Musings of a technophile

So Friday night we decide to go to the movies.  Yes, you read right – the movies. Whats so great about the movies you ask?  Well – it happened to be the first time we a) had been to the movies in two years and b) took the boys the movies.   We found this movie theater called the picture show that is only $1.75 – of course it’s hidden in this corner of a mini-mall.  Actually – I just told my friends about that movie theater today and they had never even heard of the place – granted they have lived here longer than I have and also granted the movie theater is only like five blocks away from our work and is on major road – yes, it’s THAT hidden.

Anyways – we went to go see the new Disney/Pixar movie WALL-E.  Normally Pixar does a good job with it’s movies IMO – we love Cars for instance, and this movie was no exception.  For one there were scene’s where you would have swore that live pictures were used instead of computer graphics (i.e. – WALL-E cruising down this empty road). The story I thought was good too – Pixar’s normal suitable for kids but enjoyable for adults as well.

Well first off, I’ll say that Logan (being only a step away from two years old) was VERY interested in the movie…for about five minutes.  After that he must of notices that ‘Hey! Movie theaters are big!’ and ‘How fun would it be to go for a walk in this place!?’.  So, unfortunately Mariel and Logan didn’t get to see the movie.  That left Ethan and I.  I propped Ethan up on a booster seat so that he could see – he looked so (insert manly word for cute here) sitting there with this popcorn and soda – just kicking back and watching the movie.  We had a little plastic cup for his popcorn, and when he ran out he would ask for more.  I refilled the thing 1….2….3……..8….9  well, you get the picture – anyways, enough times until he looked at me and said “No more – my belly HURTS”

He enjoyed most of the movie -even laughing at some of the funny parts (such as the massaging robot that beats up all the other robots and then dances on them).  About half way I did have to bring him on my lap though – partly because he was getting tired, partly because I think he couldn’t hear me when I kept saying “shhh”…perhaps he though I was trying to tell him important movie plot information…

There was one part where the movie had TONS of sound then suddenly went blank and there was no noise.  There was absoutley no noise in the movie theater for about five seconds – then Ethan chirps up “What happened??!”  It was loud enough that everyone in the movie started laughing – seeing how you can obviously tell it’s from a toddler talking.

Anyways, we had a good time – Ethan was real happy about it and I think he got a special feeling about going to the movies (just given how good he was when we got home and how big I saw him smile when I told him I had a good time at the movies with him).  We don’t get to go to the movies that often – but if he always get’s that happy about it, perhaps we should do it more.