The Cinema

I had two cinematic surprises this week that surprised me. Yes, sometimes I watch movies at the theater. So last week we went and watched The Hobbit. And I'm relishing it. Boom. Awesome. Loving it. (*Spoiler alert, be ye hereby warned.) And then the dragon opens its eye.

As if to see my face when the credits rolled. Totally thought it was The Hobbit, period. Didn't realize it was going to be The Hobbit blah la ha la la, then later The Hobbit ha fa la tra da, then finally when my second child is born, The Hobbit frododododo. I guess I should've realized something wasn't right when hour two rolled around and the little dwarves weren't even close to wrapping up their part of the story. And did I ever watched a preview (yes)? Did I ever look anything up about the movie (honestly don't remember, actually)? Well, it should've been obvious.

And then tonight we go in for our annual Les Miserables viewing and I'm excited. Kind of. Not as excited as I was when Wolverine came out, but Huge Jackman was in this one too, and he's my hairy-chested hero of the moving picture, so I thought it might work out all right.

*Another spoiler alert, sort of. The opening scene unfolds and I'm thinking it's pretty rad, right? Burly sailors (okay, they turned out to be slaves), Huge looks fantastic in his Zeus beard and self-shorn locks (like mine!), and I'm always impressed by impressive manpower and teamwork, and they were certainly displaying impressive manpower. Oh, and then he fetched the flag (i.e., tree). Wolverine fo 'eva. Anyway, and then it keeps going and they haven't stopped singing. I'm beginning to worry. I expressed some concern to the sister, but not very heartily. And then a couple minutes later I had to concede: the singing was there to stay. Wow. Totally didn't realize that it was a musical. I know, idiot. My sister already had her laughs. I guess I didn't go into that one well-prepared either. And I'm quite sure I watched a preview for it, too. Needless to say it wasn't quite as enjoyable from then on, seeing as I didn't think I was at that kind of theater. But it was still a quality production, in my opinion, and certainly a story worth being reminded of.

So there you have it. My two cinematic surprises of the week. Happy New Year's Eve to all, and to all a good night.