Thanks Wendy for organizing the get together so fast!  Thanks Steven, Richard, Tommy, Alex, Vicky, Elisa, Micah, Michael K., Rob, and Aaron for all showing up too!  June 27th, was opening night for Wall-E.  Also was a small event that Wendy organized for a birthday’ish dinner with some friends for my 24th birthday.  The food was a bit spicy though.  But I still liked it, and the cake and everything .

After dinner (which ended around 8:30), we headed off to the nearest movie theater in Lincoln Square.  The original time we were hoping to catch the film was sold out, so we decided to catch the one that played 45 minutes after the other one.  “Should we ask the ticketers if they have enough for 12 people before we purchase?  You know, just in case they sell out in-between us?” I inquired.  Wendy relayed the message to Tommy, who confirmed with the rest of us that there were 77 tickets.  However, just after purchasing my ticket, apparently the time became SOLD OUT.  Turns out that the people failed to check how many tickets were left after taking online-reservations into account.  After debating whether to try another movie theater or to just catch the next one which plays 90 minutes from our original time.  We decided it’s better to just stick around because we already spent a lot of time finding parking and gathering all of us together.  We purchased the tickets and headed over to a bar/club to pass some time.

The interior was really well-designed, and had a very casual atmosphere.  Not too rowdy, the music was tasteful and played at a decibel level that wouldn’t make most people deaf after prolonged exposure, that’s always a plus.  There was also what appeared to be a bridal shower there as well, at the lounge area.  I didn’t get anything to drink, as I am not much into drinks as I used to be.

After passing enough time, we decided to head back on over to the theater and attempt to get some seats for 12 people together, or relatively close together.  Luckily for us, we managed to get two adjacent rows, seven in the front and five in the back.  This configuration is still nice since everyone isn’t spread out everywhere.  After playing, “guess what’s gonna come up next” with Micah and Vicky regarding the in-theater advertisements, the lights finally began to dim.  And Wall-E being a DIsney/Pixar film (Rated G), I knew the movie previews were to be of similar rating.  “Fly Me to the Moon”, whose title reminds me of many singers who sang a song with that title; Frank Sinatra, Utada Hikaru, Bossa Nova, and so forth.  Was an unimpressive film about Flies going to space.  I guess for me, just knowing that they would most likely be crushed from the pressure of the rocket escaping the atmosphere was enough for me right there.  “Journey to the Center of the Earth” with Brendan Fraser was about some family from what it seems, that went on a little hiking excursion near some mountains.  A huge storm forces them into a tunnel where they fall through the thin surface to the ‘center of the Earth’.  “Beverly Hills Chihuahua”, probably one of the most useless trailer ever, depicting absolutely nothing about what the story could be about.  It was just a 3-minute long ‘music video’ depicting Chihuahuas wearing Aztecan costumes and dancing around.  I had to IMDB that one just to make sure it was even a real movie in production.

Finally, the previews are over!  I’m not going to spoil anything about the movie itself.  But I can say, that the number of actual spoken words just barely breaks past “Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron”.  But the movie is far more interesting than a bunch of horses.  My impression of the entire film, was that this would be a “Charlie Chaplin” movie animated with robots.  Well-executed, it couldn’t have been any better.  The robots’ personalities as well as their limitations to thinking were clearly displayed and showed how they “evolved” into something more.  Anyways, it was a great film, I will recommend it for anyone.