{"id":1528,"date":"2009-08-05T21:56:23","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T05:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/?p=1528"},"modified":"2012-06-07T16:00:10","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T00:00:10","slug":"movie_week_ii_day_7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/08\/05\/movie_week_ii_day_7.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Week II, Day 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/05\/vista.jpg\" alt=\"vista\" title=\"Vista Theater\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><BR><BR><span style=\"background-color:#ccc; padding:6px;\">Vista Theater<\/span>  <I>Funny People<\/I> Wednesday 8\/5\/09, 6:30 pm<BR><\/p>\n<p><I>Price<\/I>: $9.50. <I>Concessions:<\/I> Some M&#038;Ms from Cap &#8216;n Cork up the street. <I>Audience<\/I>: 20 out of 638 seats, not great but still more than I expected for a movie that seems not to have found its audience. <I>Trailers\/advertising<\/I>: First, the Vista&#8217;s usual ad for popcorn, in which the globs of butter try desperately to get inside the popcorn tub. Previews followed for <I>Inglourious Basterds<\/I> and <I>District 9<\/I>. <I>Projection<\/I>: 35mm platter. <\/p>\n<p>I had planned to finish the week at the Aero, but in the interest of sticking with films I haven&#8217;t seen before, and leaving at least one Westside theater for next year&#8217;s Movie Week, I went with the Vista, which is <I>the<\/I> classic single-screen theater in Los Angeles.  Beautiful on the outside and the inside as well, with decent seats and generous legroom, thanks to the removal of a number of rows of seats, the theater is a great place to see a movie, which for me always seems to be a comedy. The theater dates back to the silent era, and has great Spanish Revival touches on the outside and Egyptian ornamentation on the inside.  It&#8217;s the third theater in a row this week to sport excellent neon, as well.  <\/p>\n<p>I actually enjoyed the film, though I&#8217;d heard a lot of not-so-great things about it beforehand. I didn&#8217;t think it was too long, or un-funny, or any of the other complaints people had about it; it had a lot of things to appreciate, even if it wasn&#8217;t a perfect film.  And so another Movie Week comes to an end, though I&#8217;m left feeling like there are still so many more theaters I haven&#8217;t visited yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vista Theater Funny People Wednesday 8\/5\/09, 6:30 pm Price: $9.50. Concessions: Some M&#038;Ms from Cap &#8216;n Cork up the street. Audience: 20 out of 638 seats, not great but still more than I expected for a movie that seems not to have found its audience. Trailers\/advertising: First, the Vista&#8217;s usual ad for popcorn, in which [&hellip;]<\/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-1528","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\/1528","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=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3162,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions\/3162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}