Brighter Days

I do intend on continuing this and it is not forgotten. Unfortunate turns and the fact of moving have forced and somewhat unintended hiatus of writings. Add onto that the absence of actual internet service and then actually falling the things I write about on there. In other words, I didn't have internet and couldn't read about what was happening, nor could I write anything for a while. Now that it is up and running I intend to post more. I swear. But first....

Last night I went to see The Other Guys with Will Ferrel and Marky Mark Wahlburg. Their a pair of bumbling cops, you know cop comedy. Either way, I showed up a few minutes late because usually the previews I want to see I have already seen and anything else is probably already out since this movie came out a few weeks ago and I'm old hat. "Are the trailers still playing?", I asked the somewhat confused cashier and was told that yes they were still playing. Upon reaching the dedicated theater I find that NONE of the trailers have started. Apparently the film had broke or something was wrong because it took them about 20 minutes to finally get the film to play. I wasn't expecting much, but the guy near me was pissed. I could see the red on his face and I tried not to laugh. Sooo, funny. I considered going to see Machete, but I'll save that for another day.

The film itself wasn't pee your pants funny, but there was quite alot to laugh at. Will Ferrell didn't portray his man child image and it was more dumb than silly. However, alot of his films have something worth quoting or something in them were I would just bust out laughing for a while, but this film just didn't seem to have that moment. Sure, I laughed at alot of it, but not loudly enough. Maybe it was the previous mishap, which really didn't bother me. I was seeing a month old movie. While I wasn't sure if the action scenes were supposed to be slow paced or if it was just unfortunately made that way, either way the action was pretty dull. Not quite the thrill of most of the large budget CGI fests, but I've seen better with less. Maybe that was the point, I don't know.

A little past the 3/4 point of the film, the little pre-movie slide presentation begins superimposing itself over the film. Now, sure that was annoying, especially since most of the slides would cover the entire film with their solid dark blue backgrounds, I just kind of laughed and had to tell the employees their stupid slide show is blocking the film. While I know I should have been angry, it honestly wasn't a film that I HAD to see everything. There really wasn't much going on in the frames and probably could have played as a radio play for most of it and it would have had the same effect. They did manage to shut it off eventually and I was just laughing at how mad that guy must have been then. Not sure how many refunds they had to give, but I got $5 worth.