Monday 16 June, 2003 at 12:34AM (Nereus)  ::  permalink  ::  comments (2)

Sunday was a really nice day - sunny and hot with a very light breeze, just enough to keep you from undergoing instantaneous human combustion. We're talking about mid 80's°F most of the day (just under 30°C) which is getting near the upper limits of my tolerance levels. Actually I'm exaggerating, it really was nice and not too much for me at all - the light breeze made the difference for sure. I'll lose the plot when the real heatwaves hit - usually into the triple digits (pushing over 40°C) and 100% humidity, so humid that your sweat can't evaporate to cool your body down and the only thing to do is run to the nearest shower / swimming pool and remain there until winter.

So, as I was saying, Sunday was a nice day. Actually, I'll tell you about Saturday night and Bruce Almighty first. Actually, I'll go have a smoke first. Back soonish.

..laterish rather than soonerish..

Right. Saturday evening we decided to take in a movie. The intention was to see the animated movie 'Finding Nemo'. After a bit of fluffing about we hopped on the bus to Kings Plaza (a great big shopping mall and theatre complex in Brooklyn). The movie was due to start at 8pm, and we were running on time with maybe 10 or 15 minutes to spare when we arrived at the plaza. Unfortunately we spent a good 10 minutes sitting on the bus while it attempted to get across the busy 6 lane road (3 lanes each side) to let us off at the plaza. Yes there are traffic lights, which were seemingly ignored by the cross-traffic, or else the path across was blocked by idiots who would rather sit halfway across the intersection at a red light than wait where they were supposed to. One in particular was driving a late-model silver BMW - seemingly oblivious to the red light it chose to drive right in the path of the bus as it found a gap in the cross traffic. Farking nimrod.

So we got into the plaza eventually and people (many parents with children) were being turned away as 'Finding Nero' had sold out. Hrm. Ok, the next movie that was showing in any of their eight theatres was 'Bruce Almighty' at 9.30pm. We decided to buy the tickets and do a bit of shopping in the meantime. IceQueen went into Macys and found a nice shirt for her Dad (Fathers Day on Sunday) while I cruised around and bought EA's F1 2002 formula one racing game for dirt cheap. They have a computer games shop there that sells second hand games for PC, Xbox, Nintendo, Playstation etc, although the games are still sealed in their original wrapping and for all intensive purposes appear brand spanking new, the only difference being the price. Just over $10 for the game which would usually retail for about $70. Kewl.

So 9.30pm rolled around pretty quick and in we went armed with popcorn and drink. Not the best movie we've ever seen. Jim Carrey is, well, Jim Carrey. In other words he was the same as he always is. Pretty funny but it's starting to wear a little thin imho. Jennifer Aniston played the part of his girlfriend. Not bad but the character wasn't overly developed, presumably to make Jim shine that much brighter. Morgan Freeman played the part of God and played it well. I really enjoy his acting - he was awesome in Shawshank Redemption - he carries a certain amount of credibility that is hard to beat regardless of what role he is playing.

The fact that a three year old sitting right in front of us started bawling for a good five minutes before her mother finally took her outside did not help. This was followed by a new-born baby letting loose minutes later two rows further in front, and then a guy directly behind us taking calls on his cellphone not long after that. I'm guessing the majority of the kids in the theatre were ones that didn't manage to get a ticket for 'Finding Nero' before it sold out. There were some genuinely funny moments during the movie, but there were also others that were just plain overdone and infantile rather than funny. I'd tell you more but it would give away the plot, which was pretty thin. It was good to be out doing something anyway. As mentioned in an earlier post, memorable quote from the movie : "Behind every successful man is a woman rolling her eyes."