As a mother of a three-year-old who likes to go to the movies, I have a rant. My husband and I took Three-feet-of-fun to see Pixar\u2019s new movie, Wall-E. My rant isn\u2019t about the film, which was excellent by the way, but rather the amount of time it took for the movie to actually start. <\/p>\n
If you\u2019ve followed this blog at all, you\u2019ll see that I\u2019d cracked the code on taking our son to the movies. This movie blew the code out of the water. Luckily for us, Three-feet was so excited about seeing the movie, and is closer to four years old as opposed to three, he was able to weather the kink in our otherwise perfect plans. <\/p>\n
The movie was supposed to start at 11:20 am. True to our schedule we found our seats at 11:15 and then we did the last potty break before the movie started. We were back in our seats at 11:19. Precisely at 11:20 the screen came alive with film but to our surprise the lights didn\u2019t go down. They called it Children\u2019s Play Time or something equally vague and started showing children\u2019s previews and commercials. They rolled this for TWENTY MINUTES! Then the lights finally went down and then began the REAL PREVIEWS.<\/p>\n
The movie didn\u2019t start until NOON!!! Three-feet-of-fun was such a trooper he sat patiently through all the other stuff for the movie to start and was able to sit for the entirety of Wall-E, which by the way, was excellent. Other parents were not so lucky and several had to escort their screaming and impatient children out of the theater while others whispered frantically that the movie was going to start any second — it would be just a moment longer. <\/p>\n
So I\u2019m needless to say, miffed. I had broken the code. It had worked perfectly for only, let\u2019s count them, two movies and now I\u2019m back at square one. I have no idea what the \u201cgenius\u201d who invented the FORTY MINUTE trailers into an actual children\u2019s movie was thinking. Obviously said idiot doesn\u2019t actually have a child of their own. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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