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I’m sitting in Starbucks finishing up some writing when I get a text from hubby a few hours after the girls leave for a week long adventure with their cousins in Delaware.
“Be home by 8:30. It’s a date night! :)”
The cafe latte in my tum-tum does a flip. Yup. This girl still gets giddy when her hubby asks her out. Nothing like being asked when least expected!
Funny thing is, there was a time when the whole ‘initiate or just ask’ debate caused much commotion in our newleywed days. I wanted hubby to initiate more. He wanted me to just ask. And he’d do it. Whatever I asked. Just to ask. Communicate, he argued. Notice, I’d snap back. Some things don’t have to be said aloud.
If you see dishes in the sink, do I really have to say, “Babe, can you do the dishes?”
And if I’m crying, do I really have to say, “Hug in order two minutes ago. Yes. Now works too.”
Hubby’s come along way. And so have I. I’m not afraid to ask. And he initiates. A lot!
Fun text with date request is case and point.
So at 7:30, I wrapped up a little blog, posted it, and headed home to shower and pretty up. At 8:30, got another text saying, “Be home in a few minutes.”
I was ready. And when we drove into the theater parking lot in Westbury, I had a feeling it was finally time. To let Spidey back into our lives. I’d shunned him on two dates in the city already. And I was right.
We picked up our 3D glasses and made our way up several levels of stairs to find the perfect seating for the ginormous IMAX screen in front of us. As I sat down, our eyes fell at the middle of the screen. Seriously great seats for a Friday Night! Not like the time we saw Transformers in IMAX and our faces were so close to the screen, we couldn’t see the whole movie without constantly moving our heads from side to side and up and down. And we like to sit relatively close when we see movies. Seven rows back, I believe, so that our peripheral vision maxes out at the edge of the screen and you feel like you’re totally encapsulated in the show for those two or so hours. Yeah. We take our movies that seriously. But for the IMAX experience, proximity is a big no-no. Lived. And learned.
Even the previews are a treat. But there’s one that we don’t watch. Because we know we’ll be coming back to see it on the big screen. The new Batman. The Dark Knight Rises. Can’t wait! But this is just how intense movies are for me. For both of us. We don’t want any spoilers. Not even the short images from the preview. So we look at each other while the sounds of voices we recognize exchange dialogue we’ll forget shortly play around us. Yeah, we can be a little corny when it comes to our movie viewing rules of maximum enjoyment, but it works for us!
So I won’t spoil anything for my readers with this movie review. But about the new Peter Parker. He’s really cute. Almost too cute. Tobey Maguire definitely pulled off the nerd role better, and I just loved Kirsten Dunst as M.J. I wasn’t sure if I could get past the new cast taking the place of such good memories of the Spiderman movie that came out a decade ago. But Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone pull it off. Extremely well. Both in acting and chemistry.
Excited about the introduction of Spidey’s parents and the whole exploration of the back story. This is clearly one of my favorite parts as a writer. I love books, TV shows, and movies that flush out the history of key characters, giving readers and viewers a little glimpse as to why they turned out the way they did.
The 3D effects were fun, but that never does it for me if the story isn’t captivating. And Peter Parker’s is. The classic divided heart. I am always drawn to the classic themes of good vs. evil. Vengence vs. justice. Love vs. Sacrifice.
And when you’re a New Yorker, any film centered in Manhattan reminds you why you continue to live in the city. Or near the city in our case. Told hubby that we should see the sequel downtown, so we can exit the theater and be surrounded by the high rises and skyscrapers that Spidey swung between as we digest the fuzzy feelings of post- movie butterflies.
Enjoyed the movie so much, when hubby and I returned to the car in the theater parking lot, I turned my head downward for an upside-down smooch. Mu-ahhh!
Thanks for date night hubs. Fun to leave the planet with you, if only for a few hours. Especially to a world with a Superhero, action, adventure, and romance. Nothing like that first kiss. Gets me every time!
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