I was right dammit. Everybody doubted, everybody complained gave me all kinds of reasons not to but in the end I listened to the one thing that mattered: my gut, then after we got tacos we (my and my gut) went to see a movie. People can gave you every reason that you or they could think of, and several that no one could think of not to see something. The director’s last movie was terrible. Sequels are always worse, the book is always better. That actor is a crazy person in real life. Or, my personal favourite, cartoons are for kids.

There are countless reasons to skip any given movie. On paper things might not seem like this will be good, but then sometimes against all reasonable reasons you may decide to to ahead and watch that thing. Something in your gut, some vibes you are picking up from the universe is telling you to give this a chance so you toss those dice and then get to go back and tell everyone who will listen (and possibly many who won’t) that I was right dammit! This movie was awesome, or at the very least much better than it had any right to be.

Thus in this spirit of this is this week’s prompt: What movie did you just have a gut feeling about and ended up enjoying? This does not have to be an adversarial “I was right” but more so something you saw, probably would not normally have liked and then had a gut feeling and went for it.

I’m going to actually answer the prompt here today since at the time this goes live I will probably be still recovering from very long travel for family stuff that I don’t really want to get into here. The LEGO Movie is this movie for me. It is hard to think about it now, but in 2014 the trailers for this movie were okay, but not great. It really really looked like it was a 2ish hour toy commercial that was just pandering to a younger audience to sell bricks and more sets of more elaborate bricks (and I know bricks!). Mrs. Fistcrush rebuffed most my efforts to see this, and eventually relented when a visiting aunt offered to watch the little Fistcrushers for an evening. We decided on a movie and at the time there wasn’t too much in theatres we wanted to see so I convinced her The LEGO movie was the one. We were giggling messes crying with happiness during the full Everything is Awesome at the end credits and it ended up being both of our favourite movie that year. The most important thing may not have been that I was right dammit, but more so that I keep learning to trust my gut (for tacos) and instinct (for movie recommendations) and it pays off more often then not (the not will probably be covered next week) and even more importantly we got many others to go so we could geek out about it after.