Atomic Blonde, fun, and talking in the theater

I went to see Atomic Blonde today, it was a lot of fun, but you gotta be in the right mindset for it, basically if you like Daniel Craig as James Bond and aren't a huge asshole then you should like Charlize Theron in this role, she basically kills Russian spies and has sex with hot women, so if you like it when Bond does it there is no reason you won't enjoy this movie.

The plot is honestly kind of irrelevant, but it is set in 1989 during the days leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, the plot of the movie is only tangentially related despite being set in Berlin though, in the end nothing really amounts to anything, very little meaningful happens and nothing at all matters in the grand scheme, so I can think of a few of my writer friends who will probably love it.

I sat next to a woman who was considerably more excited to be there than anyone else in the theater, she talked back to the characters, exclaimed at every fight scene(of which there were many and all well done) and laughed at all the jokes. Barely a minute went by without her chiming in. When arriving in the theater I had an impression that sitting next to her would suck because her stuff was sitting in my seat(Century Theaters does assigned seating) and she didn't seem thrilled about having to move it.

That impression was entirely proven wrong during the film.

See, I don't mind people talking in the theater, not when it is related to the events on screen, she was engaged with the movie and enthusiastic about it in a way that very few other people in the showing were, but she was infectious, by the midway point others, not everybody, but some, where reacting more and emoting as things happened in the movie. When a particularly nasty villain died it got a little cheer, people were having fun and if you know anything about me you should know I appreciate fun.

Fun is a quality that makes up for a lot and excuses much. A band can be unskilled and unoriginal but as long as the musicians are having fun then their show can still make a crowd dance in ways a deadly serious but more proficient musician can't. In movies the fun can make up for an otherwise uninteresting plot, as it did with Kingsmen: The Secret Service, and did so to such an extent that a sequel is now due out.

You can make your own fun too, as this woman did during Atomic Blonde, the movie is a good one no question, but someone obviously enjoying themselves makes others want to do the same, it helps suspend disbelief and save criticism for later.

Anyway, there are worse ways to spend a hot fucking afternoon, go enjoy a fun spy movie, you won't regret it.