I want the fairy tale

I get angry when I go to see a movie and I miss the previews, especially if the movie that I’m seeing is a chick flick. If there’s one thing in life that you can be sure of, it’s this: the trailers that run prior to chick flicks are always wrought with the kind of sensitivity and impossible schmoopiness that I gobble up with ravenous abandon. Luckily for me, my parents believe that $7.00 a ticket entitles them not only to a two-hour movie, but also to every last minute of previews and to 30 minutes of pre-preview advertisements, movie trivia, and crappy music. Both my parents and the trailers before Georgia Rule were true to form today and now I have a bevy of future releases that I’m a mite interested in seeing:

Across the Universe: A movie/musical based on Beatles music, Vietnam, and British accents. Mmhmm, yes please!
Evening: I didn’t fully understand the premise but there are approximately 1,000,000 female A-listers in it and it seemed far-fetched enough to be a tear-jerker.
Some Catherine Zeta-Jones movie: It’s the same chick flick that has been made a thousand times – woman is a cold, lonely professional and then her sister dies and suddenly the icy professional is stuck raising her orphaned niece. Except in this version Catherine Zeta-Jones is a chef. As in, she cooks things. Delicious things. Food things. ‘Nuf said. Oh yeah, plus Abigail Breslin is adorable and my future daughter.

In case you are thinking, “Yeah, but how was Georgia Rule? I heard it sucked.” I can assure you that the person you heard from was mistaken. It was kind of choppy and long but it was also pretty funny and A LOT more dramatic than I expected. Plus, every single actor in it did a darn fine job. P.S. (God help me) I like Lindsay Lohan and there's just no denying it anymore.