Let them eat antipasto platters!
Sometimes a fly likes to take time out from frequenting the fine bars of this city to spend some time in the fine cinemas of this city.
But when one buzzes into a cinema foyer, one does not expect to find that one has walked into a staff meeting, especially when one is in the posh section of the cinema - the part that charges $31.50 a ticket.
Yet there I was, trying to procure tickets to Mamma Mia for me and mi amore, when I found myself the unintentional audience of a manager who was loudly announcing some important news to staff: the posh $31.50 tickets would soon no longer come with free popcorn and soft drink.
That's loco, crazy-insane, I thought. Popcorn and soft drink cost cents to make - surely they can afford to give it away to customers paying $31.50 a ticket.
The problem was, the manager explained to his charges, that punters were filling up on the free popcorn and drinks and not buying any of the food offered on the menu. It was, after all, a business that needed to make a profit. And not, one presumes, a food bank.
Now I don't want to go reading too much into this, but I can't help but wonder if management is taking the wrong approach here. I suggest they start with not holding staff meetings in public areas, and then consider how many people just take the free food because it's there, rather than because they're hungry/thirsty.
I was planning a romantic night at the posh lounge cinema seeing the Dark Knight, but instead I'm switching to some nibbles at Sweet Mother's Kitchen, followed by a private screening of the 1966 Batman movie ($9.99 from the Warehouse).
Photo courtesy of Aim and Shoot!'s Flickr photostream.
Boo! Shame on them!
Free popcorn and soft drink always seemed like such a nice casual add-on to such a stupidly expensive (rare treat) cinema ticket.
Yet another underlying reason to spurn the place as the plastic McD of the cinema-world, and meander instead toward the Embassy.
I agree. And I would like to suggest that if they are serious about wanting punters to spring for their food, that they offer something decent. I once had the cheese board, the bread was dry and lumpish, the cheese cheap hard brie. Another experience where one bad decision was compounded by another when i went to Sex and the City at said venue (mistake number one) and went with the cosmopolitans on offer. The drink served to us was made of vile poisonous not freshly squeezed lime, and was bath temperature. In this situation you yearn for a bit of free popcorn and fizz.
followed by a private screening of the 1966 Batman movie
"Quick Robin, pass the shark-repellent".
A classic.
That was one of my first DVDs.
There's a pretty good drinking game that accompanies it too.
My favourite bit is: Batman looking at The Penguin, clearly in disguise, (to Robin) "I wonder what his game is?" (turns to the Penguin) "what's your game, Penguin?"
Is that Batman literally jumping the shark? Holy metaphor!
'Robin: Gosh Batman, the nobility of the almost-human porpoise.
Batman: True, it was noble of that animal to hurl himself into the path of that final torpedo. He gave his life for ours.'
I am completely over the plastic reading/odeon/yelling teenagers nightmare. I'll take civilised movie going at the Penthouse/Embassy/Lighthouse/my living room any day.
I ♥ the Batman movie!
In fact, let's have some dialogue from it:
"Let's leave, but, inconspicuously, we'll take the window."
Looks like we need to have a Wellingtonista movie night/drinking session
This Robyn agrees that drink is a filthy thing indeed and therefore a Wellingtonista movie night/drinking session is essential.
Have you ever tried eating the food from their menu in the dark movie theatre? Having me hands and face decked in satay sauce and the skewer in the eye put me off ordering food there again....pop corn is a bit easier to handle in the dark. A great place for blind people to practice eating....
If you're already blind, why would you need to practice eating, in the dark?
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