Best Picture Showcase (preface)

I have enjoyed going to the AMC Theatres Best Picture Showcase in the past few years. It gives me a chance to re-visit the nominees, and maybe catch up with one I had yet to see, in preperation for the main event.\

This year, Regal decided to have a showcase too. They are closer to me, and they were charging ten dollars less. So I went to the theater last week to buy my tickets, and the manager told me they weren't having it. This was five days before the first showing. I sent an e-mail to the Regal website to complain. I've yet to get a response more than a week later.

But they were showing the films.No event, so introductions, and no trivia contests (which I love, because I usually get at least one prize). But with no advertisement, and no one even aware it was booked, the theater did massive business both days I went. I shared a theater both days with my best friend, my daughter, and three other people.

Both days, the movie started late because the management forgot the movie was to start. One intermission was cut short with no advance announcement so that we could get back on schedule, causing me to miss the opening sequence of Les Miserables. Also, the intermissions were only 15 minutes, so no time to go get actual food. AMC has a dinner break each day. Popcorn only for 12 hours is pretty tough.

If Regal didn't want us there, well mission accomplished. We'll be going back to AMC next year.