OT: First Movie Ever
As I ‘ve mentioned around a zillion times, and will likely mention a zillion more, my daughter is 6 years old. Up until now, she ‘s never wanted to go to a movie in an actual movie theater “ has always been dead set against it in fact, very scared of the idea.
Last night, she shocked my wife and I by saying she would really like to go see ‘Up ‘ “ the new Pixar animation film. We talked it over with her for a fair bit last night and checked again this morning to make sure she was really ‘up for it ‘ (yikes “ horrendous pun) and grabbed ‘an app for that ‘ and booked tickets.
Quick recap of the First Ever Movie experience:
- Dimming of the lights was daunting beforehand, but no big deal when it happened
- Massive screen and booming sound were a bit much for her at the outset, but just gripping after a bit
- Several big-time scary and sad moments for her
- Also lots of funny, great moments
- Emotional rollercoaster for the last 1/3 of the film
She made it through though, despite a couple of ‘I want to go home ‘ moments. And she thought it was fun, worth it and, most importantly, that she ‘d like to do it again. That was the happy ending we were after. 
Great choice, Patrick. I took Ben to see it in 3D the other day, and he loved it. Personally, I thought it was good, but not as good as some of the other Pixar movies. But the 3D was insane!
Hi Doug – yeah, I agree it is not my favorite out of the Pixar ones I've seen (not all of them, but a good few). 3D would've guaranteed us therapy bills for years.
Fun. I'm glad you had fun. Now if you want to keep going to movies, you better wait a while before you take her to one of the real IMAX movies. Super talk round encompassing screen, thundering sound, and dizzying almost nauseating footage…. My 9 year old still doesn't like IMAX. Regular movies, yes. But not IMAX.
Glad it all turned out good.
It was an emotionally uplifting movie. My wife and I just loved it
Rodney – Thanks, we're very happy it turned out well too. IMAX = yikes, yeah it may be a while before she works her way up to that
Jared – cool, we all enjoyed it as well …
I haven't seen this movie yet but I thought this was interesting:
Pixar discusses how they designed their characters for Up
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/05/17/mov…
aflorence – thanks for that! Those were really fun to listen to – very cool.