{"id":2740,"date":"2011-05-07T22:30:59","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T06:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/05\/08\/movie_week_iv_day_3.html"},"modified":"2012-06-07T16:00:07","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T00:00:07","slug":"movie_week_iv_day_3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/05\/07\/movie_week_iv_day_3.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Week IV, Day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/07\/arclight_so.jpg\" alt=\"20110508-105251.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><BR><BR><span style=\"background-color:#ccc; padding:6px;\">Arclight Sherman Oaks<\/span> <I>Fast Five<\/I> Saturday, 5\/7\/11, 8:00 pm <\/p>\n<p><I>Price<\/I>: $13.50 (and that&#8217;s <I>with<\/I> a dollar off for buying the ticket using the Arclight iPhone app) <I>Concessions:<\/I> None <I>Audience<\/I>:  The approximately 200-seat theater was mostly full on this Saturday night. <I>Trailers\/advertising<\/I>: as with all Arclight theaters, no ads, a godsend. Trailers for <I>X-Men First Class<\/I>, <I>Priest<\/I>, <I>The Change-Up<\/I>, and <I>Cowboys &#038; Aliens<\/I>. <I>Projection:<\/I> Digital<BR><\/p>\n<p>Expanding from their wildly popular Hollywood flagship location, the Arclight is now a chain with four locations, all offering an excellent movie-going experience in exchange for somewhat ridiculous ticket prices. I&#8217;ve never been to any of their other locations, so I was eager to see how well the Arclight experience translated to another setting. The trek from the parking garage to the theater at the Galleria Mall in Sherman Oaks is a long one, giving you ample opportunity to observe the culture of the &#8220;Valley Mall&#8221; species. It was a lot to handle, and I can&#8217;t really see myself going there unless I was just dying to see a movie and Hollywood had closed for the day or something. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the interior looks fairly similar to the Hollywood location, with the departure-style &#8216;now showing&#8217; board and giant clock. The crowd was just different, a lot of teenagers and families, which is not generally what you see in Hollywood. I made my way past the giant <I>Pirates of the Caribbean<\/I> display (a huge wall covered in posters from all over the world for all four movies) and found my seat in the theater just as the movie started. I&#8217;d never seen any of the previous four films in this franchise, but I wasn&#8217;t too concerned about keeping up, and I enjoyed it for what it was. It doesn&#8217;t make sense to try to criticize a movie like this for lapses in realism; it&#8217;s one big lapse in realism, starting with Vin Diesel having a job as an actor. The presentation was fine, a big, crisp digital picture, which no one thinks twice about any more, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arclight Sherman Oaks Fast Five Saturday, 5\/7\/11, 8:00 pm Price: $13.50 (and that&#8217;s with a dollar off for buying the ticket using the Arclight iPhone app) Concessions: None Audience: The approximately 200-seat theater was mostly full on this Saturday night. Trailers\/advertising: as with all Arclight theaters, no ads, a godsend. Trailers for X-Men First Class, [&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-2740","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\/2740","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=2740"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3150,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740\/revisions\/3150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}