Ticket stubs

After hearing the /filmcast discuss movie ticket stubs not too long ago, I feel like retelling the fascinating journey I have had with my own. After a long and arduous search many years ago, I managed to find every stub I have ever collected from the age of 10 till around the age of 18. I had them all neatly and safely packaged into card wallets, and were even sorted chronologically. Nearly every weekend my dad and I would go to see two films back to back, often quite stunning pieces of cinema such as The Peacemaker or Mouse Trap which generally ended in a discussion about how shit the films were, but these expeditions significantly expanded my collection. Anyway upon opening the wallet, after about 6 years of not even knowing where the damn things were, I was instantly reminded of my meticulous obsession with retaining these little flimsy excuses for a memory. This feeling was brief though. After pulling a few out to read the titles and dates, and laugh at how some of them were priced at $4.50 for an ADULT ticket in 1997 (now films here in Australia cost $18 for a regular ticket and $21 for 3D), I nearly started crying when I noticed that almost ALL of the stubs were blank. That's right, our cheap as fuck cinemas couldn't even print with ink that would last a decade. All of this collecting and storing had been for nothing. There were a few surprises though, as my ticket for The Matrix was quite legible, and all the Imax tickets were fine, but 90% of my precious keepsakes were completely blank. All that remains are the ads on the back. Awesome. Clearly there are a few things that have yet to hit our shores...

Understandably, for this reason I no longer keep my stubs...

*The photo you see is my ticket to the screening of Three Kings which aired at Southland, 23rd Jan 2000, for $9. NEARLY 11 YEARS AGO!!! That scares the shit out of me, but at the same time makes me realise that even at 14 I had a decent taste in movies. (Notice the film is R ;) Also it reminds me of why the film stuck with me, and of how long I've been waiting for David O' Russel to release another film since I Heart Huckabees (I have yet to see The Fighter but have read good things). Until next time...