The Comfortable Case Of Benjamin Button

You know, when GSC had their Gold Class movies, we always never did manage to try it out, even once. It was always, "Let's wait for a good show that's worth it," but in the end there never was one, heh. We did try out the [whatwasitcalledtheoneatgardenskahorsunway?], a cheaper option where the Chief and us watched Dark Knight.

So it happens that during Chinese New Year sis and us on a spur decided to go try out Cineleisure's Platinum Suites. Sis and us bought our tickets, preordered our food and drinks, then headed down to walk around the Curve before our movie, Underworld 3, started.

Only as we were going in for our movie did we see the lounge area meant for Platinum ticket holders. Ogawa massage chairs, free wifi, free drinks...for RM40 per ticket it was a bit of a waste not to have spend some time enjoying the perks. But that was all right, because the seats in the theatre itself made up for it. How we love the comfortable recliner seats and spacious settings. The staff brought in our food for us as we were getting comfy, and it wasn't long before we tried taking photos of the seats.

No, there wasn't any need to worry about feeling suaku as everybody else was doing it too!

We told the Chief about it and it wasn't long before we found out about RM25 shows on Sundays and made a date for Benjamin Button. The plan? Take full advantage of the lounge, then watch the 3-hour long movie in comfort.

Sunday afternoon proved to be a good choice to watch the movie as the lounge was pretty much empty, leaving us to monopolize a pair of massage chairs. Unlike the Osim chairs like 'Nic's, where sitting on one would elicit purrs of pleasure, the Ogawa chairs were a pair of serious Swedish masseur bitches. It was still good but hell loads more painful than expected!

After that, movie time. Two comfy recliner seats in the middle aisle, along with comfort food in the form of potato wedges (much recommended!), onion rings and popcorn. It was rather remiss of us, however, to not pack something for the Chief to wear to keep warm.

Overall the comfiness of it all helped ease the fact that the movie is depressing, although the movie isn't as bad as the book, which starts off lighthearted and then sucker punches you to tears near the end.

Would we do this again? Of course. Just a matter of whether we would try GSC's Gold Class for comparison, and whether we would be tempted to take up the Platinum Membership thing.