infinite improbability

The Kill Bill theatergoing scene was quite amusing. Basically, scraggly facial hair was the mark of someone who had either gone to see or was going to see Kill Bill. With my stubble beard, I fit in perfectly.

I was quite pleased to see that Covenant students made up half the theater in the 10:00 showing.

If I'd gone to a later showing, there probably would have been more youngish people, but I would have had to miss game 5 of the Lightning/Islanders series, and that wasn't going to happen.

Where I live in Florida, if you go to foriegn or critically acclaimed movies, the vast majority of the audience is retirement age arthouse film snobs (as opposed to the hipster crowd in chattanooga who will go to any movie that is deemed to be hipster-fashionable). The nice thing about having all of the retiree film snobs is that they all have large disposable incomes, which means that we get small indie films at the same time that major markets get them, while other small cities are waiting for months. That also means, though, that even for a movie like Kill Bill, you'll find the sort of people that you wouldn't expect would go see that kind of movie going in droves, because it's critically acclaimed and has a critically acclaimed director.

Most of the non-Covenant people I saw there didn't look like hipsters as much as they looked like martial arts geeks/just plain ordinary geeks. (As for the Covenant people being hipsters, well...)

So I suppose my question is, do the retirees enjoy it?

Since they're all the film snob type, they probably did enjoy it.

The weirdest thing was while I was still at Covenant, my junior year I took a class from an economics professor from New Zealand who was spending his sabbatical with the Chalmers Center, and on the last day of class he decided to show us a rather lengthy clip from Pulp Fiction because he said it illustrated some point he had been making about leadership styles. Anyway, no one in the class had seen Pulp Fiction, and we're sitting there watching John Travolta's character accidentally blow a guy's head off while the professor is sitting in the back of the class laughing at that, and every little clever bit of dialogue, while we're all sitting there thinking "a professor just showed us a movie where a guy's head gets blown off for comedy, and now he's laughing at it." It was just a bit odd.

That scene is hilarious. But I can imagine some people here wouldn't think so.

Probably if I see the whole movie, I'd agree, but it's another story when you have a professor who has the class read a paper he wrote, where he makes reference to Pulp Fiction with Marcellus as an example of a strong leader, and then in the next class he shows you part of the movie before discussing his paper, and when you haven't seen it before and haven't a clue what it's about, and then the first thing you see is a guy's head getting blown off accidentally, it's more than a little strange.

the janet jackson effect?? i think not. and retiree film snobs?? it sounds like you're talking about a different town...except that, uh, you're not. try, 'i'm retired and bored with my life so i'll see movies that i hear those young kids talking about and maybe it'll be good.' :-)

What I was referring to was that since the Superbowl, everybody has been cracking down on everything for fear of getting in trouble. Hence, movie theaters cracking down on letting people into R-rated movies.

As for the retiree thing, think about it, you really do know the sort I'm talking about. They're more common in Sarasota, but not altogether non-existant here--they're the ones who go to all the artsy "cultured" movies, and you can tell them apart from the average retiree movie goer. They came out in droves for the Sarasota Film Festival, and you'll also find them at anything foriegn or critically acclaimed.

nope, never seen them in nuestra ciudad. but, i have seen them in sarasota.

nope, never seen them in nuestra ciudad. but, i have seen them in sarasota at burns court.

When have you been to Burnes Court?

fui alli con jeremy y madre para ver "Monsoon Wedding." se puede comprar cerveza y vino alli para beber durante las peliculas.