Movie Review

So John and I decided to go see Gone Girl.  It was 6:10 and there was a 6:50 showing at the theater closest to the house.  We were just about done with dinner so we hurried the boys through the final bites.  John and Sam were scurrying around loading the dishwasher and Tom was putting away the leftovers.  I mentioned giving the rest of the carrots to Abbey and things turned into a big debate about whether or not we should be giving vegetables to the dogs but I've been giving leftover veggies to Abbey for years, dogs love vegetables, well Alice doesn't but Abbey does, veggies are good for dogs,  and oh my god, why are we still talking about this, do whatever you want, we have to get going....

We arrived at the theater with plenty of time and the parking lot was awash of middle aged woman.  And 8 year old girls; "The Boxtrolls" was showing too.  We got in the ticket line behind three different groups of movie goers.  We usually use the ticket machines so this was a blast from the past and I was checking out the ticket seller's hair; this high school guy with dark hair that was bleached blond.  Well, blond and brassy blond and I was wondering how he got it that color because when I told my hair guy that I wanted to go blond, he told me no because it would all fall out before we got anywhere near blond and this kid's hair looked like it was almost as dark as mine and oh my god, this line is not moving at all, why have we not moved?  What the hell was going on up there, sell the tickets and move on, stop pushing the Regal Crown Cards, I really have to pee!!

Finally, it was show time. I had read the book a while ago and  I was curious how they were going to handle all of the book's diary entries.  I also wasn't sure how they would end it.  I was 95% sure I didn't like the book's ending.  I was leaving that last 5% open in case someone could spin it for me but no one had yet.  But as much as I didn't like the book's ending, I also don't like it when they "hollywood-ize" an ending and make the devil-in-prada redeemable or the nanny's Mrs. X realize the errors of her ways.  I was also in doubt about Ben Affleck in the lead.  He seemed to old to me. Anyway it was a really good book so I was looking forward to seeing the movie.

It turned out to be a great movie.  The casting was bang-on and the novelist was the screenwriter so the movie stuck true to the book.  The running length was somewhere around 2 and 1/2 hours but it really held your interest and didn't feel near that long.  John and I were walking out, discussing just these things when I got this text from Tom:

Well, hell.....now I want to be Gone