So I finally got the opportunity to see this movie tonight.  Wish it was in a better atmosphere (I'll get to that *sigh*), but I enjoyed the movie.  Here are some of my thoughts ...

( spoilers )

Now, getting to what I was talking about in wishing for a better atmosphere...  We were surrounded by people in the theater who would just NOT.SHUT.UP.  I could understand talking during the stupid ads or even some of the coming attractions, but, um, some people like to watch a movie with actual SILENCE. Or at least relative silence.  There was this young couple sitting behind us and they kept commenting pretty loudly throughout most of the movie.  Then there were 3 young men in front of us who, while they didn't talk too much throughout the whole thing, were still pretty loud whenever they did.  Then to our right slightly behind us was another couple who had to talk, and it turned out the woman was talking on her cell phone.  At one point my mom turned and gave them the evil eye, and asked if they could please be quiet.  That shut them up finally for most of the movie.  THEN there was a woman with her son to our left who started talking on her cell phone.  And loudly.  I hear her saying "OK, OK........ YEAH, OK."  I think her son said something to her, and the two of them got up and left the theater. But we were still stuck with that couple behind us who had to comment out loud on EVERY line and EVERY move of virtually EVERY character in the movie.

*headesk*

Are people just getting ruder and ruder at theaters nowadays? Maybe I should learn to be more tolerant, but I don't think it's too much to ask to have some quiet during a movie so you can hear what the characters on screen are saying.  I'm all for talking during a movie when you're watching it in the privacy of your own home, especially if it's a movie you've seen before. But not when you're in a theater with other people seeing it for the first time. 

Okay, rant over now. I promise. ;)  It was good seeing the movie, though.  I'd go see it again if I could.

I also have an icon question related to this movie.  I've seen people using this icon over at dean_sam and I have a question... I don't think there's any spoilers here, but I'll stick it behind a cut just in case...

( F13 icon question )

... Is such an idiot.  The guy has a huge pickup truck that for some reason he never parks in his driveway (even though the driveway is huge and can fit at least 2 vehicles in it).  He always parks it out on the street.  He and his family have lived here for more than 6 years and he's done it every day.  Our street is not that wide to begin with, so it takes up a ton of room.  I'm surprised that no one has come speeding around the corner and creamed it.  In the past he's parked it in such a way that makes it hard for us to get out of our driveway.  We've spoken to both him and his wife about it, and he would park it closer to their corner for maybe one day.  Then it was back to the same old thing. 

This morning I wasn't feeling too well, but I had to go to work because I have to edit my resume and possibly speak again to the head hunter about it.  This schoolbus stops at his corner to pick up children and every single morning sits there for 10 minutes at least (I guess the bus driver has a friendly conversation with one of the kids' mothers).  I decided that to avoid them I'd go the opposite direction, turning left instead of right once I'm out of our driveway and going up another block.  Today he's parked right smack up against his driveway, which is just about directly across from ours.  I maneuvered so tightly to try to avoid him, but it was impossible. I ended up tapping his bumper.  I got out, looked at his truck and there didn't appear to be any damage, while I have some of his nice paint on my back bumper, as well as a bit of my paint scraped off and a very small crack.

I was so pissed off.  I ran back into the house and angrily told my mother about it.  I was so angry and I had to get to work, and I didn't know what he was doing (I guess in his house somewhere totally oblivious to this).  My mom just told me to go to work and she'd take care of it.  I didn't want her to have to do that but I left anyway. 

I really think these people believe they're the only ones who live on our block.  How I would love to tell them that that isn't the case.  But they're so stupid I don't think it would do any good.  His wife never even stops for the Stop sign on their corner - she just speeds through it around the corner, every single day.  I can't wait for a cop to catch her, but they're never in the right place at the right time.

I so didn't need this.  This guy has all the room in the world to park his truck, from between his driveway to the street corner. And he always picks the most inconvenient spot.  And the fact that talking to them will do no good makes me even more pissed off.

*sigh* Calming down, calming down.....