I avoided the rush and saw the movie last night. It was 8pm show with only 70% of theater full. The movie theater is in a mall, early 80's type: small, bad sound, scratches on screen. I sat in third row from the front. After the first pre-view a group of four came in: mother, father, ~10 year old boy, ~2 year old girl. Of course they sat in same row as me. The theater made up for the bad sound by turning it up very loud. This didn't bother the girl much but after 40 minutes she was running up and down the aisle, saying 'HI!' to people, the mother would hiss 'Get back here Katie'. Mother and daughter left not much later.
Spiderman pre-view: great! Is the red-head Mary Watson? Very nice wet! Other then that the film was very good. The Culture list is poking holes in the movie, but I thought everything was perfect. The differences from the book didn't bother me at all. In fact....now I can't remember when this was.....they were leaving shire and the chase when they were racing for the ferry....all I remember was it was very exciting suddenly. Or what Bilbo does when he sees the ring again...wow. At one point I glanced at watch and couldn't believe it was only 70 minutes, still more then half way to go. But it did get long at the end. The Goddess of the Woods in a swan boat? Is that a theme park tie in? Kevin T.
