Weekend Forecast: 5/30/08
By Craig Kennedy - May 28th, 2008; 12:22 pm
A day early, here are this weekend’s new releases:
- Sex and the City. Hey, look everybody. It’s a Sex and the City movie. You know, the ode to mating and materialism with the cosmos and the vibrators and whatnot, but longer and R rated.
- The Strangers. Who are The Strangers and why are they terrorizing cute couple Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman at their isolated vacation home? I’ll bet you $3 that the movie is 57% less scary once you find out. Up until that point, the effective trailer seems to promise some decent creepy thrills, but I’m not falling for the “based on a true story” nonsense.
Opening in limited release:
- The Foot Fist Way. This one isn’t going to be for all tastes, but I can almost guarantee you more laughs per dollar spent by the filmmakers than any other movie this summer (it cost $70,000). It’s rude, crude, rough around the edges and probably best enjoyed after a few beers, but it’s worth a look if you’re so inclined. Danny McBride (soon to be seen in the infinitely more expensive Tropic Thunder and Pineapple Express) plays low-rent Tae Kwon Do instructor Fred Simmons whose life (such as it is) begins to crumble when he discovers his wife is cheating on him. It made big enough waves when it played as a midnight film at Sundance in 2007 to get picked up by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s production company. Foot Fist has the makings of a cult favorite, but saying such a thing is a sure fire way to keep it from actually happening.
- Savage Grace. Another tale of rich people treating each other poorly. This one has Julianne Moore as real life NY socialite Barbara Daly who married an heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune. Marriages crumble, sons turn out gay and a miserable time is had by all. Directed by Tom Kalin (Swoon).
- Bigger, Stronger, Faster. One man’s personal take on the steroid question. Turns out his brothers are body builders who use them. I’ve heard good things since it played at this year’s Sundance, but I’m having a hard time mustering up interest. There are lots of angles to the story (for expample: our society pushes people to be the biggest, fastest or strongest, but then punishes them for doing whatever it takes to achieve that), but I’m just not especially interested in any of them. As always, your results may vary.
- Stuck. Cult favorite Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator) returns with a strange little number “inspired by true events.” Mena Suvari hits homeless guy Stephen Rea with her car. He doesn’t just bounce off, he crashes head first through her windshield and becomes lodged there. Instead of taking him to get help, she drives home, locks him in her garage and waits for him to die. Smells like a horror/satire.
Opening in New York:
- The Unknown Woman. The new film from Cinema Paradiso writer/director Giuseppe Tornatore sounds like it’s altogether darker than his popular favorite. A former Ukrainian prostitute insinuates herself into the life of an Italian family, working as their maid and nanny. She’s got more on her mind than housekeeping, but what? Ennio Morricone provides the score.
Opening in Los Angeles:
- Chop Shop. One of the highlights of the 2007 AFI Film Festival, Ramin Bahrani’s neorealistic gem opened in NY back in February and now it finally comes back to Los Angeles. Two orphans eke out an existence in a 20 square block area of Queens made up of wrecking yards and auto body repair shops. It sounds grim, but it’s moving, strangely compelling and very good. Recommended.
- Hollywood Chinese. According to the LA Times: “Written, directed, edited and produced by Arthur Dong, this film is both a history of the Chinese presence in American films and a meditation on the difficulties Chinese Americans have had in being seen as individuals and in putting the reality of their experience on screen. A fascinating and unusual cinematic and cultural journey.”
- Blindsight. This documentary about blind people climbing Mount Everest should go a long way to making you stop bitching about your own sorry life.
- The Edge of Heaven. Fatih Akin’s drama about a father and son who move in with a woman who prostitutes herself in order to put her daughter through college opened in NY last week. Here it comes to LA.
- The Memory Thief. An aimless LA tollbooth operator becomes obsessesed with a survivor of the holocaust. There’s just nothing like filling your empty life with someone else’s tragedy, is there?
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I am seeing Sex and the City {I love the show, so sue me}, Paris Je T’aime, Narnia and tomorrow I am seeing Kung Fu Panda.
That is all.
Still want to catch Chop Shop.
Chop Shop. I’ve been hearing about this film for so long and it’s only now getting to LA. At this pace, it should make it up here by around Fourth of July or so.
The Unknown Woman, with its director and Morricone doing the score, sounds too interesting to pass up on.
Ooh, a day early.
Sex and the City is the one I’m seeing if I can get to the movies this weekend. Nick, nothing to be ashamed of. I love the show, too. It’s fantastic. Though, as a New Yorker, I can vouch for the fact that no one in NYC lives the way they do unless their super-rich.
The Unknown Woman sounds like one I’ll try to check out as well.
Still haven’t caught up to Chop Shop but I keep hearing good things about it.
You’re throwing my weekly calendar out of wack, Craig. Getting me all excited because it was Thursday…
No way am I seeing the pictured movie here. Not a chance. But nothing against those who do. Seriously. Plus it’s a sleeper of mine in the fantasy box office league. Go see it for me.
I’m hoping to see The Foot Fist Way and The Fall. Tomorrow evening I’m also catching a screening of A Place in the Sun, which I’ve never seen. If I’m tempted I might see BigStrFast, but it’s not really grabbing me despite its documentary status.
The Unknown Woman played to rave reviews here at the MSPIFF, but I did not get a chance at it. I thought it was supposed to get a wider release but this is the first I’ve seen of it. Hopefully it will make its way out of New York. Enjoy, Alison.
I can vouch for Blindsight (my review might actually be up tomorrow), Chop Shop and The Edge of Heaven (both reviews have spoilers, so maybe avoid). They’re all quite unique, which is to say you could either love them or hate them. Which, I suppose, is to say nothing at all. Chop Shop is almost identical in method to Man Push Cart. The Edge of Heaven is tonally different than the only other Fatih Akin film I’ve seen, Im Juli, which was fantastic.
Anyway, I would recommend all three without hesitation.
Preview/press screening of Panda, Nick?
Press Screening Danny, there was one on Tuesday, but I had to miss it, so I am not going to school tomorrow so I can catch “Panda,” and if I play my cards right, “Reprise” as well.
I am glad I am not alone in wanting to see “Sex….” Ally, fans of the show have already booked there tickets here in SA, the film is almost sold out for the entire weekend. Plus, Jennifer Hudson is in it, and she wants to fall in love, and I want to see that.
Watercooler was a day late and Weekend Forecast was a day early. I’m all turned around.
I’m not the audience SatC is aimed at, but that’s ok. It’s not that I’m anti-”chick flick” either…it just is what it is.
I’m curious about Savage Grace and Stuck.
I knew you had thoughts about Bindsight Daniel, but I couldn’t find them on your blog. Now I remember it was a recent Watercooler conversation. Here’s where it starts for those of you keeping score at home: http://livingincinema.com/2008/05/12/the-watercooler-51208//#comment-11984
Oh no worries at all, Craig. I’ve been sitting on draft for a few weeks but now that it’s getting widely released I thought I should get something up. Thanks anyway. And to save people the trouble of taking a day off of work to read my ridiculously long comment there, I’ll self-edit:
“Blindsight is a documentary about six blind children in Tibet who are given the opportunity to scale the peak next to Everest with Erik Weihenmayer, the first climber to scale many of the world’s peaks. All I’ll say about it is that it’s surprisingly not what you think it’s going to be, and its 100% RT rating is deserved…Blindsight ends up being your typical feel-good-about-bad-things documentary, Craig, but it’s more interesting than most because it features some really rich symbolism about how we Westerners try to do good in these ways. Who are we to think that we’re saving a blind kid’s life by pushing him up a mountain? Is to so we can tell a story to our friends back home, or is to actually improve their situation, and if so, how is it accomplishing that? I also learned how the blind are essentially banished from society in Tibet, as their blindness is thought to be the result of past sins. When two of our likable subjects accidentally brush by an old lady on the street with their canes, she calls them morons and tells them they deserve to eat their father’s corpse. I’m serious, it’s bad.”
Re: Savage Grace. I cannot tolerate Julianne Moore. I think this may have come up before, but it basically stems from her insistence to play weeping, self-pitying characters. Not all the time, I know, but enough of the time to overshadow the rest - for me.
Nick, the cool thing about you is that you could probably legitimize your absence from school if you needed to. Who are they to get in the way of South Africa’s foremost film critic?
Jeepers, ya almost scared me into thinking it was Thursday already, Craig. I work from home (in my jammies, booyah) so the days tend to run together a little more than they used to. I’m awfully glad Weekend Forecast is just early and I’m not running even later than I thought.
I will see Sex and the City, I’m sure, either of my own volition or My Gay Friend Brian’s (he likes it when I capitalize that), though I don’t know that we’ll see it this weekend. Maybe Narnia? Who knows, really. I just found out I may be hosting an unexpected house guest for a week, so we’ll just have to see what kind of moviewatching we can manage. Probably nothing as exciting as you coasters and critics get to see early.
Hehe, that’s the adventage of being a student: if there’s a press screening, you just don’t show up, and nobody notices. Not that I have class much. Just my thesis, and that I work on according to my own schedule.
My press screening for SatC isn’t until Monday 3rd (the movie doesn’t come out here until the 12th). I’m not exactly stoked - I had a kind of love/hate thing going on with the show - but I’m curious to see what they did with the concept.
The big problem with SatC is: Carrie’s voice-over is unbelievably annoying, full of bad puns and pointing out correspondences between the four stories that were already way too obvious to begin with (or, in some episodes, kind of farfatched). But I decry the “chick flick” label: while the four “chicks” to indeed seem to find the quest for the right man the biggest priority, but they go against stereotype in very interesting ways. Even Carrie (who I can’t really stand) is a commitment-phobe, in a nice change from the obvious. Miranda is a hard-as lawyer. and Samantha has sex like a man, without regrets and with gusto. Even Charlotte, the most “girly-girl” of them all, will surprise you.
And what redeems it most of all: the show freely admits that no relationship is perfect. They’re all waiting for Mr. Right, but in the end all of them settle (except Carrie, who….I’ve said enough about her and her storyline, I think). And the men do, too. These women are not perfect, and can be hard to live with, but the show is honest about how hard it can be. Unlike, well, most chick-flicks.
“Savage Grace” is a train wreck, one of the worst films I’ve seen this year.
I don’t expect anyone to take my word for it, but don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Heh heh. I’m going to sleep well at night under the delusion that people set their internal clocks by LiC. The first person to disabuse me of that lovely notion will be blacklisted forever.
As for the chick-flick tag of SatC, regardless of the content, it’s fair to say it’s made with the XX chromosome crowd in mind, no?
Having said that, much of the hate leveled at the show and the movie has a troubling air of misogyny. Nobody cries foul at all the empty wish-fulfillment nonsense that’s aimed at boys.
Also, I’m not sure if any of you have noticed, but girls are soft and they smell nice.
Savage Grace kind of looked like a train wreck based on the trailer…but potentially the good kind. We’ll see. I won’t come crying to you if I hate it.
LOL Dan, I skip school so often, I think they, being my teachers etc, are just glad to get rid of me for a while.
True, I guess I was objecting more to the implications of the word “chick flick” than it’s original definition. Or maybe I just want to defend that I’m going to see a girly movie. Which, apparently, guys WON’T actually shoot themselves to get out of (for what they will do, check this)
Oh well. I read those novels with half-undressed couples on the cover too, so I guess I should just forget about shame (and I read “male” pulp novels, too)
Hedwig, I echo your negative sentiments on S&TC. With all due respect to the people that I love in this thread that are going, I genuinely hope that you enjoy it.
But for me the show was always badly written, very cliched and the women are so bloody annoying. (Well, I don’t mind Samantha that much. Three guesses as to why.)
There’s all this talk about how liberated they are but they all seem very conventional at the end of the day. THEY ALL WANT TO BE WITH A MAN. Except for Samantha, who wants to be with MEN. Hee hee.
I seriously will look forward to everyones’ impressions, but I won’t be going.
This is very curious and I think it speaks to how screwed up our release schedules are in North America. We’ve had The Unknown Woman for a week now.
Since when do we get stuff before New York?
And *sigh* although THE FALL is expanding this week, we’re not getting it up here.
Wouldn’t you know it?
That’s a pretty funny link, Hedwig, thanks.
Fair play with the gender imbalance, Craig, but if I can avoid the misogynistic label, I’ll throw my lot in with Miranda. It’s not that I have a problem with the women preying on men, but on the hypocrisy that Miranda points to. Come to think of it, that’s what was a little disappointing ***SPOILER*** about the end of Priceless. I was having a great time with Irene’s freespirited adventures - until it turned that she really was dependent on men, and not just for new dresses. There’s not really a “mature” male series to compare it to, but there are plenty of American Pies and Superbads, and the guys don’t always become gentlemen. I don’t know if that makes sense. I guess, aside from the fact that I also find the characters annoying, I would enjoy Sex and the City if it was really as provocative and subversive as it could be.
I wasn’t directing that tag at you Daniel…unless you’ve been excessively ranting about this movie unbeknownst to me….even if you had, I’d guess you weren’t the misogynist type.
I’m talking about guys who got their rocks of with Rambo then turn around and use SatC as litmus test for potential mates.
EXACTLY, Danny.
I was a liberated woman pretty young. I had my own thoughts on various matters and that definitely displayed itself prominently in certain types of behaviour.
I never gave a damn about what anyone else thought about it either. As long as I didn’t hurt anyone else, I thought I was entitled. So considering the fact that (1) I’m a woman and (2) a particular type of woman, I’m sure that the misogyny label isn’t going to stick to me.
Yeah, I’d watch S&TC too if it were provocative and subversive. Those are two of my favourite things in the whole world. But despite all this frank sexual talk over Cosmos, it’s all a big smokescreen. Those chicks are conventional as hell.
Might as well be Rebecca of Sunnybrook farm wearing Carolina Herrera and Marc Jacobs with Manolo slingbacks.
No guts, no glory…
Hehe, well I didn’t necessarily feel targeted by it, Craig, but it’s a relief anyway. I had just realized that I’d lashed out against both SatC and Julianne Moore (who I will rant about excessively) in a matter of minutes.
You’re totally right about guys who see it that way. For that matter, the danger in furthering stereotypes and unreasonable expectations is another reason why SatC doesn’t jive with me.
Hmm, “Miranda & the City.” Now that’s what I’d like to see.
i’m likley not gonna sex/city but i hope it does well at the box office. you know female leads and such…
Dang, Foot Fist got delayed a week. Seriously, does In Bruges still need a screen for another week? I literally saw it 4 months ago.
I’m surprised at your interest Daniel. I seem to recall way back you were a little luke warm on the trailer when it came out….or am I confusing you with someone else?
” ‘Miranda & The City.’ That’s what I’d like to see.”
You are SO CUTE, Danny. When I saw that, I almost spit my Pepsi up all over the keyboard.
Well, first of all, they all ready have a Miranda on S&TC. So I guess they’d have to change my name.
Plus, considering what happens in my life (and some of it is so so wild, boldly dramatic or out of left field that viewers would likely be overwhelmed) I imagine it would have to be on cable.
Just as well. I’m actually quite a private person. But thanks for the thought, Danny.
Wait for my memoirs.
That’ll really be something…
Hey, don’t hate on the “Rambo” lovers. :-P
I’ve never seen an episode of “Sex and the City,” but I’ll be seeing in this weekend. I know lots of people looking forward to it (mostly women and gay men), and even though I fall into one of those categories I’m still pretty ambivalent about it. Still, it may be fun. I don’t have high expectations but I don’t expect to hate it either.
We’ll see.
Whoops, I forgot there was already a Miranda on there. Shows how much of a fan I am. Well there’s always room for a bizarro spinoff - you can write it, “inspired” by true events.
Yeah, I’m the guy, Craig, but what can I say - I’ll take your word for it. That and I still think Will Ferrell’s box office prediction is hilarious. AND, I’ve been a good boy and successfully avoided the trailer since then, so the gags should still be fresh. If it misfires for me, well, I’m not seeing it at the expense of missing something else at this time of year. We’re all of a sudden in a summer action blockbuster lull for a few weeks.
Well, as is typical one week to the next, everything below the jump doesn’t open here this week and I have no interest in S&TC or Strangers.
I do want to see Chop Shop and Stuck and I am mildly curious about Foot Fist Way.
Locally, I’ve got a lot of options and not enough time to get to them all, not that I’m complaining about it. The Portland Art Museum is doing a special showing of Big Lewbowski and The Man Who Wasn’t There Friday and Sat, which is highly tempting. And they’re also wrapping up their Herzog retro with Nosferatu, which I’ve never seen.
But then our main arthouse theater is doing a special one week engagement of the 50th anniversary print of Vertigo and Shine a Light (which I haven’t seen). Plus my local mom-and-pops theater is showing Narnia 2, which would be a fun place to see that one.
On top of all of that, Speed Racer is on the verge of disappearing from theaters and I meant to give that one a whirl. Too many options, not enough time.
Wow. Nice to have a wealth of options, just wish they weren’t all in the same weekend.
Thank Gawd I share Miranda’s view on the show. I watched it a few times just to make sure it was as banal and shallow as I suspected. Every episode seems to be about Carrie whining because somebody isn’t paying attention to her. None of those women are the least interesting and as New Yorkers go, they don’t represent the best.
I don’t find TV or filmic depictions of men dishing about their sexual foibles interesting either, I just wish the SATC characters were cool. I doubt they’d have a drink with me either.
I thought about going Friday just for a good story, but a single man at SATC? All the available women will want to take me shopping and gossip.
I’d feel bad Daniel if my relentless pimping has steered you into a movie that isn’t your cup of tea. I’m not exactly over the moon about it or anything.
i really want to savage grace…hell, seems i usually like stuff that get bad reviews. ha ha…
christian i almost feel like going to what do you call is satc but my non fashion style would prevent any females from wanting to take me shopping or gossip with me. *sigh*
and yes…$10 via paypal to whomever that knew i’d get around to doing this……
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with all the talk of the film/with the same name. you knew i’d do this. ok no one knew. but i knew i would…. :)
I thought Savage Grace was pretty awful as well. Two friends of mine loved it but I think they’re biased cuz they had the director as a professor.
glim, you’re right. I knew you would.
christian, you and I actually agree more often than we disagree, I think.
I stopped taking guys shopping with me as a teenager. I have too much respect for men to make them that miserable.
They dug my taste in whatever I purchased (no matter what it was) but they were really terribly bored. There are some straight men who love shopping but they’re a rare breed. Whether it’s a store or a mall, most guys just want to grab what they want and get the hell out. Unless it’s something that they have a particular interest in - like electronics or something specific.
The only times they were happy to go was when they needed to pick out suits, formal wear or some nice clothes for something specific. Then my advice suddenly became important. But they trusted my judgement and they knew they were gonna look very, very cool at the end of the day.
Gossiping is pure idiocy. But shopping is awesome. Has to be in the Top 5 easily.
You guys don’t know what you’re missing…
Joel, Herzog’s Nosferatu is fantastic, and I heartily recommend it to you, for whatever it’s worth.
The Coen double bill sounds too great to miss as well.
Heh, Miranda, well, you have mentioned there the one thing about SatC that bores me: the clothes. I’m that rare straight woman who hates shopping, and can rarely sustain it for more than half an hour before yawning. Explains why I have so many hand-me-downs from my mother and sister, I suppose.
Shopping for DVDs however, now THAT’s another matter entirely.
By the way, speaking of bizarre release schedules: I was at a press screening for In Bruges a couple of months ago, but it doesn’t come out here until july.
I’ll second Alexander’s recommendation to see Nosferatu. Stylish homage and update. Some of the location shooting was done in pretty Delft, where one can enjoy excellent pancakes with berries and cold heineken :-)
Cue Craig drooling like Homer Simpson.
Sex and the City may be shallow, and a stereotypical exclamation of how modern power woman in NYC do whatever it is that they do, and almost every episode is a reshuffle of themes present in previous episodes, but it is sharply written and acted, and even if you are a single guy, get over the “chick flick” label, because labels are lame, and just think of it as a notch about most other romantic comedies, because I know it will be. So there are no good looking woman in it either, besides Kristin Davis, which is only my opinion, and I think that if the woman were a little younger and more appealing for a younger male audience, I think more guys would want to see it. In other words, I am going to see it no matter what, with a whole bunch of friends MALE AND FEMALE, and if it confirms to a stereotypical “chick flick” without the edge that I want it to have, I will be really mad.
“In Bruges” has not even opened in SA here either Hedwig, nor have I seen it, nor do I have any idea when it is to be released. Especially now that all these summer flicks are clogging up the cinemas. But I am dying to see it, and I may even download it or something, I cannot wait forever you know.
I totally woke up on the wrong side of the bed today, sorry about that, I am off to go see Kung Fu Panda now, hopefully it will get rid of my bad mood, and if the film is as awful as I suspect, I might explode.
When this doc festival arrives in SA, I may be interviewing Grant Gee (Joy Division), Gonzalo Arijon (Stranded – I’ve come from a plane that crashed on the mountains) and Alex Gibney (Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson). Cannot wait for that one.
Wow, Nicky, you don’t think Kim Cattrall is good looking? I think she’s the best looking of the bunch BY FAR. But I’ve always had a soft spot for her anyway.
Hedwig, that IN BRUGES deal is strange. We got it in March, I believe. Definitely no later than April. It’s still playing here.
I find that very odd. Pic takes place in Belgium. Most of the principal actors are European, as well as the director. YOU’RE European and you’re not getting it until July?
Makes no sense…
She is not bad looking, just in my moment of frustration, she slipped my mind - she is also the funniest and snarkiest in the show, one of my favourite characters, I hope she gets to be a bitch in the film as well, I hear the film is a Hollywoodized version of the TV show, i.e. men are the centre of a woman’s universe and instead of creating ones own happiness, like the woman do so well in the show, the film makes it out to be like being with a man = happiness, which is bullcrap.
That is what I have heard anyway, from an extremely cynical critic, so I would not expect to view the film in the same way, but my happy feeling is slowly but surely fading.
I am also pleased to report that “Kung Fu Panda” is real fun, and the visuals are pretty awesome too, my faith in the modern kung fu film has been restored after “The Forbidden Kingdom” - and in “Panda,” Jackie Chan does not get much screen time, which could explain why I liked it so much. And the trailer, for me, is totally misleading, the majority of the best parts of the film are not in the trailer, and I would have been a fool to dismiss the film based on the trailer, which I almost did.
Oh, and The Fall finally opens here, which considering the general reviews will probably last like a week in theaters.
Man, too many movies. Nosferatu only plays tonight (just once?!?) but I’m considering trying to hit some of the other special stuff this weekend, including the Coens. We’ll see.
Nicky, you know better than to worry about what critics say. Go and enjoy yourself. You are more than capable of making up your own mind.
Yeah, but at least YOU’RE GETTING THE FALL, joel. You’d never believe how jealous I am.
How am I ever going to get my LEE PACE fix?
Life is so unfair….
Nicely said, Nick. Samantha is my favorite. Definitely the snarkiest. But I can relate to each of the four women in different ways.
And I second sartre’s high praise of Delft. Like him I was also a backpacker that took long vacations from life to see other places. :-)
Kim Cattrall, good looking? Yeah. In 1987.
I can see you there Alison, unfettered and alive :-)
all I have this morning is: mmmmm…pancakes.
Sorry, Miranda. I’m not complaining about getting the Fall, just that I probably won’t get to it because I’ve got like 5 other movies to see that will ONLY be here this weekend.
Sucks.
I respect the fact that Kim Cattrall has held her own on Sex and the City for it’s entire run versus a younger cast, but I’ll take Big Trouble in Little China Cattrall over Sex in the City Cattrall. Yes, I’m leaving in the Kim past.
What, are you nuts? You had pancakes for breakfast. You got to go to a place where you can get a shot, a beer, a steak. No more f***ing pancakes, come on.
I make excellent pancakes for friends and family.
The secrets? Ricotta cheese and lemon juice.
You should try my pancakes; full of heart and the possibility of food poisoning
We go to pancakes house.
Best pancake: Amsterdam, May something 2006, 10 am.
I did have the hots for Cattrall in PORKY’S (oh yes) and of course, she gets a pass for life cos she’s Gracie Law.
Careful…Craig’s pancakes are made with unguent.
wow ok m. you knew i would *ha ha * :)
Completely forgot about Porky’s, not that it’s something I hold dear to my memory necessarily.
I think Cattrall would be embarrassed by her scene in PORKY’S. I was embarrassed for her…
forget thumps up/down we’re using panckaes as the new movie grading thing….
bad day for satc fans
Pancakes are love.
For the record, so that I don’t seem age-ist when it comes to women, ask my opinion about Michelle Pfeiffer, off the top of my head. She looks great. Kim Cattrall’s another issue.
I was always more of a Bea Arthur guy…
Actually, this was bloody annoying. But I guess persistence pays off.
My ex and I went to see Indiana Jones on Friday night at the big modern multiplex on one of the main drags. I don’t hate it there but I’ve never really liked it or felt that comfortable there. For all the money they poured it into it it should be a hell of a lot nicer.
We get down there about 6:05 to see the show at 6:40. Guess what? Indy is completely sold out. RIGHT ACROSS THE BOARD, FOR THE ENTIRE EVENING.
So what else is playing there? Among a couple other things, Narnia and S&TC. Um…NO. For either of us.
BUT…Indy is playing at the artsy fiveplex on the west side. At 7:15. So we go like the wind. Walk up to the BO at the artsy place. It so happens that S&TC is playing there too. Guess what? All of THOSE shows are completely sold out.
The boy and I are starting to get a little antsy. He walks up, takes a deep breath and says, “Is Indy sold out?” “How many people are with you tonight?” ” It’s just the two of us.” Cashier says (I kid you not), “There are only two seats left.”
*relief filled sigh*
So we spent Friday night crammed like sardines into the first row of a fairly small cinema. (Not even the large one with the balcony.) Me with the copious amount of ice cream that I snatched from the concession.
When we left around 9:30, there was a lineup that went for BLOCKS. One glance at these girls & you knew automatically that they were S&TC fans. Maybe three guys that I spotted casually. Literally hundreds of well dressed young women. It’s been years since I saw that many people lined up for a flick.
Then when I stopped into one of the “beauty boutique” drugstores in the neighbourhood to grab some essentials quickly and dash out again, one of the girls that I know there told me that KIM CATTRALL was in the store around Christmastime. (She grew up here so she knows the area very well.) She told me that she was wearing a bright orange jacket, practically no makeup and that she looked drop dead gorgeous.
So that’s all the news that’s fit to print from Friday. Lots of people going to lots of movies.
Glad to see it’s not going out of style…
Yeah there were very few guys at the “Sex and the City” screening I went to last night. Everyone was having a great time. Two women down front got up and started dancing to the opening credits music. Normally stuff like that would bother me, but it didn’t this time for some reason. I loved the party atmosphere of both the film and the audience. I had a blast.