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ZOMG we were SOCIAL today!
YES we went to a MOVIE today with ANOTHER COUPLE! What? What about social distancing, you say...?
And, more importantly, WHAT MOVIE?
THIS IS US
THIS IS THEM
AND THIS IS THE MOVIE WE WATCHED
So the Studio Movie Grill was running a special where for $200 you could rent AN ENTIRE THEATRE for you and up to 18 other of your closest friends. And you could watch one of a ton of movies they have in their backlist. Scanning through it, I saw Raiders of the Lost Ark established that, yes,![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
myrialux was indeed a wee babby who was too young to see Raiders in the theatre, and decided this was a good birthday outing for him. Three weeks late, because we didn't get around to setting it up for a while.
We invited others, but this couple were the ones who accepted--most of our group is the age where either they or people they live with/COVID bubble with have various risk factors, so we're not surprised.
But it was a fun outing, more risk-free than anything else we could do (we went to the Botanic Gardens one weekend and to the art museum one weekend just to get the hell out of the house). The entire theatre, not just ours, was the emptiest we've ever seen it (which might be promising for self-isolating purposes if the real reason probably wasn't people not being able to afford it. :/)
It's a dinner theatre, and we did order food, only because transmission by object has much evidence against it, and they wore masks and gloves, abused hand sanitizer liberally, and tipped the hell out of the ticket for our server for having to wait on only four people.
As far as the movie goes: Raiders is still, technically in the movie-making sense, a fantastic movie, but suffers a great deal from the period-typical colonialism and sexism of the 1980s.
(And yes we have read That Conversation with Spielberg and Lucas, please don't talk about it here...you can Google it if you're unfamiliar with it, but I really, really wouldn't.)
And you know what? I DIDN'T SILENCE MY PHONE IN THE THEATRE. Fuck da man.
And, more importantly, WHAT MOVIE?
THIS IS US
THIS IS THEM
AND THIS IS THE MOVIE WE WATCHED
So the Studio Movie Grill was running a special where for $200 you could rent AN ENTIRE THEATRE for you and up to 18 other of your closest friends. And you could watch one of a ton of movies they have in their backlist. Scanning through it, I saw Raiders of the Lost Ark established that, yes,
myrialux was indeed a wee babby who was too young to see Raiders in the theatre, and decided this was a good birthday outing for him. Three weeks late, because we didn't get around to setting it up for a while.We invited others, but this couple were the ones who accepted--most of our group is the age where either they or people they live with/COVID bubble with have various risk factors, so we're not surprised.
But it was a fun outing, more risk-free than anything else we could do (we went to the Botanic Gardens one weekend and to the art museum one weekend just to get the hell out of the house). The entire theatre, not just ours, was the emptiest we've ever seen it (which might be promising for self-isolating purposes if the real reason probably wasn't people not being able to afford it. :/)
It's a dinner theatre, and we did order food, only because transmission by object has much evidence against it, and they wore masks and gloves, abused hand sanitizer liberally, and tipped the hell out of the ticket for our server for having to wait on only four people.
As far as the movie goes: Raiders is still, technically in the movie-making sense, a fantastic movie, but suffers a great deal from the period-typical colonialism and sexism of the 1980s.
(And yes we have read That Conversation with Spielberg and Lucas, please don't talk about it here...you can Google it if you're unfamiliar with it, but I really, really wouldn't.)
And you know what? I DIDN'T SILENCE MY PHONE IN THE THEATRE. Fuck da man.
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I had a thought during the fight scene in Marion's bar near the beginning--it might be possible to map bits of the Hero's Journey onto Marion's character arc--she's certainly the one who resisted the call at first, not Indy.
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She also enters the Underworld, she's in the city with the snakes. What's that one called, crossing the threshold or whatever? She has literally the same sets of ordeals as Indy, only - honestly, if having to charm Belloq and Dietrich into not harming her (or, uh, harming her) while she was a prisoner on that ship wasn't an additional ordeal, I don't know what was.
I mean. Definitely she had her own Hero's Journey. For sure.
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There's a couple of upcoming movies that might be given theatre releases (Black Widow and Wonder Woman 1984), and there is a drive-in within a 30-minute drive, which might be an option. Although if they pop them up for streaming at $20-30, we might just do that.
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