Film Festival...On Vacation...Rare Restoration...

[stivalineri]

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[sunsmogseahorse]

Hah, you beat me to the part about pants. I watched a film naked last night because that's how I am at home. I've given up on cinemas.

An excellent screed.

[stivalineri]

Curmudgeons Unite! or not.

[sunsmogseahorse]

With no pants :)

[mlr]

wow...
but that's a nice building. it looks so harmless and tranquil.

[stivalineri]

You can't see the goggle eyes and the ravenous toothy mouth ready to eat up money and leisure time? (Actually nowadays it's been put to a more benevolent use as an antique mall and party space.)

[mlr]

oh. i guess i didn't see. i must be the kind of dolt who might wander in - or follow a rabbit down a hole in pursuit of a dragonquest.

[otterdaemmerung]

I'd much rather see you in the leather or uniform attire of your choice. If the good Lord had meant for us to run around naked, we would've been born that way. ;-)

[stivalineri]

Funny you say that, I have an aversion to being unshod except when swimming, bathing, or sleeping. Other times I've at least got some boots on.

[otterdaemmerung]

Other times I've at least got some boots on.

I think I just came a little.
Seriously, though, I'm just the opposite, much as I hate it. I love the look of boots--especially my heelplated Corcorans and my tall linesmens, but they don't love me. The first thing I do when I get home is to remove my footwear; nothing feels quite right on my sensitive otter feets. I guess it's partially my rural Arkansan upbringing!

[isledemoi]

Wow! Hope you are feeling better after that exorcism... I agree that going to the cinema can be a disheartening experience but I try to go to day sessions and never Friday or Saturday evenings when the 'mob' are in attendance. I know you have discounted it but I do appreciate a big screen and good sound quality and still manage to lose myself in a good film at the cinema. If someone talks I am most ready to tell them to 'shut up'. It's nice too to watch a film at home but I kind of like the community atmosphere of sharing the experience in the cinema - it's a bit of an event and a good reason to get out of the house with friends.

[stivalineri]

I have gone by myself for matinees sometimes and it isn't so bad. But even music concerts and operas are full of blitheriots as well. I guess I'm just getting crantankerous.

Thank-you.

[caestus]

Well said.

I had no interest in the Burton/Depp wankery and you have made me less likely to see the film. I thank-you for that in addition to thanking you for the other excellent points.

It take some solace in the fact that les Montréalais are more mannered at the cinema than other places I have been, but that is really not the glowing endorsement it sounds.

My love for going oout to the cinema really died with the closure of the IMAX theatre in Calgary. Yet even before I was driven to near homicidal disgust. I recall witnessing Disney's wonderful failure with Fantasia 2000: an audience full of yapping children and their parents carefully explaining what the triangles set to Beethoven's Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C minor were doing. The child was actually behaving and quiet: he seemed quite rapt, yet his mother insisted. What are they doing? Being fucking triangles.

Over the holidays, I visited my family and my sister, cublet and I went to see Avatar--which I have ranted on elsewhere--and had to tell, repeatedly, a

[stivalineri]

I do think people are getting dumber as time goes by. It could be the very passivity of watching screens for entertainment, and not using the mind to imagine imagery the way radio does or books do, or playing and singing music ourselves.