Lessons learned. Well, not really.
Arriving at the theater we quickly confirmed our seating at the automatic ticket kiosk, ironically flanked by three theater staff. Two machines, three staff.
No trip to the cinema would be complete with out a visit to the snack bar. I went for the Big Freeze special set. That's a Large popcorn with double golden topping, Large "Brain Freeze" slush drink in limited edition collectors cup. The poster said something about collecting all five cups, and when I do I'll be happy as the boy in the poster seemed to be. Masako got the same.
I give the film two enthusiastic thumbs up. Lots of thrills and spills, including my 1.8L beverage during that timber wolf scene! *chuckle* no biggie, there's always more where that came from right.
If you haven't guessed already the film was The Day After Tomorrow and I did bring away a few important lessons. One, Will Smith is going to be in a really cool robot film sometime soon that will challenge the way we think about um, robots. And second, that kid from Harry Potter is no longer a kid. Those must have been some long filming days as Harry seemed to be sporting a five O'clock shadow in some scenes. Oh and the Vice President in the film reminded me of no one in particular. Especially no one in the current Bush administration that is.
Disclaimer: For those readers in which English is not their first language or for those without a sense of humor please know the following;
We don't own a car and haven't for the past five years. We take the train everywhere. Mostly everything else you can dismiss as poorly crafted sarcasm except for the ticket kiosk thing. That was just plain weird.
I seriously checked the URL to make sure I was at the right site when I read the SUV part (I'm not kidding)... I then spent about 20 seconds trying to rationalize that in my head before I read on.
Anyway, I ddin' t know it was out in Japan. I'm sure I wont go see it till it's in the video store, but it doesn't sound too good huh?
::posted by: kevin at June 22, 2004 08:23 PM
That movie blowed..
Horrible excuse for mainstream entertainment. Good idea, bad presentation.
The acting was about as predictable as a dog taking a shit while your walking him.
The wolves? oh come on, they opened doors and chased after them? my ass.
When that guy fell, into the shopping mall. I didn't hear a THUMP sound..did you?
I just went and saw it for the CG. everything else was sloppy.
Im ....THE MOVIE CRITIC! :)
::posted by: Regan Parenton at June 24, 2004 06:24 PM
I'm with Kevin...I was like, wtf, Mark has an SUV....wow, my whole impression of you just went right out the window, right around the part where you said you'd crank up the AC in the car. This kind of "brain freeze" is only permissible on April Fools Day man! (Now if you'd written that you'd run over a cat on the way to the theater then maybe I'd have caught on quicker...)
::posted by: Kurt at June 29, 2004 12:53 AM
sorry 'bout that guys. I guess I failed and succeeded at the same time.
Just wanted to read something written about the film in from the perspective of someone who just doesn't get it. And because I because didn't see it written elsewhere that someone was me.
::posted by: mark at July 7, 2004 08:35 AM
