Spoiler removed, BTW.
Kevin Tarr wrote:
>
> 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.
We went last night to a 7PM showing. There were a lot of parents with
kids there. When we picked a row to sit on, I noticed that there was a
kid in the 3rd seat on the row behind us, so I took the 2nd seat and
forced Dan to sit on the aisle. That left 4 seats between us and the
next people on our row, and a little while later, 2 people showed up and
took the middle seats of that block. So the kid had an unobstructed
view. It was stadium seating, so it wasn't going to be too bad for him,
but I figured it would be nicer for him if no one were immediately in
front of him.
Some time into the film (less than an hour, certainly) the kid
immediately in front of me freaked, apparently. His mother took him out
of the theater. Then she had to come back twice to pick up things
they'd left when she rushed him out. The family next to them did all
right; the younger kid in that family was younger than the kid who had
freaked, but different people have different limits, of course. (Dan
and I had compared notes about being freaked out in movies as kids
before the movie started, and we'd both been frightened by the trash
compactor scene in Star Wars.)
> Spiderman pre-view: great! Is the red-head Mary Watson? Very nice wet!
At the end of that preview, I looked at Dan, grinned and gave a
thumb-up, and he grinned and nodded. So I guess we blow our monthly
movie outing on that one when it's out. :) I'm looking forward to it.
I really enjoyed the movie proper. I cried a bit at the end. (That was
the second time I cried a bit, having finished _Ender's Shadow_ that
arfternoon.) I'm hungry for the next installment.
Julia
