Woman in Gold

Before it was released, I said I wanted to see the movie Woman in Gold http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2404425/.  I even put aside an afternoon on my vacation to see it.  That was the day severe thunderstorms moved into Lubbock, and Lubbock flooded, including in the area of the movie theater where this movie was playing, and I stayed home to stay out of the hail, without realizing the flooding would be more of a problem.

Was it last week, or the week before, that someone told me I need to get to the theater to see the movie or else it will be gone?  But I kept procrastinating.  Last night, I went to see the Drum Corps International season premier at the same movie theater where Woman in Gold is still playing.  I had planned to go to the pool tonight, but decided to opt for going to see the movie instead.  I am not sure, but I think Friday is the day they change movies in Lubbock. And, there were some storms in the area. I do not know if they closed the pool or not, but I opted for the movie. The forecast was the storms would not be severe, and if there was hail, it would be below the quarter-sized hail that causes problems.  The clouds were ominous but I believed the weather forecasters.

My past movie going history is that I usually attend movies on the weekends.  I was amazed last night at how few cars were in the parking lot.  There were even fewer in the parking lot tonight, so movie going must be a weekend activity. 

Well, I think I made the right choice.  I was the only person in the theater until about 5 minutes before the movie started.  A couple came in.  About 10 minutes or so after the start of the movie, 2 women came in. I was sitting in the first row, middle of the row, going up from the entry ramp. These women came in, sat right next to me, and took out the food they smuggled into the theater.

We shared laughter and comments during the movie, and sat through the credits. The woman sitting next to me thanked me for being a good sport.  I was not impressed:  Not only did the two women talk a lot during the movie (about the movie and not about the movie), the woman next to me took out her cell phone several times, and clicked calls off.  If she was not going to take calls, why didn't she silence her phone or shut it off? Or was she waiting for some specific call?.  I told them I thought it was a great movie, and the other woman told me this was the second time she came to see it.

This is a movie I will watch again, if it is shown on TV. 

I became a Helen Mirren fan when she did the Prime Suspect series http://www.helenmirren.com/biog.html  as Jane Tennison, aired on PBS in this country.  I also appreciated her in The Queen.  There are several other of her movies I want to see, including The Hundred Foot Journey.  I believe she has another play or series coming out on PBS in which she is Queen Elizabeth II, called The Audience https://www.telecharge.com/ScheduleAndPricing.aspx?ProductId=10486. 

Well, the upshot is I enjoyed the movie, and if you did not see it, I recommend you do in the future.