Anyway, Sean and I have a thing we do, let's call it a "Mystery Movie". The rules are simple: Player A picks a movie and doesn't tell Player B what it is. Then we go to the movie in question. Player A pays for the tickets and Player B keeps his/her head down and avoids figuring out what the movie is. So Basically, Player B does not know what the movie is until the opening credits (sometimes even later).
The first Mystery Movie was one that I picked and the reaction Sean had when the opening title of "Brokeback Mountain" popped up was priceless.
We have played Mystery Movie a lot since then. And most have been good movies (28 weeks later, Superman) mainly because we both have to watch the movie, so picking something outright bad is a problem for both participants.
However, yesterday Sean won the game forever. We went to AMC 600 on Michigan after having dinner at Fados. So we were full and a little tipsy.
He had me keep my head down and wouldn't even let me be near him when he bought the tickets. We walked into the theater during previews. The preview part is the best part of the process, because sometimes you will see a preview for a movie that you thought it might be, therefore eliminating it from your guess pool. So basically I had no idea what I was in for...
Then a title appeared "A Tyler Perry Production" and I literally GUFFAWED. He took me to go see "Meet the Browns"! I immediately leaned over and quietly called him a couple expletives, but I settled in to watch what I was expecting to be a Preachy, Christian, Pro-Family-Values movie. I KNEW I was going to hate it...
Well, I was way wrong. It was really really funny. There were some really hilarious and suprising things that happen in that movie. I mean, it is definitely very Christian, but it was so funny that it didn't come off as preachy at all. I actually loved it...
So I totally recommend it. Every reviewer seems to hate it, but this might be that little gem that only a select lucky few know about.
Oh and we also did this:
I wonder what our next movie will be...
4 comments:
That might be the most adorable game I've ever heard of. Please do this again soon and post about it. Also my husband always wants to secretly see Tyler Perry movies. He acts like it's a joke but I can tell he'd really like to check one out. I might mystery movie him to this one!
Hope you two had a lot of fun. Sure sounds like it.
That is an awesome idea!!! I'm gonna steal it.
I want both of you to be my "Made of Honor"(s).
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