I’ve long been a bit anti-Douglas Theaters for reasons that don’t have much to do with actually watching movies. I’m a fan of what the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center is trying to accomplish by bringing important lesser known films to Lincoln, and most of what the major studios bring to the silver screen is too diluted for my tastes anyway.
But a friend sent me the YouTube link to the first “Cloverfield” trailer a while back and ever since I’ve been intrigued by what the movie might be able to accomplish. Because of that, I felt somewhat OK with giving up my boycott of The Grand, a place I hadn’t been since it opened.
It was pretty much what I expected, and what I remembered from my days of youth spent watching fare like “American Beauty” and “Memento,” (two films worth watching in a theater. I was thirsty, and at $3.75, a mere three quarters more than a small soda, I was inclined to pick a size of soda that I couldn’t possibly finish in the 84 minutes the movie took up. In fact, I probably drank about a small soda’s worth of liquid from the cup.
The first preview was for “Step Up 2: The Streets” and I was worried I was in for a long night. The concept riled up memories from my days of visiting Fark.com everyday and reading headlines like “Hollywood out of ideas, remaking ‘Dukes of Hazzard.’” We placed the over under on how many phones we would hear going off during the movie and I’m happy to report we were over, by four.
And while the movie was entertaining to watch, I still became frustrated with how seemingly generic story lines designed to bring in as many demographics of moviegoer as possible. There’s the fear factor to get the guys in the theater, but do any of us care about the love story past the fact that Beth is pretty smokin’? For the most part I can see that as the only way to get the female demographic in the theater as most girls I talked to had no interest in going to what promised to be a scary movie.
In any case, the movie was decent and I’d say it’s worth watching if only to question America’s addiction with documenting everything.
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