Movie Day: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and The Spirit

Note: I started writing this on Saturday, but I couldn't finish, so that's why it's written as if it were Saturday. :)

This day was filled with movies.
I started it off with waking up at 6a.m to go to Saturday school, which, actually wasn't as dreadful as I thought it was going to be.
They didn't make us move heavy boxes or pick up trash, we just sat in a classroom for four hours and did "school work".
This girl got scolded because she took out knitting and (either..) LeDuc/Lopez said, "Knitting is something you do as a hobby so you can't do that here. People enjoy hobbies."
So I immediately felt a little smug because I was cheating the system. :)
On the other hand, I felt a little insulted: was he suggesting that reading isn't a hobby because people can't possibly enjoy reading??
Why, that's absurd!
What a wonderful message you're conveying to your students Mr. Vice Principal!
Of course, we are in the midst of an era of technology, in which people entertain themselves with doing absolutely nothing online instead of reading books.
What a wonderful world.

After Saturday school, I met up with Gianina at the Edward's Theater to go see The Spirit.
I genuinely thought this movie was going to be pretty cool, considering Frank Miller was the director, and my hopes were high....but I was wrong.
It was super lame at some points and at others, hilarious.
All in all, it was enjoyable in a way that it was not meant to be, but not something I would go see again.

Which now leads me to my main topic: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
Oh my...
Good God, it was amazing!!
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I guess it was compared to the Notebook in the sense that both stories were told in retrospect, while giving some obvious clues to who the people in the present were, were both set in the south, and were both love stories.
However, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was not simply a love story.
(Actually, I thought The Curious Case of Benjamin Button schooled the hell out of The Notebook.)
No, no.
It was a story about life and conveyed a message of accepting people even though they're different: The whole, "even though we come from different cultures/worlds and we look different, we're the same inside" bit.
That is a really really great message in my opinion.
(Sometimes things that are cliché are actually really great ideas, which is probably why people say them so much and are thus, cliché.)
"Life isn't measured in minutes, but in moments" is the movie's moving tagline and definitely is something that makes you smile when you read it.
I was blubbering throughout the whole end portion and a small part of the beginning.
The beginning had an ugly duckling vibe, which immediately sent me into hysterics and forced this whole scenario into my head where if I was in the movie, I would play with Benjamin and be his friend.
The whole, "why am I so different?" tone makes me so so sad that I start to cry instantly.
I really hate it.
I mean, if a little kid came up to me on the street and said those words, it wouldn't matter if I had no idea who they were or if they were some demon child sent from hell to kill me, I'd crumble inside and try to help them.
Now, if it were someone I knew, then I'd crumble on the outside. I'd burst into tears the second they made it known.
The middle part of the movie was awesome.
It followed him through his "youth", while still keeping the hint of a love story.
I loved the captain of the boat. He was hilarious and said the same thing I've been saying my whole life, which totally made me smile. It was something along the lines of, 'don't let anyone tell you you can't do something. Do what you were born to do.'
And of course, the old scenes of the guy getting struck by lightning (Mr. Daws) were absolutely hilarious. That killed me.
I also loved this part:
Daisy: "Will you sleep with me?"
Benjamin: "Absolutely."
HOT.
The end half, as much as I loved it, was so sad!
When they were togther, I was so happy for them, I just about choked with satisfaction.
And I knew that he couldn't really be a father forever, but still!!
He should have been un-gentlemen like and stayed and forced her to take care of him!!
But, he did the right thing.
And they were togther in the end...AHHHHH!!
It was sooo good!!
I definitely reccomend it to everyone.

These were some of my favorite quotes:
"We're meant to lose the people we love. How else are we supposed to know how important they
are? "

"It's a funny thing about comin' home. Looks the same, smells the same, feels the same. You'll realize what's changed is you."

"I'm always lookin' out my own eyes."

"You can be mad as a mad dog at the way things went; you can swear and curse the fates - but when it comes to the end, you have to let go."

"For what it's worth: it's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again."

"It's funny how sometimes the people we remember the least make the greatest impression on us."

"Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss."

"You never know what's coming for you."

"Some people, were born to sit by a river. Some get struck by lightning. Some have an ear for music. Some are artists. Some swim. Some know buttons. Some know Shakespeare. Some are mothers. And some people, dance."