Since my husband works for a radio station he gets some lovely perks, free advanced movie screenings and sometimes free concert tickets. We go to most of the free screenings, and hey why not it's free and you can sit wherever you please. The only time I don't go is if I have no desire to watch the movie, either way too violent, not my cup of tea (The Hobbit) or just way to weird for me (Cloud Atlas). In these cases my husband asks either his brother or one of his cousins to go with him. We saw Carrie Underwood for free, could have seen Faith Hill and Tim McGraw but the email invitation somehow wound up in his work spam folder the day he was picking me up from the airport upon my arrival to Australia almost a year ago. We saw Cavalia for free a few weeks ago and it was amazing, especially for a horse lover like me. My husband had to get up for work early the next morning (4:30am - up before the sparrow farts....LOL), so we didn't stay to meet and pet the horses. :( I would have so loved that. Turns out those tickets were $300 tickets each, wow.
Movies are great, 3D or regular all free and sometimes come with free popcorn or even free beverages, occasionally wine or beer.The Queensland premieres are awesome as there are famous people and little hors d'oeuvres, once they even had Dominos pizza along with free red, white or sparkling wines or water or soda that you could bring into the theatre with you. They even had chocolate covered ice cream. Picture a cone of vanilla ice cream covered in a hard chocolate shell, it's a very popular movie treat. There are a few movie theatres that do serve alcohol which I think is so cool, imagine having a night out with the girls and going to watch some romantic comedy, sitting in these really comfy leather chairs and sipping champagne, or a glass of wine, or a bottle of beer and enjoying a cheese platter, yes I said cheese platter. They do have your standard movie theatre yum yums, popcorn, M&Ms, candy and bags of potato chips among other sweets and treats. There's this one theatre that uses olive oil to pop their popcorn, so it's a healthier version.
The thing that annoys the crap out of me is the release dates for some of the movies. We get some in Australia before the rest of the world but usually it's we get them dead last. We saw The Incredible Burt Wonderstone Wednesday as an advanced screening, it releases to general audiences here in Oz March 21, and in the US March 22nd. What I absolutely hate is when a movie like Lincoln is released in the US and Croatia and other European countries MONTHS ahead of here, we didn't get Lincoln till the beginning of March, when it came out in the US in October. I know this as I use IMDB on a weekly basis to check out what new and cool movies are coming out and hoping we get the advanced tickets. My husband says don't worry about it, you're seeing a movie for free, I totally understand him BUT being absolutely LAST country to see it? I just don't understand it. Why don't they release them at the same time, they do some of them, like the last Batman movie. Movie are released on Thursdays here and in some countries in Europe like Croatia, whereas they're usually released on Fridays in the US and sometimes on Wednesday's if it's a holiday weekend or a major box office smash. They should release them all about the same time, even a few weeks ahead behind, but months is when it truly pisses me off. But all in all, bring on the freebies! This weekend we're seeing Jack the Giant Slayer in 3D, only thing that sucks is it's at 10am on Sunday morning, oh well, I did want to see it when I saw the coming attractions, but who'd think it'd be early on St. Patrick's Day?
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