Today we went to a movie at one of the most modern movie theaters we’ve ever been allowed to attend. It’s one of the Cinemark theaters here in Tucson.

Diane reserved our tickets online and even ordered our snacks. When we checked in everything was ready for us. All we had to do was say “Thanks”.

Every seat in the place is a recliner and the sound system is really, really loud. They add “XD” on to the theater’s name to indicate that when you go to one you will be Xtremely Deaf for a while after you leave. When she ordered the tickets, I was allowed to help pick our seats which was a little difficult because neither of us had a clue about how the seats were placed. Turns out the seats we chose were far too close to the screen. Not because of the picture, but because of the sound. A lot of commercials were played before the movie, and the sound was just over the edge of “painful”, so we packed up our popcorn and moved up to the 3rd row from the top. We would have gone higher but there were people sitting where we wanted to be. I don’t know how many seats there are but there weren’t many being used. Actually, there were only 4 of us in there. It was like we had our very own private theater. I suppose we should have expected that because it’s Wednesday, and the movie we wanted to see started at noon. That’s old people time for a movie.

We watched this one …

No doubt you’ve seen it advertised. It’s an excellent movie about Santa Clause but it IS NOT for children. So, if you take children to see it just remember that I told you so. That’s sad because the story line is perfect for kids. There’s just some colorful language once in a while.

I know, most of the theaters now days have all kinds of fancy seating, and we’ve been to a few. It’s just that we haven’t been to a movie in a long time and (at least) I tend to forget stuff like that. So, it was almost like the first time. You’ll have to ask Diane about it. Except for the very loud sound system, I think she liked it a lot. Our next movie is going to be “Wicked”. We’ll take earmuffs for the commercials.

G’nite.