Author's notes
1: I've actually had people say that I simile differently at different times. As for the part about James not being completely relaxed very often most of the time at least part of me is wondering what's going wrong at that moment and how to fix what has already gone wrong, not that there's really much I can do.
2: As a side effect of my interest in the military and a little too much time spent playing Rainbow Six I tend to tactically analyze movies.
3: Is anyone still reading this anyway?
4: I promise to avoid spoiling as much of the movie as possible.
5: And I don't own any copy rights.
Chapter 7
As the group moved toward the movie theatre James explained what a movie was to Lucca as simply as possible. "Basically a movie is a recording of a play. A movie theatre is a place where you can go to watch new movies and a few months after a movie comes to theatres you can buy copies of the recording called videos or DVDs, though some movies skip the theatre and go straight to video or DVD."
When the group arrived at the theatre they looked over the times the movies were starting. James, after briefly considering and rejecting the idea of suggesting a chick flick, wanted to see Constantine and Roger agreed but Scott didn't want to wait until it started so they decided to watch Hostage instead. At this point Scott asked what they would do if the theatre actually asked for I.D. "Hope they don't." was James's answer. And fortunately they didn't.
Once inside James and Lucca went to get popcorn and drinks while Scott and Roger went directly to the theatre. James and Lucca made it to the theatre just in time for the previews to start and they took seats next to Scott and Roger. James watched most of the movie silently. He had been surprised by the end of the first part and when the estate where most of the action took place appeared he noted that it would be very easy to defend provided you had a good anti-aerial defense, though the defenders would be screwed if the enemy was able to gain control of the chunk of rock directly behind the house. During the initial firefight he also noted that handguns shouldn't be effective at the range where Mars, the obligatory mental case among the hostage takers, was shooting but it didn't hinder his enjoyment of the movie. The only time he actually talked during the movie was the scene where Mars was on the attack after taking a sub-machine gun burst and that was just to mutter, "Great Undertaker's evil cousin."
After the movie Lucca asked James if what had happened in the movie had really happened. "Those events no but similar things do happen and like the beginning part they don't always have happy endings. That's what I meant when I said now most monsters are human. But there are lots of different types of movies and shows. Some are about things that really happened, some are about things that could happen. Some are the writer's ideas of what the future can be like or what the past was really like, some are based off of legends. Sometimes there are even several different movies based off of different versions of one legend. Some are meant to be funny, others scary or sad, while others have a lesson they want to teach. I have lots of movies at home that you can watch." By this point they had made it back to the car and after offering Lucca the shotgun seat James claimed it for himself.
Author's notes part two
5: I thought about describing the ride home in this chapter but I decided to deal with it and the rest of day one in the next chapter.
