Own country

A few years back I remember blogging about how the airport is a country unto itself cause once you step onto the airport premises they duz feel that dey could charge you the most outrageous prices for any and everything under the sun. Well the same thing pertains to the movie cinema.

Friday night, straight from work, I decide I going to see The Losers. Its like the A-team with more black people, and all in all wasnt a bad movie (I'm predicting it will be better than the actual A-team movie later this summer) except the ending was a bit disappointing, lame and presumptuous too cause they clearly assuming that they mekkin a sequel and from the paltry number of people in the movie cinema I'd say the likelihood of that is about zero.

Now I know the prices at the cinema duz be mad so usually I duz eat before I step foot in dem people place but this time I was a bit pressed for time so I went in there kinda hungry but figured I could last out til after the movie.

Waiting in line though, I really start feeling a lil peckish so I say let me go buy a lil pieca candy from the concession stand (M&Ms if wunnah really wanta know) before I go in the cinema. So I step to the concession stand, a bag of M&Ms is like 4 dollars or about 2.5 times what they usually cost outside but whatever I gine get these to hold me over cause the popcorn starting near 5 dollars and I cud really do widout all dat salt anyways.

So the staff member pull out the M&Ms and look at me and say would you like a combo wid dat. So I think to mysef well maybe a combo wid a drink might not be so bad cause I thinking like how the fast food people duz gi ya a combo and then basically if ya buy the drink, burger and the fries it duz be cheaper than just buying the drink and the burger alone so ya getting a deal basically. Aint that the whole premise of combo?

So I ask the fella so hummuch is the combo. Hear he now, well you can add a drink and a popcorn and it will be only $15 dollars.

Only Fifteen who?? Wha the whole movie was only $10.25!! Which part of 4 dollars he feel I gine upgrade to a whole other 11 dollars extra to gi he 15 dollars for a drink and popcorn. Wha dat is sheer madness den. Chupse. Wha dat cant be nuh sorta deal, how a popcorn, drink and candy could cost you 15 dollars unless we stop dealing in Canadian dollars and dealing in some sort of devalued currency now.

Wha I cann understand dese people. Wha nuh wonder people duz gotta sneak food in the movie cause these fellas trying to juk out ya eye wid dem prices. As it was I thought the 4 dollars fa the candy was outrageous and swear neva again but 15 dollars wuhloss man, you know hummuch orville redenbocker popcorn I cud get fa 15 dollars? Nuff man nuff!

No star, I tell he no to the combo offer cause I aint buying nuttin more in movie land. These people and dem combos too cruel fa me. Wuhloss!

Cineplexia

I went to the cinema yesterday to see the new James Bond movie. Its not as good as the last one but all in all its not bad either. Hadn't been to the movies since the summer so I was a bit surprised that the price of movies had gone up. Used to be $9.95 now its $10.50. I mean with the world as it stands with finances these days I thought they might encourage more people to come to the movies by lowering the prices not raising them. Cause movies is a luxury it aint no necessity so dem better be aware a that.

Anyway a while back I tell y'all how the airport duz be like a country unto itself. Well the cinema duz be the same way too. That is the only way I can explain how it is that the woman at the concession stand tell me a regular drink and a lil pack a M&Ms was $9.02.

Nine oh who? Alright then faget that I will have to do without. Cause fa $9.02 I could almost see anudda movie at that cinema, fa $9.02 I could go out in the mall and get a combo from almost any a dem fast food places, drink, fries and a sandwicj or burger. Fa $9.02 I could go to the bootleg fella cross the street buy 5 movies and still give TTC $2.75 to get back on the bus and guh home. No uh uh I keeping my $9.02.

But its always been so in Cineplexia, whichis my new name for the cinema since I feel them got their own charter and delare demselves an independent country. Was always so, is juss I forget that is so the movies duz go. Cause when I was younger I remember deliberately stopping at the convience store on the way to the movies to stock up on snacks cause the people in Cineplexia looking to bruk ya pockets.

I feel personally they should be offering we free food at the movies though cause dem should be counting their blessings any a we duz actually go to a movie these days what when you can get bootleg dvds of the latest release for a handful for a couple dollars.

Best not to bite the hand dat feeding ya I say.