After the final online lesson of the day we headed to the cinema, bit of a risk on Valentines Day. Even riskier when the movie is a romantic comedy.

In our defence Captain America was just too full for Hawklad.

This mid afternoon Bridget Jones screening was half full and we were the only males in Screen 3…. As we headed towards our customary front row seats, I couldn’t help notice the amount of wine and champagne bottles that I had assumed had been sneaked in. Even just a small glass of wine there is eye wateringly expensive never mind a bottle. I smiled as I thought back to my childhood. To my seaside towns cinema on the beach. I remember going to watch a dreadful movie called I think ‘ BMX Bandits’ and some nutter managed to sneak a bike into the cinema. Proudly riding round the aisles to distract from the dreadful movie, that kid must have had ginormous pockets to sneak that thing past the ticket collector.

No such wheeled subtractions this time.

We’ve both enjoyed the previous three Jones movies, found them very funny. The latest version is funny but also this time around, sad at times, painfully sad. Anyone who has experienced loss will need at least one hanky. Recently I’ve become way less prone to movie tears, but this one got me.

Sorry no more movie spoilers….

Ok confession time. As I felt the tears roll that I was really conscious of being on the front row. I was reluctant to show signs of weakness for some reason, really daft as I bet I wasn’t the only one. I slid lower and lower into my chair before trying to brush away the tears. What a silly sausage.

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  2. It’s amusing leaving the movie theatre after a tear jerker. For some reason everyone’s looking at their not so fascinating shoes. What’s Valentines? Not a fan of whatever it is.

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  4. I enjoyed watching nearly the entire audience, including men, crying at a recent revival screening of Harold & Maude!

    Last night I streamed Flow. It’s antimated, no humans, and no dialog but the very first sad cat meow broke me and I cried through most of the movie.

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  10. A movie or story that can weave those saddest most painful losses with the utter joy those we love have imparted to us and the moments of comedy that life continues to throw at us) even after the storms it has thrown at us) – I have a feeling BJD4 will be a much loved film for some time.

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  13. What needs to come out will come out. In the cinema, in a packed church, at the stall of a veg vendor who counts the number of kids with you and asks about the missing one – 5 years after you last had business there…
    I learned to keep hankies with me.

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  15. Crying in a cinema can be quite cathartic. Let those manly tears out, Gary! 😂 Hope Hawklad enjoyed the movie too.

    Im looking forward to Captain America. You’ll have to let me know your thoughts when you see it.

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