Varying degrees of Ghetto

So, last night, I went to the movies with Deena. There was a special deal on at a theatre that was around for many a year, then closed down, and recently reopened after a long time being closed and nearly forgotten. This special deal was Three movies for only $4.99... andbeing that Ed Wood was included.... a wonderful movie well worth 5 bucks alone... it was a no brainer.
The theatre seemed nice enough. They remodelled it after the era it was popular in... 50's ish. It had original style movie seats, with nodrink holders... no frills really, just a chair. The great part of it was that the rows were spaced SUPER far from each other, so you could fully extend your legs infront of you, and not even reach the seats in front. Some people sitting in front of us said that we could have a dance party... unfortunately they didn't follow through...
Upon the following things, I based my comment to Deena, that I was enjoying the mild-to-moderate Ghettoness of the theatre:
-The movie was at least 30-40 minutes late in starting, and the staff and clientelle, really didnt seem to mind.
-When they were ready to start the film, there was only one person checking tickets, not before entering the theatre, but after everyone was sitting.... it took her about 10 minutes to go around and check everyone's ticket and stamp it and them.
-Before the movie, they just had the blank no dvd in player screen on, no curtain. Eventually they started playing music off of some cable or satellite music station, i think it was the 80's.... you could see them picking the chanel and going through the menu....
-The bathroom was poorly designed. The door opened towards the wall, and then there was a sink in the way, only a little awkward to enter, but thats alright. There was no divider wall between urinals.... now by no means was it a Stadium trough, but I think in this the 21'st century, most civilized places have adopted the urinal divider wall for the comfort of their pissers.
Now these things were all ok, nothing to bad, thats why it was only mild to moderate levels of ghetto. The movie eventually started right in with no previews, which I thought was odd, but noone minded of course. I LOVE the movie Ed Wood. I lLOVE Ed Wood. I was happy.
Between the first two movies, there was some time, so we went and bought steamers at the little cafe there. No Complaints. We ran into the obnoxious on of my Korean compatriots at school. His presence should have immediately upped the ghetto, but I was extra civil and it was all good. [Those of you who know which Korean tenor Im tlaking about, would have been damn impressed at how I didnt tell him off, or beat him or anything]
When we went in to see the second movie, the Ghetto factor increased to HARDCORE GHETTO. I was able to quasi look beyond the fact that these movies were being illegally played off of a dvd player for the first movie because it was done fairly seamlessly. For the second movie however, they started it right at the beginning menu.... and who knows what comes next... thats right, "FEDERAL COPYRIGHT WARNING" and you could even see the little stop hand coming up when they tried to skip over it, but the players won't let you.... Get off it you cheap ass cunts. WHat the hell kind of movie theatre is this?!? If you are going to be breaking the law, at least be discrete about it..... turn the projector off, until just the moment when the actualy movie starts or anything....GOLLY!
Once again, during chapter 16 of Edward Scissorhands, the Ghetto level changed once again.... How do I know which chapter it was..... oh well because thats the point at which the dvd started to skip and freeze. They tried everything, fastforwarding, going to the next chapter.... Nope... it took 7 minutes ish for them to figure it out...there was booing from the audience... and so much laughing from all the people who realised just how ghetto the situation was....
we had reached the state of SUPER GHETTO. To resolve the problem, they had to skip ahead two chapters to get it running again...
WOW. We left after the second movie, cause it was already after midnight, and the third movie was supposed to have finished by that point... and we were tired; both physically and figuratively.
It's not that this was the worst experience of my life, in fact I might go back at some point. But really, the place should have been closed down last night for blatant violation of copyrights. I mean it's one thing if you're showing a movie to lots of people on a bus or plane, i think planes actually have to go through a procedure to show in flight movies... but its completely different when you are CHARGING PEOPLE MONEY for your profit, but not making an investment.... Whatever, I'm not here to be a moral bitcher.... but thats what I do...
Im not sure if this is just an oversight, but really, how do you open a movie theatre and not look into the whole practice of obtaining the rights to present movies....
They have brought shame to my family name, and I am glad that it is no longer my family that is running that theatre.