body memories
It had been four days since my last one so last night I finally got around to watching another movie for review, which I barely managed to get watched between my work day ending at 4:30 and Shobhit getting home from his shift at just before 6:30; I then wrote up the review as quickly as I could. It was for a movie called Body Brokers, which I wouldn't even know about but for a recent interview on the WTF with Marc Maron podcast with costar Michael Kenneth Williams as the guest. I didn't even realize until after watching the movie that the lead, played by Jack Kilmer, who turns out to be Val Kilmer's son. And you can really see it in his face.
Anyway, the movie wasn't quite as good as I wanted it to be. B-minus. And I paid for it! Oh, well. I might very well have gone to see it in a theater if they were open and safe, and that would have been more expensive. I do kind of wonder now: when vaccinations have finally covered a majority of us and I start going to movies in theaters again, will I still just watch some of them at home before reviewing them? A movie like this, I am realizing now, I might. I do love the immersive experience of a theater but if I already know going in that it has mixed reviews, I may no longer find it worth it. I can't imagine limiting my theater-going to only huge blockbusters and action movies, though. If it has great effects or especially great cinematography, that will still make it essential theater viewing. A movie like The Revenant, for instance, is far from perfect but the cinematography alone demands theater viewing. Until I can come up with a home approximation of a theater, anyway, and currently I am far from that: Shobhit and I are still watching a TV screen with a black dot in it that we got on store-closure liquidation at the Puyallup Sears in January 2021. We got that thing for fifty bucks though, so I think we long ago got our money's worth out of it. I really want to start thinking about investing in a far larger screen soon.
Anyway, Shobhit then had the evening at home, but he had a couple of hours in a virtual study group with classmates from his Project Management Class. So during that, I edited and uploaded some more old home video clips, having to backtrack slightly in 2003 as I nearly forgot to do Uncle Paul and Sarah's wedding in Shelton, which occurred in March 2003. And they did some tacky stuff in that ceremony, from Sarah's dad walking her down the aisle with a literal shotgun in his hand (move to about 4:15 in that clip, which begins with a prayer as they stand their like that, followed by a gag about "no returns"), to them literally fetish-handcuffing themselves to each other (move to about 7:55 if that clip) at the end of the ceremony.
The oddest thing for me about those clips, once again as I have mentioned this before, has nothing to do with Uncle Paul or Sarah, but with Dad and Sherri, who were in the middle of a roughly one-year separation at the time. I don't think my video clips of the wedding and reception ever show them together (certainly none of my photos do), and Sherri was far too thin—the thinnest she ever was within the span of my lifetime, and not in any healthy way either. Dropping a ton of weight due to stress is not healthy under any circumstances. I do still love this photo of her and me together there at the reception though—Sherri looks great in it—and I sure wish I had a higher-resolution copy of it. I think the original, printed photo may have wound up in a framed photo collage that isn't even hanging on any wall anymore. Bummer.
It hit me last night that Sherri will be 69 next month: one more year and she'll be 70. My parents are pushing up against their seventies! (The same would be the case for Mom, if she were still alive; she and Sherri were born the same year—as were Danielle's mom, Gabriel's mom, and even Barbara. My life is packed with people born in 1952.) I realized this when I calculated that, in March 2003, Sherri was a month from turning 51. She's fifty years old in those photos and videos. Barely more than five years from now, I'll be that old. Goddammit!
[posted 12:31 pm]