[gone to the movies]

met up with jules for our sunday cinema thing. first up was Closer. four of the most fucked up characters ever assembled in one little movie. the opening shot of jude and natalie walking towards one another in slow motion to damien rice’s "the blower’s daughter" could have been the entire movie and i would have felt justified in paying my $6. damien’s "cold water" also makes a few brief appearances in the movie, not enough to really satisfy you, but at least he’s finally getting some exposure i guess. the movie was sad, they all played such sad, flawed people. it’s hard to sit through at times, but it was such a good movie.

since we were doing a double feature today we thought it would be wise to do the candy combo thing. so we got this HUGE drum of popcorn that came on wheels. well, it should have. and drinks in cups the size of our heads. we ate about a tenth of the popcorn and tossed the rest. but we saved our containers so we could get our free refills for the second flick. after the movie we hit up chili’s for some lunch. that was where we met the world’s slowest waitress. at one point she finally came running from across the restaurant when she saw that jules had to get up to look for her own napkin.

back at the theater, we walked across the parking lot with our empty containers and looked like a couple of panhandlers or homeless people. i tried my best to hide my cup as we walked but jules had a hard time disguising the large popcorn drum in her hands. the girl in the ticket booth gave us a funny look as we stood there with our empty cups. she asked us if we were seeing our second movie for the day. i told jules that she should have told her that we hadn’t seen a movie in months and we like to bring our own cups, fearing germs and all. once inside we tossed the popcorn one and just got refills on our drinks. we followed up lunch with Sideways. It had several laugh so hard you could cry moments in it. but again, a movie filled with some seriously messed up characters. Sideways was kind of a downer too. it was good, but i was hoping for more of a comedy after just sitting through the heavy Closer.

after seeing Finding Neverland on friday and a second viewing of Before Sunset on saturday night i feel kind of drained. i’ve never really seen the appeal of johnny depp but i loved him in this movie. i guess Finding Neverland rounds out my top five for the year. i doubt i’ll see anything better than that before the end of the year. i fell in love with the little boy who plays peter in the movie. his sad little blue eyes that fill with tears at the movie’s end broke my heart. now i want to adopt a little british boy.

and tomorrow is work, i find myself dreading the typing of that sentence this time every week. ten more days to put in before vacation. ten more days.