To the cinema...

Monday April 20, 2009

It was another nice day out. Went for a nice walk and worked on my cross stitch. Did head to the local cinema (that has one screen and sets maybe 200-250 people) to see “Confessions of a Shopaholic.” It was a movie I meant to see when it was in theatres in the US and never got around to, but since I have time to kill, I decided to take in a film. One of the coming attractions was for “Night at the Museum 2,”
which takes place in DC at the Smithsonian. It showed nice vistas of DC and the Mall and it made me a bit nostalgic. To see DC up on the screen and know how far away from it I am is a weird feeling. I’m used to be able to jump in the car and be there in an hour and now I am literally a world away. It’s still hard to believe sometimes that I am so far away from home. I miss being able to jump into the car and head to the mall or to the store, or wherever I want to go.

Random beef: So as I just mentioned, I saw “Confessions of a Shopaholic,” and it made me think of a beef I have with some movies. I understand they’re trying to fit a full storyline into a 2 hour or less movie, but sometimes time lines just don’t fit. So in this movie, Isla Fishers character gets a job at a financial magazine and it shows her turn in one article that gets a huge response. At the same time, her best friend gets engaged. Never again does it show the main character writing or talking about another article, she goes to Miami for a conference, parties in NY, goes on tv, but only does it ever talk about her writing or even referring to the one, initial article. Then at the end of the movie the best friend is getting married. Now either the best friend got a big fancy wedding planned in like a month, or the main character worked at the magazine and developed a relationship with the editor over the course of like a year, where no secondary or other subsequent articles are ever mentioned or referred to. It just that the time frames of the 2 story lines, don’t seem to make sense. It’s like they’re on their own separate time frames. Now I’ve noticed this happens often in movie and tv shows, where time frames just don’t match or make sense. Oh and you know what else bothers me? Romances, people meet and fall in love and are pledging their undying devotion for each other after like a month or less, even the span of a couple weeks. That is ridiculous and unbelievable. Anyway, those are my entertainment pet peeves for the day.

Also got to talk to my mom on the phone late tonight and expressed some of my concerns and fears about me being here, my plans and my future monetary situation and I am feeling better. Sometimes it just helps to vocalize how you are feeling to make you seem more relaxed and at ease.