Sometimes we like them; sometimes we don't! But we watch them anyway. It was so difficult tonight for me to watch a Disney Movie, "National Treasure -2". I thought it was going to be about the assassination of President Lincoln. It was more like an Indiana Jones movie. A lot of action and cliff-hanging scenes and for that reason I never knew what was going on. Jim loved all the action! But then he didn't like "The Devil Wears Prada" and I loved it! Most of the time we agree on what we want to watch.
We look at the movies we can choose from, and it's hard to choose a title from so many on the list. We were so disappointed in the P.D. James movies. We loved her mystery books and for some reason the movies did not live up to our expectations. First of all they were in color and her books were in b&w in our minds; sinister and mysterious. We only watched one and cancelled the others in the series.
We don't have a movie theater in Elba so this is how we go to the movies - via mail! Not even a movie rental place anymore.
I remember when I was growing up that we would come to town on Sat. afternoon and daddy would drop us off at the "picture show" while he had errands to do which including eating raw oysters at Ben Conner's oyster bar on the square.
The only time I remember our entire family (before Alice and Carolyn were born) going to a movie was a cold rainy night we all got inside the cab of the truck (2 adults and 5 kids) and went to Elba to see "The Enchanted Forest" which
came out in 1945. Mother had heard about it and wanted to take us. It was a great movie.Another great movie I saw there was when we had a 4-H Rally for all the schools in Coffee County in 1947. The morning was spent competing in sports and games, and after a picnic lunch we all walked from Elba High School football stadium to the Elba Theater to see "Song of the South". That was such a happy movie and I loved the songs.
My friends that lived in town got to go to movies more often. One of my high school friends actually worked at the movies which I thought was a "top job". She got to see all of the movies - good and bad.
Even now I love going to the movies and watching them on the big screen, with surround sound.
We have to travel to Enterprise or Dothan to go to movies. Our most recent one was "Blind Side" and it was so good. And before Christmas we went to see "Julie and Julia" which we both enjoyed. I wanted to see "It's Complicated" with Meryl Strep but one of our granddaughters said she didn't think we would like that movie, that it was "R" and had vulgar language. I'm glad she was looking out for us! (I'll catch it on Netflix someday!)
