{"id":1035,"date":"2008-12-30T23:30:09","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T07:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2012-06-07T16:00:12","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T00:00:12","slug":"movie_week_day_3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/12\/30\/movie_week_day_3.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Week, Day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Bridge Cinema De Lux at the Promenade<\/span> Gran Torino<\/I> Tuesday, 12\/30\/08, 7:30 pm
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Price<\/I>: $11.75. Concessions:<\/I> None (forgot to even smuggle in more Red Vines). Audience<\/I>: Approximately 75 people, in a theater that seats about 500. Trailers\/advertising<\/I>: Ads, in progress as I entered, for Van Heusen, Verizon, and Scion. It’s just dawning on me that those all sort of sound the same. Hmm. Trailers for Taken<\/I>, The International<\/I>, He’s Just Not That into You<\/I>, and The Watchmen<\/I>. Projection<\/I>: 35mm platter. <\/p>\n

Another night, another new venue for me, a seventeen-screen megaplex at a mall off the 405 south of the 10. I made good time getting there, jumping off the 10 and onto Overland to avoid a backup on the 405 south. I parked ($2 flat rate in the garage) and picked up The Economist<\/I> for the Tintin article in this week’s issue. I had a tasty custom sandwich at Truxton’s Short Order<\/A>, where my ears were assailed with ’80s music from the restaurant mixed at an almost exactly equal level with Christmas music from the mall. <\/p>\n

The cinema itself is on the upper level of the mall, and looms over the open space below, with a huge, multi-story glass front. Posters, banners, flat-screens playing ads and previews, and a dozen other promotional devices cover every surface. The place felt like a too-large variation on the ArcLight; it has high ticket prices, a fancy cocktail lounge, and space-age couch pods in the hallway, but at the same time, you can’t reserve seats, and they still play annoying ads (including that unbearable 3 Doors Down “Citizen Soldier” video\/ad<\/A> for the National Guard). The projection was fine, no issues, but the culture of movie-going isn’t quite the same as at the ArcLight, with crying babies, lots of talking, and little blue, glowing cell-phone screens popping up every once in awhile. <\/p>\n

As for the movie itself, I thought it was surprisingly good. Clint Eastwood was so much fun to watch, his performance overshadowed some less-great performances and lackluster writing. It was really an incredible show from Eastwood, a sort of career-capping (or unexpected third-act-capping) show that was full of bitterness, humor, and grit. Three down, four to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Bridge Cinema De Lux at the Promenade Gran Torino Tuesday, 12\/30\/08, 7:30 pm Price: $11.75. Concessions: None (forgot to even smuggle in more Red Vines). Audience: Approximately 75 people, in a theater that seats about 500. Trailers\/advertising: Ads, in progress as I entered, for Van Heusen, Verizon, and Scion. It’s just dawning on me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-los_angeles","tag-movieweek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3174,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions\/3174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}