The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for June 05, 2022

$ 50 for a 70es movie? Not that cheap.

Don’t forget to add all the yelling and cat calls and standing up down front. 70 bucks for two people to go to a loud noisy hot cinema where a lot of folks are dropping off their kids for the cinema to act as baby sitters while they go out and dine and wine. 1984 Ghostbusters, I took some of my kids to see it at afternoon viewing and I have never been back. Never will go back. I wonder what Uncle Teds other selections might be? American Graffiti is considered one of the top 20 films by many. I liked Ghostbuster and the actors. The noise….

I was thinking more along the lines of sticky floors.

Purple popcorn?

Could you sit either behind me and kick the back of my seat or in front of me and wear a big afro wig?

And fifty up-front commercials, sticky floors and they will not stop the movie so you can take a leak.

This one reminded me of “American Graffiti” all over again when I saw it on the big screen. It was so much like the times back then…Enjoyed the constant music in it played by Wolfman Jack on XERB that I used to listen to here all the time and I still have some vocalclips of him doing his show on reel to reel tape… They are very special memories to me that I will never forget..

Theatres have gone overboard with commercials and previews now. About a half hour to sit through not knowing when one will actually be the beginning of the movie you paid a fortune to see.

I was thinking sticky armrests and gum on the floor!

Maybe they are missing the sticky floor you walk on to get to your seat

I avoid the movie theatre experience at all costs – and I don’t think of American Graffiti as a classic.

You need a tall guy wearing a cowboy hat to sit in front of you.

“I’m tending bar one time down in the lower East side in New York… a tough felona comes in there by the name of Chicago Molly. I cautioned her, “None of your peccadilloes in here.” There was some hot lunch on the bar comprising of succotash, Philadelphia cream cheese and asparagus with mayonnaise. She dips her mitt down into this melange – I’m yawning at the time – and she hits me right in the mug with it. I jumps over the bar and I knocks her down."

The last movie I saw in a theater was Jurassic Park, 29 years ago.

Where’s the 30 minutes of ads for other movies.

I skip the theaters because anymore I need closed captions to catch all the dialogue

no, I was thinking more like other noises like coughing, talking and stuff. :)

That put a smile on Brutus’ face!

Dennis the Menace did something similar today.

Dennis The Menace today is a take off of the strip. Sticky floors, cold theater and people talking non stop behind you.

No. Seeing American Graffiti at the theater with concession costs back then would be about $5.00….

Uncle Ted can talk all during the flick to make it more authentic

Teens necking in the back row?

Theaters used to have the sound up so loud that I would leave with a migraine. Plus freezing cold. No pause for pee – me or the dog? No thanks. I like having the option to pause whatever I am watching and I don’t have to drive any where. I used to go to movies every weekend at least once a week with my child, but eventually she got old enough to read, too.

Maybe if theatres tried to be more like home viewing it would be a better experience.

Gotta love Uncle Ted! No zingers, just gentle good humor!

It costs $50 now? I didn’t know, because I haven’t been to the movies in years and years.

How ‘bout sticky stuff all over the floor and somebody’s cell phone going off behind you?

Must be a sale

despite being a big film fan, i gave up on the movie theater experience decades ago – got tired of trying to hear the movie over the noise of all the people trying to crowd in for the next showing (i believe that that’s unique to japan, but i could be wrong)…

on the other hand, i recall going to see a woody allen movie in a “retro” theater in tokyo (sleeper? don’t remember) and being the only one in the audience who was laughing – they knew woody allen was famous, but they didn’t understand the jokes…

Haven’t been since 2014, to see “Draft Day”….before that 1986 for “Star Trek-The Voyage Home”

Look at today’s (June 5) Dennis the Menace.

Accurate. That helps to fumble the desired memory.

I wish the letterer would leave a little more room in Uncle Ted… I always read it as UNCLETED first and wonder what happened to his cleats