its been a movie-tastic couple of days. on saturday, my friend zach paid for the ticket to see "live free or die hard". on sunday/monday, i watched "falling down" with michael douglas. today we saw "transformers" at the westlakes alamo draft house.
sadly, saturday was the last day for the original alamo drafthouse in downtown austin. it was my favourite out of all the alamo draft houses. i guess i'll do some explaining, just in case. the alamo draft house is a movie theater that adds food and drink to the experience. honestly the only 2 food things i've ever tried have been a pizza and a cheeseburger, but the menu has all sorts of goodies on there. in the beverage area, they have lots of beers, wines, and other goodies like the root beer float or their version of the $5 milkshake (from pulp fiction).
its a themed sort of place, so for example...when "TMNT" came out earlier this year, they showed "teenage mutant ninja turtles" (the 1990 movie) the night before it came out. they had the pizzas on special. they also had the turtle van parked in front of the theater. oh, and they had tmnt pez dispensers! i got donatello. instead of showing advertisements for coca cola while you wait for the movie to come on, we got to see old ninja turtles cartoons, and some other cool stuff. this is typical of the drafthouse experience.
anyway, the original theater was my favourite. as you walked in you immediately went up some stairs, and as you got to the top you could see a giant poster of john wayne's 1960 film "the alamo". somehow everything always seemed kicked up a knotch from the other theaters. oh well. i took some sleeping aids and they feel like they're kicking in. i better shutdown.
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