{"id":2773,"date":"2011-05-11T21:00:58","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T05:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/?p=2773"},"modified":"2020-05-10T16:22:53","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T20:22:53","slug":"movie_week_iv_day_7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/05\/11\/movie_week_iv_day_7.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Week IV, Day 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/11\/amc_avco.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4644\" \/><BR><BR><span style=\"background-color:#ccc; padding:6px;\">AMC Avco<\/span> <I>Thor<\/I> Wednesday, 5\/11\/11, 7:00 pm <\/p>\n<p><I>Price<\/I>: $14.50 ($11.50 + a $3 surcharge for 3-D, outrageous) <I>Concessions:<\/I> Red Vines, mmm. <I>Audience<\/I>: 15 people, in a theater that seats about 500. <I>Trailers\/advertising<\/I>: Lots. The inevitable &#8220;First Look&#8221; junk, including a behind-the-scenes for <I>The Smurfs<\/I> in which everyone involved looked like they were having their teeth pulled in order to say something good about the film; ads for the Dish Network (is their slogan really &#8220;Let&#8217;s <I>watch<\/I> TV&#8221;?), the show &#8220;Falling Skies,&#8221; Geico, Gillette, the History Channel, Lowe&#8217;s, the <I>Green Hornet<\/I> DVD, Sprint, &#8220;The Voice,&#8221; Honda, Gatorade, Coke, please make this stop\u2026 Then trailers for <I>Captain America<\/I>, <I>Super 8<\/I> (thank you, J.J. Abrams, for showing real Super 8 cameras, reels, projectors, and so on even though 99% of the target audience has no idea what they look like), <I>Cowboys and Aliens<\/I>, <I>Colombiana<\/I>, <I>Don&#8217;t Be Afraid of The Dark<\/I>, <I>Conan the Barbarian<\/I>, and <I>Immortals<\/I>, the last two of which were in 3D and looked absolutely awful in every way. <I>Projection:<\/I> Real D digital 3D<BR><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve only ever paid attention to this theater when flying (or crawling) past it on Wilshire. It&#8217;s a big building, facing right out onto the extremely busy five-lane thoroughfare that is Wilshire Boulevard, with nothing around it, no crosswalks nearby, and a strange sense of isolation. It was pretty empty when I was there, with one staffer selling tickets, taking tickets, and manning the concessions stand. On the plus side, there was a giant cardboard hammer of Thor in the lobby.<\/p>\n<p>The movie was fun, I guess, but dragged every time they had to go back to the gold lam\u00e9 world of <strike>Xanadu<\/strike> Asgard, and the 3D did absolutely nothing for it. Chris Hemsworth was good, Natalie Portman may be the only big-time actress of her generation who can actually seem plausible as an astrophysicist, and the fish out of water scenes were fun, but it could have been so much better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMC Avco Thor Wednesday, 5\/11\/11, 7:00 pm Price: $14.50 ($11.50 + a $3 surcharge for 3-D, outrageous) Concessions: Red Vines, mmm. Audience: 15 people, in a theater that seats about 500. Trailers\/advertising: Lots. The inevitable &#8220;First Look&#8221; junk, including a behind-the-scenes for The Smurfs in which everyone involved looked like they were having their teeth [&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-2773","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\/2773","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=2773"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4653,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773\/revisions\/4653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}