Comments on: And you think it’s only bad for TV? http://www.thepomoblog.com/archive/and-you-think-its-only-bad-for-tv/ Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:49:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Holly http://www.thepomoblog.com/archive/and-you-think-its-only-bad-for-tv/#comment-33398 Wed, 16 May 2007 22:52:07 +0000 http://www.thepomoblog.com/archive/and-you-think-its-only-bad-for-tv/#comment-33398 Oh, my God. What I wouldn't have given for this choice last summer. I looked forward to seeing The Omen for weeks. I was there on opening night. Between tickets for me and a friend, two bottles of water and one bucket of popcorn, which we split, I paid $37 and -- much more annoyingly -- sacrificed almost 40 minutes of my one and only life to commercials, teasers, and trailers...for what? For the privilege of trying desperately to hear the movie over the noise created by the toddler and five-year-old whose parents were too goshdamned lazy and cheap to hire a babysitter. Movies for iPod download usually cost $9.99. I'd pay double without blinking to get movies on opening night. Oh, my God. What I wouldn’t have given for this choice last summer. I looked forward to seeing The Omen for weeks. I was there on opening night. Between tickets for me and a friend, two bottles of water and one bucket of popcorn, which we split, I paid $37 and — much more annoyingly — sacrificed almost 40 minutes of my one and only life to commercials, teasers, and trailers…for what? For the privilege of trying desperately to hear the movie over the noise created by the toddler and five-year-old whose parents were too goshdamned lazy and cheap to hire a babysitter.

Movies for iPod download usually cost $9.99. I’d pay double without blinking to get movies on opening night.

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