This weeks big release at the movies is Cowboys and Aliens and I don't consider The Smurfs a big release. One of the big problems we have here in Puerto Rico is that movies don't release the same days they release on the states. Example, Green Lantern came out on the states on June 17th and here in Puerto Rico it releases on August 8th. AUGUST 8th!!!!! I'm talking about a full 48 days later, a month and a half later. WHY??? Reviews for this movie are bad but still... Movies also release here on Thursdays while they release on Friday on the states.Speaking of movies not releasing when they should, this week's releases here are Cowboys and Aliens, The Smurfs and Horrible Bosses. Didn't Horrible Bosses released 3 weeks ago??? What the heck is wrong with the theaters here???
Not only do we have movies releasing weeks after the US release date, but there are movies that never release here. Take Me Home Tonight never got a release date here and that was a movie I was interested in watching. I'm still interested in watching. Another movie that is not getting a release date here is Winnie the Pooh. Having grown up with the old school Winnie the Pooh, this movie seems interesting even if it is for nostalgia factor.
One that that pisses me off big time is on what screening room they put it on. Last week I went to see Captain America and to my surprise I find out that they had it in the SMALLEST ROOM IN THE WHOLE THEATER!!!!! It sits a little over 100 people. The room was so small that I had to sit in the second row and the screen looked smaller than my big screen TV. The sound was crappy and there were two light on top of the screen flashing every 3 minutes.
So having Cowboy and Aliens release today, I took the day to go see the movie, but since the first screening was at 3:40 I said "Fuck it" and didn't go. Why would you put a first screening at 4 in the afternoon??? But that's not the worst part. The put it on the same small room where they were showing Captain America. Are they thinking with their asses???
And let me tell you something about 3D movies here. The 3D rooms suck. Seats are broken, the AC is set WAY too cold and the screen looks dirty. The glasses are always dirty and they are these dinky, plastic pieces of crap they could find. The paper glasses with the blue and red filters work better for 3D than the actual crap they give here. But lets talk about the movies. The movies are dark as shit and the glasses make them look darker. I know the movies are dark but I have seen movies that are supposed to be really bright and they look dark. I saw Transformers: Dark of the Moon on 3D... Well, more or less. At the 22 minute mark the movie started skipping like a scratched DVD. WTF?!?!?!?!?!? After 10 minutes of waiting, they decided to rewind the movie a minute and it worked fine, but it started freezing and went black 14 seconds later. Everybody got up and the Manager told us that we had 2 choices, either we get a rain check or wait for them to restart it. Fuck that, gimme my money back and I went see it at another theater and guess what??? It was the one with the flickering light and watching those flickering lights for two and a half hours really pisses anybody off.
Movie theaters here suck. I don't care if we only pay $7 when US theaters pay $10 to $15, but I rather pay $15 and go to a clean, big, comfortable movie theater than the ones we have here.
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