In One Door, Out the Other

You wouldn't want to be superstitious going to the cinema here. Went again last night with herself. It was nice to get out of the cell, err, I mean room for a change! We went to see the remake of "When the World Stood Still" with Keanu "Brando" Reeves. A brilliant vehicle for him as it required him to star as a wooden alien! Or, was that his interpretation of the role?!

The film was OK, but the more I thought about it, the worse it got, so I stopped thinking about it! The central premise was good (and valid!), although the execution was somewhat wishy-washy. A couple of familiar faces from the 'Prison Break'' and 'Mad Men' TV shows made their big screen debuts and interestingly, the part-Chinese Reeves spoke in some pretty obvious beginner's Mandarin in one scene. There was no noticeable sniggering in the theatre from the Mandarin speakers, but they even subtitled the Mandarin in Mandarin so it couldn't have been that good! You'd have thought an advanced life form would have spoken Mandarin as well as it/he spoke English! Another amusing thing (for the people of South Galway in particular) was that the huge alien robot was dubbed "GORT" by the gung-ho Yanks!

When the film was over, they herded us out the emergency exit directly and out of the theatre area altogether. They always do that here and I guess it makes sense; it does make the old student trick of seeing a couple of films for the price of one more challenging!