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Posted by Sam Graham (Member # 2889) on 12-29-2011, 09:00 AM:

CINEMA: Regal Village Square Stadium 18, Las Vegas, NV
AUDITORIUM: 8
PRESENTATION: Sony Digital 4K
PRESENTATION PROBLEMS: Picture out of focus, LF channel intermittent
RATING: Three stars (out of four)

I have a crapload of quarters left over from last night's shenanigans at the Pinball HOF (where I totally owned Bad Cats), so I apologized to Smiling Ticket Seller as I handed her $7.75 in quarters and three dimes.

She replied with "I don't have any nickels...but that's okay, right?"

Right.

Inside, Smiling Ticket Taker asks "How are you today, sir?"

Me: "Why I'm positively lovely. How are you?"

"I'm fine. How are you? Oh wait...I already asked that..."

"Yes. And I'm still lovely."

The conversation ends there because she's broken out in a fit of giggles.

THE PLOT: Alcoholism. Wackiness ensues.

If you go in with the attitude that this is a comedy, you will be surprised. Funny moments are few and far between. The main character is obsessed with an ex boyfriend and decides to get him back in spite of the fact he's married and they just had a baby. The result is sort of a Bad Santa for women.

What makes the movie is the acting, Charlize Theron and Patton Oswalt are just brilliant in this.

Side note to Regal...You'd think with employees coming in to the auditorium every fifteen fucking minutes with their stupid fucking flashlights looking for whatever it is they're thinking they're going to find, ONE of them would notice the picture was out of focus, wouldn't you?

I suppose even if they did, nobody in the building has any idea how to solve that now.

Maybe you can use that spare nickel I left behind to hire somebody who cares.