Cinema night (headdesk headdesk)

[erastes]

It makes me feel bad when I see just how much Lili loves sunny days. She's from Spain originally, my sister had her shipped over when she was a year old and she's never really acclimatised. She spends - literally - October to April squashed up against the radiator and when the sun does finally crawl back into the sky she follows it around the house basking in every inch of sunbeam that she can find. It's just gone out of the sitting room, so she's charged upstairs to find some more.

Just got back from the cinema and I made a rather embarrassing and typically stupid mistake. canaries_chick and I take turns in choosing films, and this week was my turn. There's not much on at the moment so I opted to go and see the film about the brilliant maths students who are taught by Kevin Spacey how to count cards and break the bank at Las Vegas. I couldn't remember exactly what it was called, so I booked the one that looked like it was about Vegas and off we went.

So, we are sitting in the bar, waiting to be ushered in, and it's getting a bit late, and I say to CC: "Looks like we are going to miss the trailers - I LIKE trailers"

And she says: "They'll only show chick flick trailers - whee! chick flick heaven!"

Me: "They only show chick flick trailers when there's a chick flick showing."

CC: But it is a bit of a chick flick, innit?

Me: No....

CC: Yes, it is - you know - they get married... he wins the jackpot....

Me: *starts screaming as I realise that I've just paid £30 to go and see "What happens in Vegas"*

What . A. PLANK.

And really. two things: 1. When the shit hits the fan, London - do you really think Boris is going to leap into action? Yes. Dick Whittington WOULD be turning. IN HIS GRAVE.

and 2. Gordon Ramsey's fruit and veg idea.... *shakes head* why do chefs not just bleeding COOK. Why must they all have a bandwagon, or a headline popping gimmick plz?

Comments

[leatherdykeuk.livejournal.com]

oops!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thank GOD for eye candy Ashton Kutcher... or I may have drowned myself in my coke.

[lunalelle.livejournal.com]

Excuse me while I laugh at your expense.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

*hides head in shame*

[zamaxfield.livejournal.com]

I laugh, in solidarity. I've done that too...

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I'm so stupid. Really. "If there's a wrong way to do it, a right way to screw it up, nobody does it, like me!"

[zamaxfield.livejournal.com]

Don't be too hard on yourself. Isn't it possible you might have more on your mind that films?

[mzcalypso.livejournal.com]

A mayor named Boris? Why do I keep thinking of Rocky the Flying Squirrel...?

Ramsay has a point, but prohibition for imported veggies is likely to cause more trouble than it's worth. As for the farmers in Kenya selling stuff to the UK or elsewhere... when I worked at the big state college in Ohio, one middle-aged African grad student wrote a letter to the campus paper that for some reason they chose to print. The student said that when he was young, his village always had food--they grew it. But as he grew up, foreigners came in, bought up land, and essentially forced everyone to grow crops for export.

What's needed is to get people back to growing food for their own communities, locally. But the multinational corporations--who are totally redundant in terms of local producers to local consumers--aren't going to like that. That's who Ramsay needs to focus his anger on.

For the record, I hate the short-cut chefs, myself. One US program, "Almost Homemade" features an anorexic surfer-girl teaching people how to open cans and mix packaged cake. I'd rather have Ramsay spewing epithets, even though he's pretty unenlightened when it comes to vegetarian food.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

That's what annoys me about Gordon. He doesn't really believe in this, it's just a gimmick. Jamie Oliver and Fernly-Whittingstall have had gimmicks (school dinners and free range chickens) and he's got to have one too. It's a laudable idea, but if he believed it in, I'd be behind him.

Delia Smith is doing that "open a tin" thing here, too. Another bloody gimmick.

[volterra.livejournal.com]

On the other hand, if a multinational corporation can't make money out of exporting crops, they'll drop it like a hot potato. A ban in Britain wouldn't cut it, but for a country with larger populations it might.

Although, right now with the rice shortage (however that is being engineered), some export crops just might be necessary for a while longer.

[schmoo999.livejournal.com]

*snickers* You are adorable.
The movie with the MIT students and Kevin Spacey is called "21". I think Samuel L. Jackson is in it too. Maybe.

God..I like very few chick flicks. Most I have never had any desire to see. I want something with drama or murder or loads of explosions.
Or aliens. :D

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I'm a moron, that's what I am.

Yes. 21. Spacey! AND SLJ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Neither do I, and CC KNEW I'd made a mistake and she didn't say anything. Until it was too late!!!

I like the stuff you like!!!

[schmoo999.livejournal.com]

I seem to only like any romantic movies if they were made before 1940. Now, Voyager, The Philadelphia Story, Bringing Up Baby, It Happened One Night. Now those are romantic movies. :D

[erastes.livejournal.com]

You are not wrong. emphatic NOD

[canarieschick.livejournal.com]

Of course I wasn't going to say anything - I'd died and gone to chick flick heaven!!!!!!!!!!! To be honest I'd forgotten about 21 and thought you was being NICE in choosing the chick flick, although I did think it was weird as I seem to recall you saying something about over my dead body when the trailer was on!!! x
p.s you're not a moron - u just had good taste in films for once last night! :-D

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Stupid me for not checking!! But GOD CD is SO ugly!!

[canarieschick.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't know I wasn't looking at her face!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Plank!

[adventurat.livejournal.com]

LOL! I've not heard that one before.

Poor Lili. Mind you, she's not alone in hankering after some sunshine and warmth.

Ah, Gordon. Taking a good idea and going totally over the top with it. Who would ever have expected an overreaction from sane, low-key Gordon, eh? Talking of planks.

Re: Plank!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

It's very english, I think it started on "Only Fools and Horses" but I could be wrong.

:)

[mylodon.livejournal.com]

We saw the back of Boris' head in London last week. It was attached to the rest of him....

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Shame.....

I can't imagine how he'll cope in a crisis...

[omnivorously.livejournal.com]

... 30 quid? Is that a typo?

[erastes.livejournal.com]

no, but it's actually the cheaper way to go, if one wants to have scoff too. The basic tickets in the normal seats are about £11-£12 EACH - and then if you have popcorn and a drink, it bumps it up to over £15 easy. But if we go to the Gallery, it's £15 each and there's unlimited "free" nachos, popcorn and drink.

Welcome to England.

[omnivorously.livejournal.com]

*shudders* There are lots of places in England I want to see again, but not any time soon.

Though apparently the exchange rate between the US dollar and the British pound is holding steady; on the other hand, for the first time since I can remember, the US dollar and the Canadian dollar are even!!! Next time I go abroad, I'll go to South America or something.

[jean-roberta.livejournal.com]

The 30 pounds thing distrubs me more than the blundering into the wrong movie.

Don't you have cinemas in the UK that show older flicks for cheaper prices? We have a Rainbow Theatre here which is part of a chain that charges less than $5 Canadian ($2 on cheap nites)- somewhat like renting the thing on video but seeing it on a big screen. Of course, the popcorn, soft drinks, candy bars, gummy bears et al cost the same as they would anywhere else, but you're still ahead.

(I'm trying to guess how few British pence are equal to $2 Canadian. There's an international currency converter somewhere on the 'net.)

[erastes.livejournal.com]

xe.com

£30 = $60 canadian

that was for TWO tickets and unlimited popcorn, drinks and nachos, I should have said, we take turns in choosing and we take turns in paying. We deliberately choose to go to the Gallery which is a few quid more expensive than the normal seats of £11-12 because you get "free" unlimited food and drink, whereas if you buy popcorn and nachos and have drink, that's an extra £10 at least.

No, no cheap seats I'm afraid.

[crawling-angel.livejournal.com]

So which film did you think you were seeing?

[erastes.livejournal.com]

21

[asphodeline.livejournal.com]

On the bright side, you made a lot of us giggle!! I'd pay to watch you watching the icky film!!

The cost of cinemas is scary. It was a lot cheaper back home but I don't know if we were just lucky or if Scotland is genuinely cheaper. If we went to our local multiplex on a Tuesday evening, it was all halfprice which meant tickets at £3 !!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

It was bearable for the male lead, I have to say. as for Diaz, she was awful and seems to have the same trout pout as wossername who was in Men Behaving Badly, she's so ugly, I can't see why people think she's attractive.

I guess there might be cheaper seats in another cinema, but the one we go to is convenient for parking, which other cinemas in Norwich are certainly not.