Curse of the Cineplex

There's this one movie theater in West Las Vegas with which I have a pretty odd relationship, if two visits can be counted as a relationship.

First time I went there, me and Jackson went to see "Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl". I remember a dark movie theater and weirdly sloped settings. The movie theaters here in Trollhättan used to have this really odd seating arrangements, in which you would stare mostly into the person in front of you's head and just occasionally see the screen. The seats in the theater in Las Vegas were set in a amphitheater way, providing viewing enjoyment for everyone not on the absolute front row.

I think we annoyed the people sitting closest to us, but really, you bring two pirate liking Johnny Depp fans to see a movie that has both, you should expect some noises.

My host dad had driven us to the theater and was supposed to pick us up after the movie. When the movie ended, however, he was stuck in whatever he was doing and couldn't pick us up. Jackson and I were left pondering what to do to entertain ourselves until we could get picked up.

Let's just say that watching the same movie twice is funny on multiple levels, one of them being the look on the ticket seller's face when we bought new tickets not 20 mins after the previous showing had ended. I also got into trouble with a woman I had never met as well. Apparently, Jackson's grandmother thought me a bad influence at the time. That got sorted out later, though, but looking back, it's quite amusing.

The second encounter with the same movie theater was a little more stressful.

Jackson and I had made plans to go and see "Troy" and we imagined that it would be fine since I was 18 and Jackson had turned 17. Turns out, that you have to be 21 to accompany a person without ID to see a R-rated movie. Much talking and waiting later, we were allowed to buy tickets, but we had to wait till the commercials had started. We seriously had to be alone with the ticket seller in order to get tickets, all because the guy didn't believe that Jackson was 17. The movie was worth the trouble, though.

I have one more funny movie theater adventure, but that will have to wait for another time.