November 2, 2014: Movie Night

Got up this morning and played a little Saints Row 2 before going down to Subway to pick up lunch and grab something for dinner as well so that I would not have to worry about it later.  There is basically nothing left to eat in the house so I am down to eating out to get anything.

This evening I watched some movies.  I have had Australia’s Muriel’s Wedding on my “to watch” list since the late 1990s but just never got around to it.  I always meant to rent it on LD.  Dominica had watched it recently but I was not aware of that.  It is a good film, very well done and obvious why it is a classic.  Not exactly a comedy, as it was touted, but a good film.

I also watched the Irish film The Stag which was excellent.  Funny and poignant.  I really liked it and it has the bad guy from Sherlock starring in it.  I also watched the Korean classic 200 Pounds Beauty, which I think is a mistranslation.  It is the biggest box office hit ever for Korea.  That was quite good, however I think that they were trying to deliver a message and I never figured out what it is.  It kind of just ended up being a commentary on the obsession with beauty and plastic surgery in Korea.  Basically the moral of the movie was “plastic surgery is horrible, but if you are ugly that’s worse, so suck it up and get plastic surgery because beauty matters more than anything.”

I rounded out the night with the Canadian film The Movie Out Here which was pretty good and shot in British Columbia.  More or less a stock low budget comedy but well done for what it was.

I FaceTimed with the girls for a while this evening.  They were very excited to get a chance to talk to me.  Luciana still struggles with having anything to talk about when on FaceTime but she is happy to see me and says “I love you” and “I miss you daddy” over and over again.  Liesl, as always, is full of news and tells me about anything and everything.  Only a few more days until they are home.  They are leaving for San Antonio tomorrow.  Madeline’s marching band competition is no Wednesday.