Sold Out

Date: 2002-05-06 08:46:58

After reading a glowing Salon review about the most anticipated movie yet this year (although another movie may beat that category in a few weeks), I figured I had to see it. I've read plenty of Salon movie reviews over the past several years, and almost all of them find plenty to complain about. This one didn't, so I figured it must be good.

Gem and I journeyed to the local cinema house in time for the 2130 PST showing Saturday night and saw an epic queue lined up in front. The box office proclaimed "9:30 Spider-Man sold out", so we departed, thwarted from watching the movie.

Back at Gem's apartment, we were thwarted again from watching the Farscape season finale (truncated download, it seems), so we segued into Netflix DVD-watching entertainment: Strange Days and Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. The former was disturbing, but good; set in the near-future on 31 December 1999 (it was near future when the movie was made in 1995), nasty things start happening and it's up to our hero to save the world. (Or at least Los Angeles, or at least his ex-girlfriend.) After that, it was midnight, but we needed some light-hearted entertainment. Keanu Reeves never looked so ... young. (Amusingly enough, his birthday is five days (and sixteen years) before mine.)

Gem and I headed back to the local cinema house Sunday night for another attempt to watch Spider-Man. (I was greatly distressed that they didn't hyphenate the movie's title on the marquee. They weren't showing Spiderman, they were showing Spider-Man. Ignorant fools!) We arrived earlier this time, and there wasn't as long of a queue. We waited in the hallway for a long time while the friendly theater staff cleaned the auditorium for our showing. We were twenty people back from the front of the line, but oddly enough, we still pulled off my number one choice for seating: dead center of the second row of stadium-style seating, close enough to the screen so that it fills one's peripheral vision, but far enough that one doesn't get a crink in one's neck by the end of the movie.

Salon was right. That was indeed one awesome movie.

In other news, I have fifteen days before I give my senior project final presentation. I suppose it'd be a good idea to get it working. I think I have the first of three major hurdles mostly completed (at least, I have a plan that I believe might work). I haven't fully investigated one of these major hurdles, and the third I've investigated and had trouble, but now I have a new plan.

In completely unrelated news, I keep getting phone calls that have a recorded woman's voice saying "I have a call for you. Please hold." I figure it's probably a voice-spammer, but I stick around long enough to hear a dial tone. Kind of obnoxious.