You know when you look forward to something....

... and then it ends up being total shite? Yeah well, I was worried that the very statement above was going to happen when I met my idol (see previous post) but it didn't. That was why I hesitated - albeit for a mere 2 seconds - I still hesitated for a moment. Because the fantasy is sometimes more exciting than the actual "thing". Nothing is worse than believing that the anticipation and expectation of the ideal moment is going to happen... only to have the absolute worst experience happen and completely burst your bubble and leave you vulnerable and disappointed. Well that's what happened when I watched Rob Zombie's Halloween. Okay, okay!! I'm being a little bit melodramatic! But I was sooooo looking forward to seeing the film in the theatre and my wonderful friend Steve handed me a screener copy to watch at my leisure. How awesome is that?! So I did what I normally do when I am about to watch a horror movie. I turn the lights off, I pour myself a big glass of wine and I make sure that my phone is off - so as to not distract me from a good scare the shit out of me evening. Sigh... all that effort goes wasted as I had to witness Baby's awful acting within the the first few moments of the film. I mean, she's beautiful - she is married to Rob Zombie after all - but she shouldn't have been playing anything other than the psychotic daughter of the Firefly family. She was awful in this role. I knew right then and there. The movie only went downhill from that moment on. As much as I'm disappointed about that, I'm sooo happy that Steve gave me a copy to watch in my own home, versus paying to watch it in a theatre and feel completely ripped off. Sigh. As I suspected.... the anticipation is sometimes better than the real thing.