Friday Night at the Movies

Friday night, Colin & I BOTH really needed a break from the stress of this, that & the other.
I had tried to convince him to play hookie earlier in the day to no avail, but by the time 7:30 rolled around, even he had to admit he was teetering on the thin edge & needed to get away from it all.
The "$2 Theater" beckoned. Now really, I think they shouldn't go calling themselves the "$2 Theater"anymore because if you go at night, when MOST people do, it costs $3. Colin tried to convince me they DON'T call themselves the "$2 Theater", that they call themselves Cinema Savers, & it's still cheaper than the theater I REALLY LOVE, with reclining stadium seating to which you must drive & drive just to get there, & it's only ME who calls them (the OTHER one) the "$2 Theater" but I think he's wrong. I mean, Cinema Savers sounds like the name of a non-profit org out to save old movie houses, doesn't it? The "$2 Theater" is so much more straightforward, leaving no doubt in one's mind, it's a theater where the price is exactly $2. . .
Anyway, Friday night we saw, for $3 each, plus almost $5 for popcorn with only a LITTLE butter, Fun With Dick & Jane, apparently a Jim Carrey/TeaLeoni re-make of a 1977 George Segal/Jane Fonda movie of the same name. 1977 was a year we weren't really seeing alot of movies except at the $1 UNM Underground Cinema, since September was not quite 4, Corina was 1, Colin was in school & we were poorer then than now. But that WAS a year when they were showing such cool movies as McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Warren Beatty & Julie Christie) & King of Hearts (Alan Bates).
Fun With Dick & Jane made us forget our troubles for 2 or so hours & laugh out loud.