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Night at the Movies
Jun. 27th, 2007 04:05 amWarning: The links to the movies are reviews, which may include spoilers. Nothing too major, and most of it has been seen in the previews, but for those who like to keep themselves pure until the movie night, I would steer clear.
Chris is leaving tomorrow for field training, so I went with him to do some shopping for things he needed, then we saw ( Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer )
It was a fun, campy movie, about the same quality of the first. If you thought the first was an enjoyable romp, then you'll probably enjoy the second one as well.
Stef's birthday is June 30, so Rachael, Mark and his girlfriend, me and Stef all went to see the midnight showing of Live Free or Die Harder.
The Die Hard series is my mom's favorite movie set, so I grew up on John McClane. About a year ago, I introduced Stef to it, and she loved it as much as I did. Courtney also was introduced, by my endorsement of Die Hard as my favorite Christmas movie. Which is completely true.
The evening was fun, if not a bit awkward because Mark's girlfriend didn't know anyone but Mark, Stef insisted on talking only to Mark, and so Rachael and I were kind of left sitting there wondering what we should say.
Anyway, about 30 minutes before the ending of the movie, the screen went blank and an alarm went off saying, "There is an emergency in the building. Please exit the building."
Everyone filed out, and we were among the last. We were just closing the door when two random young men said that it was a false alarm. We went back in, and the alarm was still going off.
"Mark, who told you it was a false alarm?"
He grinned sheepishly. "Just two random guys."
"Remind me to haunt you if we die," I said.
"Wouldn't he be dead too?" Amber mused.
"Well. I'll haunt his ghost."
The alarm went off, then the screen came on for about twenty seconds, then went off again. Then sound came on, but not the picture. Finally, it came back on, but having the alarm in the middle go off again put quite a damper on the climax.
It resumed finally with no difficulties and we watched the final thirty minutes. As we were leaving, the theatre gave each person two free tickets to any movie they wanted to see with no restrictions. That was pretty cool.
As for the movie itself, ( it was pretty good )
So I hadn't slept in 35 hours and drove home from the theatre at 3:00 in the morning. There is something undefinably amazing about driving down deserted roads at that time of night. I blasted rock music to keep myself awake, but the three lanes of emptiness beside you reflect a peacefulness and serenity that you don't see in the midst of a traffic jam. It's like nothing in the world exists except for you, and the bumper-to-bumper lines never existed except in your imagination.
And now I'm home, and much too awake to go to sleep. So I suppose I'll stay up until this morning, then sleep the rest of the day.
And a super duper spoiler that I didn't want to add in the overall Fantastic Four review of things I disliked, but ( had to be said. )
Chris is leaving tomorrow for field training, so I went with him to do some shopping for things he needed, then we saw ( Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer )
It was a fun, campy movie, about the same quality of the first. If you thought the first was an enjoyable romp, then you'll probably enjoy the second one as well.
Stef's birthday is June 30, so Rachael, Mark and his girlfriend, me and Stef all went to see the midnight showing of Live Free or Die Harder.
The Die Hard series is my mom's favorite movie set, so I grew up on John McClane. About a year ago, I introduced Stef to it, and she loved it as much as I did. Courtney also was introduced, by my endorsement of Die Hard as my favorite Christmas movie. Which is completely true.
The evening was fun, if not a bit awkward because Mark's girlfriend didn't know anyone but Mark, Stef insisted on talking only to Mark, and so Rachael and I were kind of left sitting there wondering what we should say.
Anyway, about 30 minutes before the ending of the movie, the screen went blank and an alarm went off saying, "There is an emergency in the building. Please exit the building."
Everyone filed out, and we were among the last. We were just closing the door when two random young men said that it was a false alarm. We went back in, and the alarm was still going off.
"Mark, who told you it was a false alarm?"
He grinned sheepishly. "Just two random guys."
"Remind me to haunt you if we die," I said.
"Wouldn't he be dead too?" Amber mused.
"Well. I'll haunt his ghost."
The alarm went off, then the screen came on for about twenty seconds, then went off again. Then sound came on, but not the picture. Finally, it came back on, but having the alarm in the middle go off again put quite a damper on the climax.
It resumed finally with no difficulties and we watched the final thirty minutes. As we were leaving, the theatre gave each person two free tickets to any movie they wanted to see with no restrictions. That was pretty cool.
As for the movie itself, ( it was pretty good )
So I hadn't slept in 35 hours and drove home from the theatre at 3:00 in the morning. There is something undefinably amazing about driving down deserted roads at that time of night. I blasted rock music to keep myself awake, but the three lanes of emptiness beside you reflect a peacefulness and serenity that you don't see in the midst of a traffic jam. It's like nothing in the world exists except for you, and the bumper-to-bumper lines never existed except in your imagination.
And now I'm home, and much too awake to go to sleep. So I suppose I'll stay up until this morning, then sleep the rest of the day.
And a super duper spoiler that I didn't want to add in the overall Fantastic Four review of things I disliked, but ( had to be said. )
