Chasing Mavericks

Hello!

Welcome to my blog. I'm just going to get straight into it!

So me and my friend have an unlimited card for the cinema and we basically go and see anything. I'd seen Chasing Mavericks advertised a few weeks ago and the first thing that came to my mind was 'It's about surfing... I'll pass' my friend wasn't bothered about seeing it either. Then when it came out we had seen everything else that we wanted to see and being the cinema addict I am I searched the listings frantically one day to see if there was ANYTHING on. I came across this and went and watched the trailer again. It was like watching a completely different trailer. I saw past the surfing and I saw the real story behind it. I picked up my phone right away and called my friend who agreed to go and see it with me. I was expecting it to be heartwarming and a little bit cheesy but in a good way. I was looking forward to an easy going movie with some awesome surfing.

When we were at the cinema I turned to my friend and said 'I really hope this is good, I'm wooting for it.' She replied 'Yeah.. Me too.' I thought to myself, 'she really doesn't want to see this movie'. Anyway it started and I decided I liked the main character straight away. I was glued to the screen for the first half and only then did I pause for a few seconds to ask my friend what she thought. She turned to me and said 'it's amazing, I love it' I agreed and we turned back to the screen. We watched the rest and started discussing it as soon as the credits started rolling. She even went on to say that it was the best movie she had seen this year. Now I personally couldn't put it above certain other movies I have seen this year but it is definitely joint first with them.

Now I don't want to big it up too much because I don't want anyone to go expecting more than it could be in reality but I do want to ask you to give this movie a chance. Try to look past the fact that it is about surfing (a 32 foot wave at that) and to go and see it. I've never surfed but I do think it's a pretty cool sport and I would love to have a go but you definitely do not need an interest in surfing to go see this movie! I could go on and on about how good it is but I would be here all night. Just do me a favour, if you do go see it because you read it here or if you have already seen it, let me know what you think. :)!