Thoughts from my trip to the theater today:
Dear theater owners: a "combo" is generally a deal to the customer. When the cost of the popcorn + the drink in the "combo" is the same as if they were purchased individually, you do not have a combo, you have a suggestion.
Speaking of concessions, when the "small" drink at the theater is the size of a Big Gulp and the "large" is big enough to bathe in, there is something very wrong.
Theater owners/film distributors take note: When deciding which films' trailers to show before the feature presentation, please do not select 2 movies with the exact same star AND director, give me some variety. (i.e. The Good German and Ocean's 13 both directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring George Clooney should not be shown concurrently)
Young people get a lot of flack for being rambunctious in theaters, but old people talk to each other (often incessantly) and walk in and out the theater so frequently that it gets to be distracting if there are enough of them.
Hollywood....seriously, enough with the 2.5 hour movies. Tighten the script, don't get sentimental in the editing, and get more of these pictures under 110 minutes, please. Citizen Kane is a lean 105 minutes. The Set-Up is a classic in 72 minutes.
Taking into account the time driving to and from the theater, possible standing in line, and pre-show trailers/ads you're pushing me, ridiculously, toward a 4 hour commitment. I don't have all day.
Letters from Iwo Jima just might be the best movie released in 2006, and Clint Eastwood will probably (and deservedly in my opinion) "rob" Scorsese of his "deserved" Best Director Oscar yet again.
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