Taryn had a free pass to a Famous Players theatre, so we shipped James off to Grandma's house and ventured northbound to the Colossus Theatre. I picked Kill Bill Volume 1 for our last freebie, so this time it was Taryn's choice.
A couple of years ago I made a personal decision not to see movies in theatres that I wasn't 95% sure I'd enjoy. I'm simply unable to sit still in a theatre that long unless I'm thoroughly entertained by the story on the screen. If the movie looks iffy, I won't give it my time. For a while I thought I was borderline OCD because of my inability to focus on anything for 2 hours straight, but then I realized I only felt constricted and enclosed when the movie was bad. Good movies could be four hours long and I could sit there and feel perfectly wonderful the entire time.
Despite making this promise to myself, I let Taryn pick any movies she wanted. It was her free pass after all and I decided to be a sweetie instead of forcing her to watch Big Fish, my personal choice. Taryn chose Something's Gotta Give starring Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton amongst others. I have four topics I'd like to address this afternoon regarding our trip to the theatre to watch Something's Gotta Give, but it's way too much for one blog entry. The following four entries tell the tale...
