This past Friday night I found myself with a free movie ticket, but without a date (oh, come on, we can’t all be dancing the night away under strobe lights and foam machines all the time). I was sick of being inside having worked all day, so I looked through the listings.
I’ve been on a kick to choose things that I normally wouldn’t, so I decided to be a little daring and picked Now You See Me, which to be honest, I hadn’t heard a single thing about before stepping into the theater. I’m glad I did, too, because it actually turned out to be fairly entertaining. A good mix of Jesse Eisenberg awkward wit, James Franco’s cute brother Dave, and action-but-not-too-much action.
I feel like there are a lot of single people who think that going to a movie alone labels you as a cast-off Quasimodo reject. I’ve only done it a few times myself (I’ll admit, the first time I was really self-conscious about it), but now I feel a sense of confidence and even freedom sitting in a theater alone. I know that it’s not something that everyone is willing or comfortable doing, and in a way it makes me feel proud that I am.
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Have you ever seen a movie in the theater alone? Would you do it? What’s the last movie you saw alone? (My first was Sideways in college)
