Funday

Today is Sunday, and RayRay and Co. gave a beat down on the Raiders.


I used to have a tradition in B’more where every Sunday night my friend Amanda and I would go see a movie. The main destination was The Charles Theatre, hands down the best independent movie theater on the East Coast. A few exceptions were seeing The Golden Compass at Towson Cinema, and No Country For Old Men at the Landmark down in the Harbor.

The great thing about The Charles was the quality of movies playing. On several occasion, Amanda and I essentially just showed up at the theater, and picked a movie on the spot. Two examples were “Before The Devil Knows your Dead” and “Sleuth.” My rambling here is to explain that I never saw a disappointing movie at The Charles. I was reminded of this when I made the mistake of renting “The Strangers” yesterday. Feeling the Halloween spirit, and being up unusually early on a Saturday because I slept on a living room floor, I was walking past the Blockbuster on 16th and Potrero and stopped in. There was something disturbing about this guy, so I figured I’d rent it, hoping to be somewhat scared.

Anyway, what happened was exactly as I expected. The movie was horrible. And I was left wondering, How do I get my money back? Now, I know its my own fault for renting, but I went to the movie theater, and it was an atrocious movie, can you get your money back?