Americans at the movies

Boston has been great. Not quite as cool as New York, but so much fun in its own way. First of all it has this beautiful public park in the middle of the city called the Boston Common, which was originally used for public protests and hangings. Thankfully things are a lot more civil now. But the local library has a stand at the park, so you can go and grab a book, find some grass and relax. Or if chess is more your style, they have sets of that too. Perfect for relaxing!

In Boston, good posture is inversely related to chess playing ability

But the other reason why we enjoyed Boston (over and above the accents and the discovery of Boston Cream Pie) was because we decided to go to the movies! And here is why going to the movies in America is awesome:
1.) It is considerably cheaper than going to the movies in Australia
2.) Americans also go to the movies

Let's expand on that second point. Without offending anyone, I would say that the Americans in our theatre had a much wider sense of humour than what we are used to. To them, everything was funny. Like, really, really, laugh-out-loud funny. And we found that funny! We went to The Avengers - fun, with a few cheesy one-liners, but not a clasically hilarious story. The action was incredible, but some of the script writing was.... less incredible. For example:

Captain America: I think we need a plan of attack
Iron Man: I have a plan: Attack!

Cue small snigger from the Kiwis in the fifth row. Cue uproarious laughter from the rest of the theatre.

It made for a highly enjoyable evening.