King Kong Christmas

[avram]

In keeping with ancient Jewish tradition, bugsybanana and I saw a movie and had Chinese Vietnamese food today. The movie was King Kong, which was pretty visually spectacular, and blew the doors off my childhood memories of the original and teenaged memories of the ’70s remake.

I gotta take issue with the crowds, though. We caught a 7:30 PM showing, and got there half an hour early, tickets in hand, and there was a line to get into the theater. Not a line to get tickets, I mean a line inside the multiplex to get seated. And most of the people on line did not look or sound Jewish.

WTF, people? Aren’t y’all supposed to be home with your families on Christmas? Maybe in church or our caroling or having sleigh rides or something? The reason Jews go to movies on Christmas is because the rest of you don’t! Don’t you goyim go screwing up our sacred Jewish Christmas traditions!

Comments

[annathepiper]

Hey hey hey, I thought it was National Jews and Pagans Go to the Movies Day! ;)

(We went to go see Kong too--and we had a full house in the theater we were at as well! Kind of surprised me!)

[solarbird]

Yeah, like there were more than, I dunno, four pagans in the house?

At least we weren't queued up. Walk in, sit down, movie starts, yay.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

I with you on that one. While I did not actually do the thing, I've been amazed at the number of non-Jews on my f'list who did, and who call it a Christmas tradition. As if.

One of my friends asked the question, if we control the media, why is it so hard to find any non-Christmas stuff on TV this time of year?

[mamishka.livejournal.com]

Heh. I went to see King Kong as well, but I suspect that's because all my family lives on the east coast and I don't have a Christmas tradition of my own, despite having lived out here for, what, 10 years? Sheesh.

[redbird]

They're Jewish the way bugsybanana is Jewish, I guess.

This is New York, we all borrow each other's traditions, and our Muslim, Buddhist, and Hindu neighbors aren't likely to be celebrating Christmas.

holiday traditions

[cthulhia]

either there's kids, who prefer to finish opening all the gifts slightly after sunrise, or you're adults, and the gift/meal part is over quickly enough so you can go see movies with your friends, before it devolves into a family fight.

more realistically, a whole day off is less and less common for a lot of people. Especially this year, when xmas/new years being on weekends has robbed us of the extra "sorta weekends" we uually get in december.

[kent-allard-jr.livejournal.com]

Ah, it's because you caught the 7:30 showing. Gift-giving is usually a morning ritual, followed by a mid-day feast. That leaves time for an evening movie.