These are the Days
I had a wonderful weekend with Mykala: we celebrated my birthday Friday night with a little dental school shirt shopping and Cheesecake Factory dinner. It’s almost warm enough to eat outside — summer is still struggling to get its act together. I pretended to be warm for the duration of our meal out on the restaurant’s patio… but I somehow don’t think I was fooling anyone. If Mykala asks though, I was perfectly toasty — I have to maintain some masculine bravado, even if it’s only in the realm of temperature tolerance.
We took in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (fun fact: it was released on my actual birthday… day). Speaking of facts, that movie is tearing things up at the box office, cf. Wikipedia:
In its opening weekend, the film grossed an estimated $101 million in 4,260 theaters in the United States and Canada, ranking #1 at the box office, and making it the third biggest opening of all time. Within its first five days of release, it grossed $311 million worldwide. The film’s total $151 million gross in the United States ranked it as the second biggest Memorial Day weekend release, behind Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End.
It was fun to watch the movie in a theater crowded with people — I really hope theaters stay around in the future for this social movie-going experience. There are some downsides to sharing the movie, though. For example, the young lady next to Mykala reeked of ethanol and sounded like a pair of poorly maintained bellows. Ostensibly, Mykala was annoyed by the sound of her intoxicated neighbor, but I think deep down she was concerned about the person’s lack of physical fitness. Cardiovascular compassion!
Another quick note: good call, Nils — The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is a tour de force in innovative, philosophical, artistic, gripping film-making. Very very good. Highly recommended. I cried, but not at the end, which I think is an indication that the movie told its story exactly how it should have been told.
Finally, because Mykala’s blog, Unicorndog.com is currently being remodeled, I will post an impromptu poem she composed verbally:
Blinker, blinker
Clinker, clinker
I am driving
And now I will go to work at 3M.
Comments
Sagert
A very happy belated birthday. I am jealous you got to spend it with Indiana Jones. I have to wait another week or so :(
Dan McKeown
Oh come on Saget, we all know you are far more excited about the Sex and the City movie.
Nils
I’m glad you liked the Diving Bell and the Butterfly (as much as I did it sounds like). If I had to guess though, I would bet that you cried during the scene in which Jean Do’s father calls him. I think everyone I have watched that movie with cried there, including myself. This may sound extremely un-masculine, but it really is a heavily emotional scene and proves the greatness of Max von Sydow. The fact that he can speak fluent Norwegian, English and French is also pretty sweet. Anyways, I still want to see Indy, but I’ve heard troubling things from reviews and friends that have seen it. They all maintain that it isn’t a bad movie, but that it’s far from the greatness of Raiders or Crusade. Still need to see it.