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I will say my AMC has it showing in almost every theater, Alamo is more limited. So I don't know that it was the location as much as the venue choice. Usually though Alamo people are all settled away why AMC has crashed for 6 hours.
Luckily for me my favorite local theater is pretty low-key and likely won't sell out until much closer to the opening. There are still a myriad of good/not front-row seats available for opening weekend screenings for folks that want to go to a theater in 'central' San Diego that has the most comfortable seating + the best film presentation of almost any other theater in town (the Angelika)!(also their food + booze selection is pretty awesome!!)
I enjoyed it while I was watching it, but overall I was disappointed by the one-dimensional way they used Wanda as a villain. They revealed her as the Big Bad right at the beginning and from then on it was just Strange and America scrambling away through universes as she smashed her way through in their wake trying to get America's powers. I think Wanda is a really interesting character and I LOVED Wandavision so this one-note take on her was a huge letdown for me. I think they left a lot of opportunities on the table for more interesting character choices and team-ups of necessity (for instance, why not have her and Wong fight the temple gargoyles together before she realizes she can control them? Or even better, have Wanda fight alongside Strange and Wong for part of the movie... only to realize that in her grief she's sort of partitioned herself and she's been fighting against herself all along).Overall it took a very simple story and dressed it up with a lot of fancy multiverse travel and wild cameos, and all of that was fun. But Wanda could have been so much more interesting. (Also I'm never a big fan of Raimi's style choices; I was glad to see Bruce Campbell but the long extreme facial closeups were driving me MAD. And Strange's hair and makeup team did him dirty - the hairline was way too pronounced and super wiggy, so distracting.)
I am a big Sam Raimi fan and I knew this movie would not disappoint. For me this movie was just plain fun! The kind of MCU movie that I can just put on and have fun watching like Ragnarok. It seriously is in my top 3 if not my favorite. I'll know if my rewatches surpass Ragnarok.
This was a great reminder that it's been since 2013 since Raimi directed a movie: which I wasn't a fan of (OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL). So going back to the last Raimi movie I loved, DRAG ME TO HELL in 2009, it's been 13 years since I've sat in a theater and enjoyed a Raimi movie! Hopefully he doesn't go as long before the next one!!