7 Minutes!

We love watching movies.  Lately we haven't had very good luck picking a decent one.  On a scale of 1 to 10 we've seen too many movies we'd rate 6 or 7. 

The other night we were in the mood for a good movie.  We decided to take a break from non-stop Olympics watching, so out to dinner we went.  We discussed going to buy a movie at Best Buy after dinner.  Sometimes you can get some for a reasonable price.  Since all our Blockbusters went out we have to Red Box it or buy movies we want to see. We have yet to try out the Red Box system. I'm not sure what is holding us back from trying out Red Box but we haven't been interested in it yet.  We came away from Best Buy with the movie Contagion.  We'd thought about many times renting Contagion, as it a good amount of well known actors in it.  

Soon after getting home.  We got the boys busy with rawhides, checked in with the Olympics then it was time to pop in the movie.  There we were curled up on the sofa with popcorn popped and some candies to munch on too. The moment the movie starts people are coughing all around and getting sick.  Contagion is about an outbreak illness that takes out millions of the population.  Similar to the movie Outbreak. Gwenyth Paltrow's character died within a few minutes of the movie. There I am already feeling uneasy about munching on our movie munchies while everyone on the TV screen is getting sick...then it happened....a scene were they went to study the body of Gwenyth Paltrow's dead character.  As soon as I realized what was happening I promptly hoisted the couch throw pillow up in front of my face, then started screaming, "Turn it off. Turn it off."  Meanwhile Brad is groaning in disbelief as he is shocked at the images he didn't cover his eyes for. 

A new record!  Seven minutes!  We lasted a lousy 7 minutes watching Contagion.  That's the quickest we've ever turned a movie off. Thank goodness it was not a full price movie we bought, it was on the $5 rack.  I think I know why such a relatively new movie is selling for only $5.  It was rated pg-13 so I thought I could make it through it.  Wrong!  Too gross for me! I'm a wimp!