Trish and I went to go see The Bourne Ultimatum tonight. Don’t worry…no spoilers here….just general observations.

I don’t know what it was about this movie that made me almost fall asleep a couple of times…it just wasn’t that great. The hype was SOOOOO huge! I thought for sure that it was going to blow the other two movies away. But that fact is, I can barely remember anything from the previous two movies and this one is almost as forgettable.

There was some great action and hand to hand combat and clever escaping techniques, but it was not GREAT, and because of that, it was forgettable, which is unfortunate. Maybe the bar has been raised so high by the dramas on TV, that if a movie doesn’t live up to that standard, it just isn’t good enough? I don’t know.

The best part of the whole movie was this: Trish and I got to go see it alone, snuck in our own buttered and furikake-ed popcorn (dass right! you heard me!) and even some jumbo sized red vines! They just don’t sell those anymore at the theaters…I don’t know why not, either.

Then after the movie….this big teenage dweeb behind the concession stand tells me I can’t get a refill on my drink because I have the cup that says “free refill” on it. Uh…what? It took me a few minutes to realize that there was some sort of system the theater uses to make sure that people could only get one free refill. They take your cup, throw it away, and give a new cup that has this “mark” on it. Well, it turns out they gave me the wrong cup in the first place AND this whole “system” they are using is not made known to the patrons whatsoever.

So I told the guy that I did not get a refill yet, that it wasn’t my fault that he gave me the wrong cup in the first place. He said that he wasn’t the one who gave me the cup. I said, “Yes, you are. You went and got it and handed it to me yourself about 2 hours ago, and had I been given a receipt, I would show it to you.” He just stood there blinking at me, mouth open…”DUUUUHHHHH!”

I then told him once more to get my refill of diet coke (don’t ever mess with someone who is hell bent on getting a diet coke, by the way) or let me ask his manager to do it and that I didn’t care either way, but it was going to happen. He then proceeded to throw my cup away and give me, yes, the “other” cup that he should have given me the first time. Oh…….my……..goodness.

So he basically chided me for no reason for not having the right cup the first round, then “rectified” the situation by giving me the wrong cup for the second time around…one I could then use later to get a 3rd refill, if I was in the mood. I was not, and we left and that was that. The damn thing costs $4.50 in the first place. That and the principle of it all and the fact that this kid was SUCH a DWEEB!!! There was no way in hell I was going to let that one slide. So I took care of that one.

This makes me want to go on and on about the decline in quality of service and overall experience at today’s movie theaters, but i am too busy packing to go on a trip tomorrow. That topic will have to wait for another day.

GRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!

Josh–

Matt Daaaamoooonnnn!