Just finished reading the book with Max.
While not at all how I remembered it, the movie was charming and fun. We loved the songs.
There’s a patch in the middle where the book and the film both go astray in the clouds. And to me it felt like both could have matched the tone of the rest of the story better.
This was absolutely gorgeous. From the opening scene to the final shot, I was mesmerized.
It's been a while since I've felt something like this in a film. The way it presented the extraordinary moments of an ordinary man's life were really touching. And after you watch a film like this the sentimentality of time just catches you off guard.
And now it's 3am on a Friday night, and instead of going to my room to sleep, I'll go lay…
Max’s first time at a movie theater!!
It was just an ordinary Saturday when I suddenly decided to say “F-it” and take my (nearly) 3 year old to a movie theater.
Max sat in her seat contently making her way through a small popcorn before she got the wiggles 2/3rds of the way through, and watched the rest of the movie standing up or cuddling next to me on my arm rest.
I loved it, possibly more than her, but I…
