Movie day!

Right, today was movie day. On Tuesdays some theatres let you in with -50%, so I ended up checking out two movies for a total cost of $10.5.

I decided to bike down to a local theatre to see Toy Story 3, but the plan didn't exactly pan out. It was the first time I have used the bike I got from Jon (thanks Jon btw!) and it's truly an awesome bike, gears, brakes, everything top notch. However, I underestimated how much time it'd take me to get used to it, figure out how to take out the tires etc, that I missed Toy Story. 'Well, that's OK, I'll just go see Prince of Persia then, it starts 15 minutes later,' I thought.

Umm, no. When I finally found my way to the theatre, I realized there was no place to park your bike. Honestly. Just a huge parking lot and that was it. No designated area for bikes, no nothing. So not wanting to take my chances with locking the bike on a traffic sign, I decided to go back home. Around half way there, I ran into Carole who told me it was totally fine to lock it on a traffic sign, so back again I go.

By now it was already too late for PoP, so I figured I'd go see The A-Team, a remake of the 'classic' TV-show. I expected it to be trash and trash it was. However, having never seen the TV-series (or maybe because of it?) it was somehow great to finally get to know what these characters, or dare I say pop culture icons, were like. Finns, imagine never seeing McGyver on TV and then going to watch a Hollywood movie adaptation of the series with a completely new cast and you might understand how I felt. The movie was brainless mayhem but I'd still say just hearing the legendary theme song in a movie theatre was worth the price of admission.

Later on back at home Chick was lamenting the fact that he had missed Splice, a Canadian film I hadn't heard anything about, and it was now pretty much the last chance to see the film. So when he asked if I wanted to go driving down to another theatre a bit further away to see it, I said yes. It was a sci-fi film that, as the name suggests, focused on genetic engineering. The subject matter being what it was, I kinda felt they had had to cut a few corners and decided to avoid getting too 'deep' but it was no doubt about two dozen notches above The A-Team in terms of the quality of the film-making. I had already forgotten how much I like Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley.

The A-Team!