two movies in a weekend
saturday, i was feeling all cooped up, i felt a great need to get out of the house. i thought i could watch the 20 at 20 off-broadway offer. $20 if you buy your ticket at the box office twenty minutes before the show. i had narrowed my choices to gazillion bubbles, altar boyz and forbidden broadway. i don't have anyone who could come with me and i was prepared to go alone, but when i awoke it was already late to get ready for the 2pm show and the weather was wet and gloomy that i knew i was just kidding myself that i could really go see a show even, even one showing at 8pm.
kara was coming with the kids and kristin asked if she could leave her three boys so she could go out with her husband, too. but today, i wasn't into babysitting. i wasn't in a good mood, i was worried the past night and angry, too, that Kim took the train coming home after a friday night out. i wasn't talking to her. however, i knew there was more to it. i was feeling angry about something else, things beyond my control.
it turned out however that i went to chaperon kristin and hubby. we just watched the movie 'jumper' with hayden christensen and samuel jackson as the bad guy. it was entertaining. hayden wasn't that good as an actor but the premise of the movie was fascinating and i was glued needless to say. how can i not when the movie was about a young teleporter who could travel through space to whatever location he pleased. boom ... he was in paris, boom ... he was on the head of the sphinx in egypt, boom ... he was in the lighted shibuya shopping district of tokyo. we were there, right in that intersection, kristin would tell her husband. we were there a year ago eyeing young very fashion-conscious japanese.
anyway, aside from the traveling visa-free and hassle-free, i also wished i could teleport myself like the young hero in the movie. boom, he was inside the bank vault surrounded by tons of money. another minute he was in his bed with a bedsheet full of them. even a small paper bag would do for me. i needn't worry about retirement finances, then, if i could be like him.
ben slept the whole time we were gone and there was no dinner so we dropped by boston market and kristin bought chicken and a lot of mac and cheese for the children. then, everyone had gone home by ten-thirty.
yesterday, sunday, my christopher, who spent the night at home invited his dad and me to watch another movie with him, 10,000 b.c. it was actually one of our choices last night. he even enticed little jaden to come with us. five year old jaden, the champion speller whose first spelled word at three was 'elephant' was easy to convince to come with us. there are mammoths, his uncle told him. so with his daddy lolo driving, we went for the 4 o'clock show but even if we got there on time there were no more seats and we had to wait for the 5:10 show. daddy ben couldn't wait with us, so he had to exchange his tix for another movie, bank job with jason statham, as he had work and would be late if he did.
jaden fell asleep at the very moment the feature presentation was about to begin, which was well and good because the movie wasn't really for children. even the mammoth scenes weren't spinnable so as to be enjoyed by him. the movie was a very slow version of apocalypto, and i couldn't help to think how good mel gibson was as a director, as i watched the actors who were second rate and unknown. i recognized only one, one major character who starred as pablo escobar in the movie about the drug kingpin from colombia, and i wasn't impressed by him in that movie either. the heroine didn't know how to act but she reminded me of lindsay lohan. there was only one exciting scene, the one with the giant fowls in the forest preying on them. other than that, and one young character ba-ku, the movie was forgettable. jaden awoke at the end and fortunately saw one scene with mammoths, though they were stampeding and trampling everything on their way.
we had to take taxi service home. while waiting for the cab, his uncle asked his still quiet nephew. jaden, did you like the movie? he nodded. will you watch it again? no, he said very softly. there was not even hesitation. i was amused knowing he was able to watch probably only two minutes of the movie.
his dad came down for him when we dropped him off. we then asked the cabbie to drive us home. i was in a better mood, especially since we found the apartment cleaner than when we left.
kim had vacuumed !
kara was coming with the kids and kristin asked if she could leave her three boys so she could go out with her husband, too. but today, i wasn't into babysitting. i wasn't in a good mood, i was worried the past night and angry, too, that Kim took the train coming home after a friday night out. i wasn't talking to her. however, i knew there was more to it. i was feeling angry about something else, things beyond my control.
it turned out however that i went to chaperon kristin and hubby. we just watched the movie 'jumper' with hayden christensen and samuel jackson as the bad guy. it was entertaining. hayden wasn't that good as an actor but the premise of the movie was fascinating and i was glued needless to say. how can i not when the movie was about a young teleporter who could travel through space to whatever location he pleased. boom ... he was in paris, boom ... he was on the head of the sphinx in egypt, boom ... he was in the lighted shibuya shopping district of tokyo. we were there, right in that intersection, kristin would tell her husband. we were there a year ago eyeing young very fashion-conscious japanese.
anyway, aside from the traveling visa-free and hassle-free, i also wished i could teleport myself like the young hero in the movie. boom, he was inside the bank vault surrounded by tons of money. another minute he was in his bed with a bedsheet full of them. even a small paper bag would do for me. i needn't worry about retirement finances, then, if i could be like him.
ben slept the whole time we were gone and there was no dinner so we dropped by boston market and kristin bought chicken and a lot of mac and cheese for the children. then, everyone had gone home by ten-thirty.
yesterday, sunday, my christopher, who spent the night at home invited his dad and me to watch another movie with him, 10,000 b.c. it was actually one of our choices last night. he even enticed little jaden to come with us. five year old jaden, the champion speller whose first spelled word at three was 'elephant' was easy to convince to come with us. there are mammoths, his uncle told him. so with his daddy lolo driving, we went for the 4 o'clock show but even if we got there on time there were no more seats and we had to wait for the 5:10 show. daddy ben couldn't wait with us, so he had to exchange his tix for another movie, bank job with jason statham, as he had work and would be late if he did.
jaden fell asleep at the very moment the feature presentation was about to begin, which was well and good because the movie wasn't really for children. even the mammoth scenes weren't spinnable so as to be enjoyed by him. the movie was a very slow version of apocalypto, and i couldn't help to think how good mel gibson was as a director, as i watched the actors who were second rate and unknown. i recognized only one, one major character who starred as pablo escobar in the movie about the drug kingpin from colombia, and i wasn't impressed by him in that movie either. the heroine didn't know how to act but she reminded me of lindsay lohan. there was only one exciting scene, the one with the giant fowls in the forest preying on them. other than that, and one young character ba-ku, the movie was forgettable. jaden awoke at the end and fortunately saw one scene with mammoths, though they were stampeding and trampling everything on their way.
we had to take taxi service home. while waiting for the cab, his uncle asked his still quiet nephew. jaden, did you like the movie? he nodded. will you watch it again? no, he said very softly. there was not even hesitation. i was amused knowing he was able to watch probably only two minutes of the movie.
his dad came down for him when we dropped him off. we then asked the cabbie to drive us home. i was in a better mood, especially since we found the apartment cleaner than when we left.
kim had vacuumed !
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