You thought I wouldn't make it today, eh? You were very extremely wrong!
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I really wish I was making up the fact that the Krafft 8 was Chapter 8. I sort of am. But not for the obvious reasons.
Located just on the border of Port Huron and Fort Gratiot, the Krafft 8 movie theatre was never my first choice for going to see films at during my tenure in Port Huron.
That’s not because it was a bad place to see films. Quite the contrary. A lot of people I really like worked there at some point. Despite the fact that one random employee tried to say that I’m not “The Bob” once I really did like the people there.
The problem was the seats. That was it. Because of my neck injury from my 11th grade season in wrestling I had to sit in certain seats if I wanted to see movies at theatres. They needed a good neck rest. AMC 30 has them. Birchwood doesn’t have them but they have high enough seats to compensate. Krafft 8 didn’t.
But after a while I decided to forget about pain and just go there. It is a nice theatre and they were quite willing to get films that weren’t exactly blockbusters a chance to have a decent run there.
It was September 12, 2003. It was the day Once Upon a Time in Mexico opened. It was also the day after I told the woman I deeply liked a lot I wanted to be her boyfriend and was turned down.
I didn’t work that day. I just sat at home, watched The Last Temptation of Christ, and wrote about JFK. She called, we talked, but I had other plans. RJ and I were going to the movie.
I took $60 out of the bank. I was going to hold one of my famed Movie Nights the next day so I wanted to have a budget for that. We were going to be watching the other two flicks in the Mariachi series.
But RJ and I went to the film at Krafft 8. Fever for Johnny Depp was arguably at its highest at this point. Secret Window and the two shitty Pirates sequels had not yet come out to tarnish that devilishly handsome image of his. This was going to be great.
RJ knew how bad of shape I was in. But we went to the movie. We knew that the movie would be good. We knew that it would take away all my troubles.
We vowed that the moment Depp appeared onscreen we would put our fists in the air to “represent”. Wouldn’t you know it, he was the first thing to appear after the logos.
I felt better after the movie. It was the combination of the place, the film, and a friend to help out.
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