Simply Sarah

I have no idea why everyone favors going out on the weekends so much. I hate when Chad’s days off are on the weekend. It’s not so bad when we plan to stay home, but if we need a date it’s awful. Last night was bad.

We took the kids to Chad’s mom’s house so that she could watch them for us to go out. We had planned on seeing New Moon and grabbing something to eat. Chad had warned me that it was really popular and it would probably be sold out, to which I said ‘Not where we live. Plus all the die hard fans will have gone to see the midnight showing.’

We drove to Dublin. We drove up to the parking lot of the theater and it was packed. There was a line to buy tickets and a line to get inside to see the 7:00 showing.  The sign is blinking that the 7:00 show and the 7:10 show are sold out. Obviously they’ve got two theaters showing it,  yet they only have one of them open for the 9:50 showing, which is also sold out, but we don’t find that out until we have waited in line for 25 minutes and we get up to the booth. Then they tell us they’ve sold out of tickets for that showing too and we have to wait to the midnight showing.

Uh, no. Chad has to be up at 5 a.m. there is no way we can sit through a 2 hour movie and then drive an hour home. No. Way. In. Hell.

So we head to the car and start talking about our options. Thanksgiving is coming and it’s going to be crazy to try to ask his mom to babysit on a different night. We’re a little sad, thinking we’ve wasted our free babysitter. Chad calls a friend and asks them to stop by the theater in Eastman and pick us up some tickets to the 9:25 showing. He says he will see what he can do , so we decide to get something to eat. I suggest Red Lobster. We get there and the parking lot is slam packed, there’s a line waiting. Red Lobster is not that awesome so we drive around a bit. Applebees. I need a mudslide like woah, so we stop.

A 15 minute wait turned into half an hour.

It was so busy. The food was okay, the drinks were good, but I was about done for the night. I feel pretty stupid, walking around in my Twilight shirt with my hair in pig-tails. Thinking I dressed myself up like a 15 year old girl and now I won’t even get to see the movie. It’s not even that I’m one of those people who HAS to see the movie the second it comes out. I just wanted to go on a freakin date with my husband and that’s the movie we wanted to see.

We drive back to Eastman, stop by and get the tickets from our friend and find out the movie doesn’t even start til 10. We go to the house, let the dog out and waste some time before heading back up to the theater to wait in line for 15 minutes so we can buy a dang drink and snacks. Finally, we go inside the theater and we have to sit on the very front row because the whole thing is packed. We wind up slouching down as low as we can in our seats, craning our necks behind us just so we can see the movie.

BTW, the movie wasn’t worth all that trouble.

Yeah, it was okay, but I have a lot of issues with it. For one, Catherine Harwicke did a much better job with a much smaller budget on Twilight. The guy they replaced her with, once they realized the movie had gained such a huge following really didn’t make the story flow well at all. There were a crap ton of cheesy one-liners from the fanfics scattered through the movie. They didn’t focus enough attention on any particular thing that was happening in the story line. The fight scenes and stuff that were awesome in the trailer kind of sucked in the context of the movie…

And why the hell can’t Kristen Stewart cry? I’m suppose to believe that she loves Edward with every ounce of her being, she would die for him and become a vampire for him and she…is just so unconvincing. She’s a decent actress, but she does not make me feel like her character is in love with Edward.

I remember being a teenage girl and having my heart crushed, multiple times, when a guy broke up with me. I cried for days. I cried hard. She just takes deep breaths and her eyes flit around all over the place. Then she screams a lot when she’s sleeping, I guess to suggest she’s having nightmares. I don’t think it was her acting though. They did well in the first movie. I truly think the director suckes.

Oh, and I love Dakota Fanning and her part was so small. Which, it is in the books too, but I wanted to see more of her. It seems like they did an awesome job of making the not-so-important characters have awesome lines. Alice, Jasper, the rest of the Cullens and the Volturi. They were kick ass! The main characters were just so dull and unbelievable. They had no real chemistry this time.

I’m done ranting. I just had a sucky time last night because the movie was pretty lame and there were too many people there. Weekends suck.

Plus, I have a massive headache today from the lack of sleep and the kids are testing my patience.