Movie Marathon

Friends back home know what this is. It’s the art of hopping theater to theater at your local AMC or Lowes. Not that I’ve done it before, I’m just giving it a nice definition. =)

Anyway, if I were to take place in this activity, I think it would be so much easier to do back home. Why? Well mainly because each theater in America has this nice LED sign in front of it telling you critical information such as:

1. The name of the movie
2. The time its showing

So after the first movie you watch you can walk around and see if there is a movie you are interested in and maybe “stop in” for a quick preview. Not that you would watch the whole movie or anything. =)

So after paying about 13 quid (about 22 dollars) to see one movie (X-Men 3) with a coworker, we decided to justify the price we paid and try to catch a “quick preview” of Mission Impossible 3.

The problem: No LED signs. There were about 5 different floors in the movie theater each showing different movies. And you can’t tell what theater number a movie is playing in unless you have a ticket. This poses significant problems if you so choose to “preview” a certain movie.

The strategy: walk around aimlessly and follow people to see what theater they are going to. That’s the only way to find out if another movie is starting soon. We also guessed that the older movies would be playing in the lower floors since most of the people that entered the theater proceeded upstairs to what we believed were the more recent films.

Using this deductive reasoning and a careful eye we followed a crowd of people to one of the theaters. We looked all shady standing around having no purpose but to sneak in another theater. The funny thing about this is that you don’t know what movie is showing until about a half hour of commercials and movie trailers.

The biggest fear was that it would be the same movie we had just seen. But I noticed it had a different set of movie trailers so it looked promising.

Waiting patiently, the movie finally started. Yes, we were right! Out of all the movies and theaters we had guessed correctly!

Did we pay another 13 quid because we snuck in another theater to watch a movie? Sure. Of course we did. About $45 to watch 2 movies? Who wouldn’t? =)