Well, *I* heard that Batman's a robot!

cagexxx was in town and I was seriously tempted to try and go out to the IMAX for The Dark Knight. Looks like we were right in not even bothering to try. Holy shit, $75M!? I mean, it's a 50% drop-off from last week, but last week was almost $160M!!! When feiran, darkling1 and I went out for our former roommate's birthday, someone at the party told me that IMAX was sold out until August. I'm assuming that's on the weekend, since I saw that the IMAX would cheerfully sell us seats to a 2 am showing on Friday morning. Still, given that the ONLY IMAX theater in New York City is at 68th street, that might not be hyperbole.

::checks Fandango::

Um, the 8:45 pm show (the only one anyone can make if they get off work at 5) is sold out until Thursday this week and that's as far ahead as they'll let me look. Jeepers. In fact, the 5 pm show is sold out on Wednesday, too. (I dunno how prevalent it is, but certain sectors of my job have early days off on Wednesday--they're usually out by 3 pm--so are they ALL going to the movies or what?)

::whistles::

On a non-Dark Knight related note, I take pleasure in seeing that Mamma Mia! hasn't dropped off too badly. It's a more reliable measure of how well a film will do when it can continue to take in money after the first week. I expect that when Step Brothers is forgotten next week and people are still trying to get into see The Dark Knight, they'll probably keep being siphoned off to see Mamma Mia!. And now, it's time to listen to some ABBA.

Heh, yeah.

feiran and I hung out with our former roommate on Saturday. (Not the one that just moved out--man, I need a system here. I shall call her Ms. Beans!) As we walked up to her apartment from 96th (stupid 1 train non-service!), we passed the Game Stop at 106th, where I remarked that, no matter how many games I have, unplayed, waiting for me at home, I'm always tempted to stop in a Game Stop when I see one. Ms. Beans has recently been gifted with a PS2 from her brother (who's graduated to PS3 because he's one of those that has to have the new shiny thing, apparently). So we shouldered our way in with our newly interested former roommie.

We basically tried to get her to buy the entire store, save those games which we could lend her ourselves. (When I see her Wednesday for Project Runway watching, I'll bring a mess down with me. She has Lego Indiana Jones, though, so she might be set for a while.) She ended up with Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time for the GameCube (we bought that for her!) which she hemmed and hawed about lest her boyfriend give her a hard time about it. When she checked out, it was $3 cheaper than the box cover said, so we declared this to be victory. (I might also have bought Samurai Warriors 2 for the 360, but that is neither here nor there.)

As she was paying, I looked down to see a Soul Calibur IV players guide. And, because I possess no sort of filter whatsoever, I exclaimed aloud when I flipped it open and found that they'd brought back Lizardman! The lady behind the counter launched into a discussion about it with me--I told her I'd stopped playing this series at II because of the lack of Lizardman, so I didn't recognize anyone; she told me how Darth Vader was going to be in it, as well as Kratos from God of War. Darth Vader, I vaguely remembered rumblings about from Penny Arcade; Kratos was a surprise.

Anyway, this anecdote happens to dovetail nicely with this comic that came out today, so I thought I'd share. Did I mention I have no filter?