Travis and I had our first date yesterday…okay, so it was our first date since Arwen was born. We went to see Watchmen. Great movie. Travis had been excited about it since we went to see The Dark Knight last July and was just awaiting this weekend for it to come out. We originally planned to go down to Prattville this weekend, but decided it was still going to be a lot of work to travel with Arwen that far just yet, plus with Chance too it presented challenges. So, my parents decided to come up on Friday night and kept Arwen and Anya for us from 12 until about 3 yesterday and we got to go to the movie. Arwen slept until just after 2pm so my parents were able to handle everything well. I left pumped breastmilk for them that Arwen didn’t really want to take from the bottle but she finally did. Arwen has fallen into that pattern of liking her milk “Straight from the tap”.
The movie was really good though. I was very impressed with the storyline and message of the film and Travis had given me a good background of the comic, which if I didn’t know about then it would have been a bit more confusing. The movie is rated R for very good reasons. Quite violent and quite adult oriented material abound in this film and if you don’t really care for movies like The Dark Knight then you may not like this one, but I’m a huge fan of the actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan so I wanted to see him in it regardless, but I really did end up enjoying the film quite a lot. Its nice to see a comic book movie done with an adult audience in mind and not with the motivation of selling merchandise and toys. It was a 2 hour and 43 minute movie as well, so we definitely got our $6.50 matinee’s money worth! And we got to share popcorn which was just the icing on top!