Be Kind: Rewind

I'm sitting in a movie theater completely alone preparing to watch "Be Kind: Rewind" with a bucket of soda and a cup of popcorn. All nice and situated dead center of the theater, middle isle, middle seat, half way up where the screen no longer looks like a TV screen, but looks like a MOVIE screen should. The middle also affords proper surrounding of the surround sound speakers to optimize the audio experience as well.

That lasted for about 5 minutes until some guy strolls in and sits one row behind me and one seat to my right. Now I have this guy in my peripherals, in my space and on my list.

The chewing begins. His munching goes directly into my ear since he is only a few inches from it. Of course he chose the opposite route that I traveled. He had a bucket of popcorn and a cup of soda. This was the large bucket too. He finished it in about a minute and a half to give you an idea of the ferocity of his chew, then went back to the counter for his free refill.

Once the movie began my attention was diverted from choppers - the corn crunching machine and focused on laugh track guy who is now sitting one row ahead of me and one seat to the left. After each line of dialogue in the film the guy before me would laugh. Funny, clever, incidental, narrative, serious, matter-of-factly, it didn't matter. This guy would laugh. Every sentence struck a funny bone on him and a nerve in my now fidgety bottom.

Other than my IMMEDIATE surroundings, the movie was sweet, kind of fun, clever and inspiring for any new film maker. By seeing this picture I broke my Danny Glover ruling because my Jack Black fact is more powerful. I was happy I went.