Tonight Mark and I are taking our brother-in-law (and my sister) to see Wall-E for his birthday. There are a few things I’m concerned about. First, Wall-E appears to have received some less-than-glowing reviews. Here's one that Adam found online, written by an acclaimed movie critic whose experience is undeniable:
“wall-e was one of the worst movie i've seen in a long time.And I saw a couple movies in the past few days.And i've seen movies since I was born14 years ago. That's a lot of movies!!!” (1 star rating)
You can’t question fourteen years of experience, now, can you? I wonder if we should change our plans and rent “Stuart Little 2” instead. Because, of all the movie i’ve seen, I wouldn’t want this to be a bust, since it’s a birthday present and all.
Secondly, I’m concerned about what to do about treats for the movie. You can’t go without treats for the movie, but what with the price of movie tickets these days, not to mention the price of a few exploded corn kernels drenched in fat, I’m not sure we can afford to buy concessions—(I can guarantee my waistline can’t afford it right now.)
Speaking of waistlines, as I considered my movie treat dilemma, I had an embarrassing recollection of sneaking in treats to a movie many years ago. My family went all out in avoiding being ripped off, but still having adequate munchies. We made popcorn at home, repackaged bulk candy in smaller bags, and even filled up water bottles to sneak into the theater for the approximately annual event that going to a movie theater was for our big crowd.
This particular time, when I was somewhere around 8th grade, we must not have had time to pop our own popcorn, because I was assigned to smuggle in two cans of Pringles. Where do you stash two cans of Pringles, you ask? Based on my stunning 8th grade fashion, I had a pretty easy solution for temporarily hiding the cylindrical cans. I just held my pants out, and snuggled them in between my waist and my humungous jeans. Nope, I wasn’t pregnant with an expandable waistline, and I think by then I was out of the Lycra phase that plagued my elementary years. I just recall thinking that boys’ jeans were so much cooler than girls. Apparently I wasn’t too concerned with the size and fit, as much as the intended gender of the pants. No problem, for the Pringles, though. They fit easily in, and I waltzed into the theater, unnoticed.
Nowadays with my waist more than filling the pants I’ve got on, I don’t think I can pull off The Pringle Job. And since we’re not bringing our kids (thank you to my wonderful sisters, Suzy and Kim), we don’t have the leeway of bringing in a “diaper bag.” But, on the other hand, according to one fourteen-year-old's movie review, we might not be staying long at all. Not long enough to need treats, right?
I’ll keep you posted.
9 comments:
Maybe we should cancel our tickets and go to something good, like a full-length Dora. And maybe Mark could try the Pringles trick with his pants. (He might be able to bring in a six pack of them if he wears his scrubs.)
I laugh every time I read your blog...the expanding waistline comments are hilarious. Mine's expanding also, but I don't have your same excuse...in other words this won't be going away in nine months. I hope the movie isn't quite the flop you're thinking it might be and I wish you happy (non-child attended)treat-eating!
Well, you could always stick to Barnyard Critters (or whatever they're called) with the kids and us! Any wonder we took them to the park after having to endure that? Or there's always Dora!
How was it? Mike and I were debating if it was going to be good or not. And YES! I would love to get ice cream or snow cones sometime. Pregnancy is a hard time to cool off.
whether you liked the movie or not--and whether you snuck food in or not--, I hoped you enjoyed a night (or at least part of one) without the kids! anytime, me dear :)
the funny thing is, we were probably all smuggling in bags of popcorn underneath our giant t-shirts of dad's (if i'm thinking of the same time, i think danielle was wearing "THIS IS WHAT OLD LOOKS LIKE")
We used to smuggle in treats too!
The only thing I've heard about that movie is that it's social commentary parading as a cartoon and one friend said he was expecting Al Gore to fly in with a
"Vote Obama" pin anytime. But...I haven't actually seen it, so I don't know how true that is. What did you think?
I heard the movie was really good from a couple of people. I haven't seen it, but let us know what you thought. If it's any good, maybe I'll try the old Pringle trick.
I love that your critic of choice was a young teenage boy. They're usually dead-on, so I'm sure the movie was a complete bomb.
By the way, love the pringle in pants story :)
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