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I actually walked all the way home from work yesterday. I don't really do this often enough anymore, between the times I go straight to a movie first, or Shobhit picks me up to then go to Costco or somewhere, or I make the choice to walk only about half the distance and take the Monorail and Light Rail between Seattle Center and Capitol Hill Station.
So, I got home just before 5:30. We baked frozen kachoris from Costco for dinner. Shobhit finished watching
All In with Chris Hayes, and then I tried to start the new Jean-Pierre Jeunet movie on Netflix, which Barbara recently told me about on Facebook, and I thus wanted to watch and review, called
Big Bug. I already knew it had
very mixed reviews, but I love that director so much that I wanted to watch it anyway.
The movie defaulted on Netflix to be overdubbed with English. I cannot stand that shit, where the words don't sync with the lips, at all ever. Shobhit wanted me to keep it that way because, he said, French goes too fast for him to be able to keep up with reading. He said this after I changed the setting to be back to French with English subtitles. His lack of patience with it was really just because he was still doing shit on his computer and that meant he would miss a bunch of the dialogue. So I was like, fine, I'll just watch the movie in the bedroom, because I could not abide by the overdub.
The movie is a bit of an anomaly, and that it's objectively not a great movie, and yet I had a good time watching it anyway. I watched it in the bedroom, thinking more than once about a lot of the subtle nuances of the humor that I would bet Shobhit would have missed anyway. Still, the movie also has a lot of fairly overt yet very funny visual gags in it.
I finished it and then wrote my review, in which
I gave it a B-minus. Gabriel often complains about the content of my reviews seeming like I should have given it a worse grade; I think this one, for once, might be the other way around. I stand by the grade, though.
It was after 9:00 by the time I finished writing. I took my dinner plate and mug I'd use for hot buttered rum back to the kitchen for washing, passing Ivan on his way out the door to work along the way, the one moment I actually saw him yesterday.
And then? Shobhit was nearing the end of
Big Bug. He had decided to watch it on his own after all. And guess what? He had it on French with English subtitles! I commented on that and he was just like, "Yeah. You were right." It happens!
Shobhit can usually guess what grade I'm going to give a movie, or at least get very close to it. He asked me what grade I gave this, so immediately I said, "What do you think?" He said, "B or B-minus." Yep. On the second guess. I probably won't ever watch this movie again, but it was fun for one watch, albeit a little too long even at 111 minutes. The humor would have had greater punch and impact if it were taken down to something closer to ninety minutes.
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February is shaping up to be pretty packed with movie watching, both in theaters and at home. Last night marked the sixth movie I had reviewed so far in February, and at that rate I should have a good twelve done by the end of the month, if not more, and this is a short month. I plan to watch and review another movie on VOD from home tonight. I have no plans tomorrow except for another Covid test on my way home from work. But, I'll be joining Alexia again Friday night at her place to watch the next
Mission: Impossible movie, this one
Ghost Protocol, the first one I ever saw in theaters. That movie itself came out ten years ago now! That's nuts. I did mention to Alexia though that the whole film franchise is now over 25 years old, though; the first one came out in 1996, when Tom Cruise was all of 34. By
Ghost Protocol, the fourth film, he was 49. The seventh film is set for release in 2023 but is already in post-production, which means that onscreen in that one, having been filmed in late 2020 and early 2021, he'll be 58 (though he'll be 61 by the time it's released).
Anyway, I'm digressing! Alexia and I also have plans on Friday, our first time going
out to a movie, as she really wants to see Kenneth Branagh's remake of
A Death on the Nile. It actually was released last weekend but she had a sore throat—tested negative on a home Covid test—and wanted it to have passed before we made any plans (same goes for
Ghost Protocol, actually; I first brought it up thinking maybe we could watch last weekend and she suggested this Friday instead). And then, just this morning, Tracy and I made plans to see a movie at SIFF Film Forum this coming Sunday.
I don't yet have more movies scheduled through the rest of next week, but I likely will soon enough.
In other news, I took just a few minutes this morning to create a playlist of songs about aliens. I have a problem with these playlists. I can't stop.
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