To the Movies

Gerry and I do not go to the movies that often.   When we do, we generally rotate.   A Chick flick for me.  An action movie for Gerry.  Our last movie together was 'chick flick'  Eat Pray Love.  So it was definitely Gerry's turn. On Wednesday, we went to see his choice--Red.  That apparently stands for Retired Extremely Dangerous.  There was quite a line up of famous movie stars in this movie, from Oscar winner Morgan Freeman and Helen Mirren, to Bruce Willis, and so forth.   It was a story about a group of retired CIA agents,  those who were all trained at the 007 level. The plot line centers around one retired CIA agent who is obviously on someone's hit list.  He doesn't understand why or who, and searches out his old retired buddies for help.

Thus we have an ensemble of characters and an hour or so of shoot-em-up scenes with high powered guns, whose names I do not know.   Even the Helen Mirren character is packing heat power with automatic weapons, and shooting people right and left.  While the movie was definitely an effort to be a comedy,  I myself find it hard to guffaw at shoot-outs and dying people,  though the whole thing was pretty outrageous.  And I think that perhaps, it was the outrageousness from whence the comedy was supposed to come.

But the really fun and interesting thing is....we had the whole theater to ourselves!  It was clearly a movie for geezers, with geezer characters, and two old geezer movie-goers.   That was our first experience at being the only two people in the theater!  We could talk and whatever, because there was no one to disturb.

I'm just not an action movie kind of girl.  I did enjoy this one much more than the last Bond movie we saw, which was terrible.

I'm just glad that it's my turn, and if a really good chick flick comes out,  we'll be there( if for no other reason than to put Gerry through the same kind of misery I had to endure!)