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Friday Night Movies 200

Wow. 200 entries. Seems like a lot, but I'm just three months short of four years at this blog. I'm surprised I kept it up. We watched two $4 dvd's today. Joe bought a copy of Cheerleader Ninjas somewhere for 4 bucks. It's a low budget comedy that seems to polarize people who see it, and make comments, on both IMDb and Amazon. It's almost always a one or a ten, with an aggregate of 1.9 on the IMDb. I side with the people who like it, which include Joe Bob Briggs and Film Threat. Not that I put much credence with what Film Threat says. I gave it a 4, one star for each dollar. It made me laugh and that's worth something more than the 4 bucks that Joe spent. It's not great by any stretch of the imagination, but it's got lots of stuff going on. Some church ladies are trying to put a stop to smut on the internet. Of course the Catholic Women With Too Much Time On Their Hands group are pretty repressed. Isn't that always the way. I really liked the lady who played their leader. She's got her hair pulled back so tightly her head looks like a skull. The reformers get the flamboyantly gay Stefan and some tough bitches from the Blessed Virgin Sacrifice Reform School for Girls to attack the popular cheerleaders, thinking they are perverts. One of the cheerleaders is an actual Miami Dolphins cheerleader. There's lots of jokes, some of which are much better than others, and they just keep on coming. There's a bunch of nudity, but it's mostly two or three gals. The Cheerleaders don't get naked but they flash their panties a lot. I liked the bunch of nerds in Star Trek shirts who eventually band with the cheerleaders to fight back against the repressed and repressive chuch ladies and their band of un-reformed sluts. The cheerleaders get some dubious ninja training and there are some goofy fights. It's a movie that doesn't take itself too seriously and is proud of it. Why I like it might be better explained by Roger Ebert, who said in his review of Gamera: Guardian of the Universe:

How, you may ask, can I possibly prefer this Japanese monster film about a jet-powered turtle to a megabudget solemnity like Air Force One? It has laughable acting, a ludicrous plot, second-rate special effects and dialogue such as, "Someday, I'll show you around monster-free Tokyo!''  The answer, I think, is that Gamera is more fun. Gamera is not a good movie but it is a good movie going experience. I am reminded of Pauline Kael's wise observation: The movies are so seldom great art that we should not go unless we can appreciate great trash.

I recently watched Date Movie. It's awful, except for the cuteness of Allyson Hannigan, and not a good movie going experience. I was interested in what happened to the people in CN and in DM I was more interested in seeing the end of the movie come around. I'll keep an eye peeled for a copy of Cheerleader Ninjas, especially if I can find one for $4. I was thinking of throwing Date Movie into the Mississippi River for a bit of a lark. I lent it to Joe and he said the promo material was better than the movie. I didn't watch that stuff. DM has an anti-commentary by some film critics but I couldn't bare watching it again so soon. Even at 1 and a half speed.

Sperhauk paid 4 bucks for a copy of Oira Sukeban or Sukeban Boy as it is known here. It's by the director of Machine Girl...which was not that great a movie. This isn't much of a movie either. It's only 60 minutes and it's weird as hell. Go Nagi, not a guy I care much for, is the Japanese comic creator that the movie is taken from. He's one fucked up dude. Really the movie is a mostly a vehicle for tits and ass, but there's too much torture and sadistic behavior for me to enjoy the nudity. Some young guy is unhappy because he looks too much like a girl. He gets picked on. His father sends him to a new school dressed as a girl. I know, it makes no sense, but his father dresses like old fat Elvis, so you know his vision is suspect. The school is an all girl school with some weird stuff going on. Near the end it goes off into the Twilight Zone as one woman grows organic lasers out of her big fake breasts and another woman grows lots of organic lasers out of the stumps of her severed legs. The boy is given a drug and it turns him into a woman. He grows breasts, normal ones, and his weiner disappears. Don't worry it regrows. It was always a woman playing the part of the boy. His friend also gets an injection of something that makes a penis grown on her. At the end of the movie the pair find love with their breasts and huge members while a dozen men dance around them in little white underpants that show off a plethora of man ass. That part made me laugh, but I didn't find the movie that interesting to make me want to get a copy or see it again. Saves me 4 bucks I guess.

What I Read in November 2008

Ten new books for the month. Not too shabby.

Dragons & Dreams Edited by Jane Yolen, Martin H. Greenberg and Charles Waugh. A collection of short stories. There is a Diana Wynne Jones story called Carol Oneir's Hundredth Dream. I have it in a Jones collection and another anthology. The rest of the stories are a mixed lot, liked some better than others. I don't need to keep it. The Flying Yorkshireman - Eric Knight. I found this in a box of books out in the garage. I don't know when I bought it. I bet it was in the 80's. Probably when I was on a humor kick. Sam Small learns he can fly and has an adventure or two, one of which involves Rudolf Hess. The other 8 stories don't have any flying at all. You can read a copy of it at Project Gutenberg. I liked about a third of the stories. The others were hard sloggin'. This is the same writer who wrote Lassie Come Home, which I might have read as a kid. Knight died shortly after The Flying Yorkshireman came out. He was in his mid 40's.

The Ratastrophe Catastrophe - The Illmoor Chronicles Book One - David Lee Stone. I enjoyed this book and might keep the series. I have the second one but none after that. There's a lot of humor and mayhem. The setting is the crappy town of Dullitch in the Kingdom of Illmoor. It's filled with all sorts of people and critters like gnomes, talking birds, elves and trolls. The ruler of Dullitch is Duke Modeset. He's a bit of a bastard and pretty much deserves what happens to him. The town is being over run by rats and the duke decides to clean them out. He hires some mercenaries, but that doesn't go well. Diek Wustapha has the power to control rats and he offers to lead them out of town. He doesn't know that the Duke, a right rotter, will not pay him. When Diek is tossed out of town in lieu of some cash, he gets his revenge by stealing all the children of Dullitch and hiding them in a cave. There's a bunch of other characters that have their own stories going on at the same time. The children get rescued and the whole thing blows up in the Duke's face. He's tossed out of Dullitch. Don't worry he'll return in the second book.

The Revenge of the Shadow King - The Rise of the Black Wolf - Grey Griffins #1 & 2 - Derek Benz and J. S. Lewis. I used some credit to pick these up at Sixth Chamber Books. It was on a whim. The series is set in northern Minnesota but that's not of much interest here. It could be anywhere. We follow a group of four kids and the guy who runs the local antique shop. There's a heavy Merlin theme running through the series. They kids play a card game that's based on the Round Table of Merlin and King Arthur, but with more mythical critters. It wasn't a bad series but one that didn't gel with me. The writing wasn't very good at times. I already got rid of them and won't bother with the rest.

Jumper by Steven Gould. I picked up several Steven Gould books on a friend's recommendation. Hollywood recently made this book into a movie which I haven't seen. There is a sequel which I don't have, and probably won't bother with. The story is different from the movie. I read about it online. The story has a young guy learn he can teleport. He robs some banks and has some other adventures. I didn't care for the guy very much. I didn't like the writing very much. The story was sort of interesting but the negative factors sway me to get rid of it. Better to re-read Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination. It's arguably the best teleportation book ever, though Bester's The Demolished Man is pretty darn good too. Everyone jauntes or teleports in Bester's books.  

Crusader by Edward Bloor. Another book from a friend, same friend. It's really a novel. There is no science fiction or fantasy element. Unless you count the virtual reality games that are played in the arcade that 15 year old Roberta, our main character, works in after school. It's the family business and it's failing like the mall it's housed in. There's a lot of racial stuff going on here, either in the games like Crusader which has knights killing arabs, or in the mall where the a store owner has racial slurs painted on his windows. The story unfolds all over the place and there are a steady stream of less and less likeable characters introduced. They weigh down the regular good folks. Roberta's father turns out to be a piece of shit, as does her uncle. At least she gets them out of her life by the end. I read through it wanting to find out what happens to Roberta but not really liking the story. Not a book I'd recommend or re-read. I gave it back.

The Moffats by Eleanor Estes. What a fun book. I had read The Witch Family by Estes and found it less than a keeper. This is more mundane and way more entertaining. The Moffats are a poor family living in a renamed West Haven, Connecticut during the last few years of WWI. Probably this was when Estes was growing up. A gentle book with lots of silly fun things going on. The Moffats are a family of 4 kids and a mom. They are poor but happy and do their best to be good people in the face of adversity. The main subplot has the doctor who owns their house wanting to sell it. It's a major worry, waiting to see if anyone will want the place and then where will the Moffats go. Don't worry, it all ends well, and it's a hoot to get to the end. There are several more Estes books that I bought and plan to read.

Blind Waves by Steven Gould. Another one that I didn't like very much, but others might. It's a murder mystery set in the near future when the ice caps have melted. The coasts of the USA are underwater and there are floating cities. I know I'm looking forward to that. There's a ship full of dead people and our heroine in her little submarine finds it. Then someone is after her. It would make a better movie than a book for me. Less time to think. I didn't care for the endless description of the vehicles and gear. Very Tom Clancy like. I find I have gotten less interested in the hard science kind of stories that people try to tell me. I won't keep this for re-reading.

Rufus M. by Eleanor Estes. Another delightful book. That's not the copy I have. I couldn't find a good sized copy of the cover to the newer edition I picked up used somewhere. I like this cover and as the title might indicate this one is mostly about Rufus Moffat. Rufus M is how he learned to write his name. He did this before he went to school and learned how to read or write. He wanted a library card so he could get books out of the library on his own. Rufus is a determined little boy. I like him. And I like these books.

Friday Night Movies 199

We had three short features today. First up some softcore porn for the raincoat crowd. How anyone could get too turned on by this, especially in a room full of men, is beyond me. I suppose the theater was dark back in the 1975. Desperate times. Tarz & Jane, Cheeta & Boy is the Something Weird Video title called Tarz and Jane and Boy and Cheeta on the IMDb where it scores an amazing 6.3 with 30 votes. I'm going to give it a 3 and I'm being generous. It's entertainment value is in it's suckiness. And I'm not talkin' about the kind depicted in the movie either. The 76 minute low budget film opens with Tarz and Boy peeing off their treehouse. They wave their wangs around for way too long, inanely chattering. Then Tarz fights Cheeta the ape. He looses and Cheeta has his way with Jane in the bushes. Thankfully it's mostly off screen. Tarz jumps in the river and gets his dong bit off by a wonderfully bad puppet alligator. That was my favorite part. No, just the puppet alligator, not the actual scene. Jane is upset from being rogered by Cheeta and she's even more upset at Tarz's new situation. Tarz, Jane and Boy head for Wango Wango Land where the witch doctors have penis regenerating powers. That is handy, huh. Maybe those witch doctors could grow hands. That could be extra handy. Ha. There's isn't a joke in the movie that is even that good. Along the way we hook up with Georgina Spelvin. She's a rich lady seeking treasure in the jungle with a gay Rasputin looking guy. Greg had recently been in contact with the 72 year old porn star. Georgina has published her own autobio and he picked some up for DreamHaven. I'm vaguely interested but there are so many other things to buy first. She was 36 when she got into the business 36 years ago. Wild. The group get to Wango Wango Land and they do get Tarz a new organ. The Wango Wango natives are a hoot. That's all I'm gonna say. It's not a good movie. One of the worst. There's way more man ass than women ass, and way too few good dirty jokes. It's fun enough for it's badness and the kind of thing you want to see again only after time has wiped the memory of it from your brain. Could be a long time for some people.

     

I'm not much of a fan of the slasher movie and this stabbin' Santa flick from Japan doesn't make me any more of one. In The Present some young people go to a hotel where they are killed by a homicidal santa. It's short at 49 minutes. There's some crashing about and limbs torn off, then it's a dream, then it's not. I stopped wondering what was going on when I realized that it was just a choppin' kids movie. The gore is ok, nothing outstanding there. Not one of your better Santa killing some people movies. It's almost sad that there is a catagory for that. Makin' Santa a murderer, what's wrong with people.

Our last feature was the 65 minute Axe. It's the video box re-title of Lisa, Lisa which was also released under California Axe Massacre, The Axe Murders, California Axe Murders and The Virgin Slaughter. Many people were cheated going back to the theater on this one. "Hey, I seen this!" You can see the trailer here. This 1977 low budget film is from writer - director Frederick R. Friedel, who also plays Billy. He's one of three bad guys who beat a double crosser to death. He's just more upset about it and he didn't hardly do any beating. They decide to get out of the city until things cool down. They stop at a store and the leader of the gang, a guy called Steele, terrorizes the lady behind the counter. Nothing like keeping a low profile when you're on the lam. The other member of the gang is a thug named Lomax. Out in the country they stop at a farm house and move on in. Lisa lives there with her paralyzed grandfather. He never moves in any of his scenes. One of the best preformances in the movie. The middle bear comes in the night to get some of Goldilock's porridge and she slits his throat. Lisa packs Lomax in a trunk and tricks Billy into hauling it up to the attic. I think that the trunk moving scene really speaks volumes about Billy. He's a moron. Soon it's chop, chop on the other two and Lisa is back to living the quiet life with grandpa. There are certainly better movies with people held against their will. That Arch Hall Jr. movie The Sadist is certainly better. Certainly wilder and more frantic. Another one I don't need to buy. Maybe in a decade I can borrow Greg's copy to rewatch. If I care. Or remember. Alzheimers, don't fail me now.

Internets has...

some time wasting websites that I frequent pretty regularily. Sometimes they have a bit of something that is of interest. I have been out of the habit of sharing and I know everyone will want to hear about this new Barbie collectible. Boing Boing has a link to the Barbie Collector. This special new Barbie celebrates women being attacked by birds. Weird, huh. The Birds is one of the few Alfred Hitchcock films that I have. Most of them don't appeal to me as stories, but I like, and actually collected a copy of Rear Window, North by North West, The Trouble With Harry, Vertigo and The Birds. A couple of them are real dvd's. I got the rest of them from Turner Classic Movies. It's a great place to collect movies from. I find something once or twice a week. I have a real dvd of Strangers on a Train that I have never watched. I have a shelf of stuff to watch, much of which has been sitting for a while, some as long as 7 years. I don't know why. Every Christmas season I break down and watch something from the pile, or at least try to. Last year I watched Lawnmower Man. This year I'm thinkin' I might watch Firefly the series, then follow it up with the Serenity movie. We'll see how that goes. I didn't get interested in the series when it was on broadcast tv. For some reason I never cottoned to the characters. I didn't see all the episodes. Two or three years ago I bought the dvd when it was on sale for $24. I figured I like watching tv shows on dvd over watching them on broadcast and I might give it a try again if I had it. Not yet I guess. I have a lot of days off at Christmas and New Years this year. I'll let you know if I get there.

 

I stop over at The Presurfer every day or three and occasionally they have something fun. I liked the Street Photography link they had. There were some neat pictures, some not so neat. I liked the picture of the little girl and the dog looking down the hill. What are they looking at? There is usually something every day or two that is fun to look at. Go on waste some time. You'll be sorry when you're old if you don't.

Power Miners 8957

   

I was surprised to see some copies of one of the new LEGO Power Miners sets at Target today. They only had one set of the series, the second smallest. It's some sort of power suit type mech with 67 pieces for $7.99. It's a mixed bag of parts and not such a great set for me. Many of the pieces are lime green and many of them are technic. Then there are the large orange pieces. Not sure what I can do with them. They'll probably go into that box of weird Bionicle parts that I have. I'm not actually interested in the set. I really wanted to see what the rock monster looked like. His name is Boulderax and he's hollow. His head lifts open and you can put things into him. He's kind of cute, in a boulderish kinda way. He's holding a transparent green multifaced jewel. Some one could figure out a use for him. There's a second minifig with the set. I don't care for his face too much, but I do like his dynamite. I bet that will be a popular part. You might be able to use the face for some sci-fi sort of character. I don't know that I would buy any more of the sets, depends on how many rock monsters I might need. I'm thinkin' clearance when the run hits the end.

Science Fiction Sunday 24

I picked Replicant to start the morning with Jean-Claude Van Damme, who plays two parts, a vile mom-burning serial killer named the Torch, and the NSA built clone. I like John Claude at times. In the hands of the right director, especially one from China, he does a-ok. John Woo directed him in Hard Target, Hark Tsui directed him in two of his better films - Knock Off and Double Team, and Ringo Lam directed him in this film and Maximum Risk. All good average actioneers that are mostly fun to watch. Replicant uses a premise that I just can't buy, that a clone will have the memory of the original. They used the same concept in Alien: Ressurection. But, I have a super powerful imagination with an extra strong suspension of disbelief and I can look the other way for the sake of the story. Michael Rooker, who I almost always like, plays the cop who has been after the Torch for the last three years. He almost catches the Torch on the eve of his retirement from the force. The NSA offers him a job soon after and he's put in charge of the newly grown clone. The concept is Rooker will try to force the killer to surface in the clone. Rooker just uses the clone's fingerprints to find out who the guy really is and goes to his lair. There's more fighting and killing. It's a pretty violent slugfest that moves at a pretty fast pace. There are lots of chases and explosions too.

I hadn't seen Reptilian for a while. I had forgotten most of the story. This is the 1999  South Korean remake of a 1967 Koeran movie called Yongary, Monster from the Deep. It has little or no connection to the old movie other than a large monster that smashes stuff. Even though this is made in Korea it has mostly American or American types in it. Made for the foreign market. The CGI isn't very good but it gets the job done. There are aliens who show up to reactivate the 2-300 million year old bones of the giant dinosaur that is being unearthed in the desert. The monster can vanish and teleport with the help of the aliens hovering in space above the earth. Hard to deal with that huh. The army attacks a lot and gets their asses burned. Yonggary has some tough skin to protect him and fire shoots out of his mouth. There's a lot of scenes with people sitting about the command center and the like, more of planes and helecopters attacking the monster, and little else. Lot of destruction, not all of which looks that great. The movie gets 2.5 on the IMDb and might be a bit better than that. Not much, sometimes the dialog is unbelievable, but they do wreck a lot of stuff and there is wholesale slaughter. Gotta like that in a giant monster movie. Then the aliens send another large monster. If only the CGI looked better. Yonggary wins and the aliens drive off in shame.

Friday Night Movies 198

Mike brought the 4th episode of Cinematic Titanic. They were trying to make fun of Santa Claus Conquers The Martians but Dropo kicked their sorry silhouetted asses. They're just didn't bring  enough funny to defeat Bill McCutcheon's soul destroying preformance as a Martian Comic Relief Machine Dropo. Watching his green skin antics actually makes you more stupid. And sleepy. In fact this new episode knocked out half the viewing public in the room. It almost took me down, it was a struggle at the hour mark to keep awake. There were a couple of laughs for me but that's pretty slim pickens, for an 85 minute show. Like the other episodes in the series so far I'm just not thinking that they are very good. I had seen most of the MST3K version of SCCTM about a week ago and that was a much funnier show. Sperhauk thinks it was the 'bots, and Mike Nelson. MST3K was better when he was the head writer. Nelson's The Film Crew is a funnier series. I did like the robot in the movie. That's him on the cover of that comic. Some amazing technology those Martian have. The movie, not the CT version, scores a 2.6 on the IMDb and it's well deserved. It's poor in every possible way, acting, writing, directing, sets, special effects, everything. Still, it's fun to watch at least once, just for it's badness. The polar bear is something that you just need to see.

I picked up a copy of the Jet Li and Jason Statham movie WAR at BestBuy for $5. I don't know that I got my money's worth. It's a pretty standard fare Western version of a Hong Kong movie, but lacking the spirit of it's Asian brothers. Jet Li is Rogue, a super secret assassin allied with some Yakuza group, who has a constantly changing face. He's pretty good, all sullen and shit. Statham is a cop who's partner and family are killed by Rogue. The plot has some revenge elements, some double cross elements, some rival gang fight elements, some blah, blah, blah elements, some twisty ending elements. It's a whole bunch of stuff you've seen before. The movie looks good for the most part. The director Phillip G. Atwell directed some video's for Eminem and 5o Cent. This is his first movie, and that movie seems made up of a lot of quick cuts. Sometimes you couldn't even tell what was going on in a fight. Even though Corey Yeun was the martial arts choreographer the fights weren't that great. Some of it was the direction. Better to Netflix this than buy, even for a fin. There are so many better movies to re-watch.

The Ziggurat of Abdul Alhazred

 

That's my new Micropolis module. It's the biggest I've done so far. Two square blocks. I also posted it to MOCpages. This is the building that I used the large tan baseplates mentioned in my previous post. Two of them back to back form the base of the Ziggurat of Abdul Alhazred. It's one of the oldest buildings in Micropolis, from sometime in the late 1800's. On the worst day the acolylites open the portal to the world of the elder gods. It's not a good day. Still, cheap to buy a house there, even in this market.

 

I think that the dark red octopus looks pretty good. You can also use it as a fan.

   

New Pirates in town

    

I'm really likin' the new Pirates sets that are just out. There were 8 sets. I got the three smaller ones. Left to right they cost 6, 10 and 20 bucks each. The pirates and soldiers are nice looking minifigs, which have printing on the front and the back of the torso. I don't care for the smirky face of that soldier. It's sort of annoying. Kind of makes me want to slap that goatee right off his face. Nice hat though.

       

Not too much difference in the first two pirates, other than the new green hat color, they even have the same face. The guy with no shirt has a nice three corner hat and a different face as does the guy on the end. There are lots of good parts. I like the new telescope and the new flame, which comes in opaque and transparent. The telescope comes in gold in the pirate sets. It looks like it will be in brown in the forthcoming Medieval Marketplace. That will be real handy. Going to be expensive on Bricklink I bet.

     

I'm not too sure that I like the new red and green parrot. Two colors are injectioned moulded and I don't think it looks that great. A bunch of parts have that two color process and often they don't look that good to me. There's a skull piece that is kind of cool looking and I really like the fish. There's a new color for the row boat. Dark blue. The octopus now comes in dark red. It looks pretty good. I just used one in a Micropolis module that I just finished over the weekend. You can see a picture of it here. That's the Flicker page of PBPancho or Matt as he is known to us humans from Earth. Loot Island has one of the golden chests and some dark brown 1x4 tiles. Those are nice, as are the nice selection of plants. Each of the three sets has a good variety of regular parts.

The $20 set has an unusual base piece that is used to create Loot Island. That's it below. I used a pair of them in the building that I used the red octopus on. Kind of weird lookin' isn't it. There are slots in the base that let the curved part fit over studs like many of the angled bricks do. The thing doesn't really have much clutch power. One of the two I have stayed in place but the other was warped enough that it would not. The piece is made of a soft plastic that can be warped very easily. I used technic pins with the axel on one end to hold it down. You have to put 2x2 plates with a technic pin coming down out of the bottom into the indentations with hole to have something to build on. There are no studs anywhere on the thing. Too soft I bet. An 8x8 plate will cover that large opening in the upper part of the island. It makes a nice little play space for the set. It could easily be used for some limited landscaping.  Good sets all around. I will like to have multiples of those.

Science Fiction Sunday 23

I stopped in at Walmart on the home the other day and wound up buying this two movie box set for 5 bucks. I couldn't find a picture of the box set. It's not on BluRay. I watched the first of the movies, both of which are based on Jules Verne novels, this morning before the TwinLUG meeting. Mysterious Island starts off like the book, some people escape the Siege of Richmond in a balloon. They drift off to sea and wind up on an island. The island has some big critters, Nemo lives there and there are pirates. There's a lot of other changes, including the addition of women and a bit of romance. That's not surprising, the movie was made for the Hallmark Channel. Kyle MacLachlan as our main hero and Patrick Stewart as Nemo. The New Zealand scenery looks great, as usual, but the CGI monsters they stick in are mostly sad. A guy does gets eaten by a giant praying mantis. Russell Mulcahy is the director. He does a lot of tv now a days. He used to do music videos for bands like Duran Duran and Elton John. His first video,The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star, was the first video to be played on MTV. Do you remember that. I had their album, on vinyl. Mulcahy also directed the first two Highlander movies, and Resident Evil: Extinction which I found to be one of the best movies he had done. This one is not nearly that good.

Sadly neither was the 1999 Journey To The Center Of The Earth starring Treat Williams and Jeremy London. It changes Verne's story quite a bit also. Different characters travel to the center of the earth through a different opening in the earth's crust. The characters go for a different reason and there are not one, but two romances, and they both are triangles. Another Hallmark production. It's as sappy as some of their cards. The monsters aren't very good CGI either. There are more dinosaurs in this movie than the first. The underground cavern with the lake is pretty to look at. This version doesn't have prehistoric humans like the book. It has to make due with prehistoric humanoid lizards. Their costumes don't look too good. The first time I saw one? I laughed. Out loud. There are some humans who live in the subterranian cavern also. They have some magical weed that heals wounds when used as a paste and acts like a pain killer when smoked or made into tea. There's some fighting amongst the various groups and a lot of talking. I barely got my 5 bucks worth with those two movies even though they are 170 & 187 minutes long. There is the sales tax.