Hey,
So as my last post indicated I was able to go to the Star Trek Into Darkness prescreen. Well, there was this contest on Facebook with esurance. Jist of the game was to win tickets to see Star Trek in the movies. I activated my facebook profile and played every day.. then after winning or losing, logging out and trying again the next day.
We ended up winning. So did my parents. We were all able to go see the Star Trek movie (for me and Maryia it would be our second time).
The passes were time sensitive and we wanted to make sure we didn’t lose our tickets (by having them expire). Last week we made a point of going. We had the option of seeing the movie in 2d or 3d. Naturally we picked 3d. We ended up making a date night out of it (yes, another Star Trek movie date night) but hey, when you don’t have any money the cheap dates are the best ones. We checked in at the AMC to ensure we would have a good seat – but then noticed that it was actually just a 2d showing. Ick! We immediately asked the manager on duty if there was anything they could do – they looked up our seats online and verified that they should have been 3d. Then they asked us if we wouldn’t mind being upgraded to the IMAX 3D showing an hour later than our original showtime.
Needless to say, we agreed. Com’ on… IMAX? It was pretty cool, because the contest specifically stated that the tickets couldn’t be used for IMAX showings, yet because of the mixup we were upgraded to it. We both enjoyed the movie more on the IMAX screen. Man, the last movie I saw on IMAX was a prescreen about a year ago. Mission Impossible – Ghost Protocol, which I can also recall being very good.
That’s my big story.
As far as the weekly beach thing? It is still going strong. We have gone to a lot of beaches- and have it down on where to park freely. This weekend? No clue – the streak might be in danger and could possibly be snapped.
So amongst applying for jobs, I also look for prescreens. I was able to get one for World War Z. We got in line for this screening early (probably 2 hours before) which is rare for us. I had however been hearing that a LOT of people had been trying to get tickets to the shows in the area and so demand would be on the rise.
We got in, but would you believe we were probably within the last 50 people to get in? There was a line that wrapped around the building – but this building was huge. Probably about as big as an arena- it was across from the Staples Center in LA. So, we get in and there are all of these people pushing and shoving to get ahead of us. It seriously felt chaotic. We were unable to find a seat for anyone. Every seat was “taken” – I was started to get frustrated when my parents were able to find seating in an exclusive area just for press and family…. thanks to Willie. We pulled the family card and were finally able to grab a seat. Free popcorn and free drinks helped to ease the annoyance of everything leading up to that point. Well, then we had a little surprise before the movie started when Mr. Brad Pitt popped his head out of a curtain near the stage and welcomed everyone. We were on the top balcony- could see him fine, but you couldn’t really tell by the picture I snapped.
It was pretty cool. After the movie they handed out free shirts to everyone.
MASS CHAOS. I’ll tell ya that.. but in the end it was worth it. Movie was good- so were the little surprises along the way. They even had a green screen where you could take pictures and they would print them out for you as a little souvenir.
Fun times indeed. Such is the life of the unemployed and living in LA.
Until next time..
