So I was hired by the JCC to take a bunch of kids to the Liberty Science Museum (which is a blog post for a different, distant day) and it was very different than the day before, where I was in charge of 8 seven year old boys at Chuck E Cheese. Which turned out to be one of the creepiest experiences of my life, when a robotic rat sang "I think we're alone now" at me. Also, there was a set of triplets which included identical twins (who got really pissed because I figured out how to tell them apart) and a redheaded jew fro'd kid thrown in.
But anyway, this time I have five girls, which was a little better. But so we went into the IMAX dome, and it was very very tall. So one of my little girls starts freaking out because you have to climb to get to your seats, but we get there. So seriously, the screen is gigantic. You have to watch the freaking movie on the ceiling, so the chairs are tipped all the way back and made for someone approximately 6'5", which neither me or my girls were.
Normal IMAX I'm fine with. The first IMAX movie I think I saw was a movie about micheal jordan, although I do not think he needed to be any taller. And I saw speed racer with the campies and I had approximately 3.7 seizures and saw colors I did not know existed. And the only other time I've been in an IMAX dome was in space camp, and I didn't like it much then either.
So the first thing the IMAX dome does is tell you how great it is. According to itself, it's the best thing ever. Better than wonderbread and playboy and chocolate combined. It like lights up the speakers to tell you it has eight very big and very loud sets (mozel tov.) So then it has words like "sophisticated" and "experience" flash across the screen. And then it takes you into the fucking ocean or something, and you think you're either on a magic carpet ride or tripping or both, but either way, you're getting dizzy. So I had to take one of my little girls out before she had a premature heart attack. and they have this policy that once you leave, you can't go back.
So I saved one of my girls, but four of them were still in the ocean, also known as a swirling death trap. So I bought her a ginger ale and assured her, it's fine, you're not going to drown or barf or die or whatever.
Fuck IMAX domes.
Friday, February 20, 2009
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