It's the best! But only when you have a good reason to not be doing it, which I had. I talked to Angela on the phone today for almost an hour instead of studying for my French test, which I'm pretty sure I'm going to ace anyway (French is the only thing I ace in).
Michelle and I went to see Alice in Wonderland on Friday. Watching it and listening to the opinions afterwards made me realise that when it comes to movies I'm really pretty passive. In another, earlier time, I might have griped about how inaccurate the movie was to the book, and how lame it is that Johnny Depp is the star of like every Tim Burton movie ever. But honestly, I went there to be entertained. I was entertained. It was the same way with Percy Jackson, and all the Harry Potter movies. They're tons of fun, who cares about being close to the book? I read the books, they were good, but the movies are something else entirely. And as for the actual movie, it was quite well done. Admittedly, I would have liked anything that was better-done than the original Alice in Wonderland, which remains one of the worst movies I've ever seen.
Even though we saw the movie in a tiny cinema in a backwater town, they happened to be showing it in 3-D (only in Harrisonville are tickets to a 3-D movie hardly $8). I decided that I'd much rather watch movies the normal way. It was the same way with Avatar - the 3-D was distracting and it hurt my eyes trying to focus on several things that appeared to be at different distances but were really all on a flat plane. Three dimensions is cool in real life and cool on screen for about the first ten minutes. After that it's a bit of a drag. Sorry to be so prudish.
-Amy
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