Far and away the best thing about Anaconda

When we were at the cinema yesterday to see Avatar: Fire and Ash, we almost became material supporters of the last movie we'd seen at the cinema, which I truly did not like. My son liked it more than I did, so I could have justified it on those grounds.

However, the only grounds on which I needed to justify it is that a good piece of movie merchandise is a good piece of movie merchandise, no further discussion needed.

And that good piece of movie merchandise is what you see here, a popcorn bucket with a snake mouth at the top in support of Anaconda. 

At first I thought it might have been a drinking vessel, despite its enormous girth, the type you usually only see in the case of popcorn containers. I thought that otherwise, the venmous jaws might be too hard to reach your arm around to get to the popcorn, whereas a straw would just slip comfortably by. 

But then I remembered we weren't in America, the only place in the civilized world that has drinking vessels the size of popcorn tubs.

My 12-year-old would not have asked me to buy this. He's too good of a kid, not the kind who whines until he gets something. No, it was me myself who was going to be the driver of this purchase, especially since I knew he wanted that large popcorn. 

When we asked the price, though, the gentleman behind the counter asked if we were Village Rewards members. I told him we were not. 

He said it was $55 without membership, $27 with. 

Now, he probably would have allowed me to sign up right then and there and get the $27 price, which would have been a totally reasonable price to pay for such a thing. But neither my son nor I considered that, in part, probably, because it was time to get in and take our seats, and any additional admin might have endangered the start of Avatar. (Of course there were still approximately 27 minutes worth of ads after we took our seats.) 

I made a point of thanking my son for being such a good kid and not whining until he got it. I don't think he's every done that once, actually. 

Besides, as great as it is in the moment, a thing like that just goes home and gets thrown in a box and has to be thrown away at some point.

Probably the best thing to do would have been to buy it when we saw Anaconda, before we (or at least I) knew that it was terrible, but it wasn't a Village cinema where we saw the movie. They had only the normal popcorn tubs at that cinema. 

As a bit of a joke I asked the man if it cost anything for me to take a picture of it. Fortunately he knew I was joking, got a big grin and told me to go for it. 

So here's also one with the mouth closed: