My Movie Theatre Experience

My brother Russell called me this afternoon to invite me to see Serenity. I actually had preview tickets to see Into the Blue with my ultimate crush Paul Walker and I was going to go by myself to see it. I'm glad Russell called.

Once I parked in the Century 16 parking lot, I called Russell to have him meet me in the theater lobby. Instead of waiting, he ran outside to find me. I thought he was silly because I was eventually going to see him, but I guess he couldn't wait to see me!

Although Russell and I wanted to sit together, we got inside the theater and there were only scattered single seats available. Luckily, I saw 3 seats right next to each other on the end of the aisle with no one occupying them.

When we sat down, a lady said, "Um, those are being saved for my husband and our two friends."

"Well, they aren't here right now and seats are first come, first serve. Also, (I lied) the people in the lobby told us to take any seats that were available. But we'll definitely save this one seat for your husband," I said.

She was disappointed, but seriously, I hate when people save seats in movie theaters. If a person isn't sitting there because they haven't arrived, then tough luck. If a person left something on the seat indicating that they went out to get popcorn or go to the bathroom, I understand and will respect their seat. You won't ever find me telling someone that they can't sit next to me because the seat is saved.

Russell and I were enjoying ourselves until we had to stand up so the lady's husband could walk by us to get into his seat. This fat man was wearing a white undershirt with suspenders that were holding up his pants. They weren't doing a very good job because I could see his white butt crack as he passed me. He held a hot dog in his left hand and a large drink and large popcorn in his right hand. Topping his ensemble was a book hanging out of his pocket called, "Conan the Barbarian."

I rolled my eyes as he walked by because of how he looked, then I put my hands to my face when I found out how he smelt. The smell was awful: sweat, smoke, hot dog, and a hint of dollar-store deodorant. I cringed as he chose the seat right next to me because he overflowed into my seat. Goodbye armrest!

Sitting their in disgust, I tried to tell myself that once the movie started, I would forget about Grendel. As I was coaxing myself, he turned his head toward he and let out a huge laugh. The air that previously resided in his intestines blew right into my face. When turned my head to avoid any more, Russell was hit by the air.

I knew I wouldn't be able to withstand Grendel's smell or his victory over the armrest. We moved two rows back where there were some empty seats. We watched in horror as the friends of Grendel tried to sit down. The friends, a man and women, were both very large; Russell and I didn't think the three of them would be able to sit next to each other. After the man sat down on the aisle, the woman tried to sit between him and Grendel. It was like a hard-boiled egg trying to get into a two-liter bottle. She finally got in, but she had to lean forward (like people do when there are too many people in the back seat of a car). Russell and I laughed and laughed. "All things being equal, fat people use more soap," he said.

Our new seats were wonderful! In fact, there was a lady sitting next to us who asked if we wanted popcorn. She even had miniature popcorn bags!

The movie was fantastic and now I can't wait to started watching Firefly. I highly recommend Serenity to anyone because it has everything: comedy, zombies, love, guns, government coverup, assassins, space-battles, religion, ninja moves, and lots of stuff blowing up!