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We are going to the cinema tonight. We don't get out together often b/c the little autist is very loveable, but very demanding of time & attention, so it's been kind of impossible. We have a very nice specialist person who is paid by the state to come out and babysit for us. Great, eh? It is actually very wonderful. We went out shopping together last week, and it r0x0r3d. This week we have decided that we will go to the cinema. Of course every film on = teh sukc x1000. Most likely we will see "teh day after tomorrow" b/c it is the least worst option showing at/in the time we have available. Thsi is the thread where yuo all commiserate me, b/c I am going to go and pay $$ to see a film I know will suck rat ass.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 24 June 2004 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)

but, you know, it's still GRATE to go out w/muh wummuhn.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 24 June 2004 13:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw a 'Kill E$$0' sticker that used the title 'The Day After Tomorrow' (ie: TDAT: Who are you gonna blame? E$$0! [obv it's not YOU'RE fault for DRIVING OH no]).

So maybe it's okay?

― Enrique (Enrique), Thursday, 24 June 2004 13:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, sack the film. Gahn dahn the Marsden Rock for a pizza.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 24 June 2004 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)

hey it can't be worse than "Troy." Emma gets to choose the next five movies on account of its irredeemable suckage. actually four, because we just saw Japanese Story which is GREBT.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 24 June 2004 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)

"Troy" was also on the list, actually I was favouring it, but it's about 4hrs long!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 24 June 2004 13:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I look forward to seeing the cgi dogs, of course.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 24 June 2004 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't go see 'Troy'. It's painful. 'TDAT' is good for a laugh. Well, so I hear. "Look out behind you! It's Global Warming!"

― Michael B, Thursday, 24 June 2004 13:35 (twenty-one years ago)

FWIW it sounds like the best of the summer films (except for 'You Got Served' which isn't out anywhere).

― Enrique (Enrique), Thursday, 24 June 2004 13:35 (twenty-one years ago)

You'll see a BIG TIDAL WAVE. That's got to be worth a few of yr $$s cos for a few short minutes you can pretend you're watching The Poseidon Adventure.

― robster (robster), Thursday, 24 June 2004 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually it just occurred to me that we could just sit in the back of the cinema and smooch anyway!!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 24 June 2004 13:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Farenheit 9/11?

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 24 June 2004 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I hope they retitle it for the European market.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 24 June 2004 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Farenheit 9/11 is not out here yet.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 24 June 2004 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Just they way THEY want it...

― Enrique (Enrique), Thursday, 24 June 2004 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

opened in two theaters here yesterday - one set a house record for highest take in a day, and started it showing it on a 24 hour schedule.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 24 June 2004 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Is Mean Girls out? You could watch that and adulthood might seem not too bad for once.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 24 June 2004 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Psychogeography: opposite Cluny, teh oldern monastery in Paris, there's a McDonalds (natch). Facing into the window of McDs, which overlooks Cluny, a MAHOOSIVE 'Supersize Me' poster. La Grand Malbouffe or something. In votre face, les Americans corporates.

― Enrique (Enrique), Thursday, 24 June 2004 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

They have a trailer for "mean girls" showing in the shopping mall. I didn't fancy it much, and Jill hates school movies, I mean, she even hated on "heathers", which I can't understand at all.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 24 June 2004 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Dan Waters (who wrote Heathers) and his brother Mark (who directed Mean Girls) have been signed up to write and direct The Dice Man, apparently. wtf?, is all one can say really...

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 24 June 2004 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, it was piss.

1/when they fall through the roof of the shopping mall, and the guy bravely cuts the rope to save his buddies? Because the glass is cracking. And the guy holding the rope is SIX INCHES AWAY FROM A METAL SUPERSTRUCTURE RAIL? WTF?

2/there was THE SICK KID. The hero guy's wife goes into the hospital ward, and we were like OMG!! IT'S THE SICK KID!! Couldn't they have left one cliche out?

3/my dear wife laughed at the dialogue pretty much all the way thru the film.

4/these were the worst acting performances I've seen in a long time.

Nevertheless we enjoyed it mightily.

HOWEVER. We had to leave just after the CGI wolves appeared on the russian ship. What happens next!? Did the drippy gurl survive? Who got shitcanned? The nerdy black kid? the rich wasp? Was the homeless guy's dog in jeopardy at any point? Did the guternburg bible get made into fuel? I'm assuming his dad did find him. Did the mother survive WITH THE SICK CHILD in the ambulance? What about the english guys? did they ALL DIE?

The effects were very exciting, especially the tornadoes.

Roland emmerich.... feh.

Jill's fave bit = the reporter getting flattened by the flying billboard.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 24 June 2004 21:31 (twenty-one years ago)

shoulda saw WHITE GIRLS - the film that will rule the box office this weekend.

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Thursday, 24 June 2004 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

omg, norman you missed the best bit: the resolution. it's totally lame: the storm just clears. quaid reaches gyllenhaal and crew and the storm totally just ups and lifts, leaving the world to deal.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 24 June 2004 21:35 (twenty-one years ago)

ha! how could I have seen "white girls" when it wasn't even on????

bits I forgot to mention:

5/young gylenhaal is reasonably attactive

6/the amount of product placement for murdoch news channels was ludicrously intrusive. It would have been better if they'd had "news max" doing the news clips - "see this bad weather??? it either a/doesn't exist and is the invention of the communist hollywood liberal media or b/is all the fault of that RAPIST CLINTON!!!1!!1!one!!1!"

You could probably make a showreel just of teh actors and actress in CGI blockbusters making the shocked face b/c they are looking at ~~a blue screen~~ the big fancy effect that you are about to see as well, aren't yuo excited? and it would last for hours and hours and hours and hours.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 25 June 2004 07:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Does it actually end with most of humanity left to the wolves? Which is how I feel today, but also a good way to close a film, cf. 'Time of the Wolf'.

― Enrique (Enrique), Friday, 25 June 2004 07:53 (twenty-one years ago)

TDAT was rubbish but I really hope it doesn't happen.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 25 June 2004 08:22 (twenty-one years ago)

nine months pass...

I did actually eventually see the end of this film. I was walking past one of those shops that sells gigantic televisions, and they were showing it as, I dunno, a demo, I suppose. The bit where all of the ice was travelling down the big building, and the bit where the lead character looks up and sees that he is in the eye of the hurricane-thing were quite thrilling. The CGI wolves were fucking pathetic!! FFS!!

We're going to see s.th. on saturday night perhaps. Any suggestions?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

life is a miracle is quite nice. depends on what they show at the cinema, is it a multiplex affair? if so then mayb the life aquatic, beyond that im stumped

― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 7 April 2005 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

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