Saw a movie.

So we saw a screening of Invincible (the football movie with Mark Wahlberg). Suffice it to say, it was a great sports movie about someone who wasn't expected to succeed who ends up making it to the top. Just like every other movie of the type (read: Coach Carter, Glory Road, that Titans movie, and even the original Mighty Ducks), it's good simply because of it's underdog-beating-the-odds nature. It's not the best movie of the sort, but it's not the worst.

What's interesting to note, however, is how early we showed up for the preview, only to need to sit up in the few rows right before the screen. To add, we were in the front half of the line. I feel bad for those who had to be sent away after standing for about an hour to get in.

I've attempted to do it, that is, to sit up front. I forgot the movie, but it was a mind jarring ride, as it was an action movie, and it became unbearable after a few minutes as each slight camera jerk forced our entire heads to move along with the action happening on screen.

This is clearly an issue with action movies.

Unfortunately, all movies take on action movie status when viewed up close like that.

Even the drama on screen in Invincible became jarring as the camera pans across a building. I was as leaned-back as I possibly could be in the seat and still trying to grasp the emotion that a 30' image of Marky Mark's face seemed to exude when he sat quietly in the corner of his living room all alone.

Anyway...I'm hungry.