All that comes with it

Amy and Evan spent the night at Grandma and Grandad’s last night, so Kerry and I took the opportunity to go out for a meal (Maxi’s) and catch a late showing at the cinema (Blades of Glory).

The meal was pretty good, but then again it was an all you can eat buffet. You could serve me nothing but cucumber at an all you can eat buffet and I’d be happy. The film was fairly bland, but it filled an entertainment gap and it felt like we were somehow recapturing our youth to be out so late. Yes. We are pathetic.

During the trailers we saw an advert for Die Hard 4.0 which I didn’t even know had been made. This was very exciting for me. One of my treasured childhood memories is watching the TV edited version of Die Hard I had recorded on my brand new second hand betamax video recorder. Even the rather shoddy dubbing to cover the expletives didn’t spoil it for me (”Yippee-ki-yay, motherfunster”).

One of the disadvantages of going to the pictures late in the evening is that you run the risk of falling asleep in the middle of the film. I attempted to combat this by going against every principle in my body and endured the horrendously inflated cinema prices to buy coke from the popcorn stand. Unfortunately all they had left was coffee flavored Pepsi Max; which sounded like a crime against nature to me, but was actually quite nice.

When Kerry and I were in New York in 2002 we went to see Blade II in a cinema just off Time Square. Throughout the entire film the audience was whooping, whistling and cheering whenever there was a fight scene or bit of action (which in Blade II was virtually all the time) For people used to the reserved reactions of an English cinema audience this was quite a shock, the first time it happened we assumed Wesley Snipes had just walked into the theatre or something. I must admit though it did create an atmosphere that increased our enjoyment of the film significantly. I doubt it would add much to The Bridges of Madison County however.