REVIEW: The Blind Side @ the newest Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
Note to Sandra Bullock: I forgive you for "All About Steve". This is the kind of movie you should make going forward.
This movie was just shy of being sappy and a degree less of being over sentimental and enough feel good to make me recommend it to my friends. Things were just too safe and too perfect for my own protection. I needed a bit more grit but left with the first 'feel good" of the season.Note to Tim McGraw: more Tim McGraw next time.Movie: 3 Stars out of 5 So we went to the new Alamo Drafthouse Cinema @ Park North. The original @ Westlakes is just too far from where we live to make the trip worthwhile. It's always nice to be able to drink beer with your movie but then again we already can do that @ Rialto or @ Bijou movie theaters in our hood and as I found out today, for a lot less. Seems the menu was a bit on the pricey side so we only got beer (blue moon) and queso w/ chips instead of eating there as we planned. These are desperate times after all.Still it's nice to have another movie option. We usually wind up @ AMC 24 because I like the extreme stadium seating. The seating @ Alamo was equally nice as they have a mini aisle for the waiters that spreads out the rows and makes it so that you have no view obstruction like you find @ Quarry Market Cinemas. Theater: 3.2 Stars out of 5PS: They had these quirky old timey ads and promos going on before the movie started including one that promoted their Beer Growler ala ipod commercial style. Cute.PPS: it's always disengaging to enter a theater during the brightness of day and then exit during the darkness of night. PPPS: It's difficult to take pix of your food in a darkened theater only on an iPhone with no camera flash.
