Danny Novo
Both the wife and I are taking the next couple of days off from work, and one thing we thought we’d do, was go to the movies. Grandma is still here, so she can watch the gimpy boys while we pretend we don’t have a child. We wanted to go see _Brokeback Mountain_, but forgot momentarily that we live in Omaha. City of 650,000. City of eleven movie theaters and 107 screens. Of course, _Brokeback Mountain_ is not playing in Omaha.
Stupid city.
In the interest of fairness, I do have to point out that it isn’t playing in Iowa City, IA, either, but that town has only three theaters and 24 screens. I could forgive them (though only a little, being a progressive college town and all).
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Don’t hate the player. Hate the game.
I suppose. I mean, I know this isn’t New York, or LA, or Chicago, or even Phoenix, but it is the biggest city within 400 miles, and heading west, you have to go a lot farther to find civilization of this magnitude.
_Brokeback Mountain_ is now on some 250 screens, and still Omaha doesn’t rate a single one.
I’m going to keep watching this and see how long it takes.
I hear ya. Hell, we’re still waiting to see Capote! You think that’ll ever come here on anything but DVD (and VHS)? Fat chance.
Odd you can’t manage to find it. I’m seeing it tomorrow at 1pm. Having been born & raised here yet lived in several cities including Minneapolis in my adult years, there’s nothing stupid about Omaha, except the traffic… and the transplants.
And Capote’s currently showing at Oakview, fyi.
Yes, I know. Brokeback Mountain is here now, and I could go see it. But my chances to go out to a movie are few and far between. So I’m still a little pissed, but yes, more at the game than the player.
I am going to try to resist the opportunity to slander Omaha, although it is something I dearly love to do. I understand that there are people here who love it, and who make an effort to be a part of their community, warts and all.
I am not one of those people, for better or worse. Omaha has always been a transition from one better place (in my mind!) to another. Twice now. I resent the fact that Nebraska is one of three states with no counties voting for the Democrats (I like to think of it as voting against the Republicans) in 2004.
Wait, I wasn’t going to get into it.
But, M’ville, I confess, despite the (inexcusable) loss of Indian Hills (where I got to see both Twister and the entire Doctor Zhivago), the cinema here ain’t so bad.
And yes, I get that I am one of those transplants. I think you and I can agree on at least one thing: we will both be happy to see me leave.
You are the definition of asshole!