A Week of Movies

It's not unlike us to head out to the movie theater on the weekends.  We like to watch a movie in the theater and on a normal weekend,  Friday is our night.  There are weeks that we don't make it, for one reason or another, but that was definitely not the case this week.  This week, instead of our somewhat routine movie on a Friday night, we ended up at the theater four times.  We watched Spy, Insidious: Chapter 3, San Andreas, and last but not least, Jurassic World.

Spy was really good.  I've never been one to take in a lot of comedies in the theater, going for the bigger budget special effects flicks instead, but Spy did not disappoint.  We laughed through the whole movie and left the theater feeling good about the money spent.

The next night, we were back at the theater, with a much different experience in mind.  Insidious: Chapter 3 was the first movie in the Insidious series that I had ever seen.  As it turns out, that's okay as Chapter 3 is actually a prequel to the first two movies, so you can go see this one without having to worry about watching the first two if you haven't already seen them.  It was a pretty good movie, with lots of suspense throughout, if not all out scares.  If you like creepy, suspenseful movies, this might just be what you're looking for.

The next night, it seemed that we weren't going to make it back to the theater, but we did manage to make it to a late movie.  San Andreas was, I thought, your average, run of the mill disaster movie, complete with several chuckle worthy moments.  That's the thing that kills me about these movies.  They seem to take themselves so seriously, but then they throw in a scene that is just so unrealistic, it makes you laugh.  San Andreas was the worst movie we saw all week, but it really wasn't that bad.  I would save it for a Netflix night if I had it to do over again though.

Jurassic World came out just yesterday, and though we missed opening night, we knew that we wanted to go check this movie out.  When we did get to the theater this morning, Jurassic World did not disappoint.  It was everything that Jurassic Park was twenty years ago, amped up with new special effects for a new generation.  Jurassic World was the best movie we saw all week, entertaining from start to finish.  The dinosaurs looked great and the special effects were, for lack of a better word, special.  If you're looking for a movie to go see this week, Jurassic World would be my recommendation.

I'm not sure what this next week will hold for me.  We may be back at the movies, depending on what's coming out.  If that happens, I'll let you know what I think of it.  See you then.