Re: More Good Things
I love the fact that I live so close to a small community-appeal movie theater. Yeah, if I want to see the latest and greatest movies before people get a chance to spoil them at least a little bit for me, I've gotta go to one of the megaplexes in the area, but I never get into the same kinds of conversations with people there as I do in the one just down the street...
Like tonight...went to see 'Admission', and saw Michael Sheen's name in the credits when it was done and knew it was familiar, but couldn't remember why. I was apparently not the only person to have that reaction, because some lady on the other side of the theater whipped out her iPad as soon as the credits started and looked him up. She found a picture of him in the last Twilight movie and pointed it out to her friends, who all started discussing it quite animatedly. At this point, we were pretty much the only ones left in the theater, and it looked to be a good bet that we were all staying until the credits finished...and it was literally impossible to NOT overhear the conversation.
Now, I'm no fan of Twilight, at all. Haven't read the books, couldn't be bothered to go see the movies, even though I could have seen any and all of them for free--it just utterly failed to inspire my interest. But the mention of Michael Sheen's name in the context of vampires and werewolves reminded me...'Lucian', from Underworld. So, as we all stood up as the final credits scrolled up the screen, I mentioned that he'd also been in the Underworld films...and the same lady responded, in surprise, "THAT'S RIGHT! I had completely forgotten about that, but now that you mention it, I can totally see him with the long hair and all..."
We walked out of the building talking about Underworld and Van Helsing and how incredible Dracula's brides were (both as beautiful women and in the way they handled them with the visual effects for the movie), while the rest of her group looked back and shook their heads. She laughed and said, "I love movies like that...I don't think any of them ever watch anything like that, though..."
Now...if she'd just been about fifteen or twenty years younger....