Before I move on to the movie rating I wanted to pose these questions?
Depending on what part of the world you are in this may differ but I assume this phenomenon has spread to your country. Have your movie theatres tried to ask you to take your garbage out of the theatre with you v.s. leaving it at your seats? They often give the soft threat that if you do it will keep your movie ticket prices down…
Well I did this I think once, then I got to thinking… life is so full of downsizing, outsourcing, mechanizing, process improving, off shoring, does this really have to extend to the theatre? I noticed tonight that lots of other people left their garbage in their seats like I did tonight. I couldn’t help but wonder are they doing it for the same reason I am? To create jobs? Go ahead, leave your garbage, employ the neighbourhood kid trying to buy their first car, get ahead, go to school. I know it isn’t Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1935 WPA (Works Progress Administration) and I am not asking you to pay someone to go dig ditches or paint murals, just make them use some of that $12.50 from the movie to pick up your popcorn bag.
Phewww I feel better don’t you? Now on to the review…
Death Race (2008) Rating: 
Ex-con Jensen Ames is forced by the warden of a notorious prison to compete in our post-industrial world’s most popular sport: a car race in which inmates must brutalize and kill one another on the road to victory.
Granted the only reason I wanted to see this movie was Jason Statham from “The Transporter” movies. I still expected a bit more from the movie than it gave. I normally am I guy that lives for plot and doesn’t enjoy the car racing or fight scenes in movies but this movie was very much the opposite for me. Anytime a car race wasn’t happening I was bored and annoyed with the plot. I am not sure why but the foreshadowing was too obvious in most parts. The car race scenes however ROCKED! They were very gory and again not so much my thing but I think I was drawn to all the cool gadgets used. I am a big fan of Bond films and the gadgets in this movie reminded me of them. Overall not a bad time waster movie and kinda fun.
PS I just realized the movie was set in a post-industrial world 2012 where the economy has crashed and there are no jobs and factories are closing down putting workers onto the streets or in jails. Do you think this movie would have existed if people left their popcorn bags at their seats? 😉
They’ve been asking us in the UK to take our trash out for years, since I can remember going to the cinema anyway (so at least a decade) that said you rarely see anyone doing so and you can see the cleaning staff patiently waiting at the exit to the screen for us all to leave so they can jump to work.
PS. I never got your email, I checked my junk mail and everything, don’t know what happened to it, but thank you anyway, it was very thoughtful.
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