This is one of my favorite stories about my son because it happened before he was even born and gives me a strange defense about not seeing the Transformers movies. Yeah. It’s that odd a story here.
Now, Transformers 2 came out in late June of 2009 and my son came out in late July of 2009. So we went to see the movie with a friend around the time ‘early labor’ could be a possibility. With daddy being a preemie, we thought it was also a chance. Still we wanted to get more of our summer blockbuster fix and we had good luck with other movies. He behaved for the new Star Trek until he started dancing during ending credit song. He was quiet for Terminator 4, which made us think noise wasn’t a big factor for him. You think strange things with an unborn child and wonder if they’re reacting to the outside world. It never made us more curious than when we went to see Transformers 2.
I wasn’t too into the movie to begin with. Then my wife went to get some air and ended up being gone for a lot longer than usual. I found her sitting outside the theater holding her stomach and I got her some water. The little guy was still thrashing and seemed to get worse whenever we stepped back into the theater. A group of older women saw us and suggested going to the hospital to be safe. I ran back in to tell my friend that he had to walk home and, as a single father of two, he fully understood. So, I watched Optimus Prime get unceremoniously dumped on the tarmac as I ran back to get my wife to the hospital. Hours later we were leaving the hospital being told that it was nothing more than false labor. This is the ONLY time that happened.
Many people would say that Transformers 2 had nothing to do with and I would agree if this wasn’t such a funny story. Also he got upset (in and out of the womb) whenever a commercial for the movie or the associated Linkin Park song turned on. Something is really screwy when Linkin Park upsets a kid and you find that he gets calmed down by ‘Just Lose It’ by Eminem. That was a strange car ride for me.
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They say babies inside the mothers’ womb can hear and get agitated by loud noises.
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They can certainly react. It’s interesting though that he didn’t react to any loud noises beyond this movie. At least not so violently. Other movies that were loud had him kicking, but this time my wife described it as thinking he was trying to get out and run.
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I say stay away from Transformer anything.
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Not unless I get some of the old stuff on DVD. Though the toys are always fun.
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And here I thought I had the story of stories with Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, but yours certainly is an amazing one as well, Charles! With mine? I’d gone to watch it alone on a rainy weekend afternoon and halfway through the power went out. The backup power came to life and the movie whirred back into play, but the whole experience was more surreal when I heard the thunder and lightening pounding on the roof of the theater. That’s loud considering a Michael Bay movie is already loud enough! lol
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That’s impressive. Never heard of a storm that could drown out a Bay movie. It’s always strange when the power goes out in a theater. People leave, a lot of complaining, and you always have that one person that demands compensation. Maybe that’s just my time in Florida.
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Funny thing about it was the movie was at its climax when everything went dark. You could hear a groan from the audience as the film slowed to a non-existent mess while the thunder and lightening rocked outside. It was a pretty surreal experience.
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Something about a Transformers movie and non-existent mess being in the same conversation is making me chuckle. I think I’ve only seen one movie where the power went out or something went wrong. I forgot which one it was, but the projector kept dying. It was ridiculous and they eventually moved us to another theater.
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Not the transformation you were hoping to see. 🙂
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Not at all. The movie too since I couldn’t tell one Decepticon from another.
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