DUNKIRK. MORE LIKE STRESSKIRK.

Last night, we saw Dunkirk at IMAX in West Valley! If I had to describe Dunkirk in one word, it would be: stressful.

That movie was 106 minutes of just pure stress. But good stress. 

I really loved it! But really, I've yet to watch a Christopher Nolan film that I didn't like. What can I say, the man is good at what he does! I especially love how strong of a role music plays in his movies. It's integrated so well within the film and subtly drives the emotion of the movie. 

Dunkirk is one of those movies that is so captivating, I forgot I was sitting in a huge IMAX theater full of people. I finally remembered about a third of the way in to the movie that I wasn't alone with the movie. Any movie that can make you forget what's immediately happening all around you is a pretty good movie!

So if you haven't seen it yet, go watch it!
If you say "But Olivia, I don't like war movies..." go watch it.
If you think you'll just wait until Redbox, treat yourself and see it in the theater.
If you think just any old theater is fine, I say no way Jose, go watch it in IMAX. It's worth it!

MOVIE TUESDAY: THE HOUSE

Last night we watched The House! It was really silly, but also really funny! I giggled a lot and my mom even laughed a lot, so it's even mom approved! Well, I mean it's normal, cute, open-minded mom approved. But don't take your uptight Mormon mom to it, she won't like it. haha.

While we were waiting for the movie to start I was thinking about how much Jeremy and I probably spend on our weekly movie habit and thought it must be a lot. Granted we don't go every single week (almost though), but if we went say 50 weeks out of the year that would only be $250 a year. That really isn't that bad honestly! I feel like I've blew $250 in way worse ways. 

I will gladly forever spend $5 a week to carry on the funnest Tuesday tradition, and to be able to see movies in the theater. :) 
 
It's just so much more fun to see all the movies in the theater! Plus I'm slowly adding to my crazy movie ticket stub collection that I will probably never do anything with. I have saved every single movie ticket stub since I was a freshman or sophomore in highschool. One day I'll finally bring them all together and do some type of project with them. Until then, they will continue to sit in a variety of little treasure boxes in Utah and California.
 

MOVIE TUESDAY: 47 METERS DOWN.

Tuesday night I watched 47 Meters Down for $5 Movie Tuesday with Forrest and Alyssa, and let me just say I now have a new found fear of the ocean! That movie was so stressful and intense and made me realize just how huge and unknown the ocean truly is. 

Granted, it wasn't an amazing movie or anything but it was still pretty good! Overlook Mandy Moore's poor acting abilities and it will be much more enjoyable for you! haha.

I think what I like about that movie most is that the characters never do anything you wouldn't also do. I think that's the worst part about scary/suspenseful movies for me; when the characters do idiotic things that you're yelling at the screen "What?! Don't do that, you dumby!" I just can't stand when characters don't make normal human instinct decisions. 
 Examples: Splitting up the group to "cover more ground". Going into the dark scary attic/basement/crawlspace to "just check it out". Having someone chasing after you in a house so you run upstairs instead out the front door. (Here's the thing, if someone is already about to murder me, I'm not about to go deeper into my house by going upstairs, I'm running out that front door into the open.)

The two women in 47 Meters Down make normal decisions and I think that's refreshing in this type of genre. Except their first decision to even get in that rickety old shark cage; I wouldn't have made that decision!

Last night I asked Jeremy "Can they [great white sharks] really be 25 feet?" Just out of pure disbelief that something so terrifying is allowed to be that big. It just doesn't seem fair that a creature so terrifying already is allowed to grow so big also. I feel like they should only grow to like 12 feet tops haha. 

So naturally we laid in bed watching different great white shark videos right before bed which were so awful. Luckily I didn't have any shark dreams. :)   

MOVIE TUESDAY!

Last night for Movie Tuesday, we saw Baywatch. Not really our first pick of a movie to see, but there's not much out these days besides the ones we've already seen. It was okay. I wouldn't recommend watching it in theaters; it's easily a Redbox or Netflix watch, but it also wasn't bad. It was just... okay.

We did have fun though! We went to an early showing at 4:50pm and there were only 4 other people in our theater watching it. We got another free soda coupon from our movie points which is seriously the nicest system! We're already buying movie tickets anyway so it's fun to get free things for doing so! And I'm such a sucker for Root Beer at the movie theater. Yum!

New movies come out this Friday so hopefully we have some fun ones to choose from next Tuesday! I think the Amy Poehler/ Will Ferrell one (The House) comes out soon and I'm excited for that! I'm also excited for Spider-Man and Dunkirk!

WONDER WOMAN DATE NIGHT

Tuesday night, as we typically do on Tuesday nights, we went to the movies. We watched Wonder Woman and I loved it! I've never been a huge super hero movie fan (with the exception of Spider-Man and the Dark Knight Trilogy) but I really loved this one. It was entertaining and fun, but I also really loved that it was so female driven and also directed by a woman. Yay for more women in the movie industry!

I just really love strong female leads in movies. Even in a lot of movies where you would initially consider the lead character to be a strong, independent woman, there always seems to be a male character that comes in to save her, or save the day. I just really loved how bad ass Wonder Woman is in this movie.  

We also pigged out at the theater last night which was so yummy! I got points for a free soda, and then we each got a mini pepperoni pizza, and nachos to share. Oh it was so yummy! Way too much junk food for my diet I'm supposed to be on, but so yummy! And only 10 bucks for all that which seems like such a good deal at a movie theater.

During the previews, Jeremy leaned over and said "I'm really glad that we do this. It's crazy I didn't even know about $5 Tuesday until we met."
Oh how I love $5 Movie Tuesdays!