Originally Posted by tableplay View Post
Originally Posted by monet View Post
So, if I can watch it on the big screen for free, should I?
Oppenheimer is going to be coming out in about a week so I may want to coordinate all three movies for one price.
I haven't done it for a long time, but some theaters have a back door entrance that you can blast through when people open it.
I used to do that 25 years ago for funsies.
Now I just have the occasional odd nightmare about it.
Reoccurring Nightmare which is strange.
If you think there will be some recognizable elements from the earlier IJ movies, maybe you can salvage some nostalgia from it. For me, what happened is I saw one of the later Star Wars movies and did not realize that it was a wokefest (I should have walked out rather than watching it to completion) - they destroyed the franchise basically (at least at the theater movie level). And this sort of ruin is imminent for me if I were to watch this latest IJ movie, so I have decided not to watch it. Anyway, I appreciate your heads-up about the Oppenheimer movie - I'm looking forward to seeing it. The sky's the limit if they do it right.
One of my favorite old school tricks was when there was a group of us (say five or six guys), we'd chip in to get a mole (the mole doesn't have to chip in) into the theater and then the mole would open up the back door and the rest of us would come pouring in. I think you can purchase a ticket a couple hours early and get a movie in before the movie on the ticket starts, but sometimes they collect the tickets at the entrance to that particular movie, so that trick might not work. On a dead Tuesday or something that play may fly. If you do get into an earlier movie, you can get a refund for the movie on your ticket if you decide you are movied-out for the afternoon - if they ask why (doubtful) you can tell them your friend couldn't meet up after all or your wife called with something urgent or whatever.
That's a good move!
Too Bad I didn't have friends or money when I was doing it.
Not easy to find a bunch of friends who are into doing that sort of thing.
Most people are too scared or feel guilty or something like that.
And there is the problem of trusting people or knowing who will crack under pressure if caught.
Anyways, I lost interest in Star Wars after the Return of the Jedi.
Stars was great for me in the 80s but once I got older it didn't seem as good or as cool.
4,5 and 6 were ok and the end of 6 was pretty good with that fight scene around the lava and big reveal of Vader.
But by the time that 7,8 and 9 rolled out I had zero interest in it.
Probably too busy printing money in all sorts of things inside and outside of the Casinos.
When I finally tried to watch Part 7 on TV I could never get very far.
Same with 8 and 9.
I literally cannot tell you much about any of them.
I know there is some girl running around stronger than Luke.
I know there is some black kid.
I know Han Solo's son is with the Dark Side and kills his father.
And I know Luke is on some island or something.
That's about it.
The series really ended for me after Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
Those will always be 1,2 and 3 to me no matter what anyone says.
The ending of Jedi felt complete.
No reason to go any further and when I found out that it was basically a watered down rip off of DUNE, well, I really lost interest