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The heat has been keeping me away from my computer upstairs, and from updating lj. But we had rain today and the heat broke, which is good, as i think it's been making everyone out of sorts. My sister and I went to see The Kids Are All Right today, and the first theater we went to, the air conditioning was out in the theater with that movie only, and so we had to go over to the theater in Princeton. In line at Princeton, everyone kept bitching about standing outside in the heat (it's a small 2-screen (I think) theater, and even w/a line with about 9 people in it at a time, we had to stand outside), and how hard was it to say "two please" or make change, or whatever. (Also 3/4 of the line was people who had been at the first no-AC theater with us.) Then inside the theater, which was pretty crowded, a fight broke out over someone saving seats! An old-people fight, at least.
Some guy had put his coat over two seats while he stayed in the lobby looking for his friend or lover or son (my sister was in the bathroom for the part where he explained who he was waiting for to the people in front of us, and I heard son, but the guy who eventually came in did NOT look like his son) to give him his ticket. He'd asked the two older women in front of us, who were sitting behind his seats, to save the seats for him, and he came back in a couple of times to make sure the seats were there. Right as I was sitting down, I heard him ask if it was hard to save them, and they said, "Oh, no." Then he went out to the lobby, and trouble came in. In the form of another older woman, who looked at the jacket, then sat down in the seat and told her husband to sit down too. When the women in front of us told her (relatively politely) the seats were saved, she said, "Where are they? Who's saving them? You're not saving them, you're not sitting here!" and sat down. The women kept arguing with her, and her husband tried to point out 2 equally good seats in the next row, and finally a woman at the end of the row said she'd move over so they could sit at the end of the row. Then the guy comes back in, the women who'd been watching his seats told him what happened, and he started asking questions, and the couple who'd tried to take his seats heard him and started saying things to him, and he kept saying, "Sir, it's not a big deal, I'm not interested in talking about this, I'm NOT INTERESTED," and the woman's husband told him he had a big mouth. Then the guy went out to look for his friend again, and this time to save the seats he took off his flip-flops and put one on each of the seats, and walked out through the theater *barefoot* to find his friend. I was riveted by this whole display.
I thought the movie was fantastic! All of the acting was great, including the kids. I really felt for Nic, who felt like she'd done all the hard work of raising great kids and now this guy was going to come waltzing in and take over, and then feeling crazy for worrying about it, and then her worst nightmare happens. And I loved the scene where, after they're found out, Paul is on the phone to Jules, telling her he's tired of it, and wants to be with her and she should just pack up the kids, and she just hangs up on him. It's so clear in that moment that he doesn't understand what it takes to make a marriage, or a family, he just wants to step into it.
Some guy had put his coat over two seats while he stayed in the lobby looking for his friend or lover or son (my sister was in the bathroom for the part where he explained who he was waiting for to the people in front of us, and I heard son, but the guy who eventually came in did NOT look like his son) to give him his ticket. He'd asked the two older women in front of us, who were sitting behind his seats, to save the seats for him, and he came back in a couple of times to make sure the seats were there. Right as I was sitting down, I heard him ask if it was hard to save them, and they said, "Oh, no." Then he went out to the lobby, and trouble came in. In the form of another older woman, who looked at the jacket, then sat down in the seat and told her husband to sit down too. When the women in front of us told her (relatively politely) the seats were saved, she said, "Where are they? Who's saving them? You're not saving them, you're not sitting here!" and sat down. The women kept arguing with her, and her husband tried to point out 2 equally good seats in the next row, and finally a woman at the end of the row said she'd move over so they could sit at the end of the row. Then the guy comes back in, the women who'd been watching his seats told him what happened, and he started asking questions, and the couple who'd tried to take his seats heard him and started saying things to him, and he kept saying, "Sir, it's not a big deal, I'm not interested in talking about this, I'm NOT INTERESTED," and the woman's husband told him he had a big mouth. Then the guy went out to look for his friend again, and this time to save the seats he took off his flip-flops and put one on each of the seats, and walked out through the theater *barefoot* to find his friend. I was riveted by this whole display.
I thought the movie was fantastic! All of the acting was great, including the kids. I really felt for Nic, who felt like she'd done all the hard work of raising great kids and now this guy was going to come waltzing in and take over, and then feeling crazy for worrying about it, and then her worst nightmare happens. And I loved the scene where, after they're found out, Paul is on the phone to Jules, telling her he's tired of it, and wants to be with her and she should just pack up the kids, and she just hangs up on him. It's so clear in that moment that he doesn't understand what it takes to make a marriage, or a family, he just wants to step into it.