Mama Mia!

   Mom and I decided to go to the first day showing of Mama Mia! cause, she says, "that's what you like to do." It's the first time I've gotten to go to the new Warren theater, the art deco wonder two miles from my house. 

   We pulled into the parking lot and mom kinda groaned cause it was really full and I reminded her there were a lot of movies opening today. There was a line going down the stairs from the one person box office but a sign saying you could get your tickets inside, so we went inside and got them in about a minute from the kiosk. I looked over to the inside (backside) of the box office and there must have been six or seven people selling tickets. Yep, made for Oklahoma weather.

   We got our drinks and popcorn really quickly and went to the ticket takers, who were wearing uniforms straight out of the thirties. Very sharp looking, and ours was the first theater on the right. Was this charmed or what? We went in and looked up at a sea of people. Now we only had to find two seats together. Good luck, a guy sitting in front of where I was standing said to me. 

   I spotted two seats in the center of the center of the theater and asked the guy next to them if they were saved and he said no, so I asked him to hold them and we went and sat down in the two best seats in the auditorium. Holy cow. The guy was really nice and we had a nice chat with him about the theater cause he had been there a couple of times before.

   Mama Mia! This movie made me really miss Kathy and MIchele, cause for sure this is a movie we would have gone to together, and we would have had so much fun talking about it afterward. It's just the best movie - they did such a good job. It's just a feel good movie, and they did a great job putting the songs into the movie, or building a story around the songs, however you want to look at it. And Meryl Streep was fabulous!!! Is there anything she can't do? Julie Waters. Ever since I took a film class in college I've had my eye on her. My teacher said she was a terribly overlooked actress, very talented, and now I try to catch her movies, and she never disappoints. I love her character, the lone wolf writer. Gee, I wonder why she catches my eye?

   I wanted to come home and call Kathy and Annie and tell them all about it, but we went to Wal Mart to buy the sound track, which I did get, along with a trunk full of groceries. So, by the time we were done getting them home and put away, we were kinda done in. Well, that and it was time for Friday Night Smackdown. I've turned mom into a wrestling fan.

   So, now we're on the hunt for the next movie we're going to go see. I'm thinking probably WALL E, although I'd like to see Hancock. Eventually I'll see The Dark Knight, but not for a while - that one will make me really miss Michele and I'm just getting over that. It's bad enough that there's another Mummy movie coming out and I won't be able to see it with her. It's just not right and it won't be the same. But I'll still see it with her in spirit.