Expelliarmus! Lumos! Other spell! As you should know, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince hit theaters recently. This new development could mean only one thing in the life of Jane Adams, Bo's Clothing Shack employee and intern not-so-extraordinaire: She too must hit theaters.
Anticipating the slightly elevated price of movie tickets in this city where every price is slightly elevated, I decided to go to a matinee. I am glad I did some online research first because a matinee in the city is a movie before noon. Before noon, people. Now this is the point where I simply have to put my foot down and say New Yorkers are crazy. Do you not love to sleep here? Because where I come from a matinee is anything before six.
Despite the fact that I was slightly disturbed by this, I decided to suck it up and get thee from bed to make it to a 10:55 showing. All for the love of Harry Potter, of course, or more specifically my on-screen crush Ronald Weasley (Rupert Grint).
I arrived at the theater to discover that a matinee was $6, a price that is well worth the extra hour or two of sleep I lost. I missed that sleep even less when I saw normal admission was $12.50. Ouch.
Most people probably wouldn't have purchased concessions, being that it was 10:30 in the morning, but I am not most people. Since I hadn't been to a movie in ages I wanted the full movie experience - greasy popcorn and all.
I bought a popcorn, which was $5 and ridiculously small for that price (at least from the perspective of an Ohioan) and a $4 small, white-cherry Icee ( I love those things). Like the movie theater in Athens I buttered my own popcorn, which is something I like as it is hard for concession workers to know how much butter you want, and I headed to my theater.
The entire facility was divided into three floors with some theaters in the basement and some on the second level. That is one thing I have noticed about New York. While in Ohio we have plenty of space to spread out, New Yorkers have to spread up. I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing, but it does make for a whole lot more stairs.
I have to admit that despite the stairs the theater was nice. The chairs were soft and comfortable and everything looked new, something that is lacking in the theaters of less famous cities like our beloved Athens. Still, this theater was without some of the things that I enjoy when I go see a movie at The Athena Grand.
Instead of the nice time before the movie starts when you get to sit in the quiet theater and chat with whomever you came with, this movie theater showed Sneak Peeks.
These sneak peeks are basically just more advertisements for how Cartoon Network now has shows with real people in them, how we should all be like actors and donate our money to charity and how people who leave their cell phones on are destined for hell. After all that wonderful knowledge I was practically overjoyed when the movie finally started. I leaned back into my chair in eager anticipation, stuffed a handful of popcorn in my mouth, took a sip of my Icee and prepared myself for the two hours I was about to spend with my favorite British wizards.
Conclusion: Ticket $6, concessions $9, crying like an inconsolable child when Dumbledore died and having the urge to raise my imaginary wand to the heavens in his honor - priceless. I love the movies - I mean, New York.
Jane Adams is a junior studying journalism. You can send her angry letters about how she gave away the end of the movie at ja250406@ohiou.edu.
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Jane Adams
