The Last Picture Show
So, I read an article on the Journal-Star Web site at about 7 p.m. this evening about the last night of Lincoln’s old downtown movie theaters. Buried in the article was a quote from a Douglas 3 employee that she’d let people in for free for the last showings of the night. Since I live only a block away from the Douglas 3, I thought I’d check this out.
I went over to the theater just before 9 tonight and asked one of the girls working if they were letting people in to the late shows for free, and I mentioned that I had read it on the Journal-Star’s Web site. She said she didn’t know about that policy, and that she’d go ask someone. She asked her co-worker (the one quoted in the article, it turns out), and once again, I said that I had read it online. They decided to call the Journal-Star to “correct” the story.
The staff let me in for free anyway (the theaters were deserted, and all the employees were busy claiming various items for themselves), and I watched the last movie ever shown at the Douglas 3, The Polar Express, in a theater I had all to myself.
A a note on the movie itself, beyond the fact that it’s a G-rated Christmas movie: The CG animation in the film was very well-done in all aspects except for…the faces. Uncanny Valley ahoy!
The Lincoln Grand opens tonight (Friday):
Hot: online ticketing
Also hot: free garage parking validation
Travis said,
November 19, 2004 @ 2:52 am
Uncanny Valley — That’s amazing how much foresight Masahiro Mori had so long ago. Very cool.
Online ticketing — FINALLY. Too bad you have to print something out to do it. It would be nice if it worked like Fandango, where you use your credit card a second time at the theatre to retrieve your prepaid, reserved ticket. (Of course, Fandango has a per-ticket service fee, and I guess it’s worth printing to get around that.)