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[olivermoss]

* Well, I'm glad I didn't book any spring travel. Mask mandates suddenly lifting with no warning sounds like a recipe for chaos. A lot of places are still struggling with not enough employees so. Yeah, I don't want to get stranded anywhere or stuck in this middle of this. Tho, the demand for travel right now means my not taking part is not even a fart in the wind.

I'm going to figure out some outings, but no planes and *sniff* no trains.

* The Thor Love & Thunder trailer is out. It looks fun, but it also looks like yet another 'Thor tries to figure himself out' movie. I'm just going to pretend all Thor films are stand-alones with no relationship to any other films.

It's out in 3 months? Yeah, might wait for a home release. The fact that this city has terrible movie theaters is part of my reluctance. People on phones, talking, texting, etc is stupidly common. I hate going to movie theaters in this town. Makes me wish we had an Alamo Drafthouse.

Spending a bunch of money to be packed in with annoying people and maybe couples who couldn't find a sitter for a baby is just deeeply unappealing.

* I had something else to post about... the main reason I was going to post. But I forgot when I saw about the TSA lifting masking and 4 airlines dropping mandates within an hour. I'm watching Outer Range, but haven't seen enough to have an opinion on it yet. I'll remember what it was... or not.

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[muccamukk]

That trailer needed like 800x more Jane.

[olivermoss]

Agreed

[finch]

I've had pretty good luck with local theatres, but it probably depends on which ones and when you go and whatever too. Not that I've been to a movie in like two years anyway, but we're talking about going to see our first one in ages soon.

[olivermoss]

I've been to a lot of East-side theaters. The now-closed mall ones were fine. Laurelhurst is... better than I give it credit for. I just had a horrible time there once with a guy who wouldn't stop shouting at the screen and thought that's what you were supposed to do. When I saw It 2 in theaters kids at the back threw pennies every time Pennywise was on the screen. Management didn't care. The one time I was at Living Room to see Babadook someone was texting and taking calls.

If you know of a theater you usually have good luck at, I'd love to hear. I should probably stick to Laurelhurst a lot of the time just because the rows are more separated, so if someone is texting or playing iPad games it's less obvious.

Hollywood is great but I've only been there for random things like Buckaroo Banzai or a dramatic reading of the Star Trek II script.

[finch]

Pre-pandemic, our go-to was the Academy Theater in Montavilla, which just recently switched to being a first run theater.

[olivermoss]

Huh, I know Montavilla and I've seen that theater, but it's not on my mental map of Portland film theaters.

I wonder if it didn't show up properly in... what was the thing I used to buy tickets and check showtimes? Fandango!

I'll have to check it out once sometimes tempts me back out.