'War Stories'
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Up has been our motivation for Owen's best behavior. He tells everyone he meets that we're going to see it on May 29.
I should warn you - the 6 year-old sitting next to us had a lot of trouble following the plot. I think he still enjoyed it, but he was constantly asking his mom what was happening.
Ellie does that even when she's seen the movie 23 times.
Although I do think that she has trouble following Bolt.
My Terminator Salvation review is up on Nerdabout.
I should warn you - the 6 year-old sitting next to us had a lot of trouble following the plot. I think he still enjoyed it, but he was constantly asking his mom what was happening.
Owen zones when he's in the movies. No chatter or questions at all. I can practically see the wheels turning in his head. He usually can answer plot questions I ask him about later and he reenacts scenes with his toys so I can tell he's following.
Even if he can't grasp the nuances, he'll be distracted by the shiny stuff on the screen. My biggest issue is that he's ready to leave after the climax. I still haven't seen the last two minutes of Monsters vs. Aliens because once they stopped Galaxar, he stood up and announced he was going home.
LOL.
Mal is right between Ellie and Owen on this - he will constantly ask what things are or what's going on, but he usually groks the movie right away, despite the chatter. Like I said, his life is a watch-and-post.
It means I don't want to take him to an actual theater tho, as I'm afraid other viewers would kill us.
ION, I just got back from Star Trek. Man, that was fun! Best shout-out to previous canon may have been Nero yelling "SPPAAAAWWWWCCCKKK!" like "KHHHAANNN!"
Although, the first instance of that I swear he said "FUCK."
I am so in love with Leonard Nimoy. Undiminished. Foxy foxy.
Please please please let the moon chicks have purple hair....
It's gotta be!
Raq, I agree about that moment. I laughed at that moment. It was funny!
I want Kirk's motorcycle. I may or may not want the Sea-Doo on steroids that the cop was riding, but it seemed pretty awesome, too.
So it occurs to me that the scene of the Enterprise being built - the first trailer I saw for Star Trek - wasn't in the movie. But the Enterprise was new in the movie...so a year before the events of the movie, she was under construction...like when we were watching her being built.
Not quite as viral of marketing as Cloverfield, but whatever.
I'm not sure what to make of Pixar - every premise is so amazingly sad that I tear up just reading about it. And I always swear I'm not going to go see the movie because I don't want to bawl in public. And yet, they always pull it off.
Even in the case of Up! where they are re-telling Monster House in a more whimsical way.
We did see the ship being built. Kirk looks. But not the footage we'd seen before.