[GH85Carrera]

My wife and I used to go to the movies fairly regularly. The prices were getting really high, and there was a lull in decent movies and we pretty much got out of the habit of movies for over two years.

So on Sunday we went to see the movie 1917. Anybody that thinks they are having a bad day at work should see that movie and see what a tough day at work really is.

It was a very different experience in 2020 to see a movie. First I tried to buy a ticket online, and got to the point of entering my credit card, and the big red buy button did not function for the web site on my phone. I did not want to download the app and set that up with yet another username and password.

Screw it, we will get tickets there.

So instead of the bank of humans selling tickets, just a wall of computer monitors. OK, easy enough. Poke the movie we want on the screen, the next showing, two tickets. Now one "gets" to pick the seats they want. OK, get that done, go to pay with a credit card, and it says problem printing tickets, please see concierge to retrieve your tickets. WTF, they have a concierge now? So some 17 year old dude behind a counter is dealing with several other people with the same issue, so we all stand in line with just one person to help us. Yea, this is efficient.

We get the tickets, but they have no seat assignments on them. So pay for some very expensive popcorn, and it is really good popcorn. And an overpriced bottle of water for each of us. So find theater number 11 and sit to wait through a bunch of commercials.

Up walk a couple and claim to have tickets for our seats. OK, we move over a three seats, no big deal. 25 minutes of previews of movies that all look horrid. Only the upcoming James Bond is something I might see, and I will wait for it to be on HBO. It does not look like something I want to pay much for. The other previews were mostly horror flicks, and movies I can't care less about.

1917 is a god move and well worth it.

We hit a 10:00 AM Sunday Matinee and it was $10.50 for the two of us. They made their money on the water and popcorn.

Oh, one other major difference for Oklahoma, they have a full service bar so one could order a mixed drink and they had two beers on tap. No I did not partake at 10:00 AM and drinking beer at a movie where they shows us 25 minutes of previews and then the movie it was over two hours in the seat. I can't do that and drink beer.

We will likely go back but not real soon. With HBO, Amazon, and Apple TV I have a long list of movies to see and I can press pause, go get a cheap beer from the fridge, or go pee and not miss any of the movie. A movie on Amazon is usually $3.99 or $5.99 or free with Prime.