LOVED IT!!!!
Bought the tickets a couple days ago using my free Fandango codes from Groupon. Yay! Picked a Saturday afternoon show because husband had a couple out of town meetings on Friday and wasn’t going to be back until Saturday AM. He is going out of town again but said flight wasn’t until Saturday night so we chose the 1:40pm showing. While I very much wanted to see it Friday, I would wait the half a day. It wasn’t a Star Wars or Indy film after all. :)
Husband called me around 10am today saying he just got on the road about an hour ago. Huh? You said you were leaving “early”. I should have asked whose definition of early we were using. Grrr. Oh…and that he checked his flight and it was actually leaving at 4:55 and not after 7pm like he thought (that’s the arrival time.) Doh! So he had to drive 3+ hours (always bad traffic on weekends so definitely a lot of +), pack for a week trip and then we would drive to the movies, watch a 2 hour movie after 20 minutes of previews and get him to SFO in time to check bags. Uh…sure…OK.
He did hit a lot of traffic. And got home after 12:30pm. And still had to pack. And we left the house in his truck at 1:04pm. With an empty gas tank. But we needed to take his truck since his surf case wouldn’t fit in my Rover. And hit traffic on Highway 1 because well…it’s the weekend. Tourists.
He says on the way “well, worst thing is I miss my flight and have to pay the $100 change fee for the next one. No big deal. I promised you this movie” Huh? No big deal? Did the aliens from this movie abduct my husband??? Pretty sure yes…yes they did. Got to the theater at 1:39. I raced in while he parked. I scored us great seats though! Also – got to see the Mission Impossible trailer again. CANNOT wait to see that!!
I deliberately wasn’t reading any reviews of C&A because a) critics are generally stupid and b) I didn’t want any opinions or parts of the movie in my head while I watched it. So if you are like me – STOP READING.
The movie started and I would like to state for the record that I was NOT the only one who kind of quietly but still out loud said “YAY!” when Harrison Ford’s name came on the screen :) #geek #stalker
It was non-stop from the moment it started. Everyone in it is fantastic. The action was fun and the effects never took over the movie. And a big thank you to Jon Favreau for deliberately not filming it in 3D (he talked about that at Comic Con last year.) I’m sure some effects would have been cool in 3D and all but his decision to go with an old Western movie feel definitely made a difference in the tone/feel (for the better) of the movie.
There are a couple scenes where you jump. So maybe not so great for little kids? Depends on them I guess. Personally, the Harry Potter commercials with Voldemort look scarier to me! In one scene, our entire row jumped! And then we all giggled at ourselves for it right after. Hehehe.
Harrison Ford has some great lines. He plays a pretty grumpy guy and he made me giggle a lot with his grumpiness. Kinda reminded me of my old boss actually. Seemingly grumpy with a soft (ish) gooey center. A couple lines were definitely Han or Indy lines :) I truly love Harrison Ford. How is he 69??? Oh, and Daniel Craig is totally awesome too! Although I think he had like 10 lines. He was more facial and action type acting. And Olivia Wilde (who is beyond beautiful.) And Sam Rockwell. And all of the other actors. But…well…no one is Harrison Ford, not even James Bond. ;)
There are a few scenes that are obvious winks at Return of the Jedi. And one BIG wink and smirk to Indiana Jones. That…or I’m a goober who reads too much Star Wars and Indy into everything :) But I don’t think so. Well, I do think I read Star Wars and Indy into a lot of life, but that’s because they are SO awesome. And so applicable!
Oh! – the aliens want our gold. Me too! This also explains the gold bricks promotion at Comic Con. But seriously…I want the gold too.
And there is a dog in the movie. So really – this makes the movie pretty darn near perfect. A husky would have made it perfect. But then we would all wonder what the heck a husky was going in New Mexico. So, that’s OK :)
If you want a super fun popcorn movie that makes you smile – GO! If you only like art house crap…err…I mean indie films to make you think or ponder your emotions you should stick with Netflix tonight. Although…it may be too late since you might have stopped reading by now because I told you to earlier :)
5:33 am on August 1st, 2011
I liked it too – didn’t love it (the novel was better) and apparently it got dissed at the box office by the smurfs (ooh). HF makes any movie better, but we’re totally biased on that one.
I think Favreau is another one of the “it” directors of the moment like Knight Shamalayan was after 6th sense. His stuff is ok and he got a good script and cast with the first Iron Man (second one sucked).
4:49 pm on August 1st, 2011
Turns out C&A DID beat the Smurfs! Gargamel is maniacally laughing in the corner! :) Kids movies usually rake in the summer dough so I am happy it was #1 for the week and hopefully has decent staying power into week 2 and on. I like all of HFs movies to be box office gold (see what I did there…gold…movie tie-in….me=dork!)
Yes – we are totally biased…except that he totally does :) Did you watch the Jimmy Kimmel bit I posted? if not – GO! Hehehe.
I was not a fan of IM2 either. The movie was all special effects. But I did like IM, Swingers and did really like this movie so he seems to be batting better than M Night now ;)