{"id":3076,"date":"2012-05-31T21:08:40","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T05:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/?p=3076"},"modified":"2012-06-07T16:00:06","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T00:00:06","slug":"movie_week_v_day_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2012\/05\/31\/movie_week_v_day_2.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Week V, Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/31\/broadway_4.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"royal\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><BR><BR><span style=\"background-color:#ccc; padding:6px;\">AMC Loews Broadway 4<\/span> <I>Bernie<\/I> Wednesday, 5\/30\/12, 7:00 pm <\/p>\n<p><I>Price<\/I>: $11.50 <I>Concessions:<\/I> None. <I>Audience<\/I>: 14 people, in a theater that seats about 180. <I>Trailers\/advertising<\/I>: Trailers for <I>Rock of Ages<\/I>, <I>Moonrise Kingdom<\/I>, <I>The Intouchables<\/I>, <I>Hysteria<\/I>, and a <I>Madagascar<\/I>-themed &#8220;silence your phone&#8221; ad. <I>Projection:<\/I> Digital<BR><\/p>\n<p>How is it that there are three AMC theaters within a two-block span of the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica? When I pictured this theater in my mind, I think I was actually thinking about a different AMC theater, one that&#8217;s actually only a block away, and across the street from yet another one. Strange. Anyway, a record-time trip on the freeway and into a parking garage set me up with enough time to try the new Santa Monica outpost of the beloved Loteria Grill, where I had some tasty mole tacos (and spotted legendary Teutonic creepy guy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001424\/\">Udo Kier<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;ve been to this theater before; the only time would have been during my first trip to L.A. in 2001, when I saw <I>Pearl Harbor<\/I> on opening day (?), but I think I&#8217;ve been through this before and determined that it was another theater on the Promenade. Anyway, this theater was fine, with the look inside of a run-down multiplex with crummy projection but in fact outfitted with decent digital projection, which seems to be what happened overnight last year to every theater around.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed the film a lot, and I&#8217;m not sure why it didn&#8217;t do better. Linklater is always entertaining, and I think Jack Black had one of his better roles here. The interviews of the citizens of the town made the film much more interesting than a traditional retelling might have. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMC Loews Broadway 4 Bernie Wednesday, 5\/30\/12, 7:00 pm Price: $11.50 Concessions: None. Audience: 14 people, in a theater that seats about 180. Trailers\/advertising: Trailers for Rock of Ages, Moonrise Kingdom, The Intouchables, Hysteria, and a Madagascar-themed &#8220;silence your phone&#8221; ad. Projection: Digital How is it that there are three AMC theaters within a two-block [&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-3076","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\/3076","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=3076"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3143,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076\/revisions\/3143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}