Fullmetal Alchemist movie night

I have earned massive brownie points with my wife. She is a HUGE Fullmetal Alchemist fan. She has all versions of the shows on DVD sets as well as copied onto our satellite PVR system with statues and gashapons of all types. Many web sites housing her personnel drawings of her favorite character’s in rather provocative poses.

So when my wife found out that the newest Fullmetal Alchemist movie was going to screened at a movie theater in Raleigh, NC. After countless texting and phone calls to me while I was at work, I was faced with two problems. The first being that we would have to carry out two boys, which I will explain later, and I had to charge up my cell phone because she would not stop talking about the prospects of seeing this movie. She was like a little kid on Christmas day.

After returning home to a waiting wife by the door to greet me home that was followed by a ton of information in regards to this movie. I checked the location of the theater to find it was only a few blocks from our regular dentist.  I also discovered a rather unique feature about this theater that I came to really love about this place. The theater in question is called The Raleighwood Cinema Grill. It is a very small theater with only two movie screens. Everyone waits in the lobby until it’s time for the movie to start meaning a small area with people standing around playing angry birds on their cell phone. But once inside I found true love.

It was a restaurant inside a movie theater. We sat down at our table in swivel style chairs. Looking over our menu, the prices looked a bit high but the portions were extremely large when they brought the food to our table. I got the chili cheese fries that looked like Mount Everest. Steak fries covered in thick cheese and chili sauce with beans. It took both hands to lift up the pate. The salad my wife got looked like it could feed an entire family, our oldest son got two hot dogs with French fries. He could finish all the fries so our youngest one took care of them along with his popcorn and fries.

The lady behind us got an ice cream sundae served in a large glass container that looked like it held ½ gallon carton of ice cream. The sodas were served in what looked like an extra-large glass that could hold 24 ounces or more of soda with ice. One table had pizza while another one was served Buffalo Wings. The whole room smelled great.

Again, all this food is being served by waitresses in serving uniform. My wife though she was in one of those cafes in Akihabara.  As the movie started, we as everyone else continued to eat our food as the waitresses stood by. The bathrooms are also great. You can do what needs to be done and you don’t have to touch anything. Everything is motion sensor controlled.

The movie started and my wife is all smiles. Her eyes glued to the screen. But again as the movie played out, there was a great deal of images of people being killed either by weapons or other techniques. At times we would look at the kid’s reaction during the many scenes of people being killed. No reactions from them at all except during some parts of the movie they thought were boring.

They laughed at all the funny scenes and cheered when the bad guy was killed. We asked them afterwards if they were scared or traumatized in any way but nothing. One what’s to be an alchemist so he can do the things that were done in the movie. The other one wanted to see it again. And to think they just had finished watching the 3^rd Lord of the Rings movie before we left the house.

The movie also has some cursing in it. But unlike a majority of movies where it’s used in every other sentence, in this movie it is used only when needed in the situation when it’s called for.  We got home by 11:30 PM with both boys heading to bed as I too went to sleep watching an episode or two of Top Gear on TV. My wife finally went to bed by 1:30 AM after she had updating her blog and tweeted to a dozen or more of her friends twitter sights.

We all had a great time and look forward to going back to this theater again. But we plan to save up a great deal of money. We paid less than $20 for the four of us to see the movie but spent just under $55 on the food. But seeing as taking the family out to a nice restaurant and then a movie can cost a lot more, this movie theater seems to have combined the two experiences into one.

The Raleighwood Cinema, 6609 Falls of Neuse Road Raleigh, NC is located at the corner of Falls of Neuse and Sandy Forks Road across from the Dollar Tree and next door to a Chinese restaurant.  It’s best to park in the Dollar Tree parking area and walk over to the theater.