trip to the $ movie
Jun. 16th, 2003 01:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lanalucyLast night I took a little trip to a local dollar movie, to see A Man Apart and maybe The Core.
A Man Apart, while much less action oriented than, say, XXX, still had plenty of action. Vin Diesel got to act in this one, though, and I liked it. ymmv. He cleans up nice. He looks real good in a dark suit. He looks just fine with a little hair growing on top of his bald head. mmm mmm mmm. The movie itself was enjoyable, full of hood-speak and fast friendships. I liked the end of the main plot muchly. "Finish the job." Simple and direct.
Boo, boo, boo to the family that brought four or five children, ranging from about 4 to about 11, to see a movie rated R, containing lots of tits and ass and sexual situations and bad language. Double Boo to the couple who sat down next to me as the movie was starting. He got a phone call almost immediately. For his sake, I'm thankful that he went outside to have the conversation. The woman sat next to me and tried to find a good way to put a teensy cup into the cupholder which has no bottom. When she went to get it out, she spilled it all over me. I told her so and she did not bother to either acknowledge or apologize for my discomfort, nor did she offer me a napkin. She left the theater later for about 30 minutes and when she came back, the two of them proceeded to talk for the whole rest of the movie, until they left just before the end. Grrrrrrrr. I was going to firmly and politely explain that common courtesy still went a long way, but since they left early, I couldn't. Probably a good thing.
After seeing A Man Apart, I bought a ticket to The Core, went inside and played Ms. Pac-Man like any normal 80's girl, and then waited in a line to get in. The guy taking the tickets was so beyond unfriendly that I just don't have words. He mis-directed customers to their theaters, he was rude to the people waiting in line, and he made me never want to see a movie again. I told the manager this. He didn't seem to care. He looked at me like I was unbalanced.
Anyway, The Core. The birdie sequence was a bit creepy and went on too long. The ship was phallic, in a big way. There was, unfortunately, no sex between the two leads on the way back, because that would have made the trip from the center of the earth much more pleasurable. I liked the movie, despite how it may sound in this description, and may even go see it again. I missed the part in the trailers where the hacker says "an endless supply of Hot Pockets and Star Trek tapes" because they changed it to "Xena tapes and Hot Pockets." Didn't have as much impact, I'm afraid. I like this kid, DJ Qualls, whom you may also remember from The New Guy and Road Trip and some other less memorable movies. He's an odd-looking bloke, and has a charm about him that is hard to resist.
While I was in the second movie, I missed a call from my brother, a Marine in Okinawa, about which I was a bit disappointed. Email sometimes doesn't quite seem real, and it's good to hear his voice sometimes, just to know he's really OK.
A Man Apart, while much less action oriented than, say, XXX, still had plenty of action. Vin Diesel got to act in this one, though, and I liked it. ymmv. He cleans up nice. He looks real good in a dark suit. He looks just fine with a little hair growing on top of his bald head. mmm mmm mmm. The movie itself was enjoyable, full of hood-speak and fast friendships. I liked the end of the main plot muchly. "Finish the job." Simple and direct.
Boo, boo, boo to the family that brought four or five children, ranging from about 4 to about 11, to see a movie rated R, containing lots of tits and ass and sexual situations and bad language. Double Boo to the couple who sat down next to me as the movie was starting. He got a phone call almost immediately. For his sake, I'm thankful that he went outside to have the conversation. The woman sat next to me and tried to find a good way to put a teensy cup into the cupholder which has no bottom. When she went to get it out, she spilled it all over me. I told her so and she did not bother to either acknowledge or apologize for my discomfort, nor did she offer me a napkin. She left the theater later for about 30 minutes and when she came back, the two of them proceeded to talk for the whole rest of the movie, until they left just before the end. Grrrrrrrr. I was going to firmly and politely explain that common courtesy still went a long way, but since they left early, I couldn't. Probably a good thing.
After seeing A Man Apart, I bought a ticket to The Core, went inside and played Ms. Pac-Man like any normal 80's girl, and then waited in a line to get in. The guy taking the tickets was so beyond unfriendly that I just don't have words. He mis-directed customers to their theaters, he was rude to the people waiting in line, and he made me never want to see a movie again. I told the manager this. He didn't seem to care. He looked at me like I was unbalanced.
Anyway, The Core. The birdie sequence was a bit creepy and went on too long. The ship was phallic, in a big way. There was, unfortunately, no sex between the two leads on the way back, because that would have made the trip from the center of the earth much more pleasurable. I liked the movie, despite how it may sound in this description, and may even go see it again. I missed the part in the trailers where the hacker says "an endless supply of Hot Pockets and Star Trek tapes" because they changed it to "Xena tapes and Hot Pockets." Didn't have as much impact, I'm afraid. I like this kid, DJ Qualls, whom you may also remember from The New Guy and Road Trip and some other less memorable movies. He's an odd-looking bloke, and has a charm about him that is hard to resist.
While I was in the second movie, I missed a call from my brother, a Marine in Okinawa, about which I was a bit disappointed. Email sometimes doesn't quite seem real, and it's good to hear his voice sometimes, just to know he's really OK.
