Hmm, before I could blink, it is almost 8.30pm on Sunday night. Now, if I had done stuff yesterday - though I hardly ever do stuff on Saturdays - it may have felt like I had 48 hours away from work. But it doesn't.
Am broke, so that hardly helps matters - not pay day until Tuesday, and it was this weekend when my parents decided to take me up on the restaurant trip out that I had made a voucher up for as a Christmas thing. So until we went out, ate food, drank and got the bill, I was counting all the pennies I could. They decided to go out for lunch instead of a dinner, my sister got in on the action as well, even though she was more broke than me, and ended up having a free meal, and I came in about ten bucks under budget - two beers each and all.
Celebrated this saving, and subsequent discovery that I could fund myself for the next two days, by going to the movies. Went to see Munich, which fitted in best time wise with leaving the steak house. And surprisingly, for once, all the trailers beforehand looked like they would be movies I would want to go check out. Jarhead, Syriana, A History of Violence and Derailed - though only the first two are definites. Hmm, advertising a movie about the 1991 Gulf War with music from 2005, Kanye West's Jesus Walks, hmm.
Munich itself was well worth going to see. After reading all the middling somewhat negative reviews of it, it was much better than I expected. As long as you go into the theatre remembering it is a movie rather than what actually happened, you won't get all stressed out by the historical inaccuracies. And as for the thought that they humanise the Palestinians, well, yes they do, but you never get the feeling that they couldn't be terrorists as their day job. The most important point is the violence begetting violence one, which can never be emphasised enough in my thinking.
Probably will go see Walk The Line next week, and then, for the first time in a long time, if ever, I will have seen all five movies up for Best Pic at the Oscars. I think Good Night and Good Luck should get it, but that is just the pinko liberal in me I guess. As opposed to the other sort of pinko audience that Brokeback Mountain should walk away with Oscar in a month's time with...
Later peeps
Pauly
Am broke, so that hardly helps matters - not pay day until Tuesday, and it was this weekend when my parents decided to take me up on the restaurant trip out that I had made a voucher up for as a Christmas thing. So until we went out, ate food, drank and got the bill, I was counting all the pennies I could. They decided to go out for lunch instead of a dinner, my sister got in on the action as well, even though she was more broke than me, and ended up having a free meal, and I came in about ten bucks under budget - two beers each and all.
Celebrated this saving, and subsequent discovery that I could fund myself for the next two days, by going to the movies. Went to see Munich, which fitted in best time wise with leaving the steak house. And surprisingly, for once, all the trailers beforehand looked like they would be movies I would want to go check out. Jarhead, Syriana, A History of Violence and Derailed - though only the first two are definites. Hmm, advertising a movie about the 1991 Gulf War with music from 2005, Kanye West's Jesus Walks, hmm.
Munich itself was well worth going to see. After reading all the middling somewhat negative reviews of it, it was much better than I expected. As long as you go into the theatre remembering it is a movie rather than what actually happened, you won't get all stressed out by the historical inaccuracies. And as for the thought that they humanise the Palestinians, well, yes they do, but you never get the feeling that they couldn't be terrorists as their day job. The most important point is the violence begetting violence one, which can never be emphasised enough in my thinking.
Probably will go see Walk The Line next week, and then, for the first time in a long time, if ever, I will have seen all five movies up for Best Pic at the Oscars. I think Good Night and Good Luck should get it, but that is just the pinko liberal in me I guess. As opposed to the other sort of pinko audience that Brokeback Mountain should walk away with Oscar in a month's time with...
Later peeps
Pauly
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