Can the Lord save you in a theatre?

Apparently the Lord can and I wasn't aware of this. Let me start from the beginning. Saturday night I went out with my good friend Kevin to meet up with some friends at a club called UltraBar. One of the people in the group was Jen, who is becoming a good friend of mine. Well, we are all drinking having a good time and Jen is kind enough to tell us on several occasions that night that she went shooting earlier in the day. Very impressive and also a bit frightening..lol. Anyway, during our conversation I asked if she had seen the movie 1408 yet because I knew she wanted to see it as well as I did. So, we made arrangements to go see it the next day.

Jen sent me a text at 10am the next morning to meet up with her at the 4:05 showing of 1408 at Potomac Yards 16. Cool..everything is lovely. So, I get there and purchase the tickets. On a side note, is it me or has the price of movie tickets just become insane??

So, Jen shows up and immediately lets me know that it's freaking hot outside! LOL! Hell yea it was hot outside. We get into the theatre, find a seat and prepare to watch a movie we both had been looking forward to. The previews start which really didn't do anything for me. Some western with Russel Crowe, a very cool looking movie with Elisa Cuthbert and the new Lindsay Lohan movie. In the preview of that movie, she was dancing as a stripper, hmm..gonna have to pass on that one. So the movie begins and everything is lovely, starts out nice and then it happened. 30 minutes into the movie a, how can I put this, rather plump black couple sit right behind us. The man behind me, the woman behind Jen. The woman is carrying what looks like a white hefty garbage bag with a bunch of food in it. We were the lucky ones to hear the crinkling and cracking of such bag and the bags of food they were consuming. Both Jen and I were also lucky enough to be on the receiving end of many kicks to the back of our chairs because the couple could barely fit in to seats and aisle. Back to the flick, it is very entertaining and moving along at a nice pace, when the first gotcha moment happens, the black woman let's out a scream that I swear woke up 2pac and Biggie. Then she did something I'd had never heard before at a theatre, she asked for the Lord to help her. Oh Lord, Jesus! What the fuck??? Not only did this happen 3 more times, but their constant talking during the movie didn't help either. Each time there was a gotcha moment, she put the Lord on standby, what is up with that??

Anyway, if you want to see a well acted and suspenseful movie, go see 1408. John Cusack does an amazing job in the lead role. But, if you want to see the movie and not worry about a ear damaging Jabba the Hut scream, go to a white theatre, they are much more quiet! LOL!!