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Early Halloween Bash

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life, Movies

This evening after work Ariesna and I headed up to the World The­ater in Cedar Rapids to attend an early Hal­loween Party.

Err… that’s not strictly true. We’d heard from AWelkin about said party being a mas­ca­rade and that it would start off by show­ing Shaun of the Dead. This is a British horror/zombie flick that was released here in the US not all that long ago and it had looked mighty funny, going by the trail­ers. Hav­ing now seen the movie, I can safely .… but that’s get­ting a head of myself.

We were run­ning a bit behind sched­ule when we left (movie sched­uled to start at 5:30, left house at 5:10, drive is ~30minutes) but we hur­ried along as best we could. Nar­rowly avoid­ing get­ting lost in down­town CR, I had to drive around the block a cou­ple of times to find a place to park. We hurry inside –the time is now 6:00– and there’s no sign of a movie screen or a movie play­ing. We stum­ble around a bit con­fused when AWelkin waves us over. Appar­ently, we weren’t the only ones run­ning behind sched­ule. *shrug* So we sit and chat¹ until nearly 7 o’clock!

Finally the movie started and it was flip­pin’ fan-tas-tic! Sure, some bits had crude lan­gauge and there was a bit of exces­sive gore but over­all; 4.95 stars out of 5. Def­i­nitely, a must see and leaps & bounds bet­ter than the last movie we saw together.

¹ Well, we tried to any­way but they were blast­ing annoy­ing music at a near deaf­en­ing level at us.

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