Night at the Movies

We've been hearing so much buzz about Inception lately, plus it was about time for our semi-annual movie (oh how I miss the college town dollar theater, even with it's sticky floors, it was the perfect cheap and easy date night), so Zach and I decided to go see it.

Largely motivating our decision to go now, was that this might be the last week it is playing at the Uptown Theater. DC has quite a few movie theaters, but the Uptown is just fantastic. It's an old theater, originally built in 1936, and it still has that great, old field, complete with chandeliers and Art Deco lovelyness. It only has one screen, but that screen feels at least 3x as big as normal screens. There's even a fantastic, huge balcony. Going to the movies there feels like going to the movies is supposed to. 

Even so, we're still old fuddy duddies about going to the movies. We always try to go during the day, on a weekday (because we may be broke students, but we're going to take advantage of our flexible schedules while we can), when the theater will be nice and empty. Because heaven forbid that other people should be around. It is nice being in a semi-empty theater, getting what feels like our own personal show. Of course, that means we spend about twenty minutes moving from seat to seat, trying to choose the very best one, only to end up in our first choice. Bottom level, about 2/3 of the way down, dead center. With that huge screen, we're just far enough back to see everything, but close enough to feel completely engulfed.

Oh, and the movie? It was decent, but it just doesn't really stick. Not nearly enough emotional grounding, and the other issues make for a very interesting, complicated story, but there isn't anything that gives any insight to anything more than just that story. Which is fine, but I do feel a little cheated to go through such elaborate mental exercises for no real takeaway thoughts on reality or humanity to keep me awake at night.

Still, it did look great up on that giant screen.