I forgot how much fun previews can be

It's been years since I tried to go to any movie that wasn't made for little kids. Don't get me wrong, there are some really great kids films out there. (I really enjoyed Wreck-it-Ralph when I went to see it with my family.)
It's just that finding a babysitter is like a 5 hour process, and spending 5 hours just to get two hours without my little ones in tow just feels like a bad exchange rate, so I normally just don't go to movies anymore.

However, I'd really been looking forward to seeing the Hobbit. My kids and I even read it together over the summer to get ourselves all psyched up for it. So, I was all ready to start making phone calls when my wife suggested that our littlest one would probably be able to handle it.
I don't know why I agreed. Maybe it was because the lazy part of me saw an opportunity to NOT have to make 5 hours of babysitting preparations and it took over.

For whatever reason, I convinced myself that it would work. We snuck in a ton of food and snacks (diaper bags are great for contraband), we took a commanding spot on the back row so that no one would be bothered by the light from my I-phone if my little one needed to play crepe-maker. I even stretched out my giant legs to dissuade people from sitting too close to us.

Long story short, I saw the first fifteen minutes of the movie before my little one was making so much ruckus that I had to take her out into the lobby and imagine how cool the stone-giants must have looked like while my little one stacked booster seats into a rather sophisticated fort. (It's always fun to pay full price to sit in the hallway outside the theater)

However, the one bright spot was that I was able to see some real fun previews. The one that really caught my eye was pacific rim, which looks to be a michael-bay style action film about giant anime robots.

GIANT-ANIME-ROBOTS

Consider me sold, although I think "pacific rim" has to be the least-helpful title you could give to a giant robot movie. Just call it "Giant Freakin' Robots, the movie." At least then people will know exactly what they are getting. Pacific Rim doesn't tell us anything. It's even a little misleading. It sounds like a war documentary...which, come to think of it, I also would watch. So, really, they got me hooked either way.