Saving Mr. Banks from Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones

So far, this week off has involved going to two movies. I'm sure there will be others.

• On Saturday, I went to see "Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones." Basically, it's terrible. And for someone like me who likes a horror movie so bad that it's good, this one was not worth the money. The directing (if you can call a "found footage" movie "directed") was crappy, the story made little to no sense, and basically it just wasn't scary. Add to that a trio of teenage @$$holes talking through the whole movie among the whole six of us in there, and it just was not fun. I should have told them to shut up way earlier than I did. Oddly enough, the little punk said in the dark after the movie ended "sorry dude, didn't realize you could hear me." We were in the large stadium theater, he was at the lower end on the right, I was in the top row on the far left. Yeah, he was THAT loud.
  
  
• Today, I saw a matinee of "Saving Mr. Banks". It's the story of how Walt Disney managed to convince P.L. Travers, the creator of "Mary Poppins," to sign over the rights to her character to allow him to make the "Mary Poppins" movie. Not only is it warm and funny in places, but quite the tearjerker in others. I see Oscar nods for both Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks, as they are incredible. As for the moviegoers, it was a complete 180 degrees from the Saturday experience. I gritted my teeth when a gaggle of teens (honestly there were a dozen of them) sat RIGHT BEHIND ME. I dreaded it, thinking that I was either going to eventually yell at them or have to move. Surprisingly, the movie is so engrossing that everyone in the theater was quiet the whole time, except for a few audible sniffles in the sad moments. Yeah, that's a barometer of how good a movie is, I think. Definitely worth seeing, if you haven't.

Not sure what I'll see next, as my choices are getting more and more limited.