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For Tery's birthday in lieu of an actual present, I brought her out for a dinner and a movie extravaganza. She was dying to see Napoleon Dynamite, and thanks to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bohemian_charm's recommendation I was too.
The beauty of this movie is there is no need to cut for spoilers, since nothing much happened. But I'm not saying it is a boring movie. It is very much like Rushmore, except more so. It definitely wins the award for most original credits (as well as credits with some of the ugliest carpeting imaginable; not to mention credits with some of the most unappetizing-looking food imaginable. In fact, very few movies come to mind that use food as prominently while making it look as vile as this movie does). Napoleon Dynamite is as memorable a character as Max Fischer (if not nearly as ambitious). I was surprised this was playing at the mainstream theater because it has "cult classic in the making" written all over it. Maybe I was just in the right mood, but out of an 86-minute running time, I think I only spent actually 15 minutes all told NOT laughing. Oh yeah. This one's a keeper.
For the dinner part of our extravaganza I brought her to Red Lobster, despite her eating nothing but seafood when she went home to Connecticut recently. The girl loves her seafood. I hate seafood, which is why I like Red Lobster so much...despite a seemingly overwhelming number of menu selections, I really can only choose from the chicken dishes, numbering exactly four. Really takes a lot of the pressure off. Our waiter looked so much like Tobey Maguire that I wished I hadphreakychic's camera with me. I gave him a good tip (he was an excellent waiter on top of battling evil in his free time, it wasn't just a sucking-up kind of thing). Best of all, since we went to an early show and got to the restaurant a little early, we finished our meal and got to walk out past 10 or 15 people sitting around waiting for a table. Things NEVER work out for me that way, so I was understandably pleased.
Take note: this is the first entry in I don't know how long without a trace of bitterness or anger in it. Wow.
-=Lainey=-
bohemian_charm's recommendation I was too. The beauty of this movie is there is no need to cut for spoilers, since nothing much happened. But I'm not saying it is a boring movie. It is very much like Rushmore, except more so. It definitely wins the award for most original credits (as well as credits with some of the ugliest carpeting imaginable; not to mention credits with some of the most unappetizing-looking food imaginable. In fact, very few movies come to mind that use food as prominently while making it look as vile as this movie does). Napoleon Dynamite is as memorable a character as Max Fischer (if not nearly as ambitious). I was surprised this was playing at the mainstream theater because it has "cult classic in the making" written all over it. Maybe I was just in the right mood, but out of an 86-minute running time, I think I only spent actually 15 minutes all told NOT laughing. Oh yeah. This one's a keeper.
For the dinner part of our extravaganza I brought her to Red Lobster, despite her eating nothing but seafood when she went home to Connecticut recently. The girl loves her seafood. I hate seafood, which is why I like Red Lobster so much...despite a seemingly overwhelming number of menu selections, I really can only choose from the chicken dishes, numbering exactly four. Really takes a lot of the pressure off. Our waiter looked so much like Tobey Maguire that I wished I had
phreakychic's camera with me. I gave him a good tip (he was an excellent waiter on top of battling evil in his free time, it wasn't just a sucking-up kind of thing). Best of all, since we went to an early show and got to the restaurant a little early, we finished our meal and got to walk out past 10 or 15 people sitting around waiting for a table. Things NEVER work out for me that way, so I was understandably pleased.Take note: this is the first entry in I don't know how long without a trace of bitterness or anger in it. Wow.
-=Lainey=-
