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Cinema
I went to the cinema the other night, I don't do that too often to be honest. Somehow I am too tight to pay a bundle for a movie that is either very disappointing or can be seen on tv in a couple of years. And I don't think many movies are worth watching anyway. But while travelling it is a nights away from the place your staying, it's passing time.
I went to see Coyote Ugly, an oldie, in Perth there is a cinema that shows movies that have just gone out of running elsewhere for 4$. I was planning on seeing a different one, but the Dutch girl joining me had seen that one already, so we ended up watching Coyote ugly. I'm not going to give you a review, it's not worth it.
The thing is that near the end of the movie the movie burned. It took a few minutes before they had repaired it and we were able to see the last few minutes, in the meantime enjoying the view of burned celluloid on the big screen.
Then I started thinking that it has happened to me before. In Nicaragua when watching the Mummy (worst movie I've seen in ages, I was really really bored and there was no other movie shown in Leon), in Mexico near the end of Jacob the Liar (got a free ticket for the next day and went to see Double Jeopardy) and a couple of years back in the Dominican Republic in this shitty movie with Stallone and Stone in it.
Apart from Jacob the liar, another good Robin Williams movie (which didn't burn actually but just stopped), all of these movies where bad ones, or even extreme crap. Come to think of it, the other movies I saw during this journey (Hannibal, Hi-Fidelity, Maybe baby, Erin Brockovich, Cider House Rules) all were good. Could it be that I subconciously do something to bad movies that makes them burn? I am jinxing bad movies? The percentage is too high to ignore the signs. Only American Pie, which I saw in Costa Rica avoided the burn. Even Face Off faltered when I saw it on a bus journey, and that was only a video. Perhaps I should go more often and see if my theory is correct.
I went to see Coyote Ugly, an oldie, in Perth there is a cinema that shows movies that have just gone out of running elsewhere for 4$. I was planning on seeing a different one, but the Dutch girl joining me had seen that one already, so we ended up watching Coyote ugly. I'm not going to give you a review, it's not worth it.
The thing is that near the end of the movie the movie burned. It took a few minutes before they had repaired it and we were able to see the last few minutes, in the meantime enjoying the view of burned celluloid on the big screen.
Then I started thinking that it has happened to me before. In Nicaragua when watching the Mummy (worst movie I've seen in ages, I was really really bored and there was no other movie shown in Leon), in Mexico near the end of Jacob the Liar (got a free ticket for the next day and went to see Double Jeopardy) and a couple of years back in the Dominican Republic in this shitty movie with Stallone and Stone in it.
Apart from Jacob the liar, another good Robin Williams movie (which didn't burn actually but just stopped), all of these movies where bad ones, or even extreme crap. Come to think of it, the other movies I saw during this journey (Hannibal, Hi-Fidelity, Maybe baby, Erin Brockovich, Cider House Rules) all were good. Could it be that I subconciously do something to bad movies that makes them burn? I am jinxing bad movies? The percentage is too high to ignore the signs. Only American Pie, which I saw in Costa Rica avoided the burn. Even Face Off faltered when I saw it on a bus journey, and that was only a video. Perhaps I should go more often and see if my theory is correct.