movie poster

I'm thinking about going to see a movie later today. Well, tonight. I looked to see what's playing around here.
Jack and Jill, J Edgar, Puss in Boots...those I've heard of, but not these movies. And there's The Muppets, which I'm not sure I'm in the mood for, and Twilight-whatever, not gonna happen.
And then there's a bunch of others which I don't recognize the names of at all. I'm a bit out the loop of current pop culture, as I don't have a TV & I haven't been to see a movie since maybe this summer.

So I'm just not that eager to go see any of them. I mean, I found something at the cheap $1(!) cinema.

What those movies I've never heard of need is something to immediately grab my attention. Something like this:

It's a poster for the new The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in English. Now, I'm probably not going to see that film. I saw the version in Danish or Swedish or whatever. And a friend recommended the book as being better than that film. I happened upon a cheap copy of the book at a thrift store a month ago, so it's sitting on my shelf to get to eventually.

But otherwise, that poster would definitely get my attention. Would bare breasts alone get me into  a theater? I don't know. I guess it depends on my mood when I happened to see it.

I did see Showgirls when it came out, not because of any hope I might have for the story, etc, but because of the "scandalous" NC-17 rating thing. There was a great little theater, The Capri, where I lived then that showed films you wouldn't see elsewhere in that area: art films, older films, foreign films, small independent films, occasionally older films. Well, I don't think anyone else in town was willing to show Showgirls, so this theater did. They had one screen, and normally played one film, 1 or 2 showings a night for a week. Well, they held over Showgirls for 2 extra weeks, and it was the huge money-maker for the year. People wanted to see naked ladies.

I know it was not a great movie, however I liked it. It was hilariously bad. Years later VH1 aired it--a lot--with those computerized bikinis covering all the breasts and genitalia, which sort of added to the ridiculousness of it.