Surprise movie joys

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Last night I really wanted to go out for the evening.  My movie buddy and I didn't know of anything we wanted to see, so we showed up at the cinemaplex and bought tickets to see X-men.  Luckily, a guiding angel pushed me to look at what was playing in the theater across the hall - "Super 8".  Never heard of it.  "Hey, this is by Speilberg, let's look in, I think it only started 10min ago."  Thank you, guiding angel.
It seems some of the best movie experiences I have had, have come across in an accidental way.  Years ago, my husband and I were out of state for a wedding, our rental car battery died, and we missed our flight.  After that yucko morning, everything else went right - a friend begged us to stay at her house because her babysitter for the evening canceled, and we spent the afternoon at a great restaurant and then showed up at a theater and saw "Forest Gump" - not my favorite film every, but quite enjoyable, and fit the day perfectly.  Another time we went to some movie we hated, went down the hall, and found "Men in Black II" just starting - a great date movie, I think. so I now think it normal and wise to wander from theater to theater in cinemaplexes to find the right movie. If you have to put up with a plex anyway (I only know of one "single-cinema" within a 30min drive of our home), this seems like the right way to get the most bang for your movie bucks.  The drawback is that there are lots of movie that I thought had huge logic gaps until someone explained that I missed some critical info by coming in 10min late.
I'm sure this is true of "Super 8" - there must be some more explanation given for why the whole plot didn't resolve years before the events of the movie, and what the characters have been doing for the past 20 years, etc.  But it really just didn't matter too much.  This movie was outrageously fun - for goodness sake, you got 80's retro, reasonably appealing  kid actors, military conspiracy, aliens and zombies! all in one film. Both me and movie buddy had a great time, and were singing along with "My Sharona" at the end (well, we went back and forth between "My Sharona" and "My Bologna", but the point is we were having great fun.
Final Review: pick a friend with whom you can enjoy a stupid movie, don't look nuance, and let yourself be tickled pink.