Thursday night was the Grand Opening for our local theatre. It’s something I’ve wished for, a long time, and that wish was granted rather close to home. Just a few miles away, there’s a brand new Carmike theatre, and it’s really nice.<\/p>\n
We usually drive over 20 miles to get to a shopping area that has theatre and such. Carmike is cheaper and being so close now, wow, so much “cheaper” to see movies on the big screen.<\/p>\n
Opening night they had a slew of “old” movies to choose from for $1 each. We saw The Three Musketeers (2011) and it was really good! The sound was good and the picture good, screen quite large (compared to most theatres around, regular screens, that is) and it was all better than good, it was as good as it can get.<\/p>\n
The movie itself we really enjoyed, the voices, sounds, music all came through awesomely, gorgeous music, and the entire film was engaging and quite fun. It’s something the “critics” don’t like. Well, it was good, the twist was fine, it wasn’t something to complain about.<\/p>\n
I look forward to owning it on Blu-ray.<\/p>\n
Friday (yesterday) my hubby & I did some errands, and saw another movie. I wanted to see Mission Impossible in IMAX, so we did that at our “other” movie place. It was really awesome! Glad we got to see it in IMAX.<\/p>\n
Our local theatre went to “regular programming” on Friday. We are going to see Sherlock Holmes later today (Saturday) — something we almost were going to see on Christmas Day, but with everything the way it went, we didn’t. Local theatre was gonna open in the Fall of 2011, but it didn’t until just the other day. We had started a tradition (most years) of going to an afternoon movie on Christmas Day. Spending too much on presents, we decided not to do it this year, plus the allure of the local theatre, 5 minutes away, not being there but which was going to be (so we thought all year [2011] long.)<\/p>\n
There are a lot of movies coming out that we’d like to see. Having a theatre close is good. Not such a bad thing for us, close to home, no long drive to and from. Though next week Underworld comes out, and IMAX is the place for it. It’s just the way it is.<\/p>\n
I love that IMAX screen, and I do like a theatre that has regular large screens, and good sound, loud but not distorted, well placed, well done. Carmike has done that nearby, haven’t seen BigD yet, but we will. So, then I can compare that to the IMAX theatre I know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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