Oh hai, central cinema!

Central Cinema.
8/10 on my bangin' scale.

Who doesn't want to watch old/usually bad movies while stuffing their face? In fact, you can stuff your pie-hole with pie, which is what I did while enjoying "The Room" this Thursday at my new favorite movie theater in Seattle.

The movie was scheduled to start at 9:30, so we didn't try CC's dinner. Instead we sampled an array of snacks-- a pitcher of flowery (but not bad flowery) beer, popcorn with REAL butter, a hot dog (dubbed a pig in blanket) with aioli sauce, and blueberry pie with vanilla ice cream.

The pie was warm, but was also really thin. It was kind of like an actually good hot pocket, come to think of it. They baked each order separately, kind of like a big, oval ravioli made of pie crust, and filled with sugary blueberries. Not what I was expecting, but still tastier than anything you'd get at a regular movie theater.

Central Cinema: Where a Langston Hughes Film Festival and "The Room" share ad space.

 Mostly this place gets an 8/10 because they choose awesome movies. Who doesn't want to shout until they get hoarse, and throw spoons at a movie screen? Also, if you get there early enough, you'll get booth seating.

Up next week at CC: Vanilla Ice's "Cool as Ice" (I wonder if they will sell more vanilla ice cream), complete with hecklevision. What is that, you ask? It's when you get to be snarky via text message, and everyone sees your snark like subtitles at the bottom of the screen. That's probably worth the $6/$8 day of ticket price. Good thinking, Lisa!

Christina Aguilera plays an up-and-coming star

"Burlesque" starring Cher and Christina Aguilera.
7/10 on my bangin' scale.

Beware: there may be some minor plot giveaways.

Ok, guys. I know you've heard that this movie sucks. And honestly, the dialogue is probably among most horrible I've ever heard. I can't blame it all on the acting (even though Christina Aguilera has never been in anything for realsies), because Cher is a movie great. The plot is nothing to go for either. Since when is a quick bit of real estate law a major eye-opener?

But here's why I thought this movie was actually fairly dece: The music. And luckily, the people who made the movie know that's why anyone would pay to see it. (Well, by "anyone", I mean me, Shobs, and two other people... I guess no one wanted to see it at 10.10 pm in Georgetown on a Tuesday night a month after it was released.)

Song rundown: Cher ensemble performance. Yesss. Many ensemble performances without Cher or Christina. Ok... fun, but clearly lacking flair (...that's how it's supposed to be. They need a new great). Cher solo diva performance. Incredible. I mean, no rival to something like this, but... let's be srrius, who didn't go there for that exact moment? Also, she's 64? Can't tell from this. And no auto tune a la "Believe". Then Christina has a go. Or two. Or... something like five? You know, they really did not do her justice giving her songs like "Genie in a Bottle" back in the day. This girl can sing. Also, why is she so skinny?

Basically, I don't know why everyone is hatin'. It's def's the same thing as "Glee". Bad plot with lots of dancing and uber-gay singing. Good time if you ask me.