To the movies.

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I was the only one, other than workers, when I entered the building.  There isn't a ticket stand, anymore.  Just pay where you buy foods, if you were foolish enough to do so.  I just asked about soda.  Between $5 and $6.  I didn't bother asking about popcorn, or else.  They don't take cash, either.  Not good, I won't be back, just for that.

The movie itself?  I... had a pretty good idea, going in.  Was... pretty sure, from the start.  These are a mixture of ancient pre-Christian ways of telling stories which have a rhythm and rhyme.  I read these growing up, along with many other things.  Much as, if you don't know a particular Shakespeare play, but have seen many others of his works... there... is a madness to the method.  No, not the other way around.  And, either you enjoy it or you don't.

There were a few surprises.  But, that is expected too.  Still, basically, I... understood what I was going in for, and enjoyed it to a degree.  But, it's... a rarified thing.  I don't think most people would enjoy it, any more than they would enjoy most of the old stories, or ways of storytelling.  From indian works, to most folk stories from past, from anywhere around the world.

It wasn't the best, or worst.  But, very... good, within that framework.  Far too simple for moderns.  In a time when the average citizen, at least of this country, mostly... so far... to a degree if on the wane... has more rights than kings of old, literally... this won't go over well with modern audiences.  Much like, again, Shakespeare or plays of a contemporary time or nature.  Operas, for example, or even plays... even if you could find one not woke.  

Oh, but the commercials.  Ugh.  All black, all the way.  Just companies, big and small, local and national... not to do business with, ever.  Still, wall to wall advertising for things I'll never use.  Especially the way they were presented.

Leaving, I saw four guys.  They may have been employees though.  I was the only one in my theater.  Wow.  I asked if that was usual.  He said weekdays are pretty dog, but they are busier on weekends.  They have to be losing money.  That's just crazy.  Oh well, not my problem.  They have chased most customers away, one way, another, or another, or another.  I'll... not be back.

As to recommendations?  Not... really.  I don't think most moderns would get anything out of it.  I was merely reminded of the good old bad days.  More a time and way of story-telling, and to a more minor degree, how things really were.  But, I wouldn't go again.  It could have been worse.  Much worse.