English Tone Assignment 2/17/10

This was written yesterday but there was a complication in the internet connection.

Going to the Movies:

The plush red velvet surrounds a small walk space for those in the ticket line. Through the glass of the ticket booth, all of the movies and showtimes flash in red writing. Beneath the counters where the workers sit some kind of a ticket machine is turning its wheels and gears, eventually producing little paper tickets. I prefer to think its magic. When I spend one whole week without seeing a movie, whether it is at home or the cinema I lose my mind. However there is something so amazing about sitting in the plush seats with the faint smell of popcorn and watching a movie. Sure the underside of some seats may be colored in mulit-colored gum chunks or littered with food wrappers but every experience is guarnteed at least original. Unless of course you go to see a movie several times, when the story just cant leave your head. I enjoy the sheer message and spontaneity of movies. Movies are the one thing everyone can discuss, it unites a people and for future generations film will show how culture was today. Also it exists as the recession proof and heavily expanding giant of our time. After purchasing tickets, sometimes with minutes to spare the snack line is another indulgence in its own.
Concession stands may be the last remaining food carriers (along with fast food) that serves nothing but greasy food. However no one can say the overly-buttered melt in your mouth and arteries popcorn isnt the best guilty pleasure next to McDonald's fries. Even the less than attractive containers endorsing the tonight show for Jay Leno never fail to make me laugh. Along with popcorn the movie theater concession stand offers the always stale pretzel and candy in a box not big enough to fill a half of a person. For the prices, the food is cheap but deliciously guilty fun to enjoy during the movie.
Lights dim out and the theater is still lit with thousands of cell phones in the process of being turned off. Green light emerses the room with a message about the previews to presume. Seeing as many movies as I regularly do, I play the preview guessing game. Within the first second of some I can name the title and main actor/actress. My knowledge is perhaps best with movie trivia just dont ask me to chemically balance a formula. After fifteen movies of the same previews I saw last week for a different movie the opening credits begin to roll. For the next couple of hours only my brain is in the works. To say I leave my body is an understatement, I become emersed in the fictional world created by the video camera. Which proves how far special effects have truly come. Under no circumstances do I like racous talking, seat pushers and obnoxious texters then again who does? Being a movie going veteran there is a grace to the whole act. I embrace the peculiarities (pink panther 2) to say that the true art of the movie experience includes overly priced cheap food, ticket machine magic and the possibility of a good movie here and there.