LOVED IT!!!!<\/p>\n
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\u2019t going to be back until Saturday AM.\u00a0 He is going out of town again but said flight wasn\u2019t 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.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t a Star Wars or Indy film after all. :)<\/p>\n
Husband called me around 10am today saying he just got on the road about an hour ago. Huh? You said you were leaving \u201cearly\u201d. I should have asked whose definition of early we were using. Grrr.\u00a0 Oh\u2026and that he checked his flight and it was actually leaving at 4:55 and not after 7pm like he thought (that\u2019s 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\u2026sure\u2026OK.<\/p>\n
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\u2019t fit in my Rover. And hit traffic on Highway 1 because well\u2026it\u2019s the weekend. Tourists.<\/p>\n
He says on the way \u201cwell, 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\u201d Huh?\u00a0 No big deal? Did the aliens from this movie abduct my husband??? Pretty sure yes\u2026yes they did. Got to the theater at 1:39. I raced in while he parked. I scored us great seats though! Also \u2013 got to see the Mission Impossible trailer again. CANNOT wait to see that!!<\/p>\n
I deliberately wasn\u2019t reading any reviews of C&A because a) critics are generally stupid and b) I didn\u2019t want any opinions or parts of the movie in my head while I watched it. So if you are like me \u2013 STOP READING<\/strong>.<\/p>\n 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 \u201cYAY!\u201d when Harrison Ford\u2019s name came on the screen :) #geek #stalker<\/p>\n It was non-stop from the moment it started.\u00a0 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\u2019m 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.<\/p>\n 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!\u00a0 In one scene, our entire row jumped! And then we all giggled at ourselves for it right after. Hehehe.<\/p>\n Harrison Ford has some great lines. He plays a pretty grumpy guy and he made me giggle a lot with his grumpiness.\u00a0 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. ;)<\/p>\n There are a few scenes that are obvious winks at Return of the Jedi.\u00a0 And one BIG wink and smirk to Indiana Jones. That\u2026or I\u2019m a goober who reads too much Star Wars and Indy into everything :) But I don\u2019t think so. Well, I do think I read Star Wars and Indy into a lot of life, but that\u2019s because they are SO awesome. And so applicable!<\/p>\n Oh! \u2013 the aliens want our gold. Me too! This also explains the gold bricks promotion at Comic Con.\u00a0 But seriously\u2026I want the gold too.<\/p>\n And there is a dog in the movie. So really \u2013 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. \u00a0So, that\u2019s OK :)<\/p>\n If you want a super fun popcorn movie that makes you smile \u2013 GO! If you only like art house crap\u2026err\u2026I mean indie films to make you think or ponder your emotions you should stick with Netflix tonight. Although\u2026it may be too late since you might have stopped reading by now because I told you to earlier :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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\u2019t going to be back until Saturday AM.\u00a0 He is going out of town again but said flight wasn\u2019t until Saturday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[189,37],"tags":[874,73,900],"class_list":["post-9375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-pop-culture","tag-cowboys-and-aliens","tag-harrison-ford","tag-jon-favreau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9375"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9379,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9375\/revisions\/9379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}