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Last night was Action Movie Night at the Braeburn Condos theater, and we had a good crowd this time, eleven people: Tony, Jake, Ryan, Ben, Chris G, Derek, Sean, Daniel, Britne, Shobhit and myself.
It was Sean's choice this week, his sixth. His history spans choices that range from okay to great; this week's leans a bit closer to okay:
Strays, which I saw in the theater with Laney
last summer. I gave it a solid B, which I stand by, although I can now say with experience that it has slightly diminishing returns upon rewatch. And I certainly did not expect I'd ever watch that one again.
It was kind of hard to gauge the overall group response to it. Several people laughed a lot. I laughed pretty hard a few times. Shobhit didn't laugh much, I think he may have actually been a little bored by it. I had made myself a pretty stiff drink so I did nod off a few times.
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Honestly, I'm starting to feel a little ambivalent about Action Movie Night, which we've now been attending regularly for a year and a half. How good I find the movies
really varies, but that's to be expected. Plus, with each new person starting to join regularly, it clearly changes the dynamic. And it's not lost on me that the addition of Shobhit and myself did the very same thing when we started coming in 2022.
I don't know. I'm still into it, for now. It's just that most of them are so different from us, I'm not sure how fulfilling I am finding this to be, really. There's a sense of community to it, which I appreciate. But, it kind of feels like we're part of a newer batch who are encroaching on a previously established "community" that definitely had a different vibe—and this was by invitation, to be clear, and they're all very friendly. I also know, however, that they had to open it up to the whole condo complex community in order to get away with reserving the theater every other Wednesday.
This is just how I'm feeling right now, though. It could change, especially if we get another movie soon that I really love. That does also happen.
The food Shobhit and I made and brought were baked french fries and really delicious cucumber & bell pepper, cream cheese sandwiches. We both ate more of each than anyone else did, though plenty of others had some. There wasn't a huge amount of vegetarian options among the other offerings; I had some quesadilla slices but Shobhit would never eat those because they were laid on top of other things that contained meat (that they never actually touched meat makes no difference to him). The pendulum really swung this week away from pizza, as we had a total of five pizzas last time, and this time no one brought pizza. At least Shobhit and I had plenty of our own food to eat—the very reason we always bring food and not just something to drink.
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