SB phoned, excited "That movie, Polar Express, it's at the IMAX!!!!!!!!!!! In 3D!!!!! I'm getting tickets!!!!! You and Ma are in, right?!!!!!!!!" "Uh, yeah, sure!"
I'd read maybe three lukewarm reviews. And in the not too distant past, kiddie movies, - G rated kiddie movies, have induced a deep, involuntary unconciousness, for which I again apologize profusely.
Anyhow, at the appointed time on the appointed date, Nana and Boppie dutifully showed up at the Mills IMAX. SB had gotten terrific seats squarely in the middle of the theater (Row F, seats 18-22 (Bella's still a LappChile)) and the movie began.
Now, I can see how this movie got fair-to-middling reviews in 2D, but in 3D it is utterly amazing. The details in the characters' eyeballs, the camera swooshing under the train, then out through the wheels, then up and over, then back under - it was heady, astonishing, yea, even unto vertiginous.
I love this movie. The audience was made up of congregants mostly like us, and we were rapt, all of us. We're definitely going again. I urge all of you (even those curmudgeons amongst you, and your name is Legion), if Polar Express is showing in 3D near you, get thee to the cinema. The tix are 'spensive, but it's absolutely worth it.
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Ex-yoooos me but I remember you getting pretty excited about Finding Nemo too....oh, and Shrek 2? I think I am doing pretty damn well by you, pal!
Perhaps you are confusing MY movie choices with Mom dragging you to see The Notebook, or one of the other chick-flicks she has talked you into. Hmmm?
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