#(side note: i can't remember the last time jean smart got top billing in a movie--she was in so many in side roles over the years

[actuallylorelaigilmore]

so i have three movie reviews to catch up on for the year (along with oh god so many things) but i did get to see the black panther sequel at my theater and it was fantastic, i loved it so much, and getting to be at the theater in general was such a nice experience it made me even more determined to try and save up by the end of next year to afford the regal unlimited movie pass thing. 

but even though that’s a reasonable (and frugal, with the huge holiday discount they do) plan, gosh it’s so frustrating that suddenly way more potentially fun movies are coming out all at once right now. 

i don’t actually think i would enjoy the gore of violent night, but DAVID HARBOUR. got his own CHRISTMAS MOVIE. i’m so proud of him! forever out here rooting for my current bipolar hero. 

the whitney houston biopic will probably not hold a lot of surprises? because i feel like music biopics have always been formulaic in a way that i noticed even as a preteen, before i knew what other tropes were. but it still looks really good! i want to go to with kayla while she’s here for the holidays. 

and now there’s babylon, which at least according to the advertisements is going to be over the top and ridiculous grandeur and high drama, with margot robbie AND jean smart AND phoebe tonkin! and it’s a period piece set during early hollywood!! it sounds so fun.

with the cost of theater movies and how rarely they release ones here that are important to me, i only see a couple a year--i’m very particular about the ones i pick. but if i had the prepaid ability to see any one at any time, it really would lower the bar back to the kind of person i used to be, who would be like ‘hey that movie has an actor in it i like or an intriguing plot. no clue if the movie will be good, but it will be an experience.’

i miss having those experiences. before moving here, i once spent the day at a theater that had an embedded starbucks (woo) and i saw the greatest showman (a rewatch, that movie just made me so happy), followed by the post, followed by get out, followed by yet another attempt at the greatest showman (i nodded off partway through that 10pm showing oops). it was such a great day, and both the post and get out were movies i was sort of giving a chance to, rather than expecting to like. which made them even nicer, like discoveries.

having a wider range of movie theater experiences again, going in without any idea if i’ll actually like a movie...sounds so perfect to me. as a way to get out of the house but also (to be a little cheesy) as a way to feed my soul. i’m just really impatient now that movies are getting my attention again--next november feels so far away.