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[in_stead]

Trust me when I say that you all wish I was your big sister. Why? Because I'm weak, that's why.

I have somehow just agreed to drive my sister forty-five minutes out to the other end of town and our only movie theater in order to meet up with her friends for the late movie at 9:00pm.

Obviously, given the distance, going home then back to pick her up is out. So, the question becomes: do I go to Monster House at 9:40pm or Clerks II at 10:00pm?

The former looks cute, although I can't say I have any real desire to see it. The latter I wouldn't mind seeing, but it gets in (and therefore out) a full hour later than my sister's movie.

LJ, I look to you for guidance. Help!

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[birdsflying]

Clerks II. a) because it's clerks II and b) having brought your sister out - she can wait an hour!

That's what I'd do to my younger brothers, if I drove. :g:

[in-stead.livejournal.com]

This is a good point you raise. On the other hand, I shudder to think what my sister can do with an extra hour without supervision...

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Take a book you really want to read. Read it while waiting for her instead of spending money on a movie you don't really want to see.

[in-stead.livejournal.com]

The excessively sad response to this otherwise very good advice (which, trust me, is much more my usual strategy at times like this -- hole up in the Timmies up the street with a book, a notebook, and a pile of pens) is that the theatre seats are much better for my back than the seats in the waiting area or at the Timmies down the street. I can practically recline in them, which, at the end of two hours, means that I can then get up and walk away from them rather than be seized permanently in the seated position.

Let me tell you -- I am really, really, REALLY looking forward to the time when my back gets back to normal.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I am really, really, REALLY looking forward to the time when my back gets back to normal.

Yes, you must be! And that's a good reason to choose a movie. (I wish our theatres had comfortable seats like that.) So... what did you do, in the end?

[lies-d.livejournal.com]

Hmm, too late to give you any useful advice, sorry. Whichever one you picked, please do tell how it was.

[in-stead.livejournal.com]

I went with Monster House, mostly because I got bored waiting for Clerks II to start.

It was far creepier than it had any right to be, being an animated kids film. Sort of Coraline by Neil Gaimen without being as good. This isn't to say it was a bad movie, just nowhere near as good as a Neil book -- and, really, what is?

The animation was really sharp and the main character , D.J., was pretty endearing.

It was, all in all, generally mediocre. Apart from those times when it was being unexpectedly scary, my attention kept drifting to fix on completely unrelated topics, which is never a good sign.

/ my spiffy film review.

[lies-d.livejournal.com]

The trailers made it look god-awful, but a critic that I like recommended it, soo, I dunno. Mediocre, eh? I think I can probably wait for the DVD. Thank you for sitting through it so that I didn't have to.

(Doesn't it feel odd to go to the movies alone? I still do that occasionally, and I always feel very conspicuous.)