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Day 886: Unexpected
Mar. 13th, 2010 04:00 pmSo...Angela and I went to the movies today. More things happened today, and I will comment on them later, but...yeah. I'll admit, I was an RPattz fangirl long before the whole Twilight thing happened, and then the Twilight thing happened, and it just made me cringe, but then I saw that he was in "Remember Me", and from the poster it looked like a light-hearted, B-grade rom-com, so I thought, Let's give the boy and his American accent another chance. (I've decided that, on the scale of non-American actors who can fake American accents, he falls squarely halfway between Orlando Bloom's performance in "Elizabethtown" and Hugh Laurie's awesomeness on "House".)
I was pleasantly surprised to learn that there is a super-swanky cinema within walking distance of my flat. It's more expensive than the one I usually go to, but it boasts assigned seating, which I miss from my days in HK and Singapore and which I was delighted to find again. Also, one can order full on meals while watching the film. Seriously. It's fancy.
( here there be spoilers )
It was like that time I went to see that Eugene O'Neill play Ian Durant was in.
Maybe I shouldn't have stayed up till two a.m. listening to Death Cab for Cutie (I blame you, Colin Morgan).
Still, the film was pretty cool visually, especially the way the beginning and the end tied in, even if POV treatment on the plot felt uneven to me. Also, the way RPattz played Tyler, when he wasn't coding Edward Cullen, totally coded my ex-boyfriend Nick - the way he held his cigarettes, the way he just didn't really care about school but was unexpectedly brilliant, the way he loved his little sister but really couldn't stand either of his fathers...
Yeah.
Too many things remind me of that boy.
For anyone whose daughter is a Twilight fan and thinks that Remember Me might be a safe non-Twilight RPattz movie to which to take your daughter (as the Salvador Dali movie was not safe for younger teens), I cannot say that Remember Me is much safer (there is sex, which, while not graphic, made me uncomfortable, but that might have been because it seemed more in response to emotional unhappiness than romance), and also it will require a box of tissues.
Just sayin'.
I was pleasantly surprised to learn that there is a super-swanky cinema within walking distance of my flat. It's more expensive than the one I usually go to, but it boasts assigned seating, which I miss from my days in HK and Singapore and which I was delighted to find again. Also, one can order full on meals while watching the film. Seriously. It's fancy.
( here there be spoilers )
It was like that time I went to see that Eugene O'Neill play Ian Durant was in.
Maybe I shouldn't have stayed up till two a.m. listening to Death Cab for Cutie (I blame you, Colin Morgan).
Still, the film was pretty cool visually, especially the way the beginning and the end tied in, even if POV treatment on the plot felt uneven to me. Also, the way RPattz played Tyler, when he wasn't coding Edward Cullen, totally coded my ex-boyfriend Nick - the way he held his cigarettes, the way he just didn't really care about school but was unexpectedly brilliant, the way he loved his little sister but really couldn't stand either of his fathers...
Yeah.
Too many things remind me of that boy.
For anyone whose daughter is a Twilight fan and thinks that Remember Me might be a safe non-Twilight RPattz movie to which to take your daughter (as the Salvador Dali movie was not safe for younger teens), I cannot say that Remember Me is much safer (there is sex, which, while not graphic, made me uncomfortable, but that might have been because it seemed more in response to emotional unhappiness than romance), and also it will require a box of tissues.
Just sayin'.
