June 14, 2007

I stayed up WAY past my bedtime the other night (meaning, like, 12:30) in order to watch a movie. A movie, by myself, uninterrupted, without fruit snacks and juice boxes and where there is a plot and characters and then at the end, there is an ending.

I was REALLY looking forward to it and felt it was worth forfeiting 2.5 hours of sleep in order to feel like a typical 25 year old for awhile. Mike has been gone at some “military training” for two weeks in which they “hardcore train” for hours and hours with laser guns and tactical defense manuevers that seem to be very much NOT UNLIKE a big, glorified game of laser tag. So, again, I was really looking forward to the movie.

In the end, though, I was so immeasurably grossed out and ticked off that I had to stay up for ANOTHER hour just to calm myself down.

I am here to tell you this. If you do not take but ONE THING away from this blog, please go away with the knowledge and forewarning that the movie “Little Children” is not not not not not worth watching.

I wish someone had told me. I wish someone had a blog and told ME that the movie, starring Kate Winslet and Jennifer Connely, would be so sickening and appaling and shocking that I would have to search late night tv for something peppy and happy and light in order to take my mind away from the images I had just seen.

I do this all the time, I get the feeling about half way through a movie that I will hate the movie, it happened during “Lost in Translation” and “White Squall” and nearly all Woody Allen movies, but I STILL finish the movie. I am so optimistic and hopeful that the movie will pull through and will redeem itself in the end that I force myself to watch the entire thing. And then it ends. And then I am mad. And then I wasted my time and my money and my life for nothing.

But not this time! This time I have a blog! And it was NOT for nothing! I have a responsibility now to shout it out to the masses (all 12 of you, hi Mom!) that the movie “Little Children” is foul and horrible and unworthy of your time, money and lives.

You are now forewarned.

Do not tread where I have tread and while your husbands are gone, watch this scary, yucky movie and then have to try to go to sleep with all the yuckiness still swimming through your mind. Yuckiness involving child predators and bad spouses and bad parents and the like.

Yuck.

That’s all for now.

Except wait! We got our Immigration approval back, after only 2 weeks!, to bring home our kiddos from Ethiopia. This is a big step completed.

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8 Responses to “I hate it when that happens”

1. June 14th, 2007 at 5:53 pm, dcrmom Says:

   You’re only 25!? DANG! You’re, like, still in pullups, aren’t you?? Hahaha. I’m just jealous, that’s all.

   I am the EXACT same way about stubbornly watching a movie to the end even if I think it’s a worthless piece of crap. Thanks for filling me in. I will avoid this one.

2. June 14th, 2007 at 6:35 pm, julie Says:

   Yea on the I 171H! We’re just starting out homestudy process (in fact, we announced our adoption plans today on our blog!) so I’m fully entrenched in timelines. I had to come out of lurkdom to celebrate your fast approval.

3. June 14th, 2007 at 6:39 pm, Tam Says:

   Congrats on the I171! WooHoo!

4. June 15th, 2007 at 8:01 pm, Julie Says:

   Are you for real??? I was JUST going to rent that movie and watch it by myself, just like you. I was just re-watching the trailer again this morning, figuring out when I could get time by myself to watch it. Man! What a bummer… though I must say I’m a little curious now.

5. June 15th, 2007 at 11:28 pm, Anna Says:

   I actually read this book and was considering watching the movie to compare, now I’m not so sure…and I have to admit- after reading (the angelic) Mia Farrow’s autobiography, I cant even look at Woody Allen- forget about watching his movie’s! Her kids are so brave…sorry to ramble!

6. June 15th, 2007 at 11:28 pm, Anna Says:

   I actually read this book and was considering watching the movie to compare, now I’m not so sure…and I have to admit, after reading (the angelic) Mia Farrow’s autobiography, I cant even look at Woody Allen- forget about watching his movie’s! Her kids are so brave…sorry to ramble!

7. June 16th, 2007 at 12:35 pm, Shannon Says:

   Sorry about the movie,that stinks. I really like Jennifer Connelly too. Congrats on the 171! That is awesome!

8. June 18th, 2007 at 11:10 am, sari Says:

   Hi,

   I jumped over here from dcrmom’s site…I like your blog, you are very funny!

   I got this book to read and I had the same issues with it…usually I read a book through to the end but I couldn’t because there was just SO MUCH icky stuff going on. You’re right. The child molester. The adultery. The all of it.

   So thanks for the public service announcement. If someone had told me, I would have passed it up too. it just left a bad feeling in me for a while that I could have avoided all together (and the book didn’t even have the benefit of Kate Winslet and Jennifer Connelly!).

   Good luck on your adoptions!