I'm personally ashamed that it took me almost six weeks to find the bargain movie theater. I discovered that if you ask for movie theaters using 84321 as your location, Fandango only gives you the expensive ones - cripes, I paid $10 a ticket to see "Brave"! However, I wanted to see "The New Exotic Marigold Hotel", and it directed me to the Cinema 5 in North Logan where tickets cost $4 per person (Senior Ticket). The seats are little sprung, but it's clean. Incidentally, excellent movie with some terrific British character actors, plus Judi Dench (just diagnosed with Altzheimers - and doesn't that just suck), and the guy who played in Slumdog Millionaire.
I was really excited to find this theater, not only for the cheap ticket, but it's also the only theater playing some independent films. The one I was eager to see, Moonrise Kingdom, has gotten some excellent reviews, has some good actors, and the only place it's playing within a 75 mile radius is the Cinema 5. We went over on Saturday, chatting with some people we met in the parking lot who are also driving a car with a Texas license plates. They identified themselves as Texans - ones with Austrialian accents - hey, we Texans are a pretty flexible lot.
OK, sorry, on to the point of this blog: We pay our $$, sit down, and all the commercials are with perfect sound. Then the previews started (almost as good as having a cartoon), and the sound was screwed up. Drake went out and reported it. The kids on site futzed around with it, but it didn't really improve at all. The movie starts with the screwed up sound. There's about 100 people attending the movie, and exactly six of us got up and asked for our money back. What's up with that? It was like a nobrainer to us. Turns out there was a blown speaker, so it wasn't going to get fixed. 94 sheep just sat there.
And the moral is: Sheep get fleeced.
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