Movies Anyone?

 In the last four days, I have seen three movies in a theater. Saturday, I went to see Knock at the Cabin with my boyfriend. I have enjoyed a fair amount of M. Night Shyamalan movies, although I didn't like his last one called Old. Well, I did like it until the end. Then I was mad. lol Knock at the Cabin was pretty good, however. Kinda gory even though the gore wasn't shown, but you knew what was happening. It had a good ending, so we both liked that!

When we were at the theater on Saturday before the movie, I noticed that The Whale was playing, which surprised me since I didn't think it was playing at many theaters. I decided over the weekend that I was going to take myself to that movie, and to A Man Called Otto. And I decided that the day I was going to do that was today. I don't have good memories of this date two years ago, and so I wanted to make different memories for this date so I'll have better things to remember in years to come. 

A little side note.....many years ago, when our cheap theater was still opened, my Mom and I went to see a movie. After that movie was over, we looked at the board of movies and decided we were going to see another movie that was going to start not too long after the one we just saw. Neither of us had gone to see two movies in one theater on the same day before! We kinda felt like kids, we were so excited! lol I had not done that since, so I was pretty happy there were two movies I wanted to see that were separated with enough time in between to be possible to do so. 

The Whale was first, and that was an amazing film. Brendan Fraser did an excellent job in the movie, and I believe he is up for an Oscar that I feel he deserves. The story is moving, sad, and doesn't have the happiest of endings, but I truly enjoyed it. 

I had finished reading the book A Man Called Ove last night, which is what A Man Called Otto is based on. The book is Swedish, so a few of the characters have different names, including Ove (Otto for an American name). Some of the same scenarios are played out in the movie, and while I really enjoyed this movie, too, I think I liked the book a lot better. However, I don't feel one needs to read the book in order to enjoy the movie! Again, with this movie, it has a bit of a sad ending, but I liked it anyway!

I had a surprise ending to my day with a quick dinner at my Dad's after he had left a message asking me to come over before I went back home to help him sort something out. It was nice to spend some time with him and have a meal at his house when he's usually invited over to mine (which I need to do again soon!). I am happy to have had this day, to be able to spend it in a movie theater watching a couple of good movies and remembering my Mom, and then seeing my Dad afterward. It's days like these I feel truly blessed! 

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