Now Watching: Spiderman 3 The IMAX Experience

After weeks of looking forward to it, I finally saw Spiderman 3! And on the amazingly huge IMAX screen!

But the day was not without adventure... For weeks, we had been planning on going to the 1:20 showing. However, as always seems to happen, we were running late and there was traffic! So, as we sat helplessly in stop-and-go traffic, the clock trudged steadily along until it decided that it was a good idea to say 1:00.

Thankfully, this was as we were getting off the freeway and pulling into the theatre parking lot. So, we scrambled hurriedly out of the car and raced to the box office. There wasn't much of a line (thank goodness!), so we made it to the ticket window relatively quickly. This is what happened:

Ticket buyer #1 (I can't remember which of us it was): "One for IMAX Spiderman."
Ticket dude: "The 1:20 showing?"
Ticket buyer #1: "Yup,"
Ticket dude: "We're sold out... next showing is at 4:10."
Us: "O_O."

I found this exchange quite hilarious, as I had just been saying on the way over that I didn't think that IMAX stadium would ever fill up all the way. *koff* Shows what I know!

Anyways, after a quick discussion, we decided that we would just hang out around the theatre, and then go to the 4:10 showing. So that's what we did! We bought our tickets, stowed them somewhere safe, and then hung out. The teenagers (plus one 20-year-old) of the group walked over to Barnes & Nobles, since my sis had to pick up two books that she had on hold there. I also gave in and bought Shawn Twilight. I would've bought New Moon too, but they had misplaced all six copies. o_O *lol*

After we had completed our book-browsing, we walked back over to the theatre (with only a few fights breaking out between the guys) and headed into Fudrucker's for lunch. Mmm... burgers! =D By the time we finished eating (And laughing hysterically at many amusing anecdotes told by our table mates), it was about time to go line up for the show. Which we did.

We had about ten people in front of us, I think, so we were pretty sure we would get good seats. Which we did, although we were maybe a bit too far forward. Oh well. The screen is so huge, it doesn't really matter where you sit! It's still crazy-awesome. My caffeine was kicking in at about this point, so I was going totally crazy as I waited for the movie to start.

At 4:10 sharp, the movie started! No trailers, just the movie! And oh man, it was awesome! I think, even after seeing it only once, I like it more then either of the other two! It has a lot more depth to it then the first two, and is considerably more serious. I mean, a main character dies! And oh man, that sucked... I would have cried rather hard, but I had promised a certain person that I wouldn't, soo... *rolls eyes* Curse you, Shawn! ;)

Anyways, it's a great movie. I definitely want to go see it again (so I can cry properly)... Maybe after that, I'll write a real review of it! =D But yes, it's definitely an awesome movie! I'm not quite sure why it's getting such horrible reviews--I'd recommend it for any fan of Spidey, and even some people who aren't fans!

One more thing: Peter going emo = Hilarious.