Nature vs Nitro

It’s Saturday and like any student, I want to go to the movies. So what do I do? I click my way to the Cineplex home page and look at some movie trailers for recent movies. A few spark my interest. One in particular that came out last Friday.

I think to myself; this looks cool… “Is Anybody There?” hmm seems interesting. A movie about a magician who is too old to perform and a child who grows up in a retirement home… Let us see when it is playing at galaxy. I click my way to the show times for the Waterloo Galaxy and I scroll down the page for “Is Anybody There?” on the show listings. Huh. That is interesting. It does not seem to be there.

After fifteen minutes of looking up the date of release, comparing it to today’s date, searching the correct format of dates, looking up today’s date in different formats, counting the months and finally searching for “Is Anybody There?” in a larger radius. It turns out that this movie was released last Friday but instead of being played at local theatres, it is only playing in larger cities like Toronto.

TREACHERY! How can I just sit back and take this?! It’s unheard of! The only movie that seems moderately interesting in theatres is being exiled because it looks like it could actually be good. Maybe it’s the lack of action. I mean you look at the movies in theatres and you get; Star Trek, Xmen Origins: Wolverine, Terminator, Crank 2, Fast and the Furious. These movies are not what I want! I miss dramas! I mean real dramas, not romance movies. New romance movies make me sick. I want to see “Is Anybody There?” because it looks enjoyable not because I want to see a man with adamentium claws or an electric heart.

Action movies aren’t terrible, don’t get me wrong. I love a few good fight scenes, but when those fight scenes get in the way of what could be a cornucopia of excellent acting directing and screenwriting, we have a problem.  I just want to see the movies that I want to see. Is that so much to ask?