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Not a huge amount to update you on today . . . last night I took myself to see
John Wick: Chapter 4, and because I totally forgot that although I did like each previous installment
slightly better than the last, I still gave them all a solid B, I went into this movie more excited about it than it deserved.
It's fine. Another solid B. Other action movies over the past year, particularly
Top Gun Maverick and
Avatar: The Way of Water, had far more exciting, far better choreographed, and crucially far more visually convincing action sequences. I fully expect the same of
Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One later this year.
John Wick: Chapter 4 sure as shit didn't need to be three hours long.
I rode my bike from the theater back home. I've been strapping my shoulder bag to the bike rack with the bungee cord, so I don't fuck up my back with the weight of it, but it's also kind of fucking up the bag. I really need to find a basket or something for my bike, or alternatively, get a new backpack that can be used to distribute the weight on my back evenly.
I wasn't able to spend much time with Shobhit at home. It was 8:30 before I got home, another hour or so before I got the review written and posted, and then I had some photos I needed to process and upload to Flickr. Then it was time for bed.
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I'm planning to see another movie tonight, after which I will have gone to see all of four movies in the theater in March. Usually I average at least ten.
This after I saw only five movies in the theater in February.
In both cases, the trip to Australia was a big factor: we flew out on Sunday February 19, removing 10 days of movie-going possibility in that month; and we returned on Tuesday March 7, removing seven days of movie-going possibility
this month. Combined with that is the fact that, still being in the wake of the covid pandemic and how it probably permanently shifted audience viewing habits and therefore movie release strategies, there just wasn't a lot in theaters that I couldn't live without going to see.
I have a feeling that, by the end of this year, 2023 will have one of the smallest lists of movies I went to see in theaters on record. Sure, we still have 75% of the year left to go. But I don't anticipate seeing too many more movies every month henceforth to make up for the February and March shortfalls. I was around all of January and even that month I only went to see eight movies. Tonight's movie will be my 17th this year. At this point even last year I had gone to see 31.
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[posted 12:30 pm]
