Did you hear about the woman who caused a small stir this evening at the Crandall?

First, she uttered “You’re kidding me…” sotto voce when the woman in the row ahead decided to move two seats over from her husband so she would have an unblocked view, thereby blocking a good 70% of the view of the stir-causing woman. She turned slightly around and then moved back.

And then, after the totally lost Hobbit trailer*, final audible bit being “oh the Hobbit, I read that in school!”, the silent part of tonight’s movie began. Several of these high-schoolers in the row behind began reading the screen text as a group, at which point she turned around and said, “Shut up.”

Yes, that woman was me. It did buy me most of the movie** in 85% quiet…

* The trailer looked fabulous even if I couldn’t hear most of it.

** The movie being “Gravity”; I am here to report that the cheap clip on 3d glasses from Amazon worked admirably. There was a lot of 3D at the beginning and fewer effects as the movie went on. I give the glasses a thumbs up. I think they’re pretty much polarizing lenses but they were much more comfortable than wearing two pairs.

I give the movie a so-so. Some serious truck-sized scientific problems but a huge well-done in the suspense-building and sustaining category.