On a trip to the movies

The girls and I went to Bennigans and to see "The Other Boleyn Girl" last night to celebrate Kelly's birthday. Benny's was great as always and the movie was very interesting, however, the theater, left a lot to be desired.

We had to go into Saginaw to see the movie because Bay City didn't get it, which is kinda surprising because Bay City has been getting most of the good movies lately. To start off, Saginaw does not offer a student price for movies, so it cost us each $8.50 to see the movie, because they're greedy Hollywood bastards. Luckily, we were stuffed from Bennigans so we didn't have to stop and get ripped off with concessions. We got into the theater and they had some of that pre-movie stuff going on. I don't know where they got their preview stuff, but it had the most God-awful music EVER playing, it was so annoying, when you could hear it over the noise of the static. Thankfully the static stopped when the previews came on.

Now, I know that there was just a 3 month long writer's strike, but these previews for all the stuff coming out just SUCK! Let's start with The Ruins. How stupid do you have to be to go to an Aztec sacrificial temple and then actually GO DOWN the hole. We all know that's going to end bad. And the creepy worms just crawling under your skin, EW. Just EW! Then there's "Shutter," I believe it's called. It didn't impress me enough to remember the title. Spirit photography and if you're in a picture with a spirit, you die. Simple plot that's only been overdone a million times. Speaking of overdone plots, how about "Prom Night?" Sure enough, prom at a hotel with a serial killer fixated on one of the girls. And the killer just happened to escape from prison.

Come on.

Give us something original.

Or has it just been, "dig through the pile of rejected scripts for the least awful?"

At least the movie we went to go see was good. Even though, I haven't brushed up on my history in a while, so I'd forgotten the story of Anne Boleyn. I felt that it was well done and that Natalie Portman did a great job portraying Anne Boleyn. However, it seems that Natalie Portman really should stop picking roles where she plays a queen, because it seems that she has this tendency to end up dead.