Look what I just saw in my email from our local Alamo Drafthouse, a movie theatre where they took out every other row and put in tables and then added a bar and grill so that you actually can have dinner AND a movie, literally at the same time. Awesome idea, and we love the place.
It starts out with these graphics:
And continues with this info:
Have you taken an IQ test lately? Are you a member of Mensa? Would you say you’re brilliant? Figure it out, dumbo, because we’re putting on our thinking caps this weekend and preparing all sorts of smart entertainment for the truly brainy and the wannabe geeks alike. First off, of course, we have our REAL GENIUS QUOTE-ALONGs happening on Wednesday and Thursday, and I’m happy to say that not only will we be encouraging everyone in the theater to yell out their favorite lines, but we’ll also be handing EACH and EVERY person in the audience their very own LASER to shoot all over the theater whenever there’s a laser on screen (and we’ll also have our own laser guns to shoot at audience members who cheat and shoot their laser when there’s no laser on screen, don’t worry). We’ve also got our staff at all three of our theaters working overtime right now to produce enough popcorn for the grand finale when (spoiler alert) Dr. Hathaway’s house gets hit by the laser and destroyed by Jiffy Pop. That spectacle alone would be well worth the price of admission, but that won’t be the only surprise we’ve got ready.
Then you click and read more:
Hey there actual geniuses, we’d like to invite you to join us for the REAL GENIUS QUOTE-ALONG. Val Kilmer stars in this 1980s comedy featuring the misuse of lasers, ice-skating in college hallways, and a mysterious man named Laslo who lives in a subterranean world accessible through Mitch’s closet door. But you knew that already, didn’t you? Because we’ve seen and LOVED this movie for years. That’s where the Quote-Along aspects come in - we’re not just going to watch the movie, we’re going to completely celebrate it. We’ll have lasers in the theater, a jell-o eating contest, popcorn exploding through the walls, and the film itself will be subtitled on key lines so that we can all yell them out in unison. Plus - Jon Gries, Laslo the closet-dweller himself, will be there live in person to host the event and run a Q&A after the film!
So I’m all like — I GOTTA GO TO THIS!
But then my wife suffers a serious leg injury (dislocated kneecap), rushed to the hospital in an ambulance and then we spend all day in the ER trying to fix it. I keep trying to tell her, “yes, honey, I KNOW you need a reduction of your left patella, and you’re orthostatic, and you’re still wearing off the effects of the etomidate, but, (pause), it’s REAL GENIUS!”.
I tried telling her that she said “ok” to me going while she was under the effects of the etomidate anaesthetic, and since EVERYONE knows you completely lose any memory of anything that happens while on that medication, I thought it would get me by, but no. Evidently she’s too smart for that trick.
*sigh*
Meanwhile I’ll keep nursing her and her leg back to health, now that we’ve inconveniently discovered that Vicodin has basically no effect on her. None. Codeine, however, seems to be a godsend. Yay codeine.
(side note: I was very pleased to see online that they’ve scheduled this for not only tonight (1/10) but also the next two Thursdays. Yay me!)
Who else loves this movie?
