Of course, Faith sitting through 12 hours of The Lord of the Rings over several days (although I'm fairly certain she could have done so all in one day, if the rest of us could have stood it) doesn't compare to Eric's feat.
When he was three, in the ramp-up to the release of Toy Story 3, Disney re-released Toy Stories 1 & 2 upconverted to 3D as a double feature. We all went to see it, but my best hope was that he would go to sleep during the movies and not force me to take him out to walk up and down the hall for hours. The ticket-seller actually let him in for free, even though he was old enough to pay for a child's ticket, because he was sure there was no way he'd sit through the whole thing.
And sit through the whole thing he did. Never moved from his seat and never complained. Glued to the screen. He's seen Tangled and Voyage of the Dawn Treader since then and been just as good an audience member. I didn't even try to take Faith to a movie until she was four. (Ratatouille was her first movie in the theater.)
Friday, April 15, 2011
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2 comments:
My mom doesn't like animation aside from the occasional Freaky Friday or The Out-of-Towners matinee and the old b/w classics we'd watch on the Dialing for Dollars Movie while my sister was in school, my earliest movie memories are all of family outings with entertainment inappropriate for my age, like Ice Station Zebra and True Grit.
I asked Mom recently whether or not I was a good audience member considering 1) how much I've always love movies 2) the complex plotting of some of those early flicks. She said that I was, and that, judging from the questions I asked on the way home, I understood them just fine.
On the other hand, when Gene Hackman was hanging from that steam valve in The Poseiden Adventure I worriedly asked Mom how he was going to get back to the catwalk. I remember perfectly her sad-sympathetic expression that was a light-bulb moment for me: Heroes do not always survive.
So! "...so aside from the...."
Grr. Proofread twice, post once.
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