to find her dead, and me explaining to the cops that I was in the bathroom I swear to god.. and then wondering what the F I was gonna do with two kids and no mom etc.. Fuck that Lanza kid for planting this kind of weird evil shit into all of our daily lives. Kind of made a decision in that moment that Stacy is getting a purse gun to carry with her at all times now, which will be another thread in itself.
So onto the movie itself..
Let me save you the price of admission. It sucked donkey balls, actually that would be giving it too much credit. You ever have that teacher in highschool that spoke in a monotone voice, and it would just put you to sleep? This whole movie was like that.. You have to literally FIGHT to stay awake in it. Point in fact if it wasn't for the hand job towards the end of the movie I would've walked out. Talk about a long movie too.. 2 1/2 hours of just dredging on and on and on.. During the points I was awake, all it did was give me a distaste for one of America's greatest presidents. Basically they are saying the 13th amendment was signed through corruption and bribery and lies and would have never passed. The 13th amendment is what made Slavery illegal for those of you scratching your heads.
So if your wanting to take a nap for the price of a ticket.. See this one.
If you want to learn a little about US History, you could watch this one.. Although (and I can't believe I'm saying this) I think the History Channel could have made this movie light years better and more entertaining then Spielberg did.
RD
