I Love it When a Plan comes together

The A Team should not be still in my mind right now. I should be thinking about other things, more important things than some 2 hour action movie, scratch that, new age action movie or what I call nearly every CGI laden special effect extravaganza but I can't help it, I probably had the the closest to a perfect movie experience I have ever been a part of and reminded me in this age of flash and little substance why I still go to the movies.

To have a really good time.

I started the night with meeting my friend and chatting about random things in our life. The conversation eventually went to movies and all of our favorite action flicks of the past. Titles such as Predator, Aliens, Terminator 2, Hard Boiled, and The Matrix came up and the conversation then veered of into moder territory. "I wonder how Stanley Tucci will be in Captain America?" "I cannot wait for Predators!" "Yeah, let's go see Scott Pilgrim, it's Edgar Wright how can it go wrong?" We had a few drinks, and had a few laughs. It was a movie discussion that you can only have with that one person who understands you, the person who watches just as many movies as you do. The one you can name drop acronyms like TINO (Transformers in Name Only) and KOTCS (Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) and they will immediately know what you are talking about.

We then made our short journey to the theater, we joked about having a plan come together and how we should have showed up to the theater in a black van and jumped out. Once there, we bought our ticket, took our seat and watched the crowd file in.

The movie started and as the characters were introduced in a way only modern Hollywood could do, with spray painted esque titles next to each new character, I started to enjoy myself. The characters were goofy and fun to see them interact with each other. It was like watching a bunch of guys playing a video game together, joking around with each other and having a good time except these guys were actually in the action. I was laughing along with them. Between the over the top (and I mean really, really over the top) action scenes and the dialog between each character it was fun to watch how everything unfolded. It felt like a big budget action cartoon and I loved it for that. It felt more like GI Joe than it's own big screen counterpart did and more fun than Iron Man 2 which decided to suddenly take itself seriously.

Towards the end something which has only happened once to me before, the movie suddenly stopped. An usher comes in to tell everyone that they are aware of the problem and it is being fixed. Surprisingly there were no angry outbursts, just people laughing and talking to one another. They were having a good time and the festive mood seemed to rub off on everyone in the theater.

The movie came back on and the action packed ending came up and left our heroes right where the TV series picks up.

I walked out of the theater with my friend and remembered why we go to the movies in the first place. We go to be challenged, moved, stimulated, shocked, saddened, and amazed. We also go to have fun too, something that when watching so many movies I forget to do sometimes and end up taking my hobby a little too seriously. This night took me back to a time when movies were at their purest for me and having fun was my main objective when going into a movie.

I'll still bash bad movies until the sun sets, but I'll still remember to have a little fun now and then too.