In trying to take full advantage of my time off, I’m making sure I schedule time to see friends that I normally don’t get to see.
Lupe and I worked together at an old day job (neither of us work for that company anymore). When we worked together, she was in charge of the quality of my work (and everyone else’s work in the department I was in). Since my quality was pretty high, she and I got to work together a bunch on what we could do to ensure that other’s maintained the high standard of work that was expected of us.
I hadn’t seen Lupe since my last day at that job, although we have chatted on Facebook a bunch. I originally had plans on Saturday evening that fell through, and I wanted to find something else to do instead. I put it out of Facebook that I wanted to go and see “Oz the Great and Powerful” and Lupe wanted to come too! So we made a plan to meet up at the Landmark Theatre near my house.
I personally love the Landmark (and they aren’t paying me to say that). The seats are nice and comfortable and you select your seats ahead of time. So you don’t have to rush inside to make sure you get a good seat or get to sit with your friend.
They also have a bar inside the theater area and for certain screenings, you can even bring your drink in with you (our movie did not have that option).
So we met in the bar for a quick dinner. I had a sandwich and glass of Cava.
We spent some time catching up and chatting about our new jobs. And before we knew it, it was 5 minutes before our movie was going to start.
We headed into the theater and put on our oh-so-flattering 3-D glasses.
One thing that was nice was all the trailers were in 3-D as well (first time I got to see the trailer for “The Great Gatsby” in 3-D and it looked pretty cool).
My review of “Oz the Great and Powerful”: not bad. It was a cute story idea, and there were some nods to “The Wizard of Oz”. I liked most of the new characters, although there wasn’t as much suspense for me since I realized that certain characters were not going to be killed as they were supposed to be alive in “The Wizard of Oz”.
As far as if you should see it in 3-D or not, I don’t know how it would look in 2-D, but a lot of it seemed to be made for 3-D. And it wasn’t a gimmicky 3-D like some movies, it was more like “Avatar” where it just gave some extra depth to the movie.
Overall, I had a wonderful night getting to see a fun movie and reconnecting with a friend whom I hadn’t seen in far too long.
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