I hurriedly posted yesterday after my Deckzilla
adventures and forgot to mention I saw two movies at the theater on Tuesday.
This was a planned excursion allowing my Favorite Panamanian over five hours of
unfettered shopping time at the Blackstone Shoppes while I watched the movies.
She is one of the only people I’ve ever met who could happily spend that much
time shopping. The only tradeoff was to see movies she wouldn’t, in other
words, horror movies. I was a little nervous since, as I’ve gotten older, I
internalize the horror a little too much, scare myself more than I should. I
know, weird.
I discovered that, despite a lifelong investigation
to prove otherwise, you can eat too much popcorn. I think it was the newly
advertised jumbo size, that or the bowl of ice cream I scored between movies.
Either one did me in. Apparently, a senior citizen body will protest what used
to be a staple part of my diet if taken to extremes. I was at least smart
enough not to mention this to my shopping satiated spouse when she picked me
up. She kept asking if I felt alright and I said I was in recovery mode from
being scared for four hours. Note to self – ice cream and popcorn no longer form
a viable food pyramid. But today is the First Friday of the Week, to be enjoyed
and celebrated, doubly so, because the celebration will take place in New Hampshire
with 2/3s of my granddaughter population present. Hoo Ahhh!!
The Pope’s Exorcist had all the
trappings that made the original exorcist movie so scary, deep voices speaking
in tongues, spinning heads, and bodily effluents. However this time out it wasn’t
nearly as scary. It could be the use of CGI which somehow limits the impact or
it could be the exorcist was Maximus Decimus Meridius, General of the Northern Armies.
Somehow Russel Crowe’s physicality, which is always preternaturally present in
any role, makes it seem like the demon is bound to lose from the start. It was
still entertaining to watch him play the quirky priest fighting both the Spanish
Inquisition inspired demon and Vatican bureaucrats. Good but not great movie.
Renfield is a lot of campy fun. Nicholas
Cage as Dracula, c’mon, who wouldn’t pay to see that. Cage doesn’t disappoint
as evil incarnate in a co-dependent relationship with his long time enabler. Nicholas
Hoult is back in his Warm Bodies lovable creep mode as the title character
trying to break his centuries long devotion to Dracula. He teams up with the always
watchable Awkwafina for a show down in New Orleans. There are some very funny
moments involving vampire lore and this very dark comedy scores mainly because of
the actors who all deliver. The plot is a little uneven but, again, Cage as
Dracula, a must see.
One movie fell in my A-Z watch, a definite
keeper, Nobody’s Fool, one of my absolute favorite movies of all time. Paul
Newman dominates as a small town loser who somehow binds an entire town together.
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RECURRING CHARACTERS:
ABFA – Amazing Best Family
Athlete - my daughter
in law; BR3 – Blog Reader #3 – granddaughter
#3; BRS - Blog Reader the Sequel -
second granddaughter; Cantankerous Friend – friend since grade school who likes to argue
about everything, poses as radical leftist to attract women; CRC - Connecticut
Riverboat Captain – another close friend from high school, renowned sailor
of the big river; Curbside Girls – close
friends of my daughter acquired during him her single days in Brooklyn; Deckzilla – our backyard deck which
grew to monstrous dimensions once my wife got involved in planning; Favorite Panamanian - the wife (of
course); FBR - First Blog Reader -
first granddaughter; First Friday –
celebrations to mark the First Friday of the Week; Great Aunt - my elder sister; Keene
Friends 1 & 2 – friends since high school from my home town of Keene,
NH; Kindergarten Friend – friend
since kindergarten whom I reunited with after many years; Maine and Virginia Musqueteras – two close friends of my wife –
her US sisters, my wife is the 3rd Musquetera (musketeer); Namesake Nephew –
son of Great Aunt and Soxfather named after me; Neighborhood Mafioso - wife's close friend and Panamanian mafia
member; PanaGals – female relatives /friends
of my wife from Panama; Panamanian/Latin
Mafia – inevitable group of Latino friends my wife accumulates wherever we
have lived & their spouses; PCR - Pittsburgh College Roommate– high
school friend, also a “Minor Celebrity” in Pittsburgh; PCR+1 - Pittsburgh College Roommate’s wife; Riggins - also known as the
Grandpuppy, son's dog; Soxfather -
my brother in law; Tia Loca – wife’s younger sister; Wingman – my son in law; Wingmom – Wingman’s mom, of course
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