Somebody Else's Nimrod

Am currently engaged in ferocious debate with self.

You see, though I rarely go to first-run movies, I love the experience. I love the otherworldly quality of a good movie theater, I love the way you can just disappear out of your own reality for several hours, I love being swept away by the big screen and the uber-sound system. I love a big enthusiastic crowd and I love the luxurious sense of being alone in public that comes when I'm the only one in the theater. It really is an experience that's impossible to repeat at home. The only thing I don't love is the miserable quality of so many films, as set against the high price of tickets and concessions.

So...I've been to see X2 three times. Today is the last day before the nice theater drops the movie to only impossible evening showings (times that would have the movie ending after the T stops running). The second-run theater is picking it up, but the second-run theater is frankly dilapidated--not to mention I'd have to cross picket lines, as their projectionists are on strike. X2 is not the best movie ever, but it's a strong action film that exactly fills my escapist needs. In short, this is really my last chance to enjoy the X2 version of the movie experience I've described above. Therefore, I want to go tonight.

However, due to having unexpected student loan payments descend upon me, I am very, very broke. *frowns* It's a sad day when escapism is so damned expensive.