More Movies!

I believe I've spent more hours in a darkened room watching films this year than any other of my life. The bottom of my tennis shoes should probably be caked with candy and coke residue by now.
But hey, I'm not complaining.
The day before yesterday my friend Lindsey and I went to see two movies at the theater- however, before we could do that, we much less enjoyably stumbled and rolled out of bed like heavy-lidded zombies to leave for some sports shoe sale she wanted to go to. Our goal- well, her goal enforced upon me- was to get there 20 minutes early. Being the classy, experienced Wally World/ internet shopper I am, I was scrunching my eyebrows and thinking to myself how frivolous that was. Why wait nearly half of an hour, fighting to keep your ten-pound eyelids open and legs trembling in the early morning stupor, to wait for a shoe store to open? I mean, what was to gain? Surely nobody would show up for that.
I mean, it was just a stupid sale.
When we pulled up next to the strip mall, the line of tanned, steel-muscled cross-country fanatics with the same mindset she had stretched all the way to Big Lots.
That tiny place was a complete and utter mad house.
A picture of that unfortunate hour and a half involved fighting through throngs, getting elbowed in the ribs, and shuffling through a rolling sea of bodies with pulsing heat suffocating all breath, all while clutching a tower of shoe boxes for footwear she was mildly considering (which I dropped several times and risked getting trampled trying to retrieve).
I did see two guys that are going to the same homeschool group I will be this year and briefly said hi to them but got swept away, clawing and kicking, by the frenzy in a matter of seconds.
The movies made up for it, though. It was a cute, cheap little theater that showed movies that had been out for a while already, so we decided on The Avengers (my third time) and more tentatively Snow White and the Huntsman. We walked into the chilly, darkened room and settled into the fold-seats with our brimming bags of popcorn and lukewarm nachos, already making bets on how many facial expressions Kristen Stewart would make to expand on her single pained "I don't understand" one. 50's swing music accompanied us as we waited instead of previews, and when it started the screen sputtered and flickered like an old film reel.
It ended up being okay. Not terrific, not horrid, but okay. The acting- okay. The plot- fuller of holes than Swiss cheese, but okay. On a whole, mediocre and forgettable but entertaining enough to hold your interest for a while.
Avengers, of course, was epic.
Again.

"Scrunch up, Legolas."

~Elizabeth

 And one more li'l note on Snow White... Here's something I typed up earlier on a forum.
"Only one thing really sticks with me, and it's not positive.
*LE SPOILERS AHEAD*
Okay, so Snow White is "the fairest of them all" because of her innocence and purity of heart. The wicked queen is all kinds of dastardly and all-together no good from the beginning, which is what makes the two beauties so contrasted. There's a scene where the huntsman is showing Snow White how to stab someone in hand-to-hand combat, and she looks at him, and says "I don't think I could do that." Maybe we don't really care about her hollow, paper-thin character, but we at least feel a mild respect for a moment or two.
And then the epic fantasy battle comes in. If we can get past the fact that Kristen Stewart is charging in armor on the front lines, through a series of events she ends up in a final showdown with the witch.
It ends with her stabbing the queen, knife blade deep in flesh.
...Say what now?
Wasn't Snow White supposed to be fairest because she was pure, innocent, childlike in her naivety at the beauty in the world? She doesn't take pity on the witch, doesn't establish herself as any different, but kills her with her bare hands.
I don't get that."