we've got a thing that's called robot love
Okay, I am wayyyyy late to the party with this one, but I still have to share.
I'm on vacation this week, and I had some time to kill between errands and band practice, so I figured I'd go see this movie I'd been meaning to see for more than a month. I hadn't made plans to see it on opening night, which is when i usually like to see things. And I hadn't done it on any of the subsequent Sundays I'd just been sitting around at home. If I didn't do it now, it wasn't gonna happen.
The closest theater to where I was was City Cinemas at 2nd & 12th - and I usually avoid that place, because if the film you're seeing isn't in the first week of its run, you're seeing it in a shoebox in the basement. But for some reason, they didn't have anything else going on in the palatial majestic 370-seat hall. No Ziegfeld, to be sure, but the best in the neighborhood, by far. So I was in there with about six other people.
And as soon as I sat down, I realized why I'd been putting this off: Because I needed to see it By Myself. I didn't want any kids talking, and I didn't want any adults laughing. Like with Eternal Sunshine, I already knew I was going to love every moment. I just wanted to sit alone and leak from every hole in my face the entire time like a 14-year-old girl at Titanic. Which is what happened.
It's funny. I've been saying a lot to people recently that features, period, just don't do it for me anymore; I need about a dozen hours or so before I can even get emotionally involved with a character. Yet anytime anything bad would happen to WALL-E or Eve this huge primal childlike NO would rise up and startle me and then the college part of my brain would come in and explain, like a patient parent, where the event fit in three-act structure and why it was necessary. But I didn't care.
They made a movie I like more than The Incredibles. I didn't think that was possible. Right now I feel like I could watch it every day of my life and never grow tired of it.
I'm on vacation this week, and I had some time to kill between errands and band practice, so I figured I'd go see this movie I'd been meaning to see for more than a month. I hadn't made plans to see it on opening night, which is when i usually like to see things. And I hadn't done it on any of the subsequent Sundays I'd just been sitting around at home. If I didn't do it now, it wasn't gonna happen.
The closest theater to where I was was City Cinemas at 2nd & 12th - and I usually avoid that place, because if the film you're seeing isn't in the first week of its run, you're seeing it in a shoebox in the basement. But for some reason, they didn't have anything else going on in the palatial majestic 370-seat hall. No Ziegfeld, to be sure, but the best in the neighborhood, by far. So I was in there with about six other people.
And as soon as I sat down, I realized why I'd been putting this off: Because I needed to see it By Myself. I didn't want any kids talking, and I didn't want any adults laughing. Like with Eternal Sunshine, I already knew I was going to love every moment. I just wanted to sit alone and leak from every hole in my face the entire time like a 14-year-old girl at Titanic. Which is what happened.
It's funny. I've been saying a lot to people recently that features, period, just don't do it for me anymore; I need about a dozen hours or so before I can even get emotionally involved with a character. Yet anytime anything bad would happen to WALL-E or Eve this huge primal childlike NO would rise up and startle me and then the college part of my brain would come in and explain, like a patient parent, where the event fit in three-act structure and why it was necessary. But I didn't care.
They made a movie I like more than The Incredibles. I didn't think that was possible. Right now I feel like I could watch it every day of my life and never grow tired of it.