November 18 movie: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Alicia, you are safe! Georg said pretty much everything I would have said about the movie, so I'll just talk about the moviegoing experience instead.
It's been a long time since I've seen a movie in a theater that crowded. We had to sit way down in front, in the section without stadium seating. Is there a term for the opposite of nosebleed seats? Maybe neck pain seats, because that's definitely what we had by the end of the movie. On the bright side, the audience was remarkably not rude. Once the movie got going the talking pretty much stopped.
The trailers pretty much ranged from "meh" to "suck." Except the "Superman Jesus" trailer which was a big dose of "huh?" I swear to god, the trailer ends with Superman flying up to the heavens, surrounded by a holy glow, while a booming voice talks about saving the people of Earth by sending his only son to them. It's freaky.
Interesting trivia: Brandon Routh, the actor who plays Superman, got started on the soap opera One Life to Live about 4 years ago. He played Seth, the boyfriend of good girl Jessica. Except really he was the secret boyfriend of Jessica's long lost twin Natalie, and was helping Natalie plot against Jessica. Anyway, the scuttlebutt at the time was that Routh was fired because he refused to go along with plans to make the character bisexual, which to my knowledge would have been the first bi love triangle on daytime. Seth was recast but they ditched the storyline anyway. There were a couple of ho-yay scenes of another guy hiding in the bushes while Seth and Jessica made out, leering and both of them, and then the whole thing was dropped. I can't even remember if Seth moved away or just faded off the canvas. Anyway, besides the whole gay thing Routh's acting wasn't very good. You may be thinking "bad for a soap? Wow, that's bad." But what I really mean is that soaps demand a certain style of acting that he wasn't able to do. Who knows, he might be great as Superman.
that superman trailer WAS really freaky!!